7 Best fat books like You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar

Cover of You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie  Tovar

You Have the Right to Remain Fat

By: Virgie Tovar

4.27

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after …

"Any future that doesn't center the eradication of oppression and collective freedom is not a future worth imagining."

-Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat

"Any future that doesn't center the eradication of oppression and collective freedom is not a future worth imagining."

-Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat

"You cannot earn freedom through conformity. You cannot buy your way in And we can only claim it when we recognize it is already ours."

-Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat

"You cannot earn freedom through conformity. You cannot buy your way in And we can only claim it when we recognize it is already ours."

-Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat

If you liked the fat plot in You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight by Linda Bacon

1. Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight

By: Linda Bacon

4.20

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or si… read more

Similar categories in Linda Bacon's Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • health
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • fat studies
  • self help
"Food is a wonderful source of pleasure—but it will get you into trouble if it’s the only source of pleasure you have in your life."

-Linda Bacon, Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight

Cover of Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living by Jes Baker

2. Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living

By: Jes Baker

4.00

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

THIS IS JES BAKER'S BODY-LOVE PARTY, AND YOU'RE INVITED. Among the many Things No One Will Tell… read more

Similar categories in Jes Baker's Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • fat
"You're not a better person if you eat carrots, and you're not a fuckup if you eat pie."

-Jes Baker, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living

"Our bodies cannot truly be hidden, no matter how many black outfits we wear. No matter how many pairs of Spanx we own. No matter how much we suck it in. Doesn't it seem like a better use of our time …"

-Jes Baker, Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living

Cover of “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People by Aubrey Gordon

3. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more

Similar categories in Aubrey Gordon's “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • health
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • self help
Cover of The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

4. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

By: Sonya Renee Taylor

4.23

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more

Similar categories in Sonya Renee Taylor's The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • health
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."

-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Cover of Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia by Kate Manne

5. Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia

By: Kate Manne

4.25

Format: 297 pages, Hardcover

The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research t… read more

Similar categories in Kate Manne's Unshrinking: How to Face Fatphobia book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • health
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
Cover of Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections by Emily Nagoski

6. Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections

By: Emily Nagoski

4.14

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An illuminating exploration of how to maintain a happy sex life in a long-term relationship, from t… read more

Similar categories in Emily Nagoski's Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • self help
  • health
Cover of What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

7. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.41

Format: 197 pages, Hardcover

From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias faci… read more

Similar categories in Aubrey Gordon's What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • memoir
  • health
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • fat
Cover of Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison

8. Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating

By: Christy Harrison

4.29

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that p… read more

Similar categories in Christy Harrison's Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • health
Cover of Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith

9. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

By: Virginia Sole-Smith

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b… read more

Similar categories in Virginia Sole-Smith's Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being by Christy Harrison

10. The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being

By: Christy Harrison

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A searing critique of modern wellness culture and how it stands in the way of true well-being that … read more

Similar categories in Christy Harrison's The Wellness Trap: Break Free from Diet Culture, Disinformation, and Dubious Diagnoses, and Find Your True Well-Being book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • self help
  • health
Cover of Sofoco by Laura Ortiz Gómez

11. Sofoco

By: Laura Ortiz Gómez

4.31

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

En Sofoco, los personajes respiran aires de anhelo y amenaza. Estos nueve cuentos recorren paisajes… read more

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Cover of You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie  Tovar

12. You Have the Right to Remain Fat

By: Virgie Tovar

4.27

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Growing up as a fat girl, Virgie Tovar believed that her body was something to be fixed. But after … read more

Similar categories in Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • self help
  • personal development
  • memoir
  • health
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
  • fat studies
  • fat
"Any future that doesn't center the eradication of oppression and collective freedom is not a future worth imagining."

-Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat

"You cannot earn freedom through conformity. You cannot buy your way in And we can only claim it when we recognize it is already ours."

-Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat

"My life wouldn't be easier if I were thin. My life would be easier if this culture wasn't obsessed with oppressing me because I'm fat. The solution to a problem like bigotry is not to do everything i…"

-Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat

"I think about the thousand ways that the women in my family were silently (and sometimes outright) expected to give up their lives, their dreams, and their desires, so that they could become the glor…"

-Virgie Tovar, You Have the Right to Remain Fat

Cover of The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy by Caroline Dooner

13. The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

By: Caroline Dooner

4.04

Format: 304 pages, ebook

From comedian and ex-diet junkie Caroline Dooner, an inspirational guide that will help you stop di… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Dooner's The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • personal development
  • health
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Sugar is addictive like oxygen is addictive. Your body fucking needs it."

-Caroline Dooner, The F*ck It Diet: Eating Should Be Easy

Cover of Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass by Jes Baker

14. Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass

By: Jes Baker

3.97

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

By the author of Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls and a heroine of the body image movement, an int… read more

Similar categories in Jes Baker's Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • fat
"I am not here for the men of this world--not as a scapegoat or a baby-maker, and certainly not solely for their sexual satisfaction. My purpose is far greater than shallow bullshit."

-Jes Baker, Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass

"How much are we allowed to change our bodies while still being body positive? Does that amount of change decrease if we call ourselves part of the fat acceptance movement? Does the community get to v…"

-Jes Baker, Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass

Cover of Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation by Hilary Kinavey

15. Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation

By: Hilary Kinavey

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A holistic and powerful framework for accepting and liberating our bodies, and ourselves. Have y… read more

Similar categories in Hilary Kinavey's Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • fat
  • personal development
  • health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls by Mona Eltahawy

16. The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

By: Mona Eltahawy

4.21

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

A bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy, disrupt, and d… read more

Similar categories in Mona Eltahawy's The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • essays
"Racism and bigotry are not polite, and I refuse to be polite in my fight against them."

-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

"Patriarchy wants to control vaginas, but it also wants to control who has the right to even say the word “vagina."

-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

"Patriarchy keeps us terrified, demanding from us an endless supply of patience, passivity, and obedience, as it pathologiezes and snuffs out our justifiable rage."

-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

"Men cannot sit back and say, 'Well, I'm not rich and powerful; that's not me.' It is you - if you are not actively dismantling the patriarchy, you are factually benefiting from it. Are you uncomforta…"

-Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

Cover of Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You by Sofie Hagen

17. Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

By: Sofie Hagen

4.24

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life … read more

Similar categories in Sofie Hagen's Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • self help
  • memoir
  • health
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • fat
"We constantly have to reach an impossible standard in order to just be taken a little bit seriously, and you can't help but wonder if it's all a trick. If we are meant to be too busy applying lipstic…"

-Sofie Hagen, Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

Cover of The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce by Angie Manfredi

18. The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce

By: Angie Manfredi

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

"This outstanding anthology of essays, illustrations, poems, and letters . . . is a celebration of … read more

Similar categories in Angie Manfredi's The (Other) F Word: A Celebration of the Fat and Fierce book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • self help
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • fat
Cover of Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex by Casey Tanner

19. Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex

By: Casey Tanner

4.28

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking guide to sexuality that dispels     the stale cultural attitudes about sex that le… read more

Similar categories in Casey Tanner's Feel It All: A Therapist's Guide to Reimagining Your Relationship with Sex book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of (h)amor 8 gordo by Irantzu Varela

20. (h)amor 8 gordo

By: Irantzu Varela

4.20

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

¿Cómo se habita el mundo desde un cuerpo no-normativo? ¿Cómo (se) desea? ¿Cómo se establecen víncul… read more

Similar categories in Irantzu Varela's (h)amor 8 gordo book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • nonfiction
Cover of 10 gritos contra la gordofobia by Magdalena Piñeyro

21. 10 gritos contra la gordofobia

By: Magdalena Piñeyro

4.31

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Una guía para liberarse de los cánones de belleza establecidos, por la cofundadora de Stop Gordofob… read more

Similar categories in Magdalena Piñeyro's 10 gritos contra la gordofobia book and Virgie Tovar's You Have the Right to Remain Fat

  • feminism
  • nonfiction

20 Best nonfiction books like You Have the Right to Remain Fat by Virgie Tovar

Transform Your Habits

Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight

Linda Bacon

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living

Jes Baker

4.00

Transform Your Habits

“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Sonya Renee Taylor

4.23

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Transform Your Habits

“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Transform Your Habits

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Becky Kennedy

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

3.77

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