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A list of fiction and nonfiction narrative books with main themes of eating disorders, written for adults. There are so many ED lists on here that are absolutely crammed with books for high schoolers and they leave out so many good adult books. Also, this list will not include books that are purely informational.
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
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4.44 avg rating — 1,401,156 ratings
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How to Murder Your Life
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3.88 avg rating — 20,537 ratings
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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4.03 avg rating — 33,966 ratings
score: 296,
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Thin
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4.03 avg rating — 3,680 ratings
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Girl, Interrupted
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3.94 avg rating — 273,406 ratings
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Empty
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Susan Burton (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 5,522 ratings
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Life-Size
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3.88 avg rating — 659 ratings
score: 194,
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Milk Fed
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Melissa Broder (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 77,033 ratings
score: 190,
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I Must Have You
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JoAnna Novak (Goodreads Author)
3.20 avg rating — 166 ratings
score: 188,
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13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl
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Mona Awad (Goodreads Author)
3.09 avg rating — 19,942 ratings
score: 187,
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Hunger Point
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Jillian Medoff (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 2,222 ratings
score: 186,
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Men, Women, and Children
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3.42 avg rating — 3,831 ratings
score: 184,
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Not All Black Girls Know How to Eat: A Story of Bulimia
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3.75 avg rating — 318 ratings
score: 177,
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Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America
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4.42 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 171,
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The Vegetarian
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3.65 avg rating — 351,961 ratings
score: 169,
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She’s Come Undone
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Wally Lamb (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 359,994 ratings
score: 164,
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You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine
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Alexandra Kleeman (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 6,917 ratings
score: 162,
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Amen, Amen, Amen: Memoir of a Girl Who Couldn't Stop Praying
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Abby Sher (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 657 ratings
score: 162,
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The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls
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Anissa Gray (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 21,237 ratings
score: 158,
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The Girls at 17 Swann Street
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3.97 avg rating — 11,679 ratings
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Drinking: A Love Story
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4.09 avg rating — 21,267 ratings
score: 129,
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Little Girls in Pretty Boxes: The Making and Breaking of Title Gymnasts and Figure Skaters
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Joan Ryan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 3,033 ratings
score: 108,
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Madness: A Bipolar Life
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4.03 avg rating — 14,740 ratings
score: 106,
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White Is for Witching
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Helen Oyeyemi (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 13,067 ratings
score: 102,
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Purged (Black Light #12.5)
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Livia Grant (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 327 ratings
score: 100,
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All Girls
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Emily Layden (Goodreads Author)
3.21 avg rating — 5,269 ratings
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So Sad Today: Personal Essays
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Melissa Broder (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 17,333 ratings
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Comiendo con Miedo
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4.46 avg rating — 560 ratings
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Thin Girls
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Diana Clarke (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 5,507 ratings
score: 99,
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Future Skinny
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Peter Rosch (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 200 ratings
score: 99,
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Seré frágil
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Beatriz Esteban (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 736 ratings
score: 99,
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The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
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Joan Jacobs Brumberg (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 3,750 ratings
score: 98,
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The Passion of Alice
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3.60 avg rating — 618 ratings
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Cuando comer es un infierno: confesiones de una bulímica
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3.50 avg rating — 167 ratings
score: 98,
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Insatiable: A Young Mother's Struggle with Anorexia
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3.60 avg rating — 257 ratings
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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
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4.22 avg rating — 30,457 ratings
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Hambre
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 120,030 ratings
score: 96,
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Hungry Ghost
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Victoria Ying (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 5,973 ratings
score: 95,
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Elegy for an Appetite
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4.12 avg rating — 42 ratings
score: 91,
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Starvation Mode
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4.13 avg rating — 172 ratings
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Appetites: Why Women Want
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4.05 avg rating — 3,352 ratings
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The Time in Between: A Memoir of Hunger and Hope
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Nancy Tucker (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
score: 87,
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Acceptance: A Memoir
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Emi Nietfeld (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 3,716 ratings
score: 84,
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The Edible Woman
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 40,046 ratings
score: 84,
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2 people voted
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The Body Tourist: a Memoir
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4.01 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Binary Star
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3.25 avg rating — 2,217 ratings
score: 82,
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Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
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Stacy Pershall (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 3,895 ratings
score: 81,
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Behind Closed Doors
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B.A. Paris (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 737,845 ratings
score: 80,
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Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
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3.83 avg rating — 41,632 ratings
score: 77,
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The Book of Proper Names
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3.63 avg rating — 5,497 ratings
score: 76,
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The Solitude of Prime Numbers
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3.65 avg rating — 83,381 ratings
score: 73,
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How to Disappear Completely: On Modern Anorexia
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3.40 avg rating — 862 ratings
score: 72,
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Handle with Care
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Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 137,162 ratings
score: 71,
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1 person voted
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Heavy
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Kiese Laymon (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 44,274 ratings
score: 69,
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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Roxane Gay (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 120,030 ratings
score: 68,
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Full: A Memoir of Overcoming an Eating Disorder
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Sara Gottfried (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 66,
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Fullness: A Memoir
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3.95 avg rating — 591 ratings
score: 65,
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Saving Sara: A Memoir of Food Addiction
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3.55 avg rating — 165 ratings
score: 64,
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Where the River Flows: A memoir of loss, love & life with an Eating Disorder
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Rachel Havekost (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 103 ratings
score: 63,
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Best Body: Pretty, Miserable, Perfectness a Memoir of an Eating Disorder
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Jordan Lee Knape (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 44 ratings
score: 62,
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Bones: Anorexia, OCD, and Me
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4.21 avg rating — 477 ratings
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Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen
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Hannah Howard (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 6,530 ratings
score: 60,
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Blossoms and Bones: Drawing a Life Back Together
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4.06 avg rating — 647 ratings
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The Wonder
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Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 90,819 ratings
score: 58,
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The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up
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4.53 avg rating — 7,119 ratings
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Thin, and I
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Andrijka Keller (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Call Me Anorexic: The Ballad of a Thin Man
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Ken Capobianco (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Monster Within
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3.22 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Something Spectacular: The True Story of One Rockette's Battle with Bulimia
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Greta Gleissner (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Nourishment: Feeding My Starving Soul When My Mind and Body Betrayed Me
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3.38 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Feast of Famine: A Physician's Personal Struggle to Overcome Anorexia Nervosa
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3.75 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Small Acts of Disappearance
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Fiona Wright (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 647 ratings
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Oh, Never Mind
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3.59 avg rating — 838 ratings
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Vibrator
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Strawberry Shortcakes
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In Clothes Called Fat
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My Sister, Esther
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Cardboard: A woman left for dead
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Fiona Place (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Feeding Christine
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Barbara Chepaitis (Goodreads Author)
3.09 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Elephant in the Room
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Shout Her Lovely Name
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Natalie Serber (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 918 ratings
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The Long Fire
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See Her Run (Aloa Snow, #1)
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Peggy Townsend (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,309 ratings
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The Twins
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Saskia Sarginson (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 5,648 ratings
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Women Food and God
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Geneen Roth (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 16,932 ratings
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Shell: One Woman's Final Year After a Lifelong Struggle with Anorexia and Bulimia
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3.82 avg rating — 87 ratings
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All Good Things Die in L.A.
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Anhoni Patel (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Leaving the Beach: A Novel of Obsession and Music
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Mary Rowen (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Honey Month
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The Last Days: A Memoir of Faith, Desire and Freedom
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Bulimics on Bulimia
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Maria Stavrou (Editor)
3.55 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders
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Aimee Liu (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 1,830 ratings
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Solitaire: The Compelling Story of a Young Woman Growing up in America and Her Triumph over Anorexia
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Aimee Liu (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 144 ratings
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Good Girls Do Swallow: The Darkly Comic True Story of How One Woman Stopped Hating Her Body
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3.37 avg rating — 294 ratings
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An Apple a Day: A Memoir of Love and Recovery from Anorexia
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Eve's Apple
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Against Gravity
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Lucy Ferriss (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
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A Blue Sky
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Natasha Jennings (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Reading Cure: How Books Restored My Appetite
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How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
