Fat-Positive Books

The Big Happy Bear by Betsy Bogert

Wake Up, I'm Fat! by Camryn Mannheim

FAT!SO? by Marilyn Wann

No Fat Chicks by Terry Poulton

Overcoming Fear of Fat—Laura Brown and Esther Rothblum, Ph.D

Fed Up! Liberating Ourselves from the Diet/Weight Prison—Terry Nicholetti Garrison with David Levitsky, Ph.D

Journeys to Self-Acceptance, Fat Women Speak—Edited by Carol Wiley

Eating our Hearts Out—Personal Accounts of Women’s Relation to Food, Edited by Leslea Newman

Great Shape—Pat Lyons and Debby Burgar

Some Body to Love, A Guide to Loving the Body You Have—Leslea Newman

Transforming Body Image, Learning to Love the Body You Have—Marcia Germaine Hutchinson, Ed.D.

Life Isn’t Weighed on the Bathroom Scales—Laura Rose

Real Women Don’t Diet!—Ken Mayer

The Invisible Woman, Confronting Weight Prejudice in America—W. Charisse Goodman

Nothing to Lose, A Guide to Sane Living in a Larger Body—Cheri Erdman

The Forbidden Body, Why Being Fat is Not a Sin—Shelley Bovey

Women En Large, Images of Fat Nudes—Laurie Toby Edison, Debbie Notkin

Also Recommended:

Big Fat Lies by Glenn Gaesser, PH.D.

Dream Park by Niven, Pournelle, and Barnes (sci-fi novel with fat heroine!)

Most non-highlighted books may be ordered through NAAFA. (See Resource Guide, this page.)