Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Men Have Called Her Crazy | 2024 | Anna Marie Tendler | Buy |
Anna Marie Tendler published Men Have Called Her Crazy in August 2024 through Simon & Schuster. The memoir opens with Tendler checking herself into a psychiatric hospital in early 2021 following a year of anxiety, depression, and self-harm. From there, the book alternates between her two weeks in treatment and the life experiences that led her to that point.
Tendler writes about an unrequited high school love, losing her virginity at sixteen to a twenty-eight-year-old, dating in her mid-thirties, and deciding to freeze her eggs. The connecting thread is how men have defined, dismissed, or distorted her self-image. She never refers to her ex-husband by name. The memoir debuted at number two on the New York Times Best Seller list and received praise from The New York Times, The Atlantic, TIME, and NPR.