What’s in it
Tap a tag: ❤ = this matters to me · tap again ✕ = don’t care · again to reset. The list below updates each time.
24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Unfinished Garden
Barbara Claypole White · 392 pages
Matchstick Men: A Novel About Grifters with Issues
Eric Garcia · 208 pages
"Roy and Frankie are matchstick men, con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have perfected the rules of the game. Roy is the careful one. Saves every penny. Takes his medication regularly. Without the pills, his obsessive-compulsive disorder kicks in and he is too nauseated to do anything but stare at the dirt on the carpet."--Jacket.
Lights Out: An Into Darkness Novel
Navessa Allen · 416 pages
**“I don’t need another kink.”** That thought pops into my head whenever I pull up my favorite social media app, but alas, every time I scroll, I learn something new about myself, and another one is born. And yes, I know I’m responsible for what the algorithm shows me, but I’m trying to ignore that fact. Lately, my feed has been dominated by masked men. I’ve favorited videos with them dresse
Unexpectedly, Milo
Matthew Dicks · 344 pages
Milo is a Connecticut home nurse and closet OCD sufferer, recently separated from his uptight wife. He stumbles onto a cache of videotapes that form a mysterious woman's video diary, in which she confesses her secrets and talks about the guilt she carries around about a childhood friend named Tess who disappeared and is, the woman believes, dead. The story prompts Milo to take a road trip to North
Finding Perfect
Elly Swartz · 308 pages
A classic-feeling middle-grade novel with a modern twist about a girl dealing with friendship, family, and OCD.
Addition
Toni Jordan · 256 pages
"Grace Lisa Vandenburg counts. The letters in her name (19). The steps she takes every morning to the local cafe (920). The number of poppy seeds on her orange cake, which dictates the number of bites she'll take to eat it. Grace counts everything, because that way there are no unpleasnabt surprises. Seamus Joseph O'Reilly (also a 19) thinks she might be better off without the counting. If she cou
The Pleasure of My Company
Steve Martin · 163 pages
600 Hours of Edward
Craig Lancaster · 325 pages
Edward Stanton is a man hurtling headlong toward middle age. His mental illness has led him to be sequestered in his small house in a small city, where he keeps his distance from the outside world and the parents from whom he is largely estranged. For the most part, Edward sticks to things he can count on...and things he can count. But over the course of 25 days (or 600 hours, as Edward prefers to
Under Rose-Tainted Skies
Louise Gornall · 323 pages
Will teenaged Norah, who is struggling with agoraphobia and OCD, accept that she could be the right one for sweet, funny Luke?
The Nao of Brown
Glyn Dillon · 210 pages
Twenty-eight-year-old Nao Brown, who’s hafu (half Japanese, half English), is not well. She’s suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) and fighting violent urges to harm other people. But that’s not who she really wants to be. Nao has dreams. She wants to quiet her unruly mind; she wants to get her design and illustration career off the ground; and she wants to find love, perfect love.
The Devil Takes a Bride
Julia London · 368 pages
"A plan born of desperation... Once the toast of society, Grace Cabot and her sisters now await the shame of losing high status and fine luxuries upon the death of the Earl of Beckington. The dire circumstances are inevitable unless, of course, Grace's wicked plot to seduce a wealthy viscount into marriage goes off without a single hitch. But once a stolen embrace with the wrong man leads her to b
Mr. Monk on the Road
Lee Goldberg · 291 pages
Determined to show his agoraphobic brother, Ambrose, the outside world, Adrian Monk drugs him with sleeping pills and hits the road in a motor home only to become enmeshed in a murder investigation along the highway.
OCD Love Story
Corey Ann Haydu · 352 pages
In an instant, Bea felt almost normal with Beck, and as if she could fall in love again, but things change when the psychotherapist who has been helping her deal with past romantic relationships puts her in a group with Beck--a group for teens with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Optimists Die First
Susin Nielsen · 256 pages
"When Petula de Wilde, who is anything but wild, meets Jacob in their school's dorky art therapy program, his friendship (and something more) helps her overcome intense fears since her sister died. And he has a secret of his own"-- Since her sister's death, Petula de Wilde sees danger in everything. A mandatory art therapy class with a groups of teenage misfits is the worst part of each week. S
Every Last Word
Tamara Ireland Stone · 400 pages
Consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off, a girl coping with Purely-Obsessional OCD learns to accept herself and take control of her life through her experiences in poetry club.
Mr. Monk Gets on Board
Hy Conrad · 297 pages
"Monk and Natalie board a cruise ship to attend a business seminar. But when the crew fishes the cruise director's body out of the water and the ship's doctor declares her death an accident, Monk suspects murder"--
History Is All You Left Me
Adam Silvera · 299 pages
Secrets are revealed as OCD-afflicted Griffin grieves for his first love, Theo, who died in a drowning accident. Even though Theo had moved to California for college and started seeing Jackson, Griffin never doubted Theo would come back to him when the time was right. But when Theo dies in a drowning accident, the future he's been imagining for himself is gone. To make things worse, the only pers
Perfect Escape
Jennifer Brown
Seventeen-year-old Kendra, living in the shadow of her brother's obsessive-compulsive disorder, takes a life-changing road trip with him.
Ten Count, Vol. 3
Rihito Takarai
"While out on the town with Kurose, Shirotani daydreams about the younger man kissing him. His desire quickly overcomes his phobia of human touch, and he gives himself over to his counselor's hands for relief. Watch as the relationship between the corporate secretary and his counselor continues to boil over in this story of love and therapy."