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Books that celebrate or enlighten the lives of fat people: fiction and non-fiction. All fat positive!

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1	Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda Bacon 4.18 avg rating — 6,120 ratings score: 399, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	FAT!SO? : Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size by Marilyn Wann 4.13 avg rating — 1,103 ratings score: 392, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Dietland by Sarai Walker (Goodreads Author) 3.56 avg rating — 22,740 ratings score: 388, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon 4.39 avg rating — 17,840 ratings score: 373, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings 4.23 avg rating — 7,026 ratings score: 357, and 4 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West 4.16 avg rating — 64,638 ratings score: 289, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Two Whole Cakes: How to Stop Dieting and Learn to Love Your Body by Lesley Kinzel 4.10 avg rating — 479 ratings score: 284, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight by Linda Bacon 4.19 avg rating — 2,001 ratings score: 280, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor 4.21 avg rating — 31,915 ratings score: 267, and 3 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	What's Eating Us: Women, Food, and the Epidemic of Body Anxiety by Cole Kazdin 3.96 avg rating — 1,633 ratings score: 200, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health by Paul Campos 4.03 avg rating — 439 ratings score: 197, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun Harrison (Goodreads Author) 4.49 avg rating — 2,944 ratings score: 190, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living by Jes Baker 3.99 avg rating — 5,245 ratings score: 182, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Fat Studies Reader by Esther D. Rothblum (Editor) 4.22 avg rating — 294 ratings score: 182, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The Unapologetic Fat Girl's Guide to Exercise and Other Incendiary Acts by Hanne Blank 3.83 avg rating — 515 ratings score: 177, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1) by Julie Murphy (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 92,874 ratings score: 174, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 2,659 ratings score: 171, and 2 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sofie Hagen 4.21 avg rating — 3,492 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 2,518 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body by Kate Harding (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 851 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Fat and Furious: Igniting Radical Fat Resistance by Breanne Fahs 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Fat: The Owner's Manual by Ragen Chastain (Goodreads Author) 3.73 avg rating — 94 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Diet Riot: A Fatterpunk Anthology by Nico Bell (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.08 avg rating — 66 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Fat Chance, Charlie Vega by Crystal Maldonado (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 12,455 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Wake Up, I'm Fat!: A Memoir by Camryn Manheim 3.88 avg rating — 740 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Big Fat Manifesto by Susan Vaught (Goodreads Author) 3.48 avg rating — 1,189 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Fat Girl Finishing School by Rachel Wiley 4.23 avg rating — 544 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Bodies out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression by Jana Evans Braziel (Editor) 3.99 avg rating — 116 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Too Big to Miss (An Odelia Grey Mystery, #1) by Sue Ann Jaffarian (Goodreads Author) 3.78 avg rating — 1,986 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Hot & Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love & Fashion by Virgie Tovar (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 534 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	Revenge Body by Rachel Wiley 3.94 avg rating — 419 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Every Body Yoga: Let Go of Fear. Get On the Mat. Love Your Body by Jessamyn Stanley (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 3,440 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them by Hanne Blank 4.13 avg rating — 404 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	I Do It with the Lights On: And 10 More Discoveries on the Road to a Blissfully Shame-Free Life by Whitney Way Thore 3.99 avg rating — 1,206 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 31,894 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica by Hanne Blank 4.14 avg rating — 64 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 1,896 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Puddin' (Dumplin', #2) by Julie Murphy (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 20,724 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker 3.96 avg rating — 1,790 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	There's Something About Sweetie (Dimple and Rishi, #2) by Sandhya Menon (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 8,919 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Witches Are Coming by Lindy West (Author, Narrator) 4.09 avg rating — 26,876 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Big Girl (PM's Outspoken Authors, #25) by Meg Elison (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 382 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby (Goodreads Author) (Author, Narrator) 3.81 avg rating — 48,039 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars