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)

• 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)

• 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

• On Her Terms by Amy Spalding (Kensington, Available Now)

• Just Our Luck by Denise Williams (Berkley, Available Now)

• My Best Friend's Honeymoon by Meryl Wilsner (St. Martin's Griffin, Available Now)

• Bears & Bakeries (Sweet & Stocky Book 2) by Dylan Drakes (Unreliable Narrators Publishing, May 25)

• Housemates (Paperback) by Emma Copley Eisenberg (Hogarth, May 27)

• The Tenth Muse: A Sapphic Anthology edited by Sarah Mesh (Darklight Press, June 3)

• Plus Size Player by Danielle Allen (Bramble, June 10)

• Ancestors by adrienne maree brown (AK Press, June 10)

• More Than a Friend by Daisy Wren (Self-Published, June 24)

• Zomromcom by Olivia Dade (Berkley, August 5)

• A Brief and Fearful Star by Carmen Maria Machado (Serpent's Tail, Fall 2025)

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)

• 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, May 20)

• Amelia, If Only by Becky Albertalli (HarperCollins, June 10)

• Climate of Chaos by Cassandra Newbould (Peachtree Teen, July 15)

• Thick Witch Travels by Lizzy Ives (Sword & Rose Press, September 16)

• Try Your Worst by Chatham Greenfield (Bloomsbury YA, September 23)

Middle Grade Fiction & Chapter Books

• 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 Miller

• Extra 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: Gloomy

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 May 14, 2025. If you have a book to add to this list, please reach out via e-mail at fatfwdbooks@gmail.com.