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

• 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

• 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