10 Best nonfiction books like The Weapon Of Choice by Sophia Purcell

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The Weapon Of Choice

By: Sophia Purcell

3.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Ever wondered what it’s like living with a brain that’s trying to kill you? If you’ve struggled wi…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Weapon Of Choice by Sophia Purcell , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. Suicide Notes

By: Michael Thomas Ford

3.81

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

I'm not crazy. I don't see what the big deal is about what happened. But apparently someone does th… read more

Similar categories in Michael Thomas Ford's Suicide Notes book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • mental illness
  • mental health
"I didn't ask to be saved"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"you either are or aren't"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"Why is it okay to put someone to death, but it’s not okay for those people to do it themselves?"

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

"I didn't do it; I can just imagine doing it. Maybe that's the difference between crazy and not crazy."

-Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes

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2. Am I Normal Yet? (The Spinster Club, #1)

By: Holly Bourne

3.39

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

All Evie wants is to be normal. She's almost off her meds and at a new college where no one knows h… read more

Similar categories in Holly Bourne's Am I Normal Yet? (The Spinster Club, #1) book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • mental illness
  • mental health
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3. 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 Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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4. Raw: The diary of an anorexic

By: Lydia Davies

3.81

Format: 320 pages,

Lydia was 19 years old and enjoying university with a loving family and great friends when she beca… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Davies's Raw: The diary of an anorexic book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • nonfiction
  • mental health

5. 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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6. 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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7. Life Hurts: A Doctor's Personal Journey Through Anorexia

By: None

4.10

Format: 338 pages,

read more

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8. 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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9. Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients

By: Adam Kay

3.91

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

Adam Kay's secret diary from his time as a junior doctor This is Going to Hurt was the publishing p… read more

Similar categories in Adam Kay's Undoctored: The Story of a Medic Who Ran Out of Patients book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • nonfiction
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10. Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases

By: Ray Fysh

4.34

Format: 329 pages, Kindle Edition

Shortlisted for the True Crime Awards 2023 Best New True Crime Author The murder of Sarah Payne, Ad… read more

Similar categories in Ray Fysh's Shallow Graves: My life as a Forensic Scientist on Britain's Biggest Cases book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • nonfiction
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11. Which Child: The Sensational Psychological Thriller

By: Shane Spyre

3.62

Format: 326 pages, Kindle Edition

The unputdownable debut psychological thriller about a seemingly perfect crime Sarah has four id… read more

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12. Just Like The Other Girls

By: Claire Douglas

3.89

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

An electrifying tale of psychological suspense in which an unsuspecting young woman finds herself t… read more

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13. How to Make Friends with the Dark

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.08

Format: 421 pages, Hardcover

Here is what happens when your mother dies. It’s the brightest day of summer and it’s dark outsi… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's How to Make Friends with the Dark book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • mental health
"Always the universe, against you."

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Are you going to kill yourself, Grace? Are you going to wrist, hang, gun?"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Last night scared me, how calm I felt, thinking about killing myself. The S word"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

"Somewhere in those hours, those minutes, those seconds, your mom was, and then she wasn't"

-Kathleen Glasgow, How to Make Friends with the Dark

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14. 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 Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • 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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15. Husband and Wife

By: K.L. Slater

3.88

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

We promised to keep each other’s secrets. Until they found the body… The Wife: My husband and… read more

Similar categories in K.L. Slater's Husband and Wife book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

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16. The Seven Ages of Death

By: Richard Shepherd

4.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Conducting many thousands of post-mortems has given Dr Richard Shepherd the opportunity to examine … read more

Similar categories in Richard Shepherd's The Seven Ages of Death book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • nonfiction
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17. The Bedroom Window

By: K.L. Slater

3.80

Format: 237 pages, Kindle Edition

They say they have no children. So who did I see at the window? My darling little boy Albie ador… read more

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18. You'd Be Home Now

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.15

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a breathtaking story about a tow… read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's You'd Be Home Now book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • mental illness
  • mental health
"The air was better then."

-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

"Maybe people just use different things to fill up the emptiness. Until it becomes less about feeling empty and more about feeding something else."

-Kathleen Glasgow, You'd Be Home Now

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19. The Perfect Parents

By: J.A. Baker

3.79

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Jackson and Lydia Hemsworth are pillars of the community, feted for having the perfect marriage and… read more

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20. Where the Light Goes

By: Sara Barnard

4.27

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A heart-wrenching exploration of grief, set in a landscape corrupted by fame and the scrutiny that … read more

Similar categories in Sara Barnard's Where the Light Goes book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • mental health
Cover of A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

21. 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

Similar categories in Alyssa B. Sheinmel's A Danger to Herself and Others book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • mental illness
  • mental health
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22. The Marriage

By: K.L. Slater

3.93

Format: 356 pages, Kindle Edition

Ten years ago he killed my son. Today I married him. Ten years ago my darling son Jesse was murd… read more

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23. The Vanishing of Class 3B

By: Jackie Kabler

3.92

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

One spring morning, a bus full of children and their teachers from a Cotswolds primary school head … read more

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24. Until the Ribbon Breaks

By: E.K. Blair

4.34

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

This is a powerful and unflinching story about high school relationships, family strife, mental ill… read more

Similar categories in E.K. Blair's Until the Ribbon Breaks book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • mental illness
  • mental health
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25. Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life

By: Kate Marshall

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Following Kate Marshall’s first year in the mortuary at a north of England NHS hospital, with each … read more

Similar categories in Kate Marshall's Sorry For Your Loss: What Working with the Dead Taught Me About Life book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • nonfiction
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26. The Patient

By: Jane Shemilt

3.47

Format: 311 pages, Paperback

A shocking and twisty novel of psychological suspense about a boundary-breaking love affair between… read more

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27. 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 Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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28. 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

Similar categories in Margaret McHeyzer's Perfectly Thin book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • mental illness
  • mental health
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29. 34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life

By: Tom Templeton

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

We ask so much of our doctors. To heal. To trust. To care. To listen. To tell a man he'll die tomor… read more

Similar categories in Tom Templeton's 34 Patients: The profound and uplifting memoir about the patients who changed one doctor’s life book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • nonfiction
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30. The Weapon Of Choice

By: Sophia Purcell

3.48

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Ever wondered what it’s like living with a brain that’s trying to kill you? If you’ve struggled wi… read more

Similar categories in Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • mental health
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31. The Glass Girl

By: Kathleen Glasgow

4.39

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Pieces comes a raw, heart-wrenching novel … read more

Similar categories in Kathleen Glasgow's The Glass Girl book and Sophia Purcell's The Weapon Of Choice

  • mental illness
  • mental health

14 Best mental health books like The Weapon Of Choice by Sophia Purcell

Transform Your Habits

Suicide Notes

Michael Thomas Ford

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Am I Normal Yet? (The Spinster Club, #1)

Holly Bourne

3.39

Transform Your Habits

Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain

Portia de Rossi

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Raw: The diary of an anorexic

Lydia Davies

3.81

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13 Best fiction books like A Danger to Herself and Others by Alyssa B. Sheinmel

Transform Your Habits

Suicide Notes

Michael Thomas Ford

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls

Lynn Weingarten

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Jane Anonymous (Jane Anonymous, #1)

Laurie Faria Stolarz

3.90

Transform Your Habits

How It Feels to Float

Helena Fox

3.83

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