2025 Books By Fat Authors & About Fat Experiences
Books by fat authors, about fat experiences, and featuring fat characters with 2025 release dates.
Nonfiction
Weight and Wisdom: Reflections on Decades of Working for Body Liberation edited by Nancy Ellis-Ordway and Tigress Osborn (Pearlsong Press, Available Now)
Dirtbag Queen: A Memoir of My Mother by Andy Corren (Grand Central Publishing, Available Now)
Greedy Guts: Notes from an Insatiable Woman by Gina Tonic (Coronet Books, Available Now)
Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia (Paperback) by Kate Manne (Crown, Available Now)
Black. Fat. Femme. by Jonathan P. Higgins, Ed.D. (Wiley, Available Now)
Tarot in Other Words: An Essential Anthology by Leading Queer Tarot Writers edited by Cassandra Snow (Weiser Books, Available Now)
So Many Stars: An Oral History of Trans, Nonbinary, Genderqueer, and Two-Spirit People of Color by Caro De Robertis (Algonquin Books, Available Now)
Fat Body Work: Somatics, Curiosity, Care and Practice by Charlotte Cooper (33editions, Available Now)
Will I Ever Have Sex Again? by Sofie Hagen (Mango, Available Now)
Fat and Furious: Igniting Radical Fat Resistance by Breanne Fahs (Beacon Press, August 19)
Absolute Pleasure: Queer Perspectives on Rocky Horror edited by Margot Atwell (Feminist Press, September)
Adult Fiction
The Brass Wyvern by Bronte-Marie Wesson (Brass Wyvern Books, Available Now)
On Her Terms by Amy Spalding (Kensington, Available Now)
Nix and Tell by Ali Williams and Ellie Rose (CLAficionado Press Ltd., Available Now)
Just Our Luck by Denise Williams (Berkley, Available Now)
Chaotic Energy by Stephanie Yeboah (Trapeze, Available Now)
Flirting Lessons by Jasmine Guillory (Berkley, Available Now)
Pájaros, lesbianas y queers...¡a volar! An LGBTQ+ Anthology of Dominican Transnational Writers edited by Yoseli Castillo Fuertes and Alicia Anabel Santos Diaz (Dwa Press, Available Now)
Let Them Eat: A Limited Run Sapphic Anthology (Self-Published, Available Now)
My Best Friend's Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner (St. Martin's Griffin, Available Now)
Change of Pace by Kayla Grosse (Self-Published, Available Now)
Kiss Me, Maybe by Gabriella Gamez (Forever, Available Now)
Overgrowth by Mira Grant (Tor Nightfire, Available Now)
Never Nix Up by Ali Williams and Ellie Rose (CLAficionado Press Ltd, Available Now)
Winks & Windows by Laurel Holl (Self-Published, Available Now)
Cravings: A (Mostly) Fictional Memoir by Juliet James (Crooked Circle Press, Available Now)
Bears & Bakeries (Sweet & Stocky Book 2) by Dylan Drakes (Unreliable Narrators Publishing, Available Now)
Housemates (Paperback) by Emma Copley Eisenberg (Hogarth, Available Now)
The Tenth Muse: A Sapphic Anthology edited by Sarah Mesh (Darklight Press, Available Now)
Don't Give a Nix by Ali Williams and Ellie Rose (CLAficionado Press Ltd., Available Now)
Plus Size Player by Danielle Allen (Bramble, Available Now)
Ancestors by adrienne maree brown (AK Press, Available Now)
Mystery in the Mountains (Magic in the Mountains Book 2) by Mary Warren (Self-Published, Available Now)
More Than a Friend by Daisy Wren (Self-Published, Available Now)
Unreasonably Yours by Charlotte Jean (Self-Published, July 2025)
The Build-a-Boyfriend Project by Mason Deaver (Avon, August 5)
This Is My Body by Lindsay King-Miller (Quirk Books, August 5)
Zomromcom by Olivia Dade (Berkley, August 5)
Sweet Escape by Willa Kay (Self-Published, August 18)
Savage Blooms by S. T. Gibson (Redhook, October 7)
Skylines & Sanctuaries by Willa Kay (Self-Published, October 20)
Young Adult Fiction
A Prayer for Vengeance by L. A. Schwartz (Page Street YA, Available Now)
Recommended Reading by Paul Coccia (Zando Young Readers, Available Now)
The No-Girlfriend Rule (Paperback) by Christen Randall (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Available Now)
Camila Núñez's Year of Disasters by Miriam Zoila Pérez (Page Street YA, Available Now)
Of Wolves and Stags by Ria Parisi (Inked In Gray LLC, Available Now)
Maeve Mulvaney Has Had Enough by Kelly Mangan (Holiday House, Available Now)
Get Real, Chloe Torres by Crystal Maldonado (Holiday House, Available Now)
Let Them Stare by Julie Murphy and Jonathan Van Ness (Storytide, Available Now)
Amelia, If Only by Becky Albertalli (HarperCollins, Available Now)
Climate of Chaos by Cassandra Newbould (Peachtree Teen, July 15)
Love At Full Tilt by Jenny L. Howe (Delacorte Romance, July 22)
Thick Witch Travels by Lizzy Ives (Sword & Rose Press, September 16)
Try Your Worst by Chatham Greenfield (Bloomsbury YA, September 23)
Illusions of Fire by Nisha Sharma (Union Square & Co., October 7)
Middle Grade Fiction & Chapter Books
Catty Corner Lands on Her Feet written by Julie Murphy, illustrated by Eve Farb (Union Square Kids, Available Now)
Catty Corner Pounces into Action written by Julie Murphy, illustrated by Eve Farb (Union Square Kids, Available Now)
Their Just Desserts by Tracy Badua and Alechia Dow (Quill Tree Books, Available Now)
Picture & Board Books
Everybelly by Thao Lam (Groundwood Books, Available Now)
Comics & Graphic Novels
West Hollywood Monster Squad (YA, Abrams ComicArts/Surely, Available Now)
Writer: Sina Grace
Artist: Bradley Clayton
Flatter: Wren Rios
Letterer: Chris Dickey
Designer: Andrea MillerExtra Large by Tyler Page (Middle Grade, First Second, Available Now)
Motherlover by Lindsay Ishihiro (Adult, Iron Circus Comics, Available Now)
Rainbow! Volume 2 (YA, Graphix, Available Now)
Writer: Sunny
Artist: GloomyFuture Me Is Fat by Mollie Cronin (Conundrum Press, August 2025)
Tarot & Oracle Decks
Chubby Witch's Night In written by Amanda Lovelace, illustrated by Vylirium (Andrews McMeel Publishing, September 9)
This post was last updated on June 26, 2025. If you have a book to add to this list, please reach out via e-mail at fatfwdbooks@gmail.com.
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