Books like The Elephant in the Room by Tommy Tomlinson

A candid memoir of Trevor Noah’s childhood in apartheid‑era South Africa, blending humor, heart, and social insight as he navigates a world where he was never meant to exist.

A groundbreaking guide to embracing vulnerability and courage.

The Body Is Not an Apology invites readers to heal body shame with radical self‑love, challenging oppressive systems and fostering a more just, compassionate world.

Kiese Laymon’s memoir confronts how violence, grief, and addiction shape his life, exploring eating disorders, compulsive gambling, and a fraught mother‑child bond while exposing systemic abuse of Black bodies.

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.

A rigorous nonfiction examination of the cultural pressures that drive women toward thinness, exploring the societal, psychological, and gendered forces that shape body image and dieting choices.

A wealthy boy named Sing Lo travels to Peking to visit the late emperor’s legendary Imperial Elephant, hoping to lift its spirits and bring comfort to the ancient animal.

The Obesity Epidemic started in the 1980s - but why? The short answer is - we changed our diet advice. More accurately we did a U-turn in our diet advice. The Obesity Epidemic takes you through the actual documents that changed our diet advice, most importantly why the advice changed and what is stopping us from changing the advice back. This is a journey through the landmark turning points in the history of public health diet advice and the impact that this has had on obesity - and all the accompanying modern illnesses: heart disease; cancer; diabetes and the lack of well being that the average human suffers today.