The Novel Cure
"Whatever your ailment, our prescriptions are simple: a novel (or two), to be read at regular intervals. Some treatments will lead to a complete cure. Others will simply offer solace, showing you that you are not alone. All will offer the temporary relief of your symptoms due to the power of literature to distract and transport."
- from The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin
A link to The Novel Cure website:
http://thenovelcure.com/remedies
- from The Novel Cure by Ella Berthoud and Susan Elderkin
A link to The Novel Cure website:
http://thenovelcure.com/remedies
The Ailments
Anger
Angst
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. The story of a girl uncovering a hidden world where the supernatural exist and shadowhunters fight of demons to protect humans. There is a very angsty star-crossed romance. The Mortal Instruments is a Phenomenal series.
Antisocial, being
Anxiety
The Color Of Magic by Terry Pratchett. The colorful Discworld series offers an escape where our problems look a whole lot different and more manageable- and puns abound.
Apathy
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad follows a young captain, Marlow, as he becomes entangled in the brutal Congo ivory trade and is forced to confront the reality of colonialism. It is a call to action against human exploitation.
Dear Martin by Nic Stone is a A powerful, and compulsively readable story that lays bare the history, and the present, of racism in America. Dear Martin connects with apathy and may relieve it by erasing that lack of interest to social issues today and bringing upon this new concern for the struggles other people are going through today in America.
Boredom
Breaking Up
Broken Friendship
Bullied, Being
Cold, Common
Coming Out
Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda, Becky Albertalli - this is the book that the movie Love, Simon was based on. Simon is 16 and not openly gay, but an email forces him to make some tough choices about coming out. There's also a romance. It will inspire anyone to make the leap and share who you are with the world.
Cry, In Need Of a Good
Before I Die, Jenny Downham - Tessa has just months to live due to a terminal illness. She makes her list of things she wants to do before she dies, and #1 is sex. Which gets complicated when love is involved. Get a box of tissues ready.
Depression (Ten Best Novels to Cheer You Up)
Exhaustion
Failure
Grief
Guilt
Homesickness
Insomnia
Internet Addiction
Loneliness
The Raven Cycle Series by Maggie Stiefvater. This series lets you travel and explore the lands of rural Virginia with Blue Sargent and her boys as they try to find themselves and a dead Welsh king.
Love, Falling Head Over Heels In
Leah On the Offbeat by Becki Albertali. From the author who wrote Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda comes the story of Simon's best friend Leah as she deals with the stress of senior year and falling in love with their friend Abby. Will the romance happen? Does Abby like girls?
What if Its Us by Becky Albertali and Adam Silvera. The love story between two boys over a summer and the trials they face.
Love, Unrequited
Melancholy
Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon- Madeline Whittier is allergic to the outside world. So allergic, in fact, that she has never left the house in all of her seventeen years. She is content enough—until a boy with eyes the color of the Atlantic Ocean moves in next door. Their complicated romance begins over IM and grows through a wunderkammer of vignettes, illustrations, charts, and more. This book will warm your heart and make you feel that nothing is impossible.
Monday Morning Feeling
Nightmares
Outsider, Being An
We Are The Ants by Sean David Hutchinson. The novel is about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving.
Every Heart A Doorway by Seanan McGuire details the after happily ever after. After all the children who went away to the magical world of their dreams like OZ or Narnia return and are left with nobody believing their stories. Everyone sees them as crazy until they visit a school with others like them.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Rage
Self Esteem, Low
Shyness
Sibling Rivalry
I’ll Give You the Sun, Jandy Nelson - Jude and twin brother Noah are inseparable, but years later as teens they are barely speaking. What happened? This book will give you hope for sibling relationships. Also it's a great story about love and loss.
Down Among The Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire. Jack and Jill's parents wanted a boy and a girl as soon as they found out they were having twins. To their dismay they had two Girls, who would not fit into the perfect boxes their parents wanted them to be and travel to a different world where they would be enemies.
Stress
Rascal by Sterling North. This is a short read that brings light to the little things in life. It is sweet and short story about a boy and a raccoon but it will leave a long impact on you.