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Body Image Books
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Starfish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.43 — 36,485 ratings — published 2021
Dumplin' (Dumplin', #1)
by (shelved 73 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.88 — 92,231 ratings — published 2015
Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.96 — 126,469 ratings — published 2009
Bodies Are Cool (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.58 — 2,734 ratings — published 2021
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
by (shelved 55 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.17 — 121,925 ratings — published 2017
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.21 — 31,140 ratings — published 2018
Big (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 48 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,945 ratings — published 2023
Beautifully Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.38 — 960 ratings — published 2021
The Beauty Myth (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,251 ratings — published 1990
The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things (Virginia Shreves, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,401 ratings — published 2003
Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.16 — 63,646 ratings — published 2016
Sulwe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.66 — 11,245 ratings — published 2019
I'll Be the One (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.00 — 9,444 ratings — published 2020
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,559 ratings — published 2014
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,511,771 ratings — published 2022
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.40 — 17,447 ratings — published 2020
Fat Chance, Charlie Vega (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,314 ratings — published 2021
Dietland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.56 — 22,468 ratings — published 2015
Her Body Can (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.55 — 29 ratings — published
More Than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,157 ratings — published 2020
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,038 ratings — published 2008
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.36 — 143,049 ratings — published 2018
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,265,148 ratings — published 2012
A Work in Progress (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,800 ratings — published
Gender Queer: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.27 — 79,123 ratings — published 2019
Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,881 ratings — published 1993
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.82 — 3,757 ratings — published 1997
I Love My Body Because (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.35 — 206 ratings — published
Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.23 — 20,391 ratings — published 1995
I Am Enough (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.33 — 11,902 ratings — published 2018
45 Pounds (More or Less)
by (shelved 17 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.81 — 5,321 ratings — published 2013
Beauty Queens (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.62 — 55,280 ratings — published 2011
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,203,474 ratings — published 2012
Puddin' (Dumplin', #2)
by (shelved 16 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.00 — 20,527 ratings — published 2018
Holding Up the Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.67 — 145,528 ratings — published 2016
Melissa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,865 ratings — published 2015
Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,983 ratings — published 2014
Skinny (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,152 ratings — published 2012
Fat Kid Rules the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.80 — 8,275 ratings — published 2003
Frizzy: A Graphic Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.42 — 12,144 ratings — published 2022
Her Body Can (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.42 — 267 ratings — published 2020
Love Your Body (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.41 — 652 ratings — published 2019
13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.10 — 20,684 ratings — published 2016
I Like Myself!: A Story About Self-Esteem and Self-Acceptance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.30 — 11,656 ratings — published 2004
Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls: A Handbook for Unapologetic Living (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.99 — 5,211 ratings — published 2015
Good in Bed (Cannie Shapiro, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.76 — 315,683 ratings — published 2002
Eyes that Kiss in the Corners (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.56 — 9,181 ratings — published 2021
One to Watch (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.87 — 98,502 ratings — published 2020
Hair Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as body-image)
avg rating 4.57 — 9,978 ratings — published 2019
Landwhale: On Turning Insults Into Nicknames, Why Body Image Is Hard, and How Diets Can Kiss My Ass (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as body-image)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,792 ratings — published 2018
“A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women are insatiable. We are greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in place. If the world were ours too, if we believed we could get away with it, we would ask for more love, more sex, more money, more commitment to children, more food, more care. These sexual, emotional, and physical demands would begin to extend to social demands: payment for care of the elderly, parental leave, childcare, etc. The force of female desire would be so great that society would truly have to reckon with what women want, in bed and in the world.”
― The Beauty Myth
― The Beauty Myth
“It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
― Moab Is My Washpot
― Moab Is My Washpot
