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10 best books like Miss Mole (E.H. Young): Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, On Death and Dying, The Rats, Smilla's Sense of Snow, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness, The Temple of My Familiar, Small Island, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy, Dibs in Search of Self

Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
AuthorMichel Foucault
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to...
On Death and Dying
AuthorElisabeth Kübler-Ross
ISBN0684839385
One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death:...
The Rats
AuthorJames Herbert
ISBN0333761189
Furry little rodents, slowly chewing their food away. What food? Well, that's another story.

An old abandoned house in East London, surrounded by trees and bushes, so long inhabited almost no one remembered it was still out there. But it was. An unwary vagrant enters it, totally oblivious...
Smilla's Sense of Snow
AuthorPeter Høeg
ISBN0385315147
She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love.  She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land.  And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...

It happened in the Copenhagen snow.  A six-year-old...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
AuthorJames Hogg
ISBN0192835904
Set in early eighteenth-century Scotland, the novel recounts the corruption of a boy of strict Calvinist parentage by a mysterious stranger under whose influence he commits a series of murders. The stranger assures the boy that no sin can affect the salvation of an elect person. The reader, while recognizing...
The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
AuthorR.D. Laing
ISBN0140135375
In The Divided Self (1960), Laing contrasted the experience of the "ontologically secure" person with that of a person who "cannot take the realness, aliveness, autonomy and identity of himself and others for granted" and who consequently contrives strategies to avoid "losing his self". Laing explains...
The Temple of My Familiar
AuthorAlice Walker
ISBN0753819481
A visionary cast of characters weave together their past and present in a brilliantly intricate tapestry of tales.

It is the story of the dispossessed and displaced, of peoples whose history is ancient and whose future is yet to come. Here we meet Lissie, a woman of many pasts; Arveyda the great...
Small Island
AuthorAndrea Levy
ISBN0312424671
Hortense Joseph arrives in London from Jamaica in 1948 with her life in her suitcase, her heart broken, her resolve intact. Her husband, Gilbert Joseph, returns from the war expecting to be received as a hero, but finds his status as a black man in Britain to be second class. His white landlady, Queenie,...
Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
AuthorIrvin D. Yalom
ISBN0060958340
The collection of ten absorbing tales by master psychotherapist Irvin D. Yalom uncovers the mysteries, frustrations, pathos, and humor at the heart of the therapeutic encounter. In recounting his patients' dilemmas, Yalom not only gives us a rare and enthralling glimpse into their personal desires...
Dibs in Search of Self
AuthorVirginia M. Axline
ISBN0345339258
this book seems to cause strong reactions, so let me first say what i think it is not:

* it is not a book that predicts how a generic child will improve when treated the way virginia axline treats dibs (how does she treat dibs? she mostly describes dibs’ behavior, not hers).

* it is not...
South Riding
AuthorWinifred Holtby
ISBN0860689697
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Winifred Holtby's greatest novel was published posthumously

Winifred Holtby's masterpiece is a rich evocation of the lives and relationships of the characters of South Riding. Sarah Burton, the fiery young headmistress of the local girls'...
The Country of the Pointed Firs
AuthorSarah Orne Jewett
First published in 1896, The Country of the Pointed Firs was considered by Willa Cather to be one of the three novels most likely to achieve a permanent place in the canon of American literature: “I can think of no others that confront time and change so serenely… The young student of American literature...
It's a Good Life, If You Don't Weaken: A Picture Novella
AuthorSeth
An Acknowledged Classic returns gorgeously re-designed.

In his first graphic novel, It's a Good Life, if You Don't Weaken--one of the best-selling D & Q titles ever--Seth pays homage to the wit and sophistication of the old-fashioned magazine cartoon. While trying to understand his...
Ravens
AuthorGeorge Dawes Green
ISBN0446538965
The Boatwrights just won 318 million dollars in the GeorgiaState lottery. It's going to be the worst day of their lives.
When Shaw McBride and Romeo Zderko pull up at a convenience store off I-95 in Georgia, their only thought is to fix a leaky tire and be on their way again to Florida-away from their...
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