A list of nearly all the books I’ve read and used on this blog. The asterisk marks the books I found the finest:

*Figures of lightness: anorexia, bulimia and psychoanalysis – Gabriella Ripa di Meana

Beyond anorexia: narrative, spirituality and recovery – Catherine Garrett

Fasting girls: the history of anorexia nervosa – Joan Jacobs Brumberg

*Gaining: the truth about life after eating disorders – Aimee Liu

Eating disorders not otherwise specified – Claes Norring, Bob Palmer

The anorexic mind – Marilyn Lawrence

*Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia – Marya Hornbacher

*Biting anorexia – Lucy Howard Taylor

Anatomy of anorexia – Steven Levenkron

Life without ED – Jenni Schaefer, Thom Rutledge

Overcoming anorexia – C. Freeman

Inside anorexia: the experiences of girls and their families – Christine Halse, Desiree Boughtwood, Anne Honey

Bulimia/anorexia: the binge/purge cycle and self-starvation – Marlene Boskind-White, William White

*Biting the hand that starves you: inspiring resistance to anorexia/bulimia – Richard Maisel, David Epston, Ali Borden

Anorexics on anorexia – Rosemary Shelley

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia: how to help – Roger Slade, Marilyn Duke

The development of anorexia nervosa: the hunger artists – Sylvia Brody

Anorexia nervosa and recovery: a hunger for meaning – Karen Way

The golden cage: the enigma of anorexia nervosa – Hilde Bruch

The eating sickness: anorexia, bulimia and the myth of suicide by slimming

Shadow of a girl – Amanda Jones, Anne Crawford

The art of starvation – Sheila MacLeod

The anorexia experience – Marilyn Lawrence, Kate Mosse

Cardboard: a woman left for dead – Fiona Place

The best little girl in the world – Steven Levenkron

Eating disorders: a patient centred approach – Kathleen Berg, Dermot Hurley

From fasting saints to anorexic girls – Walter Vandereycken, Ron van Deth

Eating disorders – Pamela Keel

Trauma, dissociation and impulse dyscontrol in eating disorders – Johan Vanderlinden

Too fat or too thin – Cynthia Kalodner

*Sensing the self – Sheila Reindl

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia: how to help – Marilyn Duker, Roger Slade

Freedom from food – Elizabeth Hampshire

Eating myself – Candida Crewe

The invisible girl – Peter Barham

Surviving an eating disorder – Michele Siegel, Judith Brisman, Margot Weinshel

Diary of an eating disorder – Chelsea Browning Smith

Overcoming anorexia nervosa: cognitive behavioural techniques – Christopher Freemen

Body blues: weight and depression – Laura Weeldreyer

French toast for breakfast – Mary Anne Cohen

Dying to be thin – Ira Sacker, Marc Zimmer

*The eating sickness: anorexia, bulimia and the myth of suicide by slimming – Jill Welbourne, Joan Purgold

Because I feel fat – Tony Paulson

Eating disorders – Mary Pipher

When food’s a foe – Nancy Kolodny

The starving family – Chery Dellasega