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Starving for Attention
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3.88 avg rating — 596 ratings
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rated it 3 stars
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The Best Little Girl in the World
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3.68 avg rating — 5,516 ratings
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rated it 5 stars
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Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling
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4.15 avg rating — 3,134 ratings
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Good Luck with That
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4.08 avg rating — 20,384 ratings
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5,199 ratings
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Till the Fat Lady Sings
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2.95 avg rating — 38 ratings
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Such a Pretty Face: Being Fat in America
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3.50 avg rating — 36 ratings
"The first book I read almost 40 years ago on this topic--never to be forgotten. I love you Marcia!"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Fat Assassins
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3.86 avg rating — 186 ratings
"Fat characters who are Bad Ass "
Lenny
rated it 3 stars
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Such a Pretty Fat: One Narcissist's Quest to Discover If Her Life Makes Her Ass Look Big, or Why Pie Is Not the Answer
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4.04 avg rating — 29,888 ratings
"Not the greatest book but a quick read and fun"
Lenny
rated it 3 stars
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Wake Up, I'm Fat!: A Memoir
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3.88 avg rating — 733 ratings
"OMG one of the best ever Fat Acceptance books "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Lessons from the Fat-o-sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body
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4.03 avg rating — 851 ratings
Lenny
rated it 3 stars
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FAT!SO? : Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size
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4.12 avg rating — 1,104 ratings
"Awesome awesome awesome. Start here!!!"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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The Fat Studies Reader
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4.23 avg rating — 295 ratings
Lenny
rated it 3 stars
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Big Fat Lies
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3.89 avg rating — 95 ratings
Lenny
rated it 3 stars
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The Fat Girl's Guide to Life
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3.64 avg rating — 1,084 ratings
"super well-written, poignant, funny"
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight
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4.20 avg rating — 1,971 ratings
"This is excellent--HIGHLY recommend "
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
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4.18 avg rating — 6,000 ratings
"Not the best written book but a lot of good information."
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
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4.22 avg rating — 30,795 ratings
"Beautiful and so well-worth hearing or reading again."
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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The Island Keeper
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4.15 avg rating — 352 ratings
"The ultimate fantasy of every fat teen. This is a really great teen novel, despite the flawed ending (the perfect ending for the fat teenager reading it but not the mature women). "
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
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4.17 avg rating — 121,177 ratings
"SO good--this is one of the best books on this list."
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting
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3.83 avg rating — 1,000 ratings
"I have bought and recommended this book for many women. HIGHLY recommend."
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Diets Don't Work
by
3.91 avg rating — 119 ratings
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Richard Simmons Never-Say-Diet Book
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3.68 avg rating — 59 ratings
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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The Blackmail Diet
by
3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
Lenny
rated it 3 stars
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One Fat Summer
by
3.74 avg rating — 1,311 ratings
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Dinah and the Green Fat Kingdom
by
3.91 avg rating — 54 ratings
Lenny
rated it 3 stars
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She’s Come Undone
by
3.92 avg rating — 362,749 ratings
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Fat Is a Feminist Issue
by
3.69 avg rating — 2,278 ratings
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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The Beauty Myth
by
3.91 avg rating — 30,986 ratings
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Feeding the Hungry Heart: The Experience of Compulsive Eating
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3.95 avg rating — 911 ratings
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Dying to Be Thin: Understanding and Defeating Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia--A Practical, Lifesaving Guide
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3.33 avg rating — 160 ratings
Lenny
rated it 3 stars
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Surviving Ophelia: Mothers Share Their Wisdom In Navigating The Tumultuous Teenage Years
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3.43 avg rating — 157 ratings
Lenny
rated it 3 stars
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A Man Rides Through (Mordant's Need, #2)
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4.03 avg rating — 13,194 ratings
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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The Mirror of Her Dreams (Mordant's Need, #1)
by
3.93 avg rating — 14,061 ratings
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Get a Life, Chloe Brown (The Brown Sisters, #1)
by
3.79 avg rating — 207,024 ratings
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Andrea's Voice: Silenced by Bulimia: Her Story and Her Mother's Journey Through Grief Toward Understanding
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3.96 avg rating — 186 ratings
Lenny
rated it 5 stars
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Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters and Food
by
3.54 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
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4.24 avg rating — 6,463 ratings
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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Dr. Deah's Calmanac: Your Interactive Monthly Guide for Cultivating a Positive Body Image
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4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
Lenny
rated it 4 stars
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