Five top books on madness

Jon Ronson’s books include the New York Times bestseller The Psychopath Test, and Them: Adventures with Extremists and The Men Who Stare at Goats—both international bestsellers. His latest book is Lost at Sea.

One of his favorite books on madness, as told to The Daily Beast:
Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut

When I first read this as a teenager, I thought Billy Pilgrim really had been