The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar is a haunting and semi-autobiographical novel about a young woman’s struggle with identity, mental illness, and societal expectations. Through the story of Esther Greenwood, Plath portrays the pressures of ambition, gender roles, and isolation with honesty and poignancy. Powerful and unsettling, it remains a modern classic of literature and psychology.