The Silent Patient
Alex Michaelides
2019
Books with the “Asylum” trope
A psychiatric hospital or asylum where the line between illness, sanity and reality blurs.
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Setting and place · Asylum
Books with this trope
Blindness
José Saramago
1995
The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins
1859
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane
2003
The Silent Companions
Laura Purcell
2017
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath
1963
Flowers from the Storm
Laura Kinsale
1992
The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
Jennifer Ashley
2009
The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris
1988
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
1962
The Mad Women's Ball
Victoria Mas
2019
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Boarding School
A closed boarding school where students live together and hide their own secrets.