12 best-selling nonfiction books like Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia by Gillian Entwistle

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Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

By: Gillian Entwistle

4.23

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Why would a bright teenage girl from a loving home, with everything going for her, wilfully fixate …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia by Gillian Entwistle , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind by Rachel    Richards

1. Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind

By: Rachel Richards

4.10

Format: 361 pages, Kindle Edition

In this painfully moving memoir, take a firsthand look at anorexia through the eyes of a young girl… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Richards's Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain by Portia de Rossi

2. 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

Similar categories in Portia de Rossi's Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. Cows

By: Matthew Stokoe

2.80

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Mother's corpse in bits, dead dog on the roof, girlfriend in a coma, baby nailed to the wall, and a… read more

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"Yeah, I'm a cow, man. Touch me."

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

"Yeah, I'm a cow, man. Can you handle it?"

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

"There were couples, too, together on the slashed seats, and they were the most densely coloured of all. Their belonging, their completeness, pushed them out from the background of safety glass and pr…"

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

"There had been no love there, upstairs tonight, but it would come - Lucy would force it into being. She had no choice. She would never find her black lumps of poison or cut them out, and like Steven …"

-Matthew Stokoe, Cows

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4. Fat Chance

By: Lesléa Newman

3.67

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

Judi Liebowitz thinks she's fat. And she's convinced, as she confides in her diary, that she'd be h… read more

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5. Ugly

By: Margaret McHeyzer

3.31

Format: None pages,

*To watch the trailer, click on my author name above. If I were dead, I wouldn't be able to see. If… read more

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6. Safety in Numbers: From 56 to 221 Pounds, My Battle with Eating Disorders

By: None

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Imagine struggling with anorexia for seven years and finding yourself in the hospital weighing 56 p… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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9. Fragile

By: Nikki Grahame

4.16

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

From the age of eight until she was nineteen, Nikki battled anorexia nervosa--but few cases have be… read more

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10. Life Hurts: A Doctor's Personal Journey Through Anorexia

By: None

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

read more

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11. 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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12. Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

By: Richard Shepherd

4.33

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

As the UK's top forensic pathologist, Dr Richard Shepherd has spent a lifetime uncovering the secre… read more

Similar categories in Richard Shepherd's Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Although it is my job to be certain, I was unable that day, and am still unable, to escape a greater certainty: that there are always other possibilities."

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

"Truth is based upon knowledge. So, of course, it can be compromised by incomplete knowledge. As a doctor I sought truth through facts. As a pathologist I was now learning that truth could be directly…"

-Richard Shepherd, Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

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13. The Mistress

By: Valerie Keogh

3.85

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

She wants what you have... Hannah Parker is a woman who always gets what she wants. When her … read more

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14. The Prison Doctor

By: Amanda Brown

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Brown's The Prison Doctor book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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15. 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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"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

Cover of Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia by Gillian Entwistle

16. Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

By: Gillian Entwistle

4.23

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

Why would a bright teenage girl from a loving home, with everything going for her, wilfully fixate … read more

Similar categories in Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Fullness: A Memoir by Azure Moyna

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

Similar categories in Azure Moyna's Fullness: A Memoir book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Bones: Anorexia, OCD, and Me by Jen Dixon

18. Bones: Anorexia, OCD, and Me

By: Jen Dixon

4.24

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

Bones is a candid account of life with crippling anorexia and OCD and survival against all odds. Th… read more

Similar categories in Jen Dixon's Bones: Anorexia, OCD, and Me book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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19. More Than a Number

By: Tia Souders

3.95

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition for ASIN B07C94WF7V For previous cover edition see here For seventeen-y… read more

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20. 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

Similar categories in Andrijka Keller's Thin, and I book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Perfectly Thin by Margaret McHeyzer

21. Perfectly Thin

By: Margaret McHeyzer

3.96

Format: 347 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times Bestseller author of Ugly and MistrustWhen I’m thinner, no one will make fun of meWh… read more

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Cover of Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter by Lynn  Walker

22. Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter

By: Lynn Walker

4.35

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Lynn was the carefree daughter of a Miami undercover narcotics agent—until her dad snuck out of the… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Walker's Midnight Calling: A Memoir of a Drug Smuggler's Daughter book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of I Almost Lost Her : A memoir of unthinkable tragedy by Andre  Xavier

23. I Almost Lost Her : A memoir of unthinkable tragedy

By: Andre Xavier

4.32

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

André Xavier’s life was forever changed by a single phone call on a sunny September morning. On … read more

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Cover of Undisordered: An Eating Disorder Story by Julia Mazzucato

24. Undisordered: An Eating Disorder Story

By: Julia Mazzucato

3.38

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

undisordered is the story of Julia Mazzucato, an American teenager, activist, and survivor of anore… read more

Similar categories in Julia Mazzucato's Undisordered: An Eating Disorder Story book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of I Am Happy: A Memoir of Child Loss by Erin Benson

25. I Am Happy: A Memoir of Child Loss

By: Erin Benson

4.34

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

This is not a story about a boy who lived. Or parents who risked it all to save their child. Or mir… read more

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26. What it takes to lose

By: Anne Taylor

3.71

Format: 229 pages, Kindle Edition

When Eve Allred, a high school junior, loses some weight for the first time, she is intoxicated wit… read more

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Cover of A Glow-Up Gone Wrong: My Daughter’s Fight for Her Life Against Anorexia by Neveen Radwan

27. A Glow-Up Gone Wrong: My Daughter’s Fight for Her Life Against Anorexia

By: Neveen Radwan

4.65

Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition

This book chronicles my 16 year old daughter and my family's journey during her fight against anore… read more

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Cover of As If I Am Not There: Watch me shrink I’ll prove it to everyone I won’t stop till I’m tiny I will be thin by Alexandra Filia

28. As If I Am Not There: Watch me shrink I’ll prove it to everyone I won’t stop till I’m tiny I will be thin

By: Alexandra Filia

3.31

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

Winny Stokes is like every other normal 17 year old living an idyllic teenage life with lots of fri… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Filia's As If I Am Not There: Watch me shrink I’ll prove it to everyone I won’t stop till I’m tiny I will be thin book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

Cover of Living Full: Winning My Battle With Eating Disorders by Danielle Sherman-Lazar

29. 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

Similar categories in Danielle Sherman-Lazar's Living Full: Winning My Battle With Eating Disorders book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Until the Death of Me: A 15-year Eating Disorder Recovery Journey by Saori Okada

30. Until the Death of Me: A 15-year Eating Disorder Recovery Journey

By: Saori Okada

3.17

Format: 147 pages, Paperback

Until the Death of M e is a narrative memoir that follows the innocent beginnings of the author's e… read more

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Cover of Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia by Hope Virgo

31. Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

By: Hope Virgo

3.97

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

'I know how anorexia makes you feel: you think she is your friend, you think she can solve everythi… read more

Similar categories in Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia book and Gillian Entwistle's Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

12 Top memoir books like Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia by Gillian Entwistle

Transform Your Habits

Hungry for Life: A Memoir Unlocking the Truth Inside an Anorexic Mind

Rachel Richards

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

Portia de Rossi

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Unnatural Causes: The Life and Many Deaths of Britain's Top Forensic Pathologist

Richard Shepherd

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Prison Doctor

Amanda Brown

4.01

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7 Top nonfiction books like Thin, and I by Andrijka Keller

Transform Your Habits

Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

Hadley Freeman

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Empty

Susan Burton

3.78

Transform Your Habits

Head Heart and Hipbones: Fighting and Surviving Anorexia

Gillian Entwistle

4.23

Transform Your Habits

Fullness: A Memoir

Azure Moyna

3.96

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