These are books that don’t adhere to a certain genre’s conventions and thus make them harder to label. Some are more literary than others, others include some action, love, female friendships, or a journey, all markers of a genre; yet, these books are not about those characteristics.

Recommended

• Dietland by Sarai Walker
• Fat Girl, Terrestrial by Kellie Wells
• Fat Girl Dances with Rocks by Susan Stinson
• Hometown by Michele Feltman Strider
• Mile End by Lise Tremblay, translated by Gail Scott
• Vow of Celibacy by Erin Judge
• Martha Moody by Susan Stinson
• Venus of Chalk by Susan Stinson

To Be Read

• Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
• The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce — art, prose, and poetry ed. by Angie Manfredi
• All of Me: A Voluptuous Tale by Venise T. Berry
• FatLand by Frannie Zellman
• FatLand: The Early Days by Frannie Zellman