Books about depression and suicide: living with depression, surviving a suicide attempt, and life after losing someone to suicide. Most are written by people who lived it, and some by clinicians.
This list holds 10 books published between 2020 and 2023, 1 with an audiobook edition. A book is on it only when depression and suicide is a central subject of the book, judged from the book's own description, not when it comes up in passing. The most-rated on Amazon come first.
A Memoir on Suicide, Addiction and Healing
Robert Imbeault · 2020
An unbelievably real and authentic story of pain, growth, and new life. What if you could find happiness after addiction? Imagine the struggle was behind you and you felt grateful for every ounce of joy in your life. What if you KNEW how to be courageous and…
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James Neville-Taylor · 2023
James Neville-Taylor has felt the suffocating darkness that can drive a person to take their own life. After a failed suicide attempt in 2017, he realized his life would have amounted to nothing if it had ended then. So he resolved to change it. From Beat…
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Sheridan Taylor · 2022
This is a challenging book. In Not Okay? Okay. combat veteran and suicide survivor Sheridan Taylor chronicles the anguish and rage he experienced in the darkest depths of despair, and he shares the process and triumph of fighting his way out. After a…
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Erin Tyler · 2020
I don't remember the first time I called myself "bad." There was never a time I thought I was good. By 8 I hated my body. By 12 I was eating disordered and by 14 I was depressed. At 20 I nearly drank myself to death. I woke up in a CAT scan covered in vomit…
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Mali Ponday · 2021 · Audiobook
She bought a gun, shot my father once in each knee, then shot herself in the head. Mali Ponday learned of the suicide during her senior year of college. Her beautiful, loving, complicated mother died instantly. Her father survived, but Mali’s own spirit had…
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A Guide to What Matters Most
Victor Mena · 2023
Some people say you have to hit rock bottom before you find the will to change. I don’t believe that. There is no rock bottom, no hole to crawl out of. These are just theoretical constructs that stop us in our path and stall our potential. You and I can…
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A Journey Home
Phoebe Sisk · 2022
It’s time to talk honestly about mental health. Historically, medical treatment for mental illness has often been harmful, though well-intentioned. Unfortunately, such history is largely ignored. This dynamic, combined with the continuing stigma against…
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Lisa Ann · 2022
This is the story of life after The Life. In December of 2014, Lisa Ann announced her retirement from the adult entertainment industry. She released her first book, The Life, in December of 2015. On New Year’s Eve, she received a phone call threatening her…
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by Alexandra Wyman (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
Alexandra Wyman · 2022
Alexandra Wyman was plunged into grief when her husband died by suicide. The sudden loss of the love of her life left her reeling with unanswered questions. In The Suicide Club: What to Do When Someone You Love Chooses Death, Alexandra explores her journey…
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Jeff Romig · 2021
In February 1996, Jeff Romig's father died by suicide. Until that moment, there was no sign that his father had been contemplating suicide. Steve Romig was always so driven. Hard-working. Successful. No sign of the inner turmoil of anxiety and depression…
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