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Comic books are books! Reading is reading! And seeing fat characters in comics can make a huge impact on readers of any age. For #FatLiberationMonth, consider adding these titles to your TBR.

📚 Pillow Talk by Stephanie Cooke, Mel Valentine Vargas, and Sam Pointon
📚 Roaming by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
📚 Sharp Wit and the Company of Women edited by Michele Abounader, Brent Fisher, Fell Hound, and Justin Richards
📚 Cosmoknights by Hannah Templer
📚 The Greatest Thing by Sarah Winifred Searle
📚 Stargazing by Jen Wang
📚 Phoebe’s Diary by Phoebe Wahl
📚 Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol

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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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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