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…
Want to Read $ 13.99"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 teenage years were a movie, they were more like an extremely depressing and directionless European art house film that goes on for ten hours with no logical character motivation."-Hadley Freeman, Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
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1. 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
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- mental health
2. 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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- mental illness
- mental health
3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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
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- memoir
- feminism
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- nonfiction
- audiobook
7. The Elissas: Three Girls, One Fate, and the Deadly Secrets of Suburbia
By: Samantha Leach
3.22
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Three suburban girls meet at a boarding school for troubled teens. Eight years later, they were de… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
8. Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
By: Rachel Louise Snyder
3.94
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I didn't intentionally gravitate towards stories of women. I was interested in human rights, which often boiled down to this question: who was winning and who was losing? And over and over again, cou…"-Rachel Louise Snyder, Women We Buried, Women We Burned: A Memoir
9. 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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- biography
- memoir
- medical
- feminism
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"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
10. Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women
By: Victoria Smith
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
What is about about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone? In… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
11. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
By: Monica Potts
3.88
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America
12. Empty
By: Susan Burton
3.78
Format: 283 pages, Hardcover
An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- mental illness
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"Most people had a history in this region, but not my parents, and my early, defining relationship to my environment was a feeling of being not from here, even though I had never lived in any other pl…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"...it allowed me to engage with my experience intellectually instead of practically, to analyze it instead of trying to fix it. And it demonstrated how another woman, in another time, had struggled w…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"It showed me one thing that being an adult meant. You were no longer limited to observing the world: Now you can join in. Instead of just being a fan of things you loved, you could get inside them. Y…"-Susan Burton, Empty
"I was struck, though, that even as the women share their experiences, they seem to remain essentially alone in them. They tell their stories, but they do not seem to connect with the others in doing …"-Susan Burton, Empty
13. Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
By: Jennifer Vanderbes
4.40
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the most notorious drug of the twentieth century and the never-before-told st… read more
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- medical
- nonfiction
- audiobook
14. What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
By: Cole Kazdin
4.00
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Blending personal narrative and investigative reporting, Emmy Award-winning journalist Cole Kazdin … read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
"I loved a good bulimia joke and even sometimes initiated them, like after a dinner out with friends, "I'd better run home and throw this up." We all laughed; my girlfriends said similar things. But I…"-Cole Kazdin, What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety
15. 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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- mental illness
- mental health
16. 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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- medical
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
17. Love Is a Burning Thing: A Memoir
By: Nina St. Pierre
3.97
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A riveting memoir about a daughter’s investigation into the wirings of her loving, unpredictable mo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
18. Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
By: Hannah Barnes
4.40
Format: 455 pages, Hardcover
Time to Think goes behind the headlines to reveal the truth about the NHS’s flagship gender service… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- psychology
"GIDS’s own limited data, which found ‘no evidence of change in psychological function’ with puberty-blocker treatment."-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"The Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS) has undoubtedly helped some people. It has unquestionably harmed others."-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"NHS England. Why did they allow the early blocking of puberty to be rolled out as routine practice without demanding to see some data supporting this radical shift? Why didn’t it insist on seeing any…"-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
"It is mad,’ was the reply. Hutchinson paused. When one of the leaders of a service that helps children to access powerful, life-changing drugs comments that what they’re doing is ‘mad’, there is clea…"-Hannah Barnes, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock's Gender Service for Children
19. More, Please: On Food, Fat, Bingeing, Longing, and the Lust for "Enough"
By: Emma Specter
3.65
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An unflinching and deeply reported look at the realities of binge-eating disorder from a rising cul… read more
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- memoir
- mental health
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- audiobook
20. 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
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- memoir
- psychology
- mental health
- nonfiction
- audiobook
21. The Skinny: My messy, hopeful fight for full recovery from anorexia
By: Sheri Segal Glick
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
The Skinny challenges our beliefs about diet culture, body image and eating disorders as we follow … read more
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