Empty
By: Susan Burton
3.78
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated…
Want to Read $ 12.99"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other place."-Susan Burton, Empty
"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other place."-Susan Burton, Empty
"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other place."-Susan Burton, Empty
"...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled with a version of my problem and tried to make sense of her story in her own language."-Susan Burton, Empty
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1. Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
By: Harriet Brown
3.85
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
I've never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, … read more
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- biography
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- health
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- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
"It's so easy to focus on the anguish and the misery; it's harder, somehow, to acknowledge the positive, maybe for fear of jinxing it, bringing the nightmare back down on our heads."-Harriet Brown, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
"I’ve never had anorexia, but I know it well. I see it on the street, in the gaunt and sunken face, the boney chest, the spindly arms of an emaciated woman. I’ve come to recognize the flat look of des…"-Harriet Brown, Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia
2. Willow Weep for Me: A Black Woman's Journey Through Depression
By: Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
4.42
Format: 216 pages,
In the tradition of "Darkness Visible", this book presents a moving and memorable testament to the … read more
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3. Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
By: Thom Rutledge , Jenni Schaefer
3.71
Format: 498 pages, Paperback
Jenni had been in an abusive relationship with Ed for far too long. He controlled Jenni's life, dis… read more
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4. An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
By: Emma Woolf
4.36
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
A true story of falling in love and overcoming anorexia. At the age of 32, after ten years of hidin… read more
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5. Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
By: Roxane Gay
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image,… read more
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6. Elena Vanishing
By: Clare B. Dunkle , Elena Dunkle
3.93
Format: 300 pages, Hardcover
Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fe… read more
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7. It Was Me All Along
By: Andie Mitchell
3.34
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A young food blogger shares her inspiring story of incredible weight loss--a journey from nearly 30… read more
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8. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
By: Marya Hornbacher
3.98
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Thr… read more
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9. How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia
By: Kelsey Osgood
3.33
Format: 75 pages, Hardcover
She devoured their memoirs and magazine articles, committing the most salacious details of their ca… read more
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10. Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm
By: Emmeline Clein
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A personal and cultural look at the dark underbelly of Western beauty standards and the lethal cult… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. Sociopath: A Memoir
By: Patric Gagne
3.84
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A fascinating, revelatory memoir revealing the author’s struggle to come to terms with her own soci… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
"In a universe where everything seemed to be associated with everything else, jazz was in a world all its own. The untethered notes didn't propel me backward in time or force me into imaginations of t…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"Regardless of whether they realized it, my parents, my friends, my teachers, my lovers—everyone, on some level—was uncomfortable with my limited emotion. Because it meant something sinister. Because,…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"I loved people. I truly did. But the way I loved was different than most. And, if I was being honest, not all that compatible. I didn’t need to get love in order to give love. I never had. I preferre…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
"The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and T…"-Patric Gagne, Sociopath: A Memoir
12. Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
By: Hadley Freeman
3.92
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From Hadley Freeman, bestselling author of House of Glass , comes a “riveting” ( The New York Times… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Life, unfortunately, is not like an ‘80s movie, in which a character has an epiphany, a triumphal rock track plays on the soundtrack, and everyone smiles at one another: roll end credits. If my teena…"-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
13. Empty
By: Susan Burton
3.78
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated… read more
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- adult
- audiobook
"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other pl…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled w…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. Y…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"I was struck, though, that even as the women share their experiences, they seem to remain essentially alone in them. They tell their stories, but they do not seem to connect with the others in doing …"-Susan Burton, Empty
14. The Weight of Beautiful
By: Jackie Goldschneider
4.30
Format: 239 pages, Hardcover
Jackie Goldschneider, star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey , bravely chronicles her decades-lo… read more
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- biography
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Everything/Nothing/Someone
By: Alice Carrière
4.02
Format: 277 pages, Hardcover
A powerful literary debut that tells of a young woman’s coming-of-age in the bohemian ’90s, as her … read more
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- audiobook
16. What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
By: Cole Kazdin
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin … read more
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- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I loved a good bulimia joke and even sometimes initiated them, like after a dinner out with friends, "I'd better run home and throw this up." We all laughed; my girlfriends said similar things. But I…"-Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
17. Fullness: A Memoir
By: Azure Moyna
3.96
Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition
Having recently gotten married, landed her first corporate management job and purchased her first h… read more
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- nonfiction
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18. Thin, and I
By: Andrijka Keller
3.85
Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition
“Funny, frank, and visceral; an unconventional consideration of bulimia.” — Kirkus Reviews“Eloquent… read more
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19. Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders
By: Jennifer L. Gaudiani
4.58
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Patients with eating disorders frequently feel that they aren’t "sick enough" to merit treatment, d… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life
By: Amanda Stern
3.96
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
In the vein of bestselling memoirs about mental illness like Andrew Solomon's Noonday Demon, Sarah … read more
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- memoir
- health
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. Living Full: Winning My Battle With Eating Disorders
By: Danielle Sherman-Lazar
3.75
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
A survivor takes those struggling with anorexia and/or bulimia on "a passionate, heartbreaking to h… read more
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