16 must-read nonfiction books like #VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini by Nicole Byer

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#VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini

By: Nicole Byer

4.10

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Actress, comedian, and podcaster extraordinaire Nicole Byer’s guide to being a #brave, bikini-weari…

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1. Tell Me Everything You Don't Remember: The Stroke That Changed My Life

By: Christine Hyung-Oak Lee

4.44

Format: None pages, ebook

A memoir of reinvention after a stroke at age thirty-three. Christine Hyung-Oak Lee woke up with a … read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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

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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • self help
"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

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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

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • self help
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4. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
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5. Leslie F*cking Jones

By: Leslie Jones

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Hey you guys, it’s Leslie. I’m excited to share my story with you. Now, I’m gonna be honest: Som… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
"Dad"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"Some of the stories about my childhood is vague, because a bitch is 55 and I've smoked a lot of weed."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I was built for strong... I was never a victim. And even though really bad shit happened to me, I know it's my job to help other back girls and women get strong like me."

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

"I even attended a Christian singles night lecture kind of thing—I was single, it was free, and it was Church. Honestly, that night should be an episode of American Horror Story. The woman leading it …"

-Leslie Jones, Leslie F*cking Jones

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6. She Memes Well

By: Quinta Brunson

4.07

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

From Emmy Award-winning writer Quinta Brunson (creator and star of Abbott Elementary ) comes a deep… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
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7. The Great British Bump-Off (#1-4)

By: John Allison

3.63

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

An Agatha Christie-style murder mystery set in the world of English competitive baking from Giant D… read more

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  • humor
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8. Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey

By: Edel Rodriguez

4.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “America’s illustrator in chief” ( Fast Company ), a graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, co… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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9. Joyful Recollections of Trauma

By: Paul Scheer

4.23

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From award-winning actor and comedian Paul Scheer, a candid and humorous memoir-in-essays on coming… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
"I didn’t need a girlfriend when I had Blockbuster."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

"But not acknowledging my trauma took away my triumph. I survived, and I wanted to make surviving the abuse part of my story. I want to wear my former shame with pride."

-Paul Scheer, Joyful Recollections of Trauma

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10. Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image

By: Siobhan Gallagher

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher’s humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journe… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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11. 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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  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • self help
"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

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12. Working Girls: Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood

By: Trixie Mattel

4.12

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Trixie Mattel and Katya Zamolodchikova took the world by storm with their Guide to Modern Womanhood… read more

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  • memoir
  • humor
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • comedy
  • self help
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13. Skin & Bones

By: Renée Watson

4.39

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring… read more

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14. We Are Too Many: A Memoir (Kind Of)

By: Hannah Pittard

3.69

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

“Hannah Pittard’s memoir is so exquisitely crafted ― I loved it.” ―Ann Napolitano, New York Times … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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15. Nearlywed

By: Nicolas DiDomizio

3.85

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An engaged couple's compatibility is put to the test during their ill-fated early honeymoon in this… read more

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Cover of Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People by Dan Pashman

16. Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People

By: Dan Pashman

3.81

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

The innovative James Beard Award–winning podcaster who changed the way you think about pasta shapes… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Houses of the Unholy

By: Ed Brubaker

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn… read more

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Cover of #VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini by Nicole Byer

18. #VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini

By: Nicole Byer

4.10

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Actress, comedian, and podcaster extraordinaire Nicole Byer’s guide to being a #brave, bikini-weari… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • humor
  • photography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • comedy
  • self help
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19. Depart, Depart!

By: Sim Kern

4.23

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

When an unprecedented hurricane devastates the city of Houston, Noah Mishner finds shelter in the D… read more

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Cover of True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age by Christine Lahti

20. True Stories from an Unreliable Eyewitness: A Feminist Coming of Age

By: Christine Lahti

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

A fiercely intelligent, hilarious, and deeply feminist collection of interrelated personal stories … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • essays
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21. Amazing Ace, Awesome Aro: An Illustrated Exploration

By: Victoria Barron

4.39

Format: 87 pages, Hardcover

The split attraction model? Alterous Love? Queerplatonic relationships?From the creator of Perfectl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help

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