Letters to Wendy's

7 best books like Letters to Wendy's (Joe Wenderoth): The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Sabine's Notebook, The Driver's Seat, Autobiography of Red, Edinburgh, Juliet the Maniac, Slender Man

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
AuthorEsmé Weijun Wang
ISBN1555978274
An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...
Sabine's Notebook
AuthorNick Bantock
ISBN0811801802
Griffin

Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at a whim. If you will not join me--then I will come to you.

Sabine

Sabine was supposed to be imaginary, a friend and lover that Griffin had created to soothe his loneliness....
The Driver's Seat
AuthorMuriel Spark
ISBN0141188340
Was it murder or was it suicide? And did that matter to the 'heroine'? This is a novella, a quick read and perhaps one that is better read at one sitting so that the tension can build. Its totally upfront, we know what is going to happen a quarter of the way through the book and it just remains for the story to...
Autobiography of Red
AuthorAnne Carson
The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that is both a novel and a poem, both an unconventional re-creation of an ancient Greek myth and a wholly original coming-of-age story set in the present.

Geryon, a young boy who is also a winged red...
Edinburgh
AuthorAlexander Chee
ISBN0312305036
Twelve-year-old Fee is a gifted Korean-American soprano in a boys' choir in Maine whose choir director reveals himself to be a serial pedophile. Fee and his friends are forced to bear grief, shame, and pain that endure long after the director is imprisoned. Fee survives even as his friends do not, but...
Juliet the Maniac
AuthorJuliet Escoria
ISBN1612197590
A shockingly dark, funny, and heartbreaking portrait of a young teenager's clash with mental illness and her battle toward understanding and recovery

Ambitious, talented 14-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon...
Slender Man
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0062641174
One man’s search for the truth about one of the most intriguing urban legends ever—the modern bogeyman, Slender Man—leads him down a dark, dangerous path in this creepy supernatural fantasy reminiscent of Night Film, House of Leaves, and Illuminae, that will make you question where the line...
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