‘Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.’ ~W.Hazlitt.
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner Beloved, Toni Morrison
Let us now Praise Famous Men, James Agee Under Milkwood, Dylan Thomas
Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
The Aunt’s Story, Patrick White Les Illuminations, Arthur Rimbaud
The Bone People, Keri Hulme The Passion, Jeanette Winterson
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard Equus, Peter Shaffer
Songs of Innocence and Experience, William Blake
The White Tiger, Aravind Adiga
Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
Ulysses, James Joyce One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
The Color Purple, Alice Walker Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow, Peter Høeg
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
The Piano Teacher, Elfriede Jelinek Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
[sic] Joshua Cody The Leopard, Giuseppi Tomasi di Lampedusa
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Laurence Sterne
The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Collected Poems, William Carlos Williams Collected Poems, e.e.cummings
Tourmaline, Randolph Stowe
Collected Poems, Emily Dickinson Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S Thompson
Every Love Story is a Ghost Story, A Life of David Foster Wallace, D.T.Max
Vernon God Little, DBC Pierre The Vivisector, Patrick White
The Border Trilogy, Cormac McCarthy
Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward Collected Works, Gerard Manley Hopkins
A Girl is a Half-formed Thing, Eimear McBride
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson
Tell me I’m Here, Anne Deveson A Mood Apart, Peter Whybrow
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt
Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri
The Diary of Frida Khalo, Carlos Fuentes
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Only the Animals, Ceridwen Dovey The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau
Carpentaria, Alexis Wright
Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott Howl, Allen Ginsberg
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
Forty-one False Starts, Janet Malcolm Beyond Black, Hilary Mantel
A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar
The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
Le Rouge et le Noir, Stendhal Vincent by Himself, Vincent van Gogh
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion
Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor E. Frankl Just Kids, Patti Smith
The Wasteland, T.S.Eliot How to be Both, Ali Smith
Salt Creek, Lucy Treloar The Plains, Gerald Murnane
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Haiku, Matsuo Basho
My Name is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout
Kate Richards (Australia) 
Thank you Laura. It is certainly possible to live well and work and manage a long term illness. Wishing you good health and wellness as you complete your degree and embark on your career.
I don’t know if you read this or use this blog anymore. I’m also assuming this is the Kate Richards who has written Madness, a memoir. I read a story about you in the Sydney Morning Herald today (19/1/13) and was heartened to hear of a doctor who had made her way through medical school, and very successfully at that – whilst battling a mental illness. I am entering 4th year this year out of a 6 year medical degree in Australia and it gives me great hope that I may finish my degree with my illness alongside me. Thank you for writing an inspiring book and speaking out as both a person with a mental illness and one as a successful doctor.
Laura