Books like Skinny by Ibi Kaslik

At 17, Charlotte Davis has already faced the trauma of abandonment, abuse, and loss. Since her father and best friend are gone and her mother is unreachable, she learns to survive alone in a world that offers little compassion.

Turtles All the Way Down follows sixteen‑year‑old Aza Leonard, who battles obsessive‑compulsive disorder while searching for her missing friend and confronting the pressure to fit in at high school.

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Two twin sisters navigate college life while wrestling with loyalty to a beloved fandom, family tensions, and burgeoning self‑worth.

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A loving family faces the discovery that their youngest son, Claude, identifies as a girl, testing their bonds and challenging the assumptions that shape their lives.

Ellen Hopkins follows Pattyn Von Stratten as she rises from the ashes, confronts her past, and moves toward a hopeful future in this verse‑novel about grief, loss and the challenges of runaways.

A New York City teen’s struggle with depression is told with irreverent humor, charting his day‑to‑day life and his time in a psychiatric hospital.

Seventeen‑year‑old Lisabeth battles anorexia, struggling with feelings of worthlessness and a distorted body image, while the metaphor of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse—and the companionship of a horse—frame her emotional journey.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

When Laurel’s father dies, she is compelled to confront family secrets, emotional turmoil, and an eating disorder while navigating the chaotic streets of Los Angeles.

After a plane disappearance, 15‑year‑old Sienna confronts her fear of flying to accompany her psychiatrist father on a disaster‑relief mission to an Indonesian orphanage, where the experience reshapes her life.

A high‑school girl balances academics, friendships, and dance while struggling with anorexia as the pressures of a perfect life push her toward extreme dieting.

A gripping young adult novel that delves into the complexities of friendship, eating disorders, and hidden truths.

In 1985 Chicago, gallery director Yale Tishman faces career triumphs and the devastation of the AIDS epidemic, while his friend Nico dies and his partner tests positive. Thirty years later, Fiona travels to Paris to confront her estranged daughter lost to a cult, uncovering the lasting impact of AIDS on their lives.

A thirteen‑year‑old girl grapples with her father’s death, turning to bulimia as a shield against her mother's and sister's grief and her own pain.

The emotional turmoil of a teenage girl forced to keep a horrific secret keeps her isolated from friends and herself, while she obsesses about weight loss and longs for friendship with her boyfriend, Corey 'The Living Stoner', who leads a double life as a stoner and a vegetarian vegan.

Carmen struggles with her mother's anorexia as they move to the city, confronting family, emotional, and weight‑control challenges in a young‑adult setting.

New Zealand teen Ellis returns home for a summer, encounters an old friend, transforms himself, falls in love, and saves a kidnapped baby—all within one dramatic twenty‑four hours.

Seventeen‑year‑old Maddie enters a rehabilitation center and meets fellow patient Stewart. Their budding romance faces the challenge of reintegration into life after treatment.