Anorexia Nervosa: Finding the Life Line by Patricia Stein, R.D., M.A. & Barbara Unell
This book offers an intimate point of view-that of several recovered anorexics. Included is information on causes, incidence, effects, treatment, overviews by a psychiatrist and endocrinologist, and suggestions for increased awareness and prevention.

Anorexia Nervosa: A Guide to Recovery by Lindsey Hall and Monika Ostroff
A compassionate, understanding companion on the journey through recovery. This book offers a combination of factual information, Monika's story of abuse and recovery from a ten year battle with anorexia, insights from others who have recovered, practical suggestions for recovery and staying committed, a special section for loved ones, and much more.

Anorexia Nervosa and Recovery: A Hunger for Meaning by Karen Way, MA
Through the voices of twenty-one women, Way presents a highly readable, complete, and compassionate picture of anorexia nervosa, particularly the complex individual variables and obstacles in the journey to recovery.

Appearance Obsession: Learning to Love the Way You Look by Joni E. Johnston, Psy.D.
This book helps readers assess the degree to which society's obsession with looks is affecting them, and offers practical ways to balance self-improvement and self-acceptance. Emphasis on the prevention of eating disorders.

Beyond the Food Game: A Spiritual Approach to Healing Emotional Eating by Jane E. Latimer
The feelings of powerlessness caused by any kind of food abuse can seep into all areas of life. This book offers readers psychological tools and spiritual perspectives to help them experience their own healing powers and feel centered again.

Beyond the Looking Glass: Daily Devotions for Overcoming Anorexia and Bulimia
Daily devotions for those suffering from anorexia and bulimia. A great book to be used daily in recovery.

The Body Betrayed: A Deeper Understanding of Women, Eating Disorders, and Treatment by Katheryn J. Zerbe, M.D.
This book covers all aspects of diagnosis and treatment using stories about individuals who have valiantly, though often at first reluctantly, engaged in recovery.

Body Love: Learning to Like Our Looks and Ourselves by Rita Freedman, Ph.D.
This is a strong guide for women who want to become less critical of their appearance, less preoccupied with weight, and more in love with themselves.

Body Traps by Dr. Judith Rodin - William Morrow and Company
This book explores how negative beliefs and feelings about our bodies resonate in other aspects of our lives. Dr. Rodin describes the Shame Trap, Food Trap and Fitness Trap.

Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating by Geneen Roth
Roth offers practical ways to recognize the signals of physical hunger, eat without distraction, know when to stop, kick the scale-watching habit, withstand pressures, and many other strategies.

Bulimia: A Guide for Friends and Family by Roberta Trattner Sherman, PhD., & Ron A. Thompson, PhD
A book for family and friends of those suffering with bulimia. Includes information on how to help, behaviors, thoughts, choosing a therapist and more.

Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery by Lindsey Hall and Leigh Cohn
This book offers a complete understanding of bulimia and a plan for recovery. It includes a two-week program to stop bingeing, things-to-do instead of bingeing, a guide for support groups, specific advice for loved ones, and "Eat Without Fear", Hall's story of self-cure which has inspired thousands of other bulimics.

The Carpenters - The Untold Story by Ray Coleman
Ray Coleman, who has known the Carpenters since their earliest successes, investigates every aspect of how Richard and Karen arrived at their unique sound. He focuses on their exceptional interaction and examines the difficulties that came with fame, contributing in part to Karen's shocking death from anorexia nervosa in 1983 at the age of 32.

The Deadly Diet: Recovering from Anorexia & Bulimia by Terence J. Sandbek, Ph.D.
This book helps you to control your internal voice, overcome your eating disorder, maintain reasonable eating habits and gain self-acceptance and self-esteem.

Desperately Seeking Self - A Guidebook for People with Eating Disorders by Viola Fodor
This book is a guidebook designed to help you to get on a self-healing path. It uses a unique and dynamic approach - a dialogue between a client and a therapist - to offer a vision of human nature which includes the spiritual dimension.

Enlightened Eating: Understanding and Changing Your Relationship with Food by Rebecca Ruggles Radcliffe
This is a workbook collection of 66 short, simple, practical, and insightful articles-each with a self-help exercise-for readers who want to understand and change their eating patterns.

Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters and Food by Margo Maine, Ph.D.
This book is the emptiness experienced by women whose fathers were emotionally absent, a void that leads to unrealistic body image, yo-yo dieting, food fears and disordered eating patterns.

Feeding The Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating by Geneen Roth
A widely respected, extremely readable book. It is an intimate, vulnerable sharing of experiences which continues to touch and change lives.

French Toast for Breakfast by Mary Anne Cohen
This book is a guide to understanding the emotions which underlie all kinds of eating problems including compulsive eating, chronic dieting, bulimia and anorexia nervosa.

Full Lives: Women Who Have Freed Themselves from Food and Weight Obsessions by Lindsey Hall
This book is set at a dinner party with sixteen extraordinary women who have overcome food and weight obsessions.

The Hungry Self: Women, Eating & Identity by Kim Chernin
This book explores the often troubled relationship between mothers and daughters, and the association between women, eating, and the struggle for a new, female identity.

It's Not About Food by Carol Emery Normandi, M.S., M.F.C.C. and Lauralee Roark, MA, C.C.H.T.
A book that looks beyond the symptoms of the eating disorders to discover and heal the emotional, physical and spiritual wounds.

Like Mother, Like Daughter - How Women Are Influenced by Their Mothers' Relationship with Food and How to Break the Pattern by Debra Waterhouse, M.PH, RD.
This book celebrates being a woman, honors the strength of the mother-daughter bond, and show us how to create a legacy of healthier food and body relationships free of dieting, control, body dissatisfaction, and guilt - and full of trust, pleasure, satisfaction, and good health.

Living On The Border of Disorder by Cherry Boone O'Neill and Dan O'Neill.
This book provides insight on how to avoid becoming another victim in the emotional earthquake of an addictive person's life. By cultivating healthy attitudes and strategies toward that person, it is possible to regain control and balance, while providing the disordered man or woman with a positive environment for healthy change.

Real Gorgeous - The Truth about Body and Beauty by Kaz Cooke.
A funny, reassuring book about fashion fibs and diet myths - and the truth about push ups, push up bras, and the great cellulite scam. It takes a hard look at lies and beauty tips. Packed with jokes, Kaz's own cartoons, and practical ways to find real self-esteem and avoid freak-outs and rip-offs.

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
Book talks about why so many American girls fall prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions and suicide attempts.

Self-Esteem Comes in All Sizes by Carol A. Johnson
This book emphasizes that weight is not a measure of self-worth, and that the words "healthy and thin" are not necessarily synonymous. Every page is filled with practical ideas for building a healthy and fulfilling lifestyle.

Self Esteem - Tools For Recovery by Lindsey Hall and Leigh Cohn
Gaining self-esteem is addressed in this book with twenty, short, specific "tools", easy-to-use exercises, and examples that come to life.

When Women Stop Hating Their Bodies by Jane Hirschmann and Carol Munter
This book explores the myriad reasons why women cling to diets despite overwhelming evidence of their ineffectiveness. This is a revolutionary book for women who want to free themselves from body hatred and the dieting it spawns.

You Are More Than What You Weigh by Sharon Sward, LPC.
A book to help you improve your self-esteem. Practical guides are given of what you can do to be in charge of your life instead of having your weight determining who you are. You will have exercises to help you empower yourself.

Your Dieting Daughter: Is She Dying for Attention? by Carolyn Costin, MA, M.Ed, M.F.C.C.
A book for parents who have daughters caught in the struggle to be thinner. Includes distinctions between diets and disorders, what to do to help, eating disorders and more.

The Body Image Trap: Understanding and Rejecting Body Image Myths, Marion Crook
Understanding and Rejecting Body Image Myths