The Girls at 17 Swann Street
By: Yara Zgheib
3.97
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, …
Want to Read $ 11.99"I do not suffer from anorexia, I have anorexia. The two states are not the same. I know my anorexia, I understand it better than the world around me."-Yara Zgheib, The Girls at 17 Swann Street
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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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- mental illness
- mental health
"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. Skinny
By: Ibi Kaslik
3.43
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Do you ever get hungry? Too hungry to eat? Holly's older sister, Giselle, is self-destructing. Hau… read more
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- realistic fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
"Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize. While the rest of the body can catch flame like a p…"-Ibi Kaslik, Skinny
3. What I Lost
By: Alexandra Ballard
3.69
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What sixteen-year-old Elizabeth has lost so far: forty pounds, four jean sizes, a boyfriend, and he… read more
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- realistic fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
4. Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
By: Portia de Rossi
3.68
Format: 346 pages, Paperback
"I didn't decide to become anorexic. It snuck up on me disguised as a healthy diet, a professional … read more
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- mental health
5. Thinspo
By: Amy Ellis
5.00
Format: 398 pages,
Jenni is an average teenage girl about to graduate from high school who keeps a blog about her stru… read more
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- contemporary
- mental illness
- fiction
- mental health
6. A Trick of the Light
By: Lois Metzger
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Telling a story of a rarely recognized segment of eating disorder sufferers--young men--A Trick of … read more
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- realistic fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
7. thinandbeautiful.com
By: Liane Shaw
4.00
Format: 222 pages, Paperback
Seventeen-year-old Maddy has always felt a hole in her life, but she has finally found a way to fil… read more
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- contemporary
- mental illness
- fiction
- mental health
8. Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
By: Jenni Schaefer
3.42
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jenni Schaefer and Ed (eating disorder) are no longer on speaking terms, not even in her most diffi… read more
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- mental health
9. Massive
By: Julia Bell , Andrew Biscomb
3.86
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
"I'm fat," I hear myself saying. I look in the mirror. My face has gone hot and red; I feel like I'… read more
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- realistic fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
10. 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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11. Letting Ana Go
By: Anonymous
5.00
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Lucy in the Sky, a harrowing account of anorexia and addiction… read more
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12. We Are Unprepared
By: Meg Little Reilly
3.84
Format: None pages, Paperback
Ash and Pia's move from Brooklyn to the bucolic hills of Vermont was supposed to be a fresh start--… read more
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13. Fast Falls the Night (Bell Elkins, #6)
By: Julia Keller
2.00
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
In the next powerful mystery from Julia Keller, a murder investigation leads West Virginia prosecut… read more
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14. Wintergirls
By: Laurie Halse Anderson
3.55
Format: 320 pages,
In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the multiple-award-winning Speak, L… read more
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15. Hollow Beauty
By: Khristina Chess
4.00
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
When tall, gorgeous Brody asks Olivia to the prom, she's ecstatic--until he suggests that she use t… read more
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16. Stained
By: Cheryl Rainfield
3.96
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
An intensely powerful account of a teen, bullied for her port-wine stain, who must summon her perso… read more
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17. Purge
By: Sarah Darer Littman
3.53
Format: 349 pages, Hardcover
From acclaimed author Sarah Darer Littman, a striking story about a girl's recovery from bulimia in… read more
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18. Paperweight
By: Meg Haston
4.17
Format: 267 pages, Hardcover
Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center o… read more
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19. 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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20. Believarexic
By: J.J. Johnson
3.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Fifteen-year-old Jennifer has to force her family to admit she needs help for her eating disorder. … read more
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21. Please Send Help (I Hate Everyone But You, #2)
By: Gaby Dunn
3.76
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
"Authors Dunn and Raskin return to narrate another rollicking story featuring boisterous best frien… read more
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- realistic fiction
- mental health
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
22. 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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- audiobook
- mental illness
- mental health
"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
23. 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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- audiobook
- mental illness
- adult
- mental health
"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
24. The Year I Didn't Eat
By: Samuel Pollen
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
"Some days are normal. Some days, everything is OK, and I eat three square meals, pretty much, even… read more
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- realistic fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
- audiobook
25. The Girls at 17 Swann Street
By: Yara Zgheib
3.97
Format: 373 pages, Hardcover
The chocolate went first, then the cheese, the fries, the ice cream. The bread was more difficult, … read more
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- audiobook
- adult fiction
- literary fiction
- realistic fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- drama
"I do not suffer from anorexia, I have anorexia. The two states are not the same. I know my anorexia, I understand it better than the world around me."-Yara Zgheib, The Girls at 17 Swann Street
26. 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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- audiobook
27. 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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- audiobook
- mental health
"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
28. Good Enough
By: Jen Petro-Roy
4.11
Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition
Before she had an eating disorder, twelve-year-old Riley was many things: an aspiring artist, a run… read more
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- realistic fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
29. Before We Were Blue
By: E.J. Schwartz
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Get healthy on their own—or stay sick together? At Recovery and Relief, a treatment center for… read more
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- realistic fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
30. Thin Girls
By: Diana Clarke
3.87
Format: None pages, None
A dark, edgy, voice-driven literary debut novel about twin sisters that explores body image and que… read more
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- literary fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
- adult
- audiobook
"When the pain is too much for the mind, we take it out on the body."-Diana Clarke, Thin Girls
31. 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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- audiobook
- mental health
