Books
- Teen Angst? Naaah..., a "quasi-autobiography" that consists of essays about Vizzini's young adult years attending Stuyvesant High School.
- Be More Chill, Vizzini's fiction debut follows the adventures of Jeremy Heere, a terminally "uncool" teenage boy. Jeremy's life changes when he buys a "squip", a pill that gives the user instructions on how to act cool.
- It's Kind of a Funny Story, Vizzini's second novel follows a depressed young man who becomes suicidal and checks himself into a psychiatric hospital. The book was inspired by Vizzini's own brief hospitalization for depression in November 2004, as described in the book's endnotes. Its movie rights were sold to Paramount. The motion picture, starring Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis, and Emma Roberts and directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, debuted on October 8, 2010.
- The Other Normals is a story about about a late bloomer who unexpectedly turns into an epic warrior at summer camp. Its publication was announced on March 21, 2011 in Publishers Weekly, and its cover was released on EW.com on February 24, 2012.
- House of Secrets, the first in a trilogy of novels co-authored by Ned Vizzini and Chris Columbus about the Walker kids, who find themselves in a mashed up world created by a fantasy writer's imagination.
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