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

  • 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

  • Binge Eating Books

  • Books for Children, Teens, and Families dealing with Eating Disorders

    • 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

    • How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder by Casie Crosbie and Wendy Sterling

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

    • ARFID: A Guide for Parents and Carers by Rachel Bryant-Waugh

    • Brave Girl Eating by Harriet Brown

  • Intuitive and Mindful Eating Books

    • 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

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

  • Education

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

    • Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison

    • Body of Truth by Harriet Brown

    • Sick Enough: A Guide about the Medical Complication of Eating Disorders by Jennifer Guadiani