Books like Going Hungry by Kate M. Taylor

In Suzanne Collins’ debut dystopian novel, 16‑year‑old Katniss Everdeen of Panem faces the annual Hunger Games—a televised, death‑match competition in which one boy and one girl from each of the nation’s twelve districts are chosen by lottery.

Michael Pollan explains why eating plain, plant‑based food, in reasonable portions, is the best way to stay healthy and avoid modern diet problems.

An investigative look at how fast‑food has reshaped postwar America’s food habits, labor practices, and cultural identity.

After discovering her husband's infidelities, Liane leaves her high‑powered marriage. When a crisis involving Julian's young son pulls her back into his life, she must navigate love, loyalty and control.

At 26, Frannie Hunter returns home to confront a chaotic family: an anorexic Harvard‑bound sister, a mother in an affair, a Food Network‑obsessed father, and a grandfather planning her wedding. While working as a waitress, she battles her own self‑destructive habits and navigates complex family ties.

A mother’s candid account of her daughter’s battle with anorexia and their recovery through the Maudsley family‑based treatment model.

Debra McLain’s memoir chronicles the rise of an eating disorder amid family turmoil, detailing how childhood trauma, neglect, and bullying fueled a desperate search for control.

With waiflike models dominating the advertising world and a new wave of feminists waging war on social pressure to be thin, eating disorders have, it seems, attained the status of a modern crisis. Although anorexia nervosa was not identified as such until the nineteenth century, the compulsion to be thin at the price of starvation has a long history in western society. Long before talk shows took over the air waves and Cosmopolitan hit the stands, obsession with body and fasting rituals plagued girls and women. But is anorexia as we know it today new? . In an engaging and thorough account of the history of self starvation in the western world, Walter Vandereycken and Ron Van Deth explore this question. Drawing on a myriad of intriguing examples, the authors show how self-inflicted starvation has changed its tone over the centuries and is inextricably enmeshed in socio-cultural contexts. Consider how drastically the meaning of fasting has mutated in the Christian western world: that in the twelfth century when divine miracles were accepted realities, an emaciated girl would have been seen as holy and touched by God. That same girl would have been considered possessed and cursed by Satan in the sixteenth century when popular belief in witches was on the rise. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls traces the history of starvation from its religious roots, bound up in rigid asceticism, to its economic ties, in the form of living skeletons like "shadow Harry" who toured freak shows displaying his protruding ribs for money, to the Victorian era, where modern sexual and gender stereotypes find their origin. The book is a result of exhaustive research, covering Europe and the United States and spanning the early centuries of Christianity to the present day. From Fasting Saints to Anorexic Girls will interest readers in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, women's studies, religious and social history, and cultural studies.

Aimee Liu revisits her pioneering memoir on anorexia, blending personal testimony with research on the origins, long‑term effects, and treatment of eating disorders, offering insights into recovery and relapse patterns.