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If you want to add more books by fat authors and/or about fat characters to your shelves, may I suggest starting with this stack of nonfiction books? #FatLiberationMonth is the perfect time to pick up these titles. 

📚 Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne
📚 It’s Always Been Ours: Rewriting the Story of Black Women’s Bodies by Jessica Wilson, MS, RD
📚 Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul by Evette Dionne
📚 Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith
📚 Reclaiming Ugly! A Radically Joyful Guide to Unlearn Oppression and Uplift, Glorify, and Love Yourself by Vanessa Rochelle Lewis
📚 Unashamed: Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim by Leah Vernon
📚 Will I Ever Have Sex Again? by Sofie Hagen
📚 Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership by Chaya M. Milchtein
📚 Quietly Hostile by Samantha Irby

Stay tuned for more fat book recs in other genres and age groups, and check our stories for a refresh of what we recommended last year! ✨ You can shop everything via @bookshop_org at the link in our Story and bio.

Compiled by Samantha Puc (@theverbalthing)

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Fat Liberation Month: Nonfiction

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Samantha Puc (she/they) is a fat, disabled, lesbian writer and editor whose work focuses primarily on LGBTQ+ and fat representation in pop culture. Their writing has been featured on Polygon, Refinery29, Bitch Media, them., and elsewhere. Samantha is the Community Voices Blog Editor at NAAFA, the co-creator of Fatventure Mag, and a contributor to the award-winning Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. They graduated in May 2025 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative nonfiction from The New School. When Samantha is not working or writing, she loves spending time with her cats, reading, and perfecting her grilled cheese recipe.

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