Before We Were Blue
By: E.J. Schwartz
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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1. 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
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
2. 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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- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
3. Lighter Than My Shadow
By: Katie Green
3.93
Format: None pages, Paperback
Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toa… read more
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- mental illness
- mental health
4. 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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- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
5. The Art of Starving
By: Sam J. Miller
3.99
Format: 273 pages, Hardcover
More Happy Than Notmeets Glory O'Brien's History of the Futurein this gritty, contemporary YA debut… 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. Binary Star
By: Sarah Gerard
4.36
Format: 232 pages,
The language of the stars is the language of the body. Like a star, the anorexic burns fuel that is… read more
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8. 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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9. 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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10. Traffick (Tricks, #2)
By: Ellen Hopkins
4.07
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Five teens victimized by sex trafficking try to find their way to a new life in this riveting compa… read more
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11. 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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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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- 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
13. The Words We Keep
By: Erin Stewart
4.34
Format: 387 pages, Hardcover
It's been three months since The Night on the Bathroom Floor--when Lily found her older sister Alic… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
14. On a Scale of One to Ten
By: Ceylan Scott
3.49
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For fans of John Green and Ned Vizzini, a heart-wrenching and witty novel about a girl with Borderl… read more
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- romance
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
15. 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
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
16. 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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- realistic fiction
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
"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
17. A Danger to Herself and Others
By: Alyssa B. Sheinmel
3.86
Format: 341 pages, Hardcover
Only when she’s locked away does the truth begin to escape… Four walls. One window. No way to e… read more
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- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
18. 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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- romance
- lesbian
- asexual
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
19. 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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- lgbt
- mental health
- mental illness
- fiction
- contemporary
"When the pain is too much for the mind, we take it out on the body."-Diana Clarke, Thin Girls
20. 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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- mental health
21. The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life
By: Dani Jansen
3.31
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
Alison Green, desperate valedictorian-wannabe, agrees to produce her school's production of A Midsu… read more
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- romance
- lesbian
- lgbt
- realistic fiction
- young adult
- fiction
- contemporary
"Sometimes, the hardest thing to learn is how to be okay with things as they are."-Dani Jansen, The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life
"Anyways, it's not like I was in the closet or anything. It's just that I didn't want my sexuality to be everyone's business. It's not like straight people have to announce their sexual preference."-Dani Jansen, The Year Shakespeare Ruined My Life
