Reading While Fat

Have you ever been annoyed by a description of a fat character in a book and wish the author did better? Have you been thrilled to find a fat character that isn’t trying to lose weight? Less often, but it does happen.

In this blog, I’ll review the books I read and report whether I found anything fat positive, anti-fat biased, or weight neutral, but I’ll try to avoid repeating the worst of the anti-fat bias. I’ll focus on fiction, with an emphasis on diverse and queer-friendly authors. In 2024, I published over 70 reviews, and I plan to do the same in 2025 as well, generally published on Sundays, but reviews of new books will happen on publication day Tuesdays.

Click on the tags in the cloud at the bottom of this page to filter by topic, or for book cover thumbnails leading to my latest reviews, click here. The list of my 2024 reads, an analysis of my 2024 reading year, and older annual summaries and other content, including my views on fat acceptance, my journey to becoming a single mother, dealing with breast cancer and life afterwards, and my coming-out story are at bbwesquire.

The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts

Nonfiction was only a fraction of what I read in 2025, but The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts (2023) by Loren Grush made me want to read more. While some of the individual women that were part of the first women to be part of NASA’s first astronaut class to include…

by bbwesquire December 21, 2025December 7, 2025

The Measure

My book club chose The Measure (2022) by Nikki Erlick for our October 2025 read, and we had a great discussion! The premise is that one day, everyone who is older than 22 receives a box at their front door (later, you receive a box when you turn 22). On the box is an inscription…

by bbwesquire December 14, 2025November 30, 2025