Psychology Book Report List
Some of these books are available from Ms. Agnew, others at the public library. All of these books are
available online from amazon.com and almost all are available at Barnes & Noble. Remember, if you turn in a
book with your report = Extra Credit!! Happy Hunting.
ADHD
ADHD: An Autobiography of Survival – Rachel Kuenig
Addiction
A Drinking Life: A Memoir – Pete Hamill
*An Officer and a Junkie – Michael Winder
Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
*Beautiful Boy: A father’s journey through his son’s addiction – David Sheff
Blackbird: A childhood lost & found – Jennifer Lauck
Born To Lose – Bill Lee (gambling)
Broken – William Cope Moyers
Drinking: A Love Story – Caroline Knapp
From Binge to Blackout – Chris & Toren Volkmann
His Bright Light – Danielle Steel
*Knee Deep in Paradise – Brett Butler
Moments of Clarity – Christopher Lawford
The Night of the Gun – David Carr
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood – Koren Zailckas
Symptoms of Withdrawal – Christopher Lawford
Terry – George McGovern
The Lois Wilson Story…When Love is Not Enough – William Borchert
Tweak – Nic Sheff
Tweaked – Patrick Moore
Adolescent Behavior
That Bird Has My Wings – Jarvis Jay Masters (Child Abuse/Runaway)
Anorexia / Bulimia
Diary of an Exercise Addict – Peach Friedman
Solitaire – Aimee Lin
Stick Figure – Lori Gottlieb
*Wasted – Marya Hornbacher
Autism / Asberger’s
Look Me in the Eye – John Elder Robison
*The Curious Incident of the Dog in the NightTime – Mark Haddon
Thinking In Pictures – Temple Grandin
Bipolar
Madness – Marya Hornbacher
Manic – Terri Cheney
Bullying
Please Stop Laughing at Me- Jodee Blanco
Please Stop Laughing at Us – Jodee Blanco
Child Abuse
A Man Named Dave – Dave Pelzer (grown man dealing with aftermath)
*A Piece of Cake – Cupcake Brown
*A Stolen Life – Jaycee Dugard (abduction)
Becoming Anna – Anna J Michener
Bringing Adam Home – Les Standiford (Walsh abduction/murder)
Driving with Dead People – Monica Holloway (Incest)
Tell Me that You Like It – Terre Sadler
Damaged – Cathy Glass
They Cage the Animals at Night – Jennings Michael Burch
Three Little Words – Ashley Rhodes-Courter (foster care)
Compulsion (OCD)
*Little Beauties: A Novel – Kim Addonizio
*Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood – Jennifer Traig
Passing for Normal – Amy Wilensky
The Boy Who Couldn’t Stop Washing - Judith Rapport
Fire Lover – Joseph Warbaugh (pyromania)
*Your Voice in My Head – Emma Forrest (depression and obsession)
Depression and Manic Depression
Come Back: A Mother & Daughter’s Journey through Hell – Claire & Mia Fontaine
His Bright Light: The Story of Nick Traina – Danielle Steel
Prozac Nation – Elizabeth Wurtzel
Diabities
Needles – Andie Dominick (growing up with diabetes)
Disabilities
Loving Rachel – Jane Bernstein
Gangs (graphic content)
Inside the Crips- Colton Simpson & Ann Pearlman
*Monster: The Auto \biography of an L.A. Gang Member – Sanyika Shakur (Kody Scott)
Once a King, Always a King: My Attempts to Leave Gang Life – Reymundo Sanchez (parent
permission required)
Mental Health / Psychosis
An Unquiet Mind – Kay Redfield Jamison
Crazy – Pete Earley
Hurry Down Sunshine – Michael Greenberg
The Center Cannot Hold – Elyn Saks
The Quiet Room – Lori Schiller & Amanda Bennett
The Memory Palace – Mira Bartok (schizophrenia)
Welcome to my Country – Lauren Slater
Swallow the Ocean – Laura Flynn (schizophrenia)
Parkinson’s Disease
*Lucky Man – Michael J. Fox
*Muhammad Ali – John Stravinsky
Personality Disorders
First Person Plural: My Life as a Multiple – Cameron West
A Fractured Mind: My Life with Multiple Personality Disorder – Robert Oxnam
Get Me Out of Here – Rachel Reiland
Rape
Angels in My Valley – Adeline Puccini
After Silence – Nancy Raine
Denial: Memoir of Terror – Jessica Stern
Lucky – Alice Sebold
Repression
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier – Ismael Beah (Africa)
Escape from Camp 14 – Blaine Harden (escape from North Korea)
Flight of the Patriot: Escape from Revolutionary Iran – Yadollah Sharifirad
Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag – Chol-hwan Kang & Pierre Riqoulot
Runaways
*Runaway: Life on the Streets – Roger Kiser
Sports Addicts
Juiced – Jose Canseco
LT: Over the Edge – Lawrence Taylor
Suicide
Beyond the Tears – Lynn Tolson
*Thirteen Reasons Why – Jay Asher
Tourettes
*Med Head – James Patterson