Tag Archives: Fatphobia & Body Shaming

This page lists books that contain trigger warnings for the depiction of fatphobia and body shaming.

See also Weight loss & gain, Racism, and Misogyny and sexism.

Perfect Little Monsters by Cindy R.X. He

SElla Moore was the most popular girl in school…and also the most hated. When she’s murdered at her own party, there are too many suspects to count–and too many people who think she deserved it. The police’s prime suspect is the new girl, Dawn Foster. She was the last to hand Ella a drink on the night Ella died. Plus, all of Ella’s friends with a motive for wanting her dead are more than willing to implicate Dawn. But Dawn refuses to go down without a fight. She’s determined to clear her name. As she delves deeper into th… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Lesbophobia, disfiguremisia, ableism and fatphobia & body-shaming
  • Adult-minor relationship and statutoray rape
  • Image-based sexual assault (‘revenge porn’)
  • Infidelity
  • Disordered eating & body image issues
  • Panic attacks
  • Attempted suicide by overdose and stepping in front of a vehicle & suicidal ideation
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Death of a parent
  • Murder & attempted murder
  • Car accident recounted & discussed
  • Poisoning
  • Strangulation
  • Kidnapping
  • Blackmail & stalking
  • Fire
  • Bullying & cyberbullying

Camp Sylvania by Julie Murphy

Magnolia “Maggie” Hagen is determined to be in the spotlight…if she can just get over her stage fright. This summer, though, she has big plans to finally attend Camp Rising Star, the famous performing arts camp she’s been dying to go to for three whole summers. But on the last day of school, her parents break the news: Maggie isn’t going to Camp Rising Star. She’s being shipped off to fat camp—and not just any fat camp. She’s going to Camp Sylvania, run by world-famous wellness influencer Sylvia Sylvania, who is known for her soon-to-be patented Scarlet Diet…. Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobia & body-shaming
  • Dieting & weight discussed
  • Blood depiction

Finding Cassie Crazy by Jaclyn Moriarty

Cassie, Em and Lydia are best friends in Year 10 at Ashbury High. Ashbury students claim that all the kids at downtown Brookfield High are drug-dealers and psychopaths. Their English teacher, encouraging the Adventure of the Scary and the New and the Joy of the Envelope, starts a Pen-Pal Project. The hilarious letters between the girls and three unknown Brookfield boys lead to an escalation of the war between the schools, to secret romance, and to Cassie learning to face the dark fears that she hides from her friends.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Misogyny, slut-shaming, and fatphobia & body shaming
  • Death of a parent recounted

Fat Girl on a Plane by Kelly deVos

High school senior Cookie Vonn’s post-graduation dreams include getting out of Phoenix, attending Parsons and becoming the next great fashion designer. But in the world of fashion, being fat is a cardinal sin. It doesn’t help that she’s constantly compared to her supermodel mother—and named after a dessert. Thanks to her job at a fashion blog, Cookie scores a trip to New York to pitch her portfolio and appeal for a scholarship, but her plans are put on standby when she’s declared too fat to fly. Forced to turn to her BFF for cash, Cookie buys a second seat on the plane. She… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobia & body shaming (theme)
  • Dieting & weight loss (on-page)
  • Bullying

Some Kind of Famous by Ava Wilder

It’s been a decade since Merritt Valentine’s peak as a celebrated singer-songwriter… and her subsequent career-ending mental breakdown. Since then, she’s abandoned the glitz of Los Angeles to move in with her sister, Olivia, in the sleepy Colorado ski town of Crested Peak, hoping to heal her lingering emotional wounds of the spotlight. Life in Crested Peak would be uncomplicated if not for Merritt’s inconvenient crush on the local contractor and handyman, Nikolaos Petrakis. Niko is disarmingly handsome and too kind-hearted to ever be right for the complex and prickly… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slut-shaming & mentions of homophobia (secondary characters)
  • Minor fatphobia & mention of weight gain
  • Parental abandonment & familial estrangement
  • Statutory rape recounted (protagonist was 14-years-old and her sibling’s brother was ~roughly~ 19-years-old)
  • Workplace sexual harassment of a teen mentioned
  • Divorce & infidelity recounted (the protagonist’s ex-husband cheated on her, and she cheated in previous relationships)
  • Panic attacks recounted
  • Dissociation, Borderline Personality Disorder & Complex PTSD (protqagonist)
  • Protagonist in recovery for substance and alcohol addictions after an attempted suicide by overdose in the past, including on-page & recounted drug use & abuse and alcohol consumption & abuse
  • Unplanned teen pregnancy recounted & mentions of a pregnant secondary character
  • Emesis
  • Death of a father mentioned
  • Animal death mentioned (pet cat)

The Mane Event by Shelly Laurenston

Shelly Laurenston turns up the heat with two sizzling novellas. In “Christmas Pride”: How come all the good-looking ones are insane? That’s what runs through NYPD cop Desiree “Dez” MacDermot’s mind the minute she hooks up again with her childhood buddy, Mace Llewellyn. It isn’t just the way he stares at her with those too-sexy gold eyes, as if he could devour her on the spot. Or the six-four, built-like-a-Navy-SEAL bod-o-death. It isn’t even that he sniffs her neck and purrs, making her entire body tingle. It’s more about that disconcerting, shifting-from-man-to-lion… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Misogyny & slut-shaming
  • Fatphobia & body-shaming recounted
  • Divorce recounted (protagonist)
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Medical procedure (on-page, autopsy)
  • Murder
  • Poisoning
  • Military & naval service recounted (protagonists)

Bad Neighbor by Molly O’Keefe

I gave up everything to save my sister from a monster, and now I’m lying low in this rundown apartment so I can stay out of danger. Hiding from everyone. Except for the guy in apartment 1A. He’s rude. Silent. Muscled, mysterious, and hot as hell. I don’t know if he likes me or hates me, but the more time I spend with him, the less it matters. I want him. And for the first time in my life I’m going to go after what I want.From the second 1B moves in, I know she’s keeping secrets. She doesn’t belong here, much less with a street fighter like me.
But that doesn’t stop me from craving her… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Internalised fatphobia
  • Pregnancy mentioned
  • Alcohol consumption
  • Blood & injury depiction
  • Death of a father
  • Murder
  • Physical assault

Bad Mormon by Heather Gay

Drinking and Tweeting meets Unorthodox in this vulnerable memoir about The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star’s departure from the Mormon Church, and her unforeseen success in business, television, and single motherhood. Straight off the slopes and into the spotlight, Heather Gay is famous for speaking the gospel truth. Whether as a businesswoman, mother, or television personality, she is unafraid to blaze a new trail, even if it means losing family, friends, and her community. Born and bred to be devout… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobia & body-shaming
  • Misogyny & sexism with discussions of purity culture
  • Ableist child abuse
  • Divorce
  • Suicide of business partner’s sibling
  • Alcohol consumption & recreational drug use
  • Pregnancy
  • Cosmetic surgery
  • Death of a father mentioned

Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany

In the far future, after human civilization has spread through the galaxy, communications begin to arrive in an apparently alien language. They appear to threaten invasion, but in order to counter the threat, the messages must first be understood.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobia & body shaming, homophobia & misogyny
  • Suicide
  • Psychosis
  • Genocide
  • Kidnapping & captivity

Against a Wall by Cate C. Wells

My high school bully is now my fake boyfriend. Cash Wall has been messing with me since junior high. Nuisance stuff, mostly. Name calling. Pranks. Honestly, he’s nowhere near the worst of my problems. Back in school, I had bigger fish to fry, and now, I’ve got a “scarlet letter” situation going on. The whole town hates me. For some reason, Cash offers himself up as my knight in shining armor. So now my former bully is my fake boyfriend. What could possibly go wrong? Cash: Glenna Dobbs thinks I’m an idiot, and she’s mostly right. I hunt. Fish. Go mudding. I’m not a… Read more.

Goodreads • The Story Graph

Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Fatphobia & body shaming
  • Workplace sexual harassment & dubious consent scenario
  • Cheating mentioned
  • Emotionally abusive relationships recounted
  • Anxiety & insomnia
  • Alcohol consumption and drug use, including vaping & cigar smoking
  • Physical injury (gunshot wound)
  • Emesis mentioned
  • Parent with agina
  • Death of a mother from a heart attack recounted
  • Death of a grandparent mentioned
  • Murder of an uncle
  • Physical assault
  • Police corruption
  • Hunting & death of a pet dog mentioned
  • Bullying