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

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

The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope

Nancy Tucker · 320 pages

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

Roxane Gay · 320 pages

“I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the girl I was because she ran into all kinds of trouble. I tried to erase every memory of her, but she is still there, somewhere. . . . I was trapped in my body, one that I barely recognized or understood, but at least I was safe.” In her phenomenally popular essays and long-running Tumblr blog, Roxa

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

Amanda Beard, Rebecca Paley · 256 pages

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

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

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.

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.

Dancing on My Grave

Gelsey Kirkland, Greg Lawrence · 363 pages

The Only Pirate at the Party

Lindsey Stirling, Brooke S. Passey · 258 pages

Dancing electronic violinist Lindsey Stirling shares her unconventional journey in a memoir filled with the energy, persistence, and humor that have helped her successfully pursue a passion outside the box.

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

It Was Me All Along

Andie Mitchell · 248 pages

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.

Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia

Harriet Brown · 272 pages

"Millions of families are affected by eating disorders, which usually strike young women between the ages of fourteen and twenty. But current medical practice ties these families' hands when it comes to helping their children recover. Conventional medical wisdom dictates separating the patient from the family and insists that "it's not about the food," even as a family watches a child waste away b

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

Sarafina El-Badry Nance · 336 pages

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.

Elena Vanishing

Elena Dunkle, Clare B. Dunkle · 296 pages

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

You Remind Me of You: A Poetry Memoir

Eireann Corrigan · 128 pages

Through Thick and Thin: My Autobiography

Gok Wan · 360 pages

**Autobiography, Fashion:** With his infectious energy and charisma, **Gok Wan has an incredible gift of making women feel more confident within themselves** - but it's not until you read his own inspirational story that you find out where he got that gift from. Gok grew up on a Leicester housing estate, with a loving family who ran a Chinese restaurant. For his parents, food meant love - and

Let's Just Say It Wasn't Pretty

Diane Keaton · 196 pages

The Academy Award-winning film star and best-selling author of Then Again describes the ups and downs of living in a beauty-obsessed world, recounting stories about a makeup artist's embarrassing advice, her trip to Victoria's Secret with her teen daughter and more.

Fat Girl Walking: Sex, Food, Love, and Being Comfortable in Your Skin...Every Inch of It

Brittany Gibbons · 240 pages

"I hope you buy 'Fat Girl Walking' because I want to start a conversation. Or continue a conversation, one I inadvertently started a while ago when I took my clothes off on a stage in front of 700 people. A lot of people thought I was awesome for doing that. A lot of others thought a size 18 woman had absolutely no business showing off her body. Unfortunately for them, I've made it my personal mis

Moose: A Memoir of Fat Camp

Stephanie Klein · 310 pages

With her signature acerbic wit and captivating insight, the author of the wildly popular Straight Up and Dirty offers a powerful and beautifully stark portrait of adolescenceWhile she is pregnant with twins, one sentence uttered by her doctor sends Stephanie Klein reeling: "You need to gain fifty pounds." Instantly, an adolescence filled with insecurity and embarrassment comes flooding back. Thoug