Medical Malpractice

What are some good books based in asylums to read?

I read one flew over the couckoos nest, great book. can you suggest others. maybe dark stories or something gritty that takes place in an asylum.

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1. Girl Interrupted
2. There's this book called "Serenity House" by Christopher Hope. this book was published in 1992 and was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize. Some others... # Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood # The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry # Asylum by Patrick McGrath # The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath # A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the… by Edward Shorter # Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen # The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Wincheste Check more out here http://www.librarything.com/tag/asylums