Let’s Talk About Mental Health: Reading Recommendations

Let’s Talk About Mental Health: Reading Recommendations

In honour of Bell Let’s Talk day on January 26th and the ongoing conversation of the importance of inclusive mental health, we asked the editors at Quill and Quire for their favourite reads. The hand-picked selections feature important perspectives that will keep the conversation going all-year-round.

In honour of Bell Let’s Talk day on January 26th and the ongoing conversation of the importance of inclusive mental health, we asked the editors at Quill and Quire for their favourite reads. The hand-picked selections feature important perspectives that will keep the conversation going all-year-round.

January 26, 2022

Adult Books

Shared by Attila Berki, Quill & Quire‘s acting review editor

 

This Is How I Disappear by Mirion Malle; Aleshia Jensen 
and Bronwyn Haslam

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So-Called Normal: A Memoir of Family, Depression, and Resilience by Mark Henick

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All That Glitters: A Climber’s Journey through Addiction and Depression by Margo Talbot

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Our Little Secret by Emily Carrington

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In Praise of Retreat: Finding Sanctuary in the Modern World by Kirsteen MacLeod

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Children’s Books

Shared by Inderjit Deogun, Quill & Quire‘s books for young people editor

 

Birdspell by Valerie Sherrard

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My Body in Pieces by Marie-Noëlle Hébert and Shelley Tanaka, trans.

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Meena’s Mindful Moment by Tina Athaide and Åsa Gilland, ill.

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Living with Viola by Rosena Fung

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Growing Up Trans: In Our Own Words by Lindsay Herriot and Kate Fry, eds.

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