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Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 114 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.96 — 127,586 ratings — published 2009
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.83 — 41,903 ratings — published 2010
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.03 — 34,367 ratings — published 1998
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,616,309 ratings — published 2022
Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,430 ratings — published 2010
Just Listen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.05 — 251,460 ratings — published 2006
Quiet in the Corner (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.13 — 85 ratings — published 2020
The Best Little Girl in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,561 ratings — published 1978
The Girls at 17 Swann Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,982 ratings — published 2019
Family Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.67 — 19,813 ratings — published 2013
How I Live Now (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.57 — 47,518 ratings — published 2004
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.65 — 453,460 ratings — published 2007
Paperweight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.90 — 18,366 ratings — published 2015
The Solitude of Prime Numbers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.65 — 87,885 ratings — published 2008
Lighter than My Shadow (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.40 — 7,000 ratings — published 2013
Louder Than Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.40 — 8,869 ratings — published 2024
Skinny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.41 — 6,985 ratings — published 2004
What I Lost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,148 ratings — published 2017
Elena Vanishing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,047 ratings — published 2015
Hunger (Riders of the Apocalypse, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.57 — 4,340 ratings — published 2010
Días sin hambre (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,894 ratings — published 2009
Believarexic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,370 ratings — published 2015
Letting Ana Go (Anonymous Diaries)
by (shelved 6 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,734 ratings — published 2013
An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.56 — 1,363 ratings — published 2012
A Slice of Heaven (The Sweet Magnolias, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.93 — 19,448 ratings — published 2007
Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.70 — 5,251 ratings — published 1998
A Trick of the Light (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,429 ratings — published 2013
Perfect (Impulse, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.32 — 31,464 ratings — published 2011
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,134 ratings — published 1988
Second Star to the Right (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,403 ratings — published 1981
More Than You Can Chew (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.80 — 775 ratings — published 2003
The Kitten and His Prince (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.72 — 137 ratings — published
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.57 — 454,105 ratings — published 2021
How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.41 — 879 ratings — published 2013
Good Enough (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,947 ratings — published 2019
La escritora muerta (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.75 — 69 ratings — published 2008
The Impossible Boy (The Impossible Boy #1)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,229 ratings — published 2017
Far from Home (Belladonna Ink, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,439 ratings — published 2016
The Rest of Us Just Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.68 — 63,895 ratings — published 2015
The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.71 — 654 ratings — published 1978
Sweet Fall (Sweet Home, #2; Carillo Boys, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.32 — 16,822 ratings — published 2014
Biting Anorexia: A Firsthand Account of an Internal War (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.77 — 546 ratings — published 2009
Lucille (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,009 ratings — published 2006
Before I Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.88 — 348,669 ratings — published 2010
Heartstopper: Volume Five (Heartstopper, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as anorexia)
avg rating 4.46 — 210,273 ratings — published 2023
The Year I Didn't Eat (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as anorexia)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,584 ratings — published 2019
“Why? You want to know why?
Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.
Smoke gunpowder and go to school to jump through hoops, sit up and beg, and roll over on command. Listen to the whispers that curl into your head at night, calling you ugly and fat and stupid and bitch and whore and worst of all, "a disappointment." Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and drink and cut because you need the anesthetic and it works. For a while. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's too late because you are mainlining it now, straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop.
Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you.
"Why?" is the wrong question.
Ask "Why not?”
― Wintergirls
Step into a tanning booth and fry yourself for two or three days. After your skin bubbles and peels off, roll in coarse salt, then pull on long underwear woven from spun glass and razor wire. Over that goes your regular clothes, as long as they are tight.
Smoke gunpowder and go to school to jump through hoops, sit up and beg, and roll over on command. Listen to the whispers that curl into your head at night, calling you ugly and fat and stupid and bitch and whore and worst of all, "a disappointment." Puke and starve and cut and drink because you don't want to feel any of this. Puke and starve and drink and cut because you need the anesthetic and it works. For a while. But then the anesthetic turns into poison and by then it's too late because you are mainlining it now, straight into your soul. It is rotting you and you can't stop.
Look in a mirror and find a ghost. Hear every heartbeat scream that everysinglething is wrong with you.
"Why?" is the wrong question.
Ask "Why not?”
― Wintergirls
“Between 10 and 20 percent of people with anorexia die from heart attacks, other complications and suicide; the disease has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Or Kitty could have lost her life in a different way, lost it to the roller coaster of relapse and recovery, inpatient and outpatient, that eats up, on average, five to seven years. Or a lifetime: only half of all anorexics recovery in the end. The other half endure lives of dysfunction and despair. Friends and families give up on them. Doctors dread treating them. They’re left to stand in the bakery with the voice ringing in their ears, alone in every way that matters.”
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