
Controlled Explosions in Mental Health A Compassionate Guide to Understanding Why Our Brains Self-Sabotage, Self-Criticise, and Self-Harm
Charlie Heriot-Maitland
Published 2026
208 pages
Books about anxiety put racing thoughts and tight chests into words. Characters and authors live with panic, worry or obsessive thinking, and try to build a life around and beyond it. You will find novels, memoirs and funny, frank essays here, all of them good company for an anxious mind. This list shows the ones first published in 2026.

Charlie Heriot-Maitland
Published 2026
208 pages

Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock
Published 2026
216 pages

David A. Clark
Published 2026
200 pages

Published 2026
204 pages

René Clayton
Published 2026
178 pages

Sarah Woodhouse
Published 2026
288 pages

Eleni Tassopoulos Wehner
Published 2026
20 pages

Anna Ferguson
Published 2026
304 pages

Mark D. Kilgus, Nicolas Badre
Published 2026
880 pages

Kate Allan
2026 · 2023 edition

Apryl Stott
Published 2026

Elaine N. Aron
Published 2026
Mark Freeman, Peter Joseph Fritz
Published 2026
152 pages