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