Reading While Fat

Welcome! I’ve published over 300 reviews of books I’ve read since 2021. You can skip to the bottom to search books by tag or just keep reading. I don’t read only fat-positive books, but I do note if there is any significant anti-fat bias. Thankfully, most of what I read is at least weight-neutral.

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?

In this blog, I’ll review what I read and report whether it’s 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 2025, I published over 70 reviews, and I plan to do the same in 2026, generally published on Sundays, but reviews for new books will come out on their publication day Tuesdays. If you subscribe, you’ll get reviews in your inbox whenever I publish a review, but no more than that, I promise. My 2026 goal is an average of a review every week on Sundays and one new book an average of every other week.

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 2025 reads, an analysis of my 2025 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.

Isn’t He Romantic?

Isn’t He Romantic (publication day September 22, 2026) by Adib Khorram is the third book in his Love on the Vine series that features wine and wine-related businesses in each storyline. I previously reviewed his breakout YA book Darius the Great is Not Okay and It Had to Be Him (#2 in this series), and…

by bbwesquire September 22, 2026

Mazywood

Mazywood (publication day September 22, 2026) by Tananarive Due scared me so much one evening I had to stop reading it until daytime! With two timelines–beginning in the Golden Age of Hollywood, it follows Mazelle Washington, a child star when films were still silent, through her lifetime, and alternates with a present day timeline following…

by bbwesquire September 22, 2026