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Anti-fatness still pervades fiction at an alarming rate, but fat authors and our allies are working to change that. #FatLiberationMonth is a great time to add more books about complex, fully-realized fat characters to your bookshelf, like the titles listed here.

📚 Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg*
📚 Beneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
📚 Baker Thief by Claudie Arseneault
📚 The Z Word by Lindsay King-Miller
📚 Just for the Cameras by Viano Oniomoh
📚 Her Own Happiness by Eden Appiah-Kubi
📚 Meet Me in Los Feliz by Kelly Reynolds
📚 American Hippo by Sarah Gailey
📚 Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

*Swipe for commentary from Eisenberg’s essay in The New Republic about American lit’s pervasive anti-fatness, then read the full piece at the link in our Story.

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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