Books like Cracks by Sheila Kohler

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.

A Dublin detective returns to his hometown’s Faithful Place after a decades‑old missing‑person case pulls his former lover’s suitcase into his life, and he must confront family, crime, and loyalty to uncover the truth.

xxxv, 338 pages ; 21 cm

A single‑mother mommy blogger’s world is shattered when her best friend disappears, sparking a suspenseful, psychological cat‑and‑mouse chase that tests loyalty, truth, and deception.

16‑year‑old Blythe from Kansas is kidnapped by a paranoid survivalist who believes the world will end. Thrown into an abandoned missile silo, she must endure captivity and fight for survival.

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.

After a best‑friend’s child disappears, a widowed mommy‑blogger’s search for answers turns into a dangerous investigation when the friend’s husband returns to a scene of murder and deception.