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Best Eating Disorder Books
Stories or manuals that offer insight and understanding
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8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience (8 Keys to Mental Health)
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Carolyn Costin (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 878 ratings
score: 348,
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| 102 |
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Empty
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3.22 avg rating — 237 ratings
score: 340,
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| 103 |
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Catherine: The Story of a Young Girl Who Died of Anorexia
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3.81 avg rating — 129 ratings
score: 338,
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When anorexia came to visit: Families talk about how an eating disorder invaded their lives
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Bev Mattocks (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 333,
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4 people voted
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| 105 |
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If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
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Gayle Forman (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 958,837 ratings
score: 315,
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| 106 |
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This Mean Disease: Growing Up in the Shadow of My Mother's Anorexia Nervosa
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3.61 avg rating — 93 ratings
score: 314,
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5 people voted
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| 107 |
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Life in the Fat Lane
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Cherie Bennett (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 2,377 ratings
score: 306,
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4 people voted
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| 108 |
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Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It
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Gary Taubes (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 22,434 ratings
score: 300,
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| 108 |
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The Love Story That Shouldn't Have Been
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3.90 avg rating — 115 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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| 108 |
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Slim and Healthy You (Edible Excellence, #1)
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Sahara Sanders (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 300,
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| 108 |
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 119,462 ratings
score: 300,
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| 112 |
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Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health
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William Davis (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 31,294 ratings
score: 299,
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| 112 |
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What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
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3.98 avg rating — 1,507 ratings
score: 299,
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| 114 |
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Goodbye, Paper Doll
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3.88 avg rating — 207 ratings
score: 298,
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| 114 |
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I Should Have Worn A Curtain: A Psychological Fiction Novella
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Samyra Alexander (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 249 ratings
score: 298,
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3 people voted
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| 116 |
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Running on Empty: A Diary of Anorexia and Recovery
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3.65 avg rating — 97 ratings
score: 297,
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4 people voted
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| 116 |
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Breaking Free from Emotional Eating
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Geneen Roth (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 1,736 ratings
score: 297,
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3 people voted
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| 118 |
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My Body, My Enemy
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3.88 avg rating — 192 ratings
score: 296,
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3 people voted
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| 119 |
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A Trick of the Light
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Lois Metzger (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 1,400 ratings
score: 293,
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3 people voted
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| 120 |
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Perfect: Anorexia & Me
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3.77 avg rating — 574 ratings
score: 285,
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4 people voted
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| 121 |
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Half-Assed: A Weight-Loss Memoir
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Jennette Fulda (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 2,419 ratings
score: 281,
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| 122 |
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Pointe
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Brandy Colbert (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 4,993 ratings
score: 275,
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| 123 |
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The Passion of Alice
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3.60 avg rating — 617 ratings
score: 274,
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| 124 |
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Midnight Feast
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3.45 avg rating — 86 ratings
score: 271,
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4 people voted
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| 125 |
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The Secret Language of Eating Disorders: How You Can Understand and Work to Cure Anorexia and Bulimia
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3.59 avg rating — 383 ratings
score: 270,
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| 126 |
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All Good Things Die in L.A.
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Anhoni Patel (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 54 ratings
score: 264,
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3 people voted
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| 127 |
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Licking the Spoon: A Memoir of Food, Family and Identity
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Candace Walsh (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 293 ratings
score: 263,
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3 people voted
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| 128 |
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Eli's Wings
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3.51 avg rating — 73 ratings
score: 258,
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3 people voted
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| 129 |
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Anorexia: A Stranger in the Family
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Katie Metcalfe (Goodreads Author)
3.30 avg rating — 186 ratings
score: 256,
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4 people voted
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| 130 |
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Feeding Christine
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Barbara Chepaitis (Goodreads Author)
3.09 avg rating — 76 ratings
score: 255,
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3 people voted
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| 131 |
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Inner Hunger: A Young Woman's Struggle Through Anorexia and Bulimia
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3.16 avg rating — 68 ratings
score: 248,
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3 people voted
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| 132 |
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Hope, Help, and Healing for Eating Disorders: A New Approach to Treating Anorexia, Bulimia, and Overeating
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3.55 avg rating — 84 ratings
score: 235,
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4 people voted
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| 132 |
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How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story
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3.30 avg rating — 1,151 ratings
score: 235,
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3 people voted
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Running in Heels
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3.54 avg rating — 6,256 ratings
score: 235,
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3 people voted
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Anorexia Boy Recovery: A mother's blog about her teenage son's recovery from anorexia Part I - 2011
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Bev Mattocks (Goodreads Author)
4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 234,
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3 people voted
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| 136 |
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Thinspo
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Amy Ellis (Goodreads Author)
3.18 avg rating — 604 ratings
score: 225,
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3 people voted
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| 137 |
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Leaving the Beach: A Novel of Obsession and Music
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Mary Rowen (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 130 ratings
score: 218,
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| 138 |
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Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?: Stories About Loving -- and Loathing -- Your Body
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Marissa Walsh (Editor)
3.51 avg rating — 302 ratings
score: 214,
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| 138 |
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Illuminating Gracie
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Lisa C. Temple (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 94 ratings
score: 214,
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| 140 |
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Handbook of Treatment for Eating Disorders
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David M. Gartner (Editor)
3.61 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 211,
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3 people voted
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| 141 |
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Hunger Pains: The Modern Woman's Tragic Quest for Thinness
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3.70 avg rating — 267 ratings
score: 210,
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| 142 |
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Alabaster Chambers
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3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 203,
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| 143 |
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Does Every Woman Have an Eating Disorder?
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Stacey M. Rosenfeld (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings
score: 200,
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| 143 |
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The Happiness Animal
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Will Jelbert (Goodreads Author)
3.27 avg rating — 719 ratings
score: 200,
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| 143 |
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Honey Month
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4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 200,
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| 143 |
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The Last Days: A Memoir of Faith, Desire and Freedom
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4.16 avg rating — 733 ratings
score: 200,
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Días sin hambre
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3.70 avg rating — 4,499 ratings
score: 199,
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| 148 |
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Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder
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3.22 avg rating — 396 ratings
score: 198,
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| 148 |
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Maggie: Diary #2 (California Diaries, #8)
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3.66 avg rating — 381 ratings
score: 198,
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How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia
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3.40 avg rating — 859 ratings
score: 197,
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Conquering Anorexia: The Route to Recovery
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3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 197,
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| 150 |
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I Should Have Worn A Curtain 2
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Samyra Alexander (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 99 ratings
score: 197,
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| 153 |
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Passing for Thin: Losing Half My Weight and Finding My Self
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Frances Kuffel (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 791 ratings
score: 196,
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Insatiable: A Young Mother's Struggle with Anorexia
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3.60 avg rating — 256 ratings
score: 196,
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| 153 |
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Even if It Kills Me
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3.64 avg rating — 996 ratings
score: 196,
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| 156 |
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Early Disorder
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3.50 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 194,
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Tyranny
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3.44 avg rating — 847 ratings
score: 193,
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Family Games: General Models of Psychotic Processes in the Family
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3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 192,
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| 158 |
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Emily's Secret
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3.70 avg rating — 43 ratings
score: 192,
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| 160 |
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,341,384 ratings
score: 191,
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“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People
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4.32 avg rating — 11,367 ratings
score: 190,
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| 162 |
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Ed Says U Said: Eating Disorder Translator
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June Alexander (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 189,
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Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders
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3.89 avg rating — 91 ratings
score: 187,
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Losing It
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Sandy McKay (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 92 ratings
score: 187,
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Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease
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4.18 avg rating — 6,610 ratings
score: 187,
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| 163 |
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Ten-Mile Morning: My Journey through Anorexia Nervosa
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3.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 187,
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| 163 |
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Not Otherwise Specified
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Hannah Moskowitz (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,635 ratings
score: 187,
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| 168 |
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Boys Get Anorexia Too: Coping with Male Eating Disorders in the Family (Lucky Duck Books)
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3.11 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 186,
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| 169 |
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Solitaire: The Compelling Story of a Young Woman Growing up in America and Her Triumph over Anorexia
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Aimee Liu (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 143 ratings
score: 182,
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| 170 |
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Good Girls Do Swallow: The Darkly Comic True Story of How One Woman Stopped Hating Her Body
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3.37 avg rating — 294 ratings
score: 179,
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| 170 |
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A Collaborative Approach to Eating Disorders
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3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 179,
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Alice in the Looking Glass: A Mother And Daughter's Experience of Anorexia
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3.77 avg rating — 157 ratings
score: 178,
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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Title Gymnasts and Figure Skaters
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Joan Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 3,022 ratings
score: 177,
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| 174 |
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Lying in Weight: The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women
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3.57 avg rating — 159 ratings
score: 175,
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| 174 |
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An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
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3.58 avg rating — 1,323 ratings
score: 175,
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Fragile
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4.20 avg rating — 833 ratings
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Eve's Apple
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3.50 avg rating — 269 ratings
score: 167,
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Shrink: A Journey through Anorexia
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3.28 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Chasing Silhouettes: How to Help a Loved One Battling an Eating Disorder
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Emily T. Wierenga (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 166,
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| 180 |
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Stick Figure: A Personal Journey Through Anorexia and Bulimia
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3.67 avg rating — 64 ratings
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| 181 |
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Just Perfect
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Hanne Arts (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 75 ratings
score: 159,
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Healing Your Hungry Heart: Recovering from Your Eating Disorder
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4.31 avg rating — 80 ratings
score: 154,
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Annie's Anorexic
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Sarah Burleton (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 90 ratings
score: 151,
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Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager
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3.25 avg rating — 832 ratings
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Hunger Strike: Starving Amidst Plenty
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3.87 avg rating — 82 ratings
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Starved: Mercy for Eating Disorders (Mercy For, #1)
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3.70 avg rating — 60 ratings
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703: How I Lost More Than a Quarter Ton and Gained a Life
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3.44 avg rating — 616 ratings
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Divine Nourishment: A Woman's Sacred Journey with Food
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4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 142,
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Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide to Recovery
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3.69 avg rating — 35 ratings
score: 141,
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Against Gravity
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Lucy Ferriss (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 141,
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Perfect Nothing (Mark Miller's One, #7)
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4.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 140,
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Talking to Eating Disorders: Simple Ways to Support Someone with Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating, or Body Image Issues
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3.60 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 139,
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Full
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4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Ultimate Weight Loss
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Stephen Richards (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 138,
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| 195 |
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Thin Rich Bitches
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Janet Eve Josselyn (Goodreads Author)
3.32 avg rating — 398 ratings
score: 134,
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| 196 |
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Food-Free at Last: How I Learned to Eat Air
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2.92 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Insatiable: The Compelling Story of Four Teens, Food and Its Power
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3.73 avg rating — 468 ratings
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Good Enough...When Losing is Winning, and Thin Enough Can Never be Achieved
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3.59 avg rating — 29 ratings
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| 198 |
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The Boy Who Loved Apples: A mother's battle with her son's anorexia
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3.82 avg rating — 236 ratings
score: 131,
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Am I Thin Enough Yet?: The Cult of Thinness and the Commercialization of Identity
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3.60 avg rating — 222 ratings
score: 130,
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Nov 17, 2008 10:19PM
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition
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I cannot believe this book isn't on the list. It's completely brilliant, and anyone interested in body disorders in Western culture should start with Bordo.
I've got to agree with Mary, Unbearable Weight by Susan Bordo really should be on this list
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Just wanted to suggest that if you are recovering/have recovered/are trying to recover from an ED, you should check out my new book group on here: Eating Disorder Recovery Reading Buddies
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/5...
Sorry I didn't think it was spam to tell people rating a thread about eating disorders on Goodreads that there is now a group here ON GOODREADS where people can talk about eating disorder recovery and read eating disorder recovery books together, such as many of the books on this list...doesn't seem like spam to me at all. If I were posting to some external link or something, then I would totally agree. I was really just trying to let people know it was there and reach out so that they could join and we could all help each other with this ED journey :( while enjoying good stories about it and helping each other know which books are triggering, etc. If you think that is spam, I am sorry. That is unfortunate.
I must admit to being sad that Wasted is number 1. For me, it did much more damage than good, triggering me and giving me more tips and strategies than it did aid my recovery. I hope that I am alone in this fact but I fear that it leads to more relapse than it leads to recovery. I actually found a book called Going Hungry to be very helpful.
PUSHING UPWARD, by Andrea Adler is another wonderful book, about to become a film, on eating disorders.
Mary wrote: "Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body, Tenth Anniversary Edition"I read excerpts from this book for my literary criticism class and ended up writing two papers based around its ideas. I love this.
The 8 Keys to Recovering From an Eating Disorder by Carolyn Costin. Costin delivers an honest, realistic, authentic approach to finding your way out of an ED and finding yourSELF.
Sirja wrote: "Wasted, always and forever <3"I read Wasted several times while in my raging eating disorder. I swear this book taught me how to be a better anorexic. This book is great if you want to be sick. I appreciate her honesty but, at time, it is too honest. I saw her speak at Harvard last Fall, which helped me come to terms with Wasted and Marya. She said that when she wrote Wasted, she was very sick and did not mean for it to be a guide for killing yourself. I wouldn't read this again.
Heather wrote: "I must admit to being sad that Wasted is number 1. For me, it did much more damage than good, triggering me and giving me more tips and strategies than it did aid my recovery. I hope that I am alon..."See I feel the problem with people reactions to this book is that itwas in no way supposed to aid in anyones recovery, it was simply an account of the authors personal thoughts and experiences, which can be very intense and triggering. I loved the book, it really put into words some of my own personal experiences, and it was nice to see someone else had thought like me at one point as well, if that makes sense. Yes, it was triggering, but so has been most ED books for me, especially winter girls, but if triggering is a problem, its best to stick to self help books strictly. For me it was nice to find a book that wasn't 50% BS, or some 'cute' little story about a teenager who doesnt eat for a week and miraculously gets better after she faints and goes to the hospital for a month, or a book that lies about the experience and skips all the horrible parts. Its the first ED book I've read thats been raw and honest and real about the hell that is an eating disorder. I personally think books like this are very important.
A warrior-mother's perspective? Read this story! Dancing with a Demon https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Demon-...
I have removed Before I fall by Lauren Oliver for not meeting the criteria. It's an amazing book but not one that focuses on eating disorders.Please stick to the theme when adding books.
Hey y'all,I just started a new book club called "Damage" under groups that you can join if you'd like! It focuses on reading a book every other month that is about physical, mental, emotional, or intellectual differences. (And yes, I redefine how "damage" should be viewed in the group description!) Hope you join!
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