I notice in many cases I skimped on details/plot overview. I apologize for that. While this list consists mostly of Young Adult literature, it's composed of books and novels I found to be exceptional, inovative, thought provoking, and in many cases- thereuptic. I intend to continue these lists as I read.


Non-Fiction

  1. "The Lolita Effect: The Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It"
  2. "Self Mutilation: Opposing Viewpoints"
  3. "Bulimia: Opposing Viewpoints"
  4. "Sensing the Self: Woman's Recovery from Bulimia"
  5. "Please Stop Laughing at Me" by Jodee Blanco
  6. "Confessions of a Former Fat Girl" by Lisa Delaney
  7. "Eating Disorders Information For Teens: Health Tips About Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating, And Other Eating Disorders"
  8. "Mental Health Information For Teens"
  9. "Goth Craft" by Raven Digitalis
Crank by Ellen Hopkins

Fiction

Eating Disorder

  1. "Perfect" by Natasha Friend

    (Isabelle enters treatment for Bulimia.)


  2. "Insatiable- The Compelling Story of Four Teens, Food and Its Power" by Eve Eliot

    (Men and women varying in ages and eating disorders are united through an effective support group. The novel itself is told from the alternating prespectives of four adolescent girls. This book contains accurate depictions of Anorexia, Bulimia, and Compulsive Over Eating. I've been dying to read its' sequel, "Ravenous"! None of my local libraries own a copy.)


  3. "Skinny" by Ibi Kaslik

    (Tells the bond of two sisters that manages to endure a life-threating mental illness. Is a gruesome, but realistic, potrayl of Anorexia Nervosa. One of my favorite fictions on the disorder because it doesn't "sensationalize". Rather, it paints a vivid, gory picture. I know someone who fainted reading this. Not for the faint of heart.)


  4. "Faded Denim: Color Me Trapped" by Melody Carlson

    (Very relatable. I don't believe the protagonist ever recieves a formal diagnosis. But she displays characteristis of anorexia and bulimia. The novel is a part of the "True Colors" series.)


  5. "Just Listen" by Sara Dessen (Though not the main focus of the novel, it alludes to an eating disorder in the family.)


  6. "Love Sick" by Jake Coburn

    (Ted, a college bound athlete, loses his scholarship to a drunk driving accident. He is bribed to keep a watchful eye on Erica; An allegedly relapsed bulimic. The novel alternates their view points.)


  7. "Massive" by Julia Bell

    (Gives a fairly accurate depiction of Anorexia in the family. Also illustrates the clever, mischevious, and often *manipulative* tendencies of many women with the disorder.)
  8. "Fat Chance" by Leslie Newman (A more juvenile, pre-adolescent look at crash dieting, Anorexia, and Bulimia. It's told from the diary of a junior high school student. The writing and storyline is mediocre at best.)
  9. "Thinner than Thou" by Kit Reed

Weight Control and Body-Image:

  1. "Big Fat Manifesto" by Susan Vaught
  2. "Jemima J: A Novel About Ugly Ducklings and Swans" by Jane Green
  3. "The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things" by Carolyn Macker
  4. "Keeping the Moon" by Sara Dessen
  5. "Life in the Fat Lane" by Cherie Bennet (Teen beauty queen contracts a fictional disease. The result is an excessive, irreversible weight gain that sabotages her career and relationships.)
  6. "Fat Chance" by Deborah Blumenthal (My opinion? The Pro Ana community should drop "Wasted" and "The Best Little Girl" and read this.

Suicide:

  1. "It's Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini
  2. "Impulse" by Ellen Hopkins
  3. "Thirteen Reasons Why" by Jay Asher
  4. "Stay With Me" by Garret Freymann-Weyr

Drinking:

  1. "Burnt Orange: Color Me Wasted" by Melody Carlson
  2. -"Lush" by Natasha Friend

    3. Cutting:

    1. "Cut" by Patricia McCormick
    2. "Blade Silver: Color Me Scarred" by Melody Carlson

    Physical/Sexual Abuse:

    1. "Identical" by Ellen Hopkins
    2. "Burned" by Ellen Hopkins
    3. "Dreamland" by Sara Dessen"
    4. "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

    LGBT:

    1. "Keeping You A Secret" by Julie Anne Peters
    2. "Luna" by Julie Anne Peters
    3. "Annie on My Mind" by Nancy Garden

    Sci-Fi/Cautionary Tales

    Other:

    -"Uglies, "Pretties", "Specials", "Extras", and the associated encylopedia, "Bogus to Bubbly" by Scott Westerfeld (A science-fiction series. Takes place in a technologically-advanced society in which plastic surgery has become not only the norm- but the law. Thought-provoking, action-packed, geared for both genders.

    -"So Yesterday", also written by Westerfeld.
    "Among the Hidden" (The Shadow Children Series) by Margaret Peterson Haddix
    -"Leaving the Fishers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

    Vampire Novels that are NOT Twilight:


    -"Cirque Du Freak" (series) by Darren Shan
    -"Blue Bloods", "Masquerade", and "Revelations" by Melissa De La Cruz
    -"The Reformed Vampire Support Group" by Catherine Jinks
    -"High School Bites" by Liza Conrad (This damned thing is about vampire slayers in ABERCROMBIE, and yet I still like it better than Twilight
    -"Vampire Kisses" (Series) by Ellen Schreiber (Contains the same romantic cliches, but still not as awful as Twilight)
    -"Peeps" by Scott Westerfeld

    1. "Someone Like You" by Sara Dessen
    2. "The Mates, Dates Guide to Life, Love, and Looking Luscious" by Cathy Hopkins
    3. "Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger
    4. "A Great And Terrible Beauty" and "Rebel Angels" by Libba Bray
    5. "Encylopedia Nuerotica" by John Winokur (Contains every nuerosis and personality quirk you could possibly imagine, and then some.)
    6. "So B. It" by Sarah Weeks
    7. "If I Should Die Before I Wake" by Han Nolan
    8. "Succubus Blues", "Succubus On Top" "Succubus Dreams" by Richelle Mead
    9. "How Not to Spend Your Senior Year" by Cameron

    I am not going to lie. Visual Bookshelf made this a lot easier to do.

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