10 Top nonfiction books like Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia by Hope Virgo

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

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…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia by Hope Virgo , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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

1. 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 Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
Cover of Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

2. Reasons to Stay Alive

By: Matt Haig

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

One of Entertainment Weekly's 25 most anticipated books of 2016--Matt Haig's accessible and life-af… read more

Similar categories in Matt Haig's Reasons to Stay Alive book and Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
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3. Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir

By: Lisa F. Smith

4.15

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Lisa Smith was a bright young lawyer at a prestigious law firm in NYC when alcoholism and drug addi… read more

Similar categories in Lisa F. Smith's Girl Walks Out of a Bar: A Memoir book and Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health

4. 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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5. Starter for Ten

By: David Nicholls

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

The year is 1985. Brian Jackson, a working-class kid on full scholarship, has started his first ter… read more

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6. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

By: Marya Hornbacher

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Why would a talented young woman enter into a torrid affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Thr… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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9. The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

By: Deborah Frances-White

4.16

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2015 I described myself as 'guilty feminist' for the first time. My goals were noble but my conc… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Frances-White's The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies book and Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Feminism has always been a request, or demand, for inclusion. Inclusion is the watchword of the second decade of the 21st century and in recent waves of feminism, but its nothing new."

-Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

"First-wave feminism includes the terrifyingly brave suffragettes, who chained themselves to railings, blew up buildings, set fire to landmarks, and were force-fed horribly in prison, all so we could …"

-Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

"Including each other is the basis of our survival. The cost of complete exclusion is our mental health. Inclusion is vital to humanity. So the question can only ever be: who is included and why? Wome…"

-Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

"Feminism is a combination of social and political movements with a common goal to define, develop, and demand political, social, and fiscal rights for women. I'm sorry to tell you that a man coined t…"

-Deborah Frances-White, The Guilty Feminist: From Our Noble Goals to Our Worst Hypocrisies

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10. 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 Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia by Hadley Freeman

11. 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 Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
"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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12. Merrily Ever After

By: Cathy Bramley

4.24

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

'Heartwarming and uplifting - a gorgeous festive treat.' Sarah Morgan, author of SNOWED IN FOR CHRI… read more

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13. The Trophy Wife

By: Valerie Keogh

3.91

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

His prized possession....his greatest mistake? From the moment I saw Anne, I knew she was perfec… read more

Similar categories in Valerie Keogh's The Trophy Wife book and Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

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14. 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

Similar categories in Valerie Keogh's The Mistress book and Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

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15. The Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #1)

By: Jenny Colgan

3.75

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Perfect for the holidays! A brand-new heartwarming Christmas novel from the beloved New York Times … read more

Similar categories in Jenny Colgan's The Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #1) book and Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

"Carmen measured her days in books."

-Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #1)

"And tiny Leone smiled and took the book after Carmen carefully wrapped it up in paper and held it tight to her breast, as if she both loved it and was slightly scared of it, which were not, after all…"

-Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #1)

"Carmen measured her days in books. She kept a paperback under the desk for quiet periods, when she had remade as many window displays as one could usefully do in one day, and dusted, polished, straig…"

-Jenny Colgan, The Christmas Bookshop (The Christmas Bookshop, #1)

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16. The Girl in Seat 2A

By: Diana Wilkinson

3.80

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Funny how one lie can spiral… One thing about me: I HATE flying. It’s my worst nightmare. Tha… read more

Similar categories in Diana Wilkinson's The Girl in Seat 2A book and Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

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17. Dear Dolly

By: Dolly Alderton

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t… read more

Similar categories in Dolly Alderton's Dear Dolly book and Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

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18. The Vanishing of Margaret Small

By: Neil Alexander

4.22

Format: 325 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Margaret Small: 75, plain spoken and a Cilla Black super fan. Shortly after the death of her i… read more

Similar categories in Neil Alexander's The Vanishing of Margaret Small book and Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

  • mental health
Cover of The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir) by Evanna Lynch

19. The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir)

By: Evanna Lynch

4.54

Format: 463 pages, Paperback

A searing memoir from Harry Potter star and activist Evanna Lynch about the bravery it takes to emb… read more

Similar categories in Evanna Lynch's The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir) book and Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
"To protect the dream or the disorder this will become the most difficult of choices that I will routinely have to grapple with, a choice I will have to make over and over."

-Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir)

"One day, not too far in the distant future, this body will be a pile of decaying flesh and dust in the ground. But for now, she's alive and vibrant, and I want to stop hurting her."

-Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir)

"For me, recovery from recovery was probably the most confusing time – the most lonely, frustrating and psychologically challenging time. It did not feel heroic and it was also incredibly tedious."

-Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir)

"I cut those things out completely, wiping entire shelves of the food pyramid from my life, and felt powerful for it. That feeling of power and superiority fuelled my determination to do better, to ke…"

-Evanna Lynch, The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up (A Memoir)

Cover of Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto by Zachary  Zane

20. Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto

By: Zachary Zane

3.82

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of the Year by Buzzfeed A sex and relationship columnist b… read more

Similar categories in Zachary Zane's Boyslut: A Memoir and Manifesto book and Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia by Hope Virgo

21. 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 Hope Virgo's Stand Tall Little Girl: Facing Up to Anorexia

  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction

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