We asked members of the BuzzFeed Community to tell us the book that helped them during their depression. Here are their powerful stories.
1. The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
3. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
4. Wild by Cheryl Strayed
5. Will Grayson, will grayson by John Green and David Levithan
6. Yes Please by Amy Poehler
7. The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
8. It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
9. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
10. The The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien
11. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
12. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
13. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
14. One Million Lovely Letters by Jodi Ann Bickley
15. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
16. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
17. The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
18. Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
19. Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh
20. Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Girl by Adeline Yen Mah
21. Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham
22. She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
23. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
24. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
25. The Secret Series by Pseudonymous Bosch
26. John Dies at the End by David Wong
27. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
28. The Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare
29. The 10 P.m. Question by Kate De Goldi
30. Impulse by Ellen Hopkins
31. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
32. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
33. And The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Note: Submissions have been edited for length and/or clarity.
An earlier version of this post included Kate V.’s last name, but has since been changed.