Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia

Elena Vanishing

Elena Dunkle, Clare B. Dunkle · 296 pages

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy · 320 pages

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. Jennette McCurdy was six years old when she had her first acting audition. Her mother’s dream was for her only daughter to become a

An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia

Emma Woolf · 320 pages

Stick Figure

Lori Gottlieb · 230 pages

After happening upon the diary she kept when she was 11 years old, Gottlieb was moved to publish this chronicle of her struggle with anorexia nearly 20 years after she wrote it. In the late 1970s, she lived with her parents and brother in Beverly Hills, where Gottlieb's loneliness and concern about looking attractive to boys swiftly transformed into an obsession with dieting, although she had neve

Perfect: Anorexia and Me

Emily Halban · 333 pages

A remarkable memoir of a girl's journey through anorexia.Emily Halban developed anorexia in her final year at school. She went on to university at Oxford where her disease took on a powerful dimension. By her final year she was so debilitated that she had to sit her exams in a separate room where she could be fed continuously. With heartbreaking candour and poignant intimacy, Emily vividly chronic

Lighter Than My Shadow

Katie Green · 508 pages

Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she'd have to eat it for breakfast. But in any life a set of circumstance can collide, and normal behavior might soon shade into something sinister, something deadly.

The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope

Nancy Tucker · 320 pages

Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Marya Hornbacher · 301 pages

Why would a talented young girl go through the looking glass and step into a netherworld where up is down and food is greed, where death is honor and flesh is weak? Why enter into a love affair with hunger, drugs, sex, and death? Marya Hornbacher sustains both anorexia and bulimia through five lengthy hospitalizations, endless therapy, and the loss of family, friends, jobs, and ultimately, any sen

Unbearable Lightness

Portia de Rossi · 320 pages

Known for her roles on the hit TV shows "Ally McBeal" and "Arrested Development," de Rossi delivers a revelatory and searing account of the years she spent secretly suffering from anorexia and bulimia, all the while living under the glare of Hollywood's bright lights.

Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too

Jenni Schaefer, Thom Rutledge · 192 pages

The author describes her life battling an eating disorder and provides exercises to help people deal with their own problems.

Hungry: A Young Model's Story of Appetite, Ambition, and the Ultimate Embrace of Curves

Crystal Renn · 256 pages

Massive

Julia Bell, Andrew Biscomb · 280 pages

"I'm fat," I hear myself saying. I look in the mirror. My face has gone hot and red; I feel like I'm going to explode. "I'm fat." It sizzles under my skin, puffing me up, pushing me out, making me massive. Weight has always been a big issue in Carmen's life. How could it not? Her mom is obsessed with the idea that thin equals beautiful, thin equals successful, thin equals the way to get what you w

Perfect

Natasha Friend · 232 pages

Following the death of her father, a thirteen-year-old uses bulimia as a way to avoid her mother's and ten-year-old sister's grief, as well as her own.

The Food of Love

Amanda Prowse · 362 pages

Brain over Binge: Why I Was Bulimic, Why Conventional Therapy Didn't Work, and How I Recovered for Good

Kathryn Hansen · 307 pages

"Brain over Binge is different than other eating disorder books, which typically present binge eating and purging as symptoms of complex emotional and psychological problems. Kathryn Hansen, the author of Brain over Binge, disputes this mainstream idea and explains why traditional eating disorder therapy failed her and fails many. Kathryn explains how she came to understand her bulimia in a new wa

Born Round: The Secret History of a Full-time Eater

Frank Bruni · 361 pages

The New York Times restaurant critic's heartbreaking and hilarious account of how he learned to love food just enough after decades of wrestling with his weightFrank Bruni was born round. Round as in stout, chubby, and hungry, always and endlessly hungry. He grew up in a big, loud Italian family in White Plains, New York, where meals were epic, outsize affairs. At those meals, he demonstrated one

In the Water They Can't See You Cry: A Memoir

Amanda Beard, Rebecca Paley · 256 pages

Starstruck: A Memoir of Astrophysics and Finding Light in the Dark

Sarafina El-Badry Nance · 336 pages

You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir

Eireann Corrigan · 128 pages

The Life of Hunger

Amelie Nothomb · 160 pages

The daughter of a Belgian diplomat, Amelie had an itinerant childhood, ranging from Tokyo to Peking and Paris to New York by way of Bangladesh. Recounting these formative journeys right up to her return to Japan in 1989, and the Kobe earthquake, this work is an examination of the self.

Thin

Lauren Greenfield, David B. Herzog, Michael Strober · 207 pages

This work chronicles an emotional journey that follows four patients through the Renfrew Center, a residential facility in Florida dedicated to the treatment of eating disorders, and includes portraits of fifteen other residents of diverse ages and backgrounds. Critically acclaimed for Girl Culture and Fast Forward, the author continues her exploration of contemporary female culture with this work

The Golden Cage: The Enigma of Anorexia Nervosa

Hilde Bruch · 154 pages

In this text, a renowned psychiatrist (recognized as one of the world's leading authorities on anorexia nervosa) relates her experience and discoveries in dealing with this baffling disorder. It is not, as the name implies, simply a loss of appetite. Rather, it involves a relentless pursuit of excessive thinness, undertaken despite continual hunger, acute pain, and occasionally fatal consequences.

Unfiltered: No Shame, No Regrets, Just Me.

Lily Collins · 256 pages

Dancing on My Grave

Gelsey Kirkland, Greg Lawrence · 363 pages