Books

Trusted reads on food, nutrition, body image, and self-care.

Cookbooks

Help! My Apartment Has a Kitchen by Kevin Mills and Nancy Mills

What’s Gaby Cooking: Eat What You Want by Gaby Dalkin

Gentle Nutrition: A Non-Diet Approach to Healthy Eating by Rachael Hartley, RD

The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters

The Flavor Bible by Karen Page and Andrew Dorenburg

Molly on the Range by Molly Yeh

How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman


Nutrition Philosophy & Eating Disorders

Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole, MS, RDN and Elyse Resch, MS, RDN

Sick Enough by Jennifer Gaudiani, MS, CEDS, FAED

How to Nourish Yourself Through an Eating Disorder by Casey Crosbie, RD and Wendy Sterling, MS, RD

Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing and Liberation by Hilary Kinavey, MS, LPC and Dana Sturtevant, MS, RD

Live Nourished: Make Peace with Food, Banish Body Shame, and Reclaim Joy by Shana Minei Spence MS, RDN

Embody by Connie Sobczak


Family Feeding & Child Nutrition

Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by Ellyn Satter

Your Child’s Weight: Helping Without Harming by Ellyn Satter

Child of Mine by Ellyn Satter

How to Nourish Your Child Through an Eating Disorder by Casey Crosbie, RD and Wendy Sterling, MS, RD


Gastrointestinal Health

Regular: The Ultimate Guide to Taming Unruly Bowels and Achieving Inner Peace by Tamara Duker Freuman, MS, RD


Body Image

The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf

Eating in the Light of the Moon by Anita Johnston, PhD

The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

It’s Always Been Ours by Jessica Wilson, MS, RD

Reclaiming the Black Body by Alishia McCullough, LCMHC

More Than a Body by Lindsay Kite, PhD and Lexie Kite, PhD

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

You Just Need to Lose Weight and 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon


Fertility, Pregnancy, Postpartum

Getting to Baby: A Food-First Fertility Plan to Improve Your Odds and Shorten Your Time to Pregnancy by Angela Thyer, MD and Judy Simon, RDN

The Natural Pregnancy Book: Your Complete Guide to a Safe, Organic Pregnancy and Childbirth with Herbs, Nutrition, and Other Holistic Choices by Aviva Romm, MD

The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother by Heng Ou with Amely Greeven and Marisa Belger


Oncology

American Cancer Society Complete Guide to Nutrition for Cancer Survivors: Eating Well, Staying Well During and After Cancer by Abby Bloch, PhD, Cynthia Thomson, PhD, Kathryn Hamilton, MS, RD, and Barbara Grant, MS, RD


Food & Nutrition Policy

Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings

Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, From the Trails of Tears to School Lunch by Andrea Freeman

Famished: Eating Disorders and Failed Care in America by Rebecca J. Lester, PhD, LCSW


General Encouragement

The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW

Take Back Your Brain by Kara Loewentheil

Burnout by Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD

Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff, PhD

Hunger by Roxane Gay

The Untethered Soul by Michael Alan Singer

What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill

updated 10/2025