Starting Points

The Body is Not an Apology [ Bookshop ]

Fearing the Black Body: Racial Origins of Fatphobia [ Bookshop ]

Hunger [ Bookshop ]

You Have the Right to Remain Fat [ Bookshop ]

The Other F Word: A Manifest for the Fat & Fierce [ Bookshop ]

Fat!So?  [ Bookshop ]

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat [ Bookshop ]

The Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness [ Bookshop ]

Memoir & Essays

Hunger [ Bookshop ]

Shrill  [ Bookshop ]

Landwhale  [ Bookshop ]

Fat, Pretty and Soon to be Old [ Bookshop ]

Two Whole Cakes  [ Bookshop ]

A Beautiful Work in Progress  [ Bookshop ]

Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim  [ Bookshop ]

Wake Up, I’m Fat!  [ Bookshop ]

My Mad Fat Diary  [ Bookshop ]

Heavy: An American Memoir  [ Bookshop ]

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls [ Bookshop ]

Happy Fat  [ Bookshop ]

#VeryFat #VeryBrave  [ Bookshop ]

My Life as a Goddess  [ Bookshop ]

We Are Never Meeting in Real Life [ Bookshop ]

Fat Studies/Scholarship

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia  [ Bookshop ]

Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement [ Bookshop ]

The Embodiment of Disobedience: Fat Black Women’s Unruly Political Bodies [ Bookshop ]

Never Satisfied: A Cultural History of Diets, Fantasies and Fat  [ Amazon ]

Queering Fat Embodiment  [ Bookshop ]

The Fat Studies Reader  [ Bookshop ]

Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture  [ Bookshop ]

Tipping the Scales of Justice: Fighting Weight-Based Discrimination  [ Bookshop ]

Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood  [ Bookshop ]

The Fat Pedagogy Reader  [ Bookshop ]

Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression  [ Bookshop ]

Fat Gay Men: Girth, Mirth and the Politics of Stigma  [ Bookshop ]

Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement  [ Bookshop ]

Diet and the Disease of Civilization  [ Bookshop ]

Historicizing Fat in Anglo-American Culture  [ Bookshop ]

On the Politics of Ugliness  [ Bookshop ]

Lessons from the Fat-O-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body  [ Bookshop ]

Shadow on a Tightrope: Writings by Women on Fat Oppression  [ Bookshop ]

Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America’s Obesity Epidemic [ Bookshop ]

Fat Shame: Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture [ Bookshop ]

Queering Fat Embodiment [ Bookshop ]

Revolting Bodies?: The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity [ Bookshop ]

The Round World [ Bookshop ]

The Politics of Size [ Bookshop ]

Fiction

Dumplin’  [ Bookshop ]

Dietland  [ Bookshop ]

Losing It  [ Amazon ]

Her Body and Other Parties [ Bookshop ]

Faith: Taking Flight [ Bookshop ]

Non-fiction

Fat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat  [ Bookshop ]

Dispensing with the Truth: The Victims, The Drug Companies, and the Dramatic Story Behind the Battle Over Fen-Phen  [ Amazon ]

Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight  [ Bookshop ]

Body of Truth: How Science, History and Culture Drive Our Obsession with Weight—and What We Can Do About It  [ Bookshop ]

Men and the War on Obesity  [ Bookshop ]

The Obesity Myth  [ Amazon ]

Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America’s Obesity Epidemic  [ Bookshop ]

Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World While Transforming it for the Better  [ Bookshop ]

Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion  [ Bookshop ]

Big Big Love  [ Bookshop ]

Children’s Literature

Begin At the Beginning [ Amazon ]

Beautifully Me [ Bookshop ]

The Adventures of Isabel [ Amazon ]

The Snake’s Toothache [ Bookshop ]

I Love You Nose, I Love You Toes [ Bookshop ]

Don’t Yuck My Yum [ Amazon ]

Starring Hilary [ Amazon ]

Ernest, The Moose Who Doesn’t Fit [ Bookshop ]

Brontorina [ Bookshop ]

You Are (Not) Small [ Bookshop ]

Full, Full, Full of Love [ Bookshop ]

Diana Dances [ Bookshop ]

Dad By My Side [ Bookshop ]

Amanda’s Big Dream [ Bookshop ]

Shapesville [ Bookshop ]

Black Girl Shine [ Bookshop ]

Peeny Butter Fudge [ Bookshop ]

A Kids Book About Body Image [ Amazon ]

Big [ Bookshop ]

Poetry

Fat Art, Thin Art  [ Bookshop ]

Fat Girl Finishing School  [ Button Poetry ]

Nothing Is Okay  [ Button Poetry ]

Tesoro  [ Bookshop ]

Corazón  [ Bookshop ]

Hermosa  [ Bookshop ]