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Eating Disorders Books
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Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 285 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.96 — 126,199 ratings — published 2009
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.03 — 34,115 ratings — published 1998
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,486,999 ratings — published 2022
Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.83 — 41,721 ratings — published 2010
The Best Little Girl in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.68 — 5,532 ratings — published 1978
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 60 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,571 ratings — published 2017
Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.70 — 5,232 ratings — published 1998
Just Listen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.05 — 250,591 ratings — published 2006
Skinny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.42 — 6,932 ratings — published 2004
Thin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,682 ratings — published 2006
Paperweight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.90 — 17,826 ratings — published 2015
Perfect (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.76 — 14,222 ratings — published 2004
Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,392 ratings — published 2010
Elena Vanishing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,834 ratings — published 2015
Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,832 ratings — published 1979
Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,142 ratings — published 2003
Heartstopper: Volume Four (Heartstopper, #4)
by (shelved 43 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.57 — 442,286 ratings — published 2021
Purge: Rehab Diaries (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,867 ratings — published 2009
Purge (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,084 ratings — published 2009
The Girls at 17 Swann Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.97 — 11,777 ratings — published 2019
Thin (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,202 ratings — published 2006
Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,120 ratings — published 1988
Lighter than My Shadow (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.40 — 6,901 ratings — published 2013
Believarexic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,324 ratings — published 2015
Letting Ana Go (Anonymous Diaries)
by (shelved 34 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.07 — 10,568 ratings — published 2013
What I Lost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,036 ratings — published 2017
Milk Fed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.56 — 80,116 ratings — published 2021
Skin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,168 ratings — published 2006
Second Star to the Right (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,386 ratings — published 1981
Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,140 ratings — published 1999
Zoe Letting Go (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,203 ratings — published 2012
Heartstopper: Volume Three (Heartstopper, #3)
by (shelved 29 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.54 — 499,304 ratings — published 2020
Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.54 — 1,673 ratings — published
Hunger Point (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.58 — 2,226 ratings — published 1997
Louder Than Hunger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.40 — 7,677 ratings — published 2024
The Art of Starving (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.72 — 5,300 ratings — published 2017
A Trick of the Light (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,415 ratings — published 2013
Empty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,621 ratings — published 2020
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience (8 Keys to Mental Health)
by (shelved 26 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.28 — 904 ratings — published 2011
Hunger (Riders of the Apocalypse, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,348 ratings — published 2010
Massive (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.31 — 2,490 ratings — published 2002
Appetites: Why Women Want (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,377 ratings — published 2004
How I Live Now (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.57 — 47,081 ratings — published 2004
An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,336 ratings — published 2012
Butter (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.68 — 11,170 ratings — published 2012
Perfect (Impulse, #2)
by (shelved 24 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.32 — 31,148 ratings — published 2011
Life-Size (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.86 — 663 ratings — published 1992
Slim to None: A Journey Through the Wasteland of Anorexia Treatment (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.66 — 634 ratings — published 2003
Going Hungry: Writers on Desire, Self-Denial, and Overcoming Anorexia (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 3.68 — 695 ratings — published 2008
Identical (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as eating-disorders)
avg rating 4.29 — 67,168 ratings — published 2008
“eat, baby.
eat.
chew.
please.
I know it hurts. I know it doesn’t feel good.
please.
I know your hunger is different than mine.
I know it doesn’t taste the same as mine.
imagine you could grow up all over again
and pinpoint the millisecond that you started
counting calories like casualties of war,
mourning each one like it had a family.
would you?
sometimes I wonder that.
sometimes I wonder if you would go back
and watch yourself reappear and disappear right in front of your own eyes.
and I love you so much.
I am going to hold your little hand through the night.
just please eat. just a little.
you wrote a poem once,
about a city of walking skeletons.
the teacher called home because you
told her you wished it could be like that
here.
let me tell you something about bones, baby.
they are not warm or soft.
the wind whistles through them like they are
holes in a tree.
and they break, too. they break right in half.
they bruise and splinter like wood.
are you hungry?
I know. I know how much you hate that question.
I will find another way to ask it, someday.
please.
the voices.
I know they are all yelling at you to stretch yourself thinner.
l hear them counting, always counting.
I wish I had been there when the world made you
snap yourself in half.
I would have told you that your body is not a war-zone,
that, sometimes,
it is okay to leave your plate empty.”
―
eat.
chew.
please.
I know it hurts. I know it doesn’t feel good.
please.
I know your hunger is different than mine.
I know it doesn’t taste the same as mine.
imagine you could grow up all over again
and pinpoint the millisecond that you started
counting calories like casualties of war,
mourning each one like it had a family.
would you?
sometimes I wonder that.
sometimes I wonder if you would go back
and watch yourself reappear and disappear right in front of your own eyes.
and I love you so much.
I am going to hold your little hand through the night.
just please eat. just a little.
you wrote a poem once,
about a city of walking skeletons.
the teacher called home because you
told her you wished it could be like that
here.
let me tell you something about bones, baby.
they are not warm or soft.
the wind whistles through them like they are
holes in a tree.
and they break, too. they break right in half.
they bruise and splinter like wood.
are you hungry?
I know. I know how much you hate that question.
I will find another way to ask it, someday.
please.
the voices.
I know they are all yelling at you to stretch yourself thinner.
l hear them counting, always counting.
I wish I had been there when the world made you
snap yourself in half.
I would have told you that your body is not a war-zone,
that, sometimes,
it is okay to leave your plate empty.”
―
“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself. (p. 84)”
― Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
― Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
