Words for every season of the soul

A  –  Z of
Literary Prescriptions

Whatever you are carrying — grief, a broken marriage, the slow disorientation of midlife, the quiet ache of burnout, or the strange vertigo of not quite knowing who you are any more — somewhere in the world of literature, someone has already found words for it. This is your pharmacy, and this is what bibliotherapy looks like in practice.

Looking for a child? There is a whole other A–Z at The Children’s Shelf.