Books like The awesome by Eva Darrows

At 17, Charlotte Davis has already faced the trauma of abandonment, abuse, and loss. Since her father and best friend are gone and her mother is unreachable, she learns to survive alone in a world that offers little compassion.

A coming‑of‑age epistolary novel that follows introverted teen Charlie through his freshman year in a 1990s Pittsburgh suburb as he navigates high school, friendship and the challenges of adolescence.

Turtles All the Way Down follows sixteen‑year‑old Aza Leonard, who battles obsessive‑compulsive disorder while searching for her missing friend and confronting the pressure to fit in at high school.

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Eighteen‑year‑old Susanna Kaysen is admitted to McLean Hospital in 1967, where she documents life in the psychiatric ward, exploring mental illness, recovery, and the cultural landscape of the late 1960s.

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A sixteen-year-old girl, Alyssa Gardner, fears she is mentally ill and discovers a fantastical Wonderland, where fixing mistakes from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland can save her family from a curse.

Sydney Sage, a studious alchemist, and Jill Dragomir, a Moroi princess, hide at a California boarding school, juggling hidden powers, budding romance, and the looming threat of Strigoi as they protect their secret.

Mortal high‑schooler Raven’s romance with vampire Alexander faces new tension when Sebastian, Alexander’s best friend, arrives at the family's Romanian mansion, threatening to win Raven’s heart—and her bite.

In 1888, twelve‑year‑old Will Henry apprentices with Dr. Warthrop, a New England scientist who hunts monsters. Together they seek to destroy the Wendigo, a ravenous creature that feeds on human flesh.

A New York City teen’s struggle with depression is told with irreverent humor, charting his day‑to‑day life and his time in a psychiatric hospital.

A tale of courage, love, and betrayal as the Salamancan hunters must fight to save humanity from the rise of the Cursed Ones.

At a grand school for half‑vampires, Dru Anderson faces training, hidden betrayals and memories of her mother’s death while trying to save her missing mentor and protect ordinary people from the darker side of the supernatural.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

High‑schooler Alley defies her no‑dating rule when a charming student appears, only to have a vampire‑obsessed classmate and her zombie boyfriend threaten a supernatural showdown.

Four friends fight monsters in a children's fantasy tale set in a world of trolls and supernatural elements.