Eating Disorder Books

Recommended Reading for Anorexics, Bulimics and Compulsive Eaters

Nearly all of the books below are available for purchase online at the website of Gürze Books, a publishing company founded in 1980 and specializing in information on eating disorders since 1980. Click the title of any book to launch the Gurze site in a new window.

Overcoming Binge Eating

Binge Eating — Nature, Assessment, and Treatment

Big Fat Lies — The Truth about Your Weight and Your Health

The Don't Diet, Live-It! Workbook — Healing Food, Weight and Body Issues

Body Prayers — Finding Body Peace

Eating in the Light of the Moon

The False Fat Diet — The Revolutionary 21-Day Program for Losing the Weight You Think Is Fat

Body Wars — Making Peace with Women's Bodies

Desperately Seeking Self — An Inner Guidebook for People with Eating Problems

Eating Disorders and Marriage — The Couple in Focus

Father Hunger — Fathers, Daughters & Food

Feeding the Hungry Heart

French Toast for Breakfast — Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating

The Invisible Woman — Confronting Weight Prejudice in America

Self-Esteem Comes in All Sizes — How to Be Happy and Healthy at Your Natural Weight

Self-Esteem — Tools for Recovery

Appetites — The Search for True Nourishment

The Body Project — An Intimate History of American Girls

A Hunger So Wide and So Deep< — American women speak out on eating problems

Making Weight — Men's Conflicts with Food, Weight, Shape and Appearance

Boundaries — Where You End and I Begin

Real Gorgeous — The Truth about Body & Beauty

Body Image Workbook — An 8-Step Program for Learning to Like Your Looks

Beyond The Looking Glass — Daily Devotions for Overcoming Anorexia and Bulimia

Hand in Hand — Devotions for Encouraging Families through the Pain of a Daughter with an Eating Disorder

What Are You Hungry For? — Women, Food and Spirituality

The Zen of Eating — Ancient Answers to Modern Weight Problems

Mom, I Feel Fat! — Becoming Your Daughter's Ally in Developing a Healthy Body Image

When Your Child Has an Eating Disorder — A Step-by-Step Workbook for Parents and Caregivers

Outsmarting the Mother/Daughter