Books on Fatness: TBR

MEMOIRS

  • Fattily Ever After by Stephanie Yeboah
  • All of Me: A Voluptuous Tale by Venise T. Berry*
  • Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto by Clarkisha Kent
  • Fat Girls Deserve Fairy Tales Too: Living Hopefully on the Other Side of Skinny by Evette Dionne

INFORMATIONAL

  • Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture by Amy Erdman Farrell*
  • Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression by various authors
  • Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat with Diabetes: A Mindful Eating Program for Thriving with Prediabetes or Diabetes by Michelle May*
  • Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole*
  • Queering Fat Embodiment by Cat Pausé, Ph. D.
  • Killer Fat: Media, Medicine, and Morals in the American “Obesity Epidemic” by Natalie Boero*
  • Body of Truth: Change Your Life by Changing the Way You Think about Weight and Health by Harriet Brown
  • Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression by Jana Evans Braziel
  • Revolting Bodies? The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity by Kathleen LeBesco
  • What’s Wrong with Fat? by Abigail C. Saguy
  • The Fat Studies Reader by Esther D. Rothblum
  • Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement by Charlotte Cooper
  • Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
  • Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body by Kate Harding
  • Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss by Sandra Aamodt
  • Fat: The Anthropology of an Obsession edited by Don Kulick and Anne Meneley
  • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman by Anne Helen Petersen
  • Not Your Average Runner: Why You’re Not Too Fat to Run and the Skinny on How to Start Today Jill Angie

comic books

  • Moonstruck Vol. 1 by Grace Ellis

GENERAL FICTION/”LITERARY” FICTION

  • Fatropolis by Tracey L. Thompson*
  • Fat Chance by Aviva Orenstein*
  • Syd Arthur by Ellen Frankel*
  • Measure By Measure by Rebecca Fox and William Sherman*
  • Push by Sapphire
  • The Fat Woman’s Joke by Fay Weldon

FANTASY

  • Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault
  • Gunsmoke and Glamour by Hillary Monahan

ACTION

  • Kill Game by S.M. Reine*
  • Cashing Out by S.M. Reine*
  • Suicide Queen by S.M. Reine*

MYSTERY

  • Large Target by Lynn Murray*
  • At Large by Lynn Murray*
  • A Ton of Trouble by Lynn Murray*
  • The Fat Lady’s Ghost by Charlotte MacLeod

ROMANCE/ROM-COM/CHICK-LIT

  • Good in Bed by Jennifer Weiner
  • Certain Girls (sequel to Good in Bed) by Jennifer Weiner
  • The King of Bourbon Street by Thea de Salle*
  • The Perfect Dress by Carolyn Brown
  • Curve My Song by Sarah Gai*
  • 150 Pounds by Kate Rockland*
  • From Scratch by Katrina Jackson
  • Learning Curves by Ceillie Simkiss
  • Teach Me by Olivia Dade
  • At Long Last, Love by Judy Bagshaw*
  • Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade
  • Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
  • Undone by the Ex-con by Talia Hibbert
  • Wanna Bet? by Talia Hibbert
  • Fat by Sara Wylde
  • Full-Figure 13: Plus Size Divas by Mona Love Katt

HISTORICAL

  • The Little Giant of Aberdeen County by Tiffany Baker*
  • Train Station Bride by Holly Bush*

poetry

  • If My Body Could Speak by Blythe Baird*
  • The Fat Woman Measures Up by Christine Donald
  • The Fat Black Woman’s Poems by Grace Nichols
  • Bodymap by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

young adult

  • Just Wreck It All by N. Griffin
  • The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
  • Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson
  • Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson
  • Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
  • Fat Girl on a Plane by Kelly deVos
  • To Be Honest by Maggie Ann Martin*
  • There’s Something about Sweetie by Sandhya Menon
  • The Jock and the Fat Chick by Nicole Winters
  • My Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught*
  • No Big Deal by Bethany Rutter
  • If It Makes You Happy by Claire Kann
  • Big Bones by Laura Dockrill
  • Analee, In Real Life by Janelle Milanes
  • Plus by Veronica Chambers*
  • The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember
  • The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce edited by Angie Manfredi*
  • Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado