Goodreads asked author and psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb to share her recommended reading list with us. Gottlieb is the author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed. She also writes The Atlantic's weekly "Dear Therapist" advice column.

From Lori Gottlieb: "As an author who also happens to be a therapist, I love to 'prescribe' books to my patients that I think will hold up a mirror to them and help through their struggles. We even have a term for this: bibliotherapy, and it can happen with a memoir, a novel, poetry, or straight self-help. In Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, I share four patients' stories (well, five patients, if you count me!) because I've always felt that other people's stories hold up a mirror to our own, revealing the universality of our experiences. Seeing ourselves on the page makes us 'feel felt': I am seen. I am understood. I am human.

Here are some of my favorite 'prescriptions' that do just that."

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