Eating Disorders

Includes anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder / compulsive overeating, and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS). Mental illnesses involving a combination of thoughts / feelings, behaviors, and symptoms linked to eating/food and weight gain/loss and body image and physical symptoms.

Wintergirls
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
The Best Little Girl in the World
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Just Listen
Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
Skinny
Thin
Paperweight
Perfect
Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
Elena Vanishing
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
The Bad Guy by Celia AaronBlack Lies by Alessandra TorreMy Torin by K. WebsterEleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail HoneymanGrayson by Lisa Eugene
Heroes with mental illness
279 books — 159 voters
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse AndersonObjects in Mirror by Tudor RobinsSkinny by Donna CoonerStarvation by Molly FennigGirls Under Pressure by Jacqueline Wilson
Eating Disorders in Fiction
15 books — 4 voters

French Women Don't Get Fat by Mireille GuilianoSkinny Bitch by Rory Freedman
Fatphobic Books
2 books — 1 voter
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow RowellDumplin' by Julie   MurphyThe DUFF by Kody KeplingerFat Girl on a Plane by Kelly deVosThe Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli
Plus-Size YA Heroines
216 books — 218 voters

Laurie Halse Anderson
If I had lady-spider legs, I would weave a sky where the stars lined up. Matresses would be tied down tight to their trucks, bodies would never crash through windshields. The moon would rise above the wine-dark sea and give babies only to maidens and musicians who had prayed long and hard. Lost girls wouldn't need compasses or maps. They would find gingerbread paths to lead them out of the forest and home again. They would never sleep in silver boxes with white velvet sheets, not until they were ...more
Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

Laurie Halse Anderson
Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong. ...more
Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

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