Books Like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey | Suggesting Reading

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest What Do I Read Next?

In the 1986 collection Demon Box, Kesey reflects on his experiences as a member of the counterculture In the 1960s and 1970s.

J. D. Salinger's classic of adolescent rebellion, The Catcher in the Rye (1951) tells of how sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield rebels against all that he perceives as phony in upper-middle-class 1940s society.

The semi autobiographical novel The Bell Jar (1963), by poet Sylvia Plath, traces protagonist Esther Greenwood's battles with depression as she struggles to find her place in a society which limits women's roles to that of wife and mother.

Nobody Nowhere (1992) is Donna Williams's powerful autobiography about growing up autistic-unable to process emotions normally-and discovering how to relate to the outside world.

Mary Jane Ward's classic 1946 novel The Snake Pit tells of a young woman's year of treatment in a mental hospital. The book inspired a 1948 movie of the same...
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