Hello fellow bookworms 🌺 I decided to join the Mental Health Book Bingo a bit late minute, as I just found out about it and really wanted to do it! One of my aims this year has been to read more mental health books, because it’s a topic that interests me and that I don’t read nearly enough of. Therefore joining this cool book bingo seemed like a great idea, even though I have to learn for my exam at the beginning of February!

You can find the Mental Health Bingo on Twitter and one of the hosts has shared a great recommendation post, so you can get some inspiration for the prompts of the bingo board that I’ve posted down below! This Readathon will take place the entirety of January, which is another reason I choose to do it, as this is a bit more relaxed than a very intense week-long Readathon, giving me more time to get to the books (and avoid studying) 😄
And the Hosts are …
- Jess 🌺 kfjblog
- Lili 🌺 UtopiaMind
- Inge 🌺 ingeswonderland
- Ayah Assem 🌺 DystopianCitzn
- Laura 🌺 bbliophile
- Sar 🌺 readtorecover
- Wendy 🌺 whatthelogsaid
And then here we’ve got the bingo board!

My Mental Health Bingo TBR
This is not a real strict TBR as there’s no way I will get to all of these books, but I wanted to have a bunch of books to choose from as I’ve become more of a mood reader lately, especially when there’s stress! I mainly looked into what books I had and what books were available at my library to determine my TBR and figure out what prompts they fit! I included two rereads as well, that I might get to if I feel like it. Basically, I feel like I have a good collection of books about mental health dealing with several different mental illnesses so I’m not only focusing on one. There are so many more books on my TBR, that I sadly don’t own, but maybe one day I’ll get some of them, as I really, really want to read books about mental illnesses that I have not read a lot about, to get to know them better!
Eating Disorder Rep 🌺 Paperweight (Meg Haston)
LGBT+ MC with MI 🌺 We are the Ants (Shaun David Hutchinson)
Agoraphobia Rep 🌺 Under Rose-Tainted Skies (Louise Gornall)
Depression Rep 🌺 It’s Kind of a Funny Story (Ned Vizzini)
OCD Rep 🌺 Every Last Word (Tamara Ireland Stone)
Title with letters MHB 🌺 The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B (Terea Toten)
PTSD Rep 🌺 Girl in Pieces (Kathleen Glasgow)
Anxiety Rep 🌺 Queens of Geek (Jen Wilde)
SFF with MI 🌺 The Girl of Fire and Thorns (Rae Carson)
Schizophrenia Rep 🌺 Words on Bathroom Walls (Julia Walton)
What are your favorite books about mental health? Are you participating as well? 🌺
Lol, I just finished an OCD memoir a few days ago! It was eye-opening and made me sympathise with sufferers a little more than before.
P.S. It’s free to read on RivetedLit.com if anyone’s interested 😉 The book’s called ‘Obsessed’ by Allison Britz
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Oh I have seen that one! I’m usually not one for reading memoirs, but I would definitely make an exception for this one as it sounds very interesting – thank you for letting me know about it! 🙂
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Wow, I’m flattered and glad you like the sound of it!! You are very welcome 😄
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Great TBR! The only ones I’ve read are The Queens of Geek and It’s Kind of a Funny Story and they’re both amazing! I hope you enjoy them and I look forward to hearing what you think of the others, I’d love to read more books with mental health rep this year. too. Happy reading! 💕
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Thank you! 💕🌺 I read Queens of Geek for the second time now and it gets better with every read, I love this book SO much!! It’s Kind of a Funny Story was also an enjoyable read & I loved reading all the mental health books in January 🙂
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I love this book bingo and I wish I was a book bingo kind of person to participate haha 🙂 I love your TBR, Caro! Can’t wait to hear your thoughts on under rose-tainted skies, I loved that one so, so much ❤ ❤
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Thank you! I love all things having to do with book bingos and Readathons so this was made for me 😊 This was a reread for me, but I love it sooo much as well, Under-Rose Tainted Skies is so good 😍❤
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What does MI stand for? I don’t think I’ve seen that before.
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It stands for Mental Illness 🙂
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Duh hahaha thank you. I was thinking it would be some specific mental illness for some reason.
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I haven’t read any of these books but they all look amazing! We Are the Ants is on my tbr and I can’t wait to read it 😊 Good luck with all of these, and with your exams!! ❤️
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Thank you!! ❤ I had a really good time reading all of them 😍💌
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This is a great idea for a bookish bingo, and definitely a great way to get more people reading more books which highlight mental health issues. I really hope you cross off all the squares for this event Caro, and I really really hope you enjoy all these books too. 🙂 The only one I’ve read myself is Queens of Geek but I loved it, and I’ve heard good things about Under Rose-Tainted Skies so I want to try and get around to that one myself sometime this year.
Great post, and again good luck with this bookish bingo. 🙂 ❤
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I agree, I loved doing the bingo and it made me read a lot more mental health books, which had been a priority for me this month 😊 Queens of Geek is fantastic and Under Rose-Tainted Skies is amazing as well, so I can only highly recommend it 😍 Thank you, Beth!! ❤🌺
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They definitely seem to help people add more diverse reads to their TBR lists and that’s never a bad thing! 🙂
Thanks Caro, and that’s all right. ❤️
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So glad you’re joining us! You’ve got some of my favourite books on your TBR 🙂
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I had a lot of fun doing the book bingo and founds some new favorites! 😍🌺
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Yay I’m so glad!
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