Ten Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels About Depression

(alphabetically by author, and by request, with a wide definition of science fiction and fantasy)

 

  • The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

  • Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

  • Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls

  • Panics by Barbara Molinard *

  • Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

  • We Who Are About To… by Joanna Russ

  • Dying Inside by Robert Silverberg

  • The Universe in Miniature in Miniature by Patrick Somerville **

  • Mockingbird by Walter Tevis

  • After World by Debbie Urbanski

* This one’s a story collection.

** And so’s this one, kind of.

— March 31, 2025


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