26 best-selling contemporary books like Thin Girls by Diana Clarke

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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…

"When the pain is too much for the mind, we take it out on the body."

-Diana Clarke, Thin Girls

If you liked the contemporary plot in Thin Girls by Diana Clarke , here is a list of 26 books like this:

Cover of Skinny by Ibi Kaslik

1. 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

Similar categories in Ibi Kaslik's Skinny book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
"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

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

Similar categories in Amy Ellis's Thinspo book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • contemporary
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • mental health
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3. 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

Similar categories in Liane Shaw's thinandbeautiful.com book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • contemporary
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • mental health
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4. The Kingdom

By: Fuminori Nakamura , Kalau Almony

4.48

Format: None pages, ebook

Zen-Noir master Nakamura returns to the Tokyo of The Thief, where a young grifter named Yurika find… read more

Similar categories in Fuminori Nakamura's The Kingdom book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • fiction
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5. Zero Saints

By: Gabino Iglesias

3.94

Format: 456 pages, ebook

Enforcer and drug dealer Fernando has seen better days. On his way home from work, some heavily-tat… read more

Similar categories in Gabino Iglesias's Zero Saints book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • fiction

6. 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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7. Perfume & Pain

By: Anna Dorn

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A controversial Los Angeles author attempts to revive her career and finally find true love in this… read more

Similar categories in Anna Dorn's Perfume & Pain book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"I sit down wanting to write the great lesbian love story, but wacko bitches just keep coming out."

-Anna Dorn, Perfume & Pain

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8. 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

Similar categories in Emmeline Clein's Dead Weight: Essays on Hunger and Harm book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • mental illness
  • mental health
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9. Worry

By: Alexandra Tanner

3.36

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Tanner's Worry book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

Similar categories in Ruth Madievsky's All-Night Pharmacy book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

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11. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

Similar categories in Jade Song's Chlorine book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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12. Death Valley

By: Melissa Broder

3.49

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an emptiness that plagues her. She has… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Death Valley book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"My body is the real problem here. If I could be bodiless - or at least, senseless - I’d be better off."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"This is the problem with human relationships: you come to a person with one feeling and they’re having another."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"I am going to die out here. I might. I could. Die. All this time I should have been practising for dying. What was I doing instead? Reading reviews for sweatpants."

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

"Stop placing so much value on the known, I tell myself. Fake like this is the hero’s journey. It’s good to get lost. Good for the soul. But how lost is the good amount of lost? If I die here, is that…"

-Melissa Broder, Death Valley

Cover of Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia by Hadley Freeman

13. 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

Similar categories in Hadley Freeman's Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • 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

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14. My Last Innocent Year

By: Daisy Alpert Florin

3.75

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, deeply resonant debut novel about a nonconsensual sexual encounter that propels one wo… read more

Similar categories in Daisy Alpert Florin's My Last Innocent Year book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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15. A Good Happy Girl

By: Marissa Higgins

3.01

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A poignant, surprising, and immersive read about a young professional woman pursuing an emotionally… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Higgins's A Good Happy Girl book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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16. Full Disclosure

By: Camryn Garrett

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In a community that isn't always understanding, an HIV-positive teen must navigate fear, disclosure… read more

Similar categories in Camryn Garrett's Full Disclosure book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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17. Milk Fed

By: Melissa Broder

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Broder's Milk Fed book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

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18. youthjuice

By: E.K. Sathue

3.21

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

American Psycho meets The Devil Wears Prada: outrageous body horror for the goop generation A 29… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Sathue's youthjuice book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Ripe

By: Sarah Rose Etter

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A year into her dream job at a cutthroat Silicon Valley startup, Cassie finds herself trapped in a … read more

Similar categories in Sarah Rose Etter's Ripe book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The open office floor plan is a form of strangulation."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"Maybe there must always be two of us—our real selves and the ones we create to survive in the world as it is."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"When you're young, every part of life seems big and monumental. Once older you can see it for what it is: smaller pieces of a larger game you have no choice but to play."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

"If the brain is elastic and memory is faulty, maybe all of these stories are wrong. Maybe it happened a different way altogether. Maybe I was happy and I just forget that now."

-Sarah Rose Etter, Ripe

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20. Natural Beauty

By: Ling Ling Huang

3.80

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Sly, surprising, and razor-sharp, Natural Beauty follows a young musician into an elite, beauty-obs… read more

Similar categories in Ling Ling Huang's Natural Beauty book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
"it is still more permitted for women to be mediocre than for them to be fat"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"It’s unfortunate that I can undermine months of parental reassurance in just a few seconds, but it’s probably better for kids to learn early on that yes, monsters are real."

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

"I had always assumed love carried itself easily through various permutations and disintegrations. Now I find myself disassociating them from the people I had known my parents to be. I can't decide wh…"

-Ling Ling Huang, Natural Beauty

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21. 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

Similar categories in Samuel Pollen's The Year I Didn't Eat book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of Annie Bot by Sierra Greer

22. Annie Bot

By: Sierra Greer

3.83

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Annie Bot was created to be the perfect girlfriend for her human owner, Doug. Designed to satisfy h… read more

Similar categories in Sierra Greer's Annie Bot book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Girls at 17 Swann Street by Yara Zgheib

23. 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

Similar categories in Yara Zgheib's The Girls at 17 Swann Street book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"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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24. 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

Similar categories in E.J. Schwartz's Before We Were Blue book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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25. Post-Traumatic

By: Chantal V. Johnson

3.73

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this “deeply original” (Elif Batuman) and “violently funny” (Myriam Gurba) story, a young lawyer… read more

Similar categories in Chantal V. Johnson's Post-Traumatic book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • literary fiction
  • mental health
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
Cover of Thin Girls by Diana  Clarke

26. 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

Similar categories in Diana Clarke's Thin Girls book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • queer
"When the pain is too much for the mind, we take it out on the body."

-Diana Clarke, Thin Girls

Cover of Not So Pure and Simple by Lamar Giles

27. Not So Pure and Simple

By: Lamar Giles

4.05

Format: 416 pages, ebook

Del has had a crush on Kiera Westing since kindergarten. And now, during their junior year, she’s f… read more

Similar categories in Lamar Giles's Not So Pure and Simple book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"I'd told the truth. That shouldn't be wrong, but the truth could be a weapon depending on who used it."

-Lamar Giles, Not So Pure and Simple

Cover of Go Lightly by Brydie Lee-Kennedy

28. Go Lightly

By: Brydie Lee-Kennedy

3.35

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

For readers of Dolly Alderton and Candice Carty-Williams, a spiky bisexual love story that introduc… read more

Similar categories in Brydie Lee-Kennedy's Go Lightly book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of How It Works Out by Myriam Lacroix

29. How It Works Out

By: Myriam Lacroix

3.79

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“What an audacious, breathtaking, and inspiring debut. The power of this formally innovative and de… read more

Similar categories in Myriam Lacroix's How It Works Out book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • literary fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of The Happiest Girl in the World by Alena Dillon

30. The Happiest Girl in the World

By: Alena Dillon

3.70

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of Mercy House comes a gripping new novel about a young woman’s dream… read more

Similar categories in Alena Dillon's The Happiest Girl in the World book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of When the Vibe Is Right by Sarah Dass

31. When the Vibe Is Right

By: Sarah Dass

3.75

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Where the Rhythm Takes You comes a delightful enemies-to-lovers contemporary rom… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Dass's When the Vibe Is Right book and Diana Clarke's Thin Girls

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • contemporary

28 best-selling fiction books like Thin Girls by Diana Clarke

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Skinny

Ibi Kaslik

3.43

Thinspo

Amy Ellis

5.00

Transform Your Habits

thinandbeautiful.com

Liane Shaw

4.00

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The Kingdom

Fuminori Nakamura , Kalau Almony

4.48

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The How and the Why

Cynthia Hand

4.21

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Chaos Theory

Nic Stone

4.16

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Furia

Yamile Saied Méndez

4.17

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Invisible Son

Kim Johnson

4.20

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