Eating Disorder + Body Image Books

Books about Body Image

  • The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

  • Journeys of Embodiment at the Intersection of Body and Culture by Niva Piran

  • Reclaiming Body Trust by Dana Sturtevant and Hilary Kinavey

  • Building Body Acceptance Workbook by Centre for Clinical Interventions (free)

  • Caring Less About Your Looks Workbook by Centre for Clinical Interventions (free)

  • What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

  • Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

  • Don’t Let It Get You Down: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Body by Savala Nolan

  • The Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison

  • Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West

  • Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls by Jes Baker

  • You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar

  • The Body Image Workbook: An Eight-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks by Thomas P. Cash

Books for Eating Disorder Support

  • Stop Bingeing, Start Living by Shrein Bahrami

  • Overcoming Binge Eating by Christopher Fairburn

  • Break Free from ED by Centre for Clinical Interventions (free)

  • When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder by Lauren Muhlheim

  • Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder, Second Edition by James Lock and Daniel Le Grange

  • Eating with Your Anorexic: A Mother’s Memoir by Laura Collins

  • Brave Girl Eating by Harriet Brown

  • The Appetite Awareness Workbook: How To Listen to Your Body & Overcome Bingeing, Overeating, & Obsession with Food by Linda W. Craighead

  • Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works, 4th Ed. by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

  • 50 Ways to Soothe Yourself Without Food by Susan Albers

  • Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food by Jan Chozen Bays

  • Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder: Children, Adolescents, and Adults by Kamryn Eddy and Jennifer Thomas

  • Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America by Rebecca Lester

  • Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison

  • Body of Truth by Harriet Brown

  • The Diary Healer by June Alexander