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Diane Lane Chambers
Author of Engaging, Award-Winning Books
Diane's Recommended Books to Read

 

 

 

 

Cultural Awareness

Fadiman, Anne, (2012),The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Him, Chanrithy, (2000), When Broken Glass Floats: Growing up Under the Khmer Rouge, W.W Norton & Company.

Hong, Xu, Hoh, Erling (Translator), (2017), No Wall Too High: One Man's Daring Escape from Mao's Darkest Prison, Sarah Crichton Books.

Lee, Hyeonseo, (2015), The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector's Story, William Collins.

Min, Anchee, (2011), Red Azalea, Anchor.
 
St. Germain, Jim, (2017), A Stone of Hope: A Memoir, Harper Collins.
 
Usadi, Oanh Ngo, (2018), Of Monkey Bridges and Banh Mi Sandwiches: from Sai Gon to Texas, O&O Press.
 
Holloway, Kris, (2006),  Monique and The Mango Rains: Two Years with a Midwife in Mali
 
Senghor, Shaka, (2017), Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in An American Prison, Convergent Books.
 
Lerner, Jimmy, (2003), You Got Nothing Coming: Notes From a Prison Fish, Corgi.
 
 Tjipombo, Tupa, with Lockhart, Chris, (2020)  I Am Not Your Slave, Lawrence Hill Books, Chicago 
 

 

Deaf and Deaf-Blind

Carroll, Cathryn and Hoffpauir, Catherine, (2001) Orchid of the Bayou, Gallaudet University Press.

Smithdas, Robert J. (1958), Life At My Fingertips, Doubleday & Company.

 

 

Mental Illness and Mental Health

Aurthur, Johnathan, (2002). The Angel and The Dragon, A Father’s Search for Answers to His Son’s Mental Illness, Health Communications.

Bartok, Mira, (2011), The Memory Palace, Free Press.

Berman, Claire, and Steele, Ken, (2002).  The Day the Voices Stopped: A Schizophrenic’s Journey from Madness to Hope, Basic Books.

Bottoms, Greg, (2000), Angelhead: My Brother’s Descent into Madness, Crown Publishers, New York.

Cahalan, Susannah, (2013), Brain on Fire, Simon & Schuster.

Capps, Donald, (2010), Understanding Psychosis: Issues and Challenges for Sufferers, Families, and Friends, Rowman & Littlefield Ppublishing Group, Inc., Maryland.

Cheney, Terri, (2008), Manic, William Morrow & Co.

Cramer, Clayton E., (2012), My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill, Cramer.

Early, Pete, (2007), Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness, Berkley.

Ford, Elizabeth, (2017), Sometimes Amazing Things Happen: Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward, Regan Arts.

Hanson, Daniel, (2005),  Room for J, A Family Struggles with Schizophrenia, Beaver Pond Press Inc, Edena, MN.

Holman, Virginia, (2003), Rescuing Patty Hearst: Growing Up Sane in a Decade Gone Mad, Simon & Schuster.

Klebold, Sue, (2016), A Mother’s Reckoning, Crown Publishers, New York.

Kolker, Robert, ( 2020), Hidden Valley Road, Doubleday.

Kotulski, Tina, (2006), Saving Millie: A Daughter’s Story of Surviving Her Mother’s Schizophrenia, Extraordinary Voices Press.

Kryst, Cheslie and Simpkins, April, By the Time You Read This, forefrontbooks.com

Lachenmeyer, Nathaniel, (2000), The Outsider: A Journey Into My Father’s Struggle With Madness, Broadway. 

Lopez, Steve, 2008, The Soloist: A Lost Dream, and Unlikely Friendship, and the Redemptive Power of Music, Putnam. 

McLean, Richard, (2005), Recovered, Not Cured: A Journey Through Schizophrenia, Allen & Unwin.

Miller, Dinah & Hanson, Annette, (2016),  Committed, The Battle Over Involuntary Psychiatric Care, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore.

Nasar, Sylvia, (1999), A Beautiful Mind, Simon & Schuster.

Penney, Darby, Stastny, Peter, (2009), The Lives They Left Behind: Suitcases from a State Hospital Attic, Bellevue Literary Press.

Reiland, Rachel, (2004), Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder, Hazelden.

Redfield Jamison, Kay, (1997), An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, Vintage.

Saks, Elyn R., (2007), The Center Cannot Hold, My Journey Through Madness, Hyperion Books.

 Senghor, Shaka, (2016), Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in An American Prison, Convergent Books, New York.

Sullivan, Luke Longstreet, Thirty Rooms to Hide In: Insanity, Addiction, and Rock’n’Roll in the Shadow of the Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota Press, 2012.

Vonnegut, Mark, (2002), The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity, Seven Stories Press.

Walls, Jeannette, (2006), The Glass Castle, Scribner Book Company

Westover, Tara, (2018), Educated: A Memoir, Random House.

Williamson, Wendy K., (2010),  I’m Not Crazy Just Bipolar, Author House.