The Good Body
V (formerly Eve Ensler)
2004 · 2005 edition
112 pages
The most popular body image books
Books about body image deal with how we feel in our own skin. Weight, beauty standards, aging and the pressure of the mirror and the phone are explored in novels, memoirs and thoughtful nonfiction. They are honest about shame and generous about the way out of it.
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Unbearable Weight
Susan Bordo
Published 1993
362 pages
The Gaze
Elif Şafak
2006 · 2010 edition
272 pages
Big Girl A BBC Radio Two Book Club Pick. 'Absolutely Incredible' Candice Carty-Williams
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
2022 · 2024 edition
272 pages
Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have A Novel
Allen Zadoff
Published 2009
311 pages
Thin Is the New Happy
Valerie Frankel
Published 2008
243 pages
Accidental Love
Gary Soto
Published 2006
179 pages
The Lipstick Laws
Amy Holder
Published 2011
237 pages
The Grooming of Alice
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
2000 · 2004 edition
187 pages
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters
Courtney E. Martin
2007 · 2011 edition
352 pages
Stained
C. A. Rainfield
2013 · 2015 edition
304 pages
The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
Marcelle Karp, Debbie Stoller
Published 1999
400 pages
Fat! So?
Marilyn Wann
1998 · 1999 edition
I Got This
Jennifer Hudson
Published 2012
256 pages
Big Fat Manifesto
Susan Vaught
Published 2008
308 pages
Huge
Sasha Paley
2007 · 2008 edition
259 pages
When You Eat at the Refrigerator, Pull Up a Chair 50 Ways to Feel Thin, Gorgeous, and Happy (When You Feel Anything But)
Geneen Roth
1998 · 1999 edition
240 pages
The Second Life of Abigail Walker
Frances O'Roark Dowell
2012 · 2014 edition
256 pages
Eccentric Glamour Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You
Simon Doonan
Published 2008
268 pages
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Body Image Dissatisfaction A Practitioner's Guide to Using Mindfulness, Acceptance and Values-Based Behavior Change Strategies (Professional)
Adria N. Pearson, Michelle Heffner, Victoria M. Follette
Published 2010
216 pages
Doctor Poon's Metabolic Diet
Pat Poon
Published 2000
379 pages
Winning by a Nose A Rhyming Tale Set in Borneo
Beth Parks Ed D
Published 2013
46 pages
Fat Rights Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood
Anna Rutherford Kirkland
Published 2008
196 pages
The New! Abs Diet The 6-Week Plan to Flatten Your Stomach and Keep You Lean for Life
David Zinczenko, Ted Spiker
2010 · 2011 edition
317 pages