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 …
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1. The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health
By: Paul Campos , None
4.03
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Is your weight hazardous to your health? According to public-health authorities, 65 percent of us a… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- fat
2. Lumberjanes, Vol. 8: Stone Cold
By: Shannon Watters
4.00
Format: 50 pages, Paperback
Five best friends at summer camp take friendship to the max when they team up to defeat the strange… read more
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- lgbt
3. Creepy Pair of Underwear!
By: None , Peter Brown
4.67
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Jasper Rabbit is NOT a little bunny anymore. He's not afraid of the dark, and he's definitely not a… read more
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4. 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
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- self help
- memoir
- 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
5. Spinning Starlight
By: R.C. Lewis
3.77
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Sixteen-year-old heiress and paparazzi darling Liddi Jantzen hates the spotlight. But as the only d… read more
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6. Apple: Skin to the Core
By: Eric Gansworth
3.78
Format: 339 pages, None
Apple: Skin to the Core, is a YA memoir-in-verse. Eric Gansworth tells the story of his life, of a… read more
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- poetry
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
7. Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
By: Jessamyn Stanley
4.19
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Funny, thoughtful, inspiring, and deeply personal essays about yoga, wellness, and life from author… read more
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- memoir
- lgbt
- nonfiction
- essays
- self help
"I don’t know where all of this leaves us, but I do know that cultural appropriation is not a requirement of practicing American yoga. Yoga will lead you back to your own native culture every time. If…"-Jessamyn Stanley, Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance
8. “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
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- self help
9. 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
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- 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
10. Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
By: Da’Shaun Harrison
4.53
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Exploring anti-fatness and anti-Blackness at the intersections of race, police violence, gender ide… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
- fat
"Ugly is political. It is the determiner for who does and does not work; who does and does not Love; who does and does not die; who does and does not eat."-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What is the utility of "body positivity" if it only seeks to provide one with a false sense of confidence rather than to liberate all from that which cages the body?"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What would it mean for us to lean into Insecurity as a political tool in which we free ourselves from insisting that we perform "perfection" and total confidence in order to advocate for our collecti…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
"What I am really naming here is the complicatedness of feeling both affirmed and harmed by your assault because your body is never really your own when you're fat and Black, and the trauma you arrive…"-Da’Shaun Harrison, Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
11. Hijab Butch Blues
By: Lamya H.
4.48
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- memoir
- lgbt
"Sort of?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"Queer indispensability?"-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues
12. 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
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- self help
13. Witches
By: Brenda Lozano
3.52
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A remarkable novel by one of the most exciting new voices in Latin America today This is the sto… read more
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- lgbt
14. Oh No, the Aunts Are Here
By: Adam Rex
3.67
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Every family has its special aunt: the cool aunt, the wacky aunt, the scary aunt. But this family h… read more
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- lgbt
15. Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
By: Crystal Maldonado
3.98
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Coming of age as a Fat brown girl in a white Connecticut suburb is hard. Harder when your whole lif… read more
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- lgbt
"Right! You see me as superhuman! That’s some serious pressure."-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
"Just—promise me girls you won't devalue yourselves for anyone. And I mean anyone. You can't. You have to really be kind to yourself and look out for yourself because the world can be cold and cruel. …"-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
"Sometimes I didn't get it [jokes] at all, but that didn't stop him from going out of his way to make me laugh. He was always just trying his best, and that's what I loved. I know I will never replace…"-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
"You need to believe in your value for you, even if you’re not some flawless ethereal being, even if not everyone will see what makes you special, even if your story is a little chaotic. We’re all mes…"-Crystal Maldonado, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega
16. Okay, Cupid
By: Mason Deaver
3.71
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST, the story of a cupid who thinks they know e… read more
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- lgbt
17. What Are Your Words?: A Book About Pronouns
By: Katherine Locke
4.17
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
Follow Ari through their neighborhood as they try to find their words in this sweet, accessible int… read more
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- lgbt
18. Junie
By: Chelene Knight
3.78
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction A riveting exploration of the complexity w… read more
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19. Slip
By: Marika McCoola
3.54
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
From Eisner-Award nominated writer Marika McCoola and debut artist Aatmaja Pandya, an emotional com… read more
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- lgbt
20. Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
By: Sabrina Strings
4.25
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
In her first book, sociologist Strings (sociology, Univ. of California, Irvine) explores the histor… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
"...the current anti-fat bias in the United States and in much of the West was not born in the medical field. Racial scientific literature since at least the eighteenth century has claimed that fatnes…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"Together, the two traveled to the south of France, where Bernier earned a medical degree in just three months. The degree, however, carried the somewhat suspect stipulation that his fast-tracked medi…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"...racial discourse was deployed by elite Europeans and white Americans to create social distinctions between themselves and fat racial Others. Black people, as well as so-called degraded or hybrid w…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
"The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail…"-Sabrina Strings, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
21. Chasing Pacquiao
By: Rod Pulido
3.68
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Experience the extreme joys, sorrows, and triumphs of a queer Filipino-American teenager struggling… read more
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22. 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
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- self help
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- 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
23. It Feels Good to Be Yourself: A Book About Gender Identity
By: Theresa Thorn
4.27
Format: 40 pages, Hardcover
A picture book that introduces the concept of gender identity to the youngest reader from writer Th… read more
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- nonfiction
- lgbt
24. Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
By: Ibi Zoboi
4.13
Format: 407 pages, Kindle Edition
Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, and featuring some of the most acclaimed bestsell… read more
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- short stories
- anthologies
- lgbt
"Being in a shadow is never just as simple as stepping out of it. Shadows can camouflage a lot of things."-Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
"Your grandma used to always tell me that just because something is over doesn't mean it wasn't successful. All things end at some point."-Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
"I dreamed of going to the most remote places on this earth to dig for old bones, older than people. Before humans and their stupid ideas. Before hate. Maybe even before love, too. Dinosaurs just exis…"-Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
"Because it is the hardness of the floor, and the abrupt halt in momentum, and the unyielding nature of the surface, that causes a thing to crack. Even if it is not that thing's fault. And then we tal…"-Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America
25. 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
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- fat
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- self help
"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
26. 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
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- poetry
- self help
- memoir
- lgbt
- feminism
- anthologies
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
- fat
27. Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent and Respect: Teach Children About Body Ownership, Respect, Feelings, Choices and Recognizing Bullying Behaviors
By: Jayneen Sanders
4.47
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Teaching young children about body boundaries, both theirs and others, is crucial to a child's grow… read more
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- nonfiction
28. Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction
By: Gholdy Muhammad
4.33
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
In this follow-up to Cultivating Genius, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad adds a fifth pursuit―joy―to her ground… read more
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- nonfiction
29. The Body Liberation Project: How Understanding Racism and Diet Culture Helps Cultivate Joy and Build Collective Freedom
By: Chrissy King
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From author and wellness personality Chrissy King, an exciting, genre-redefining narrative mix of m… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- self help
30. Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy
By: Kelly Jensen
4.04
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
It’s time to bare it all about bodies! We all experience the world in a body, but we don’t usuall… read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- anthologies
- short stories
- nonfiction
- essays
31. In the Ring
By: Sierra Isley
3.70
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Rose Berman is losing her mind. At least, that's what everyone at school seems to think. Plague… read more
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- lgbt
