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I'm tired of reading books about girls who wear single-digit jean sizes. Not that I don't enjoy my fair share of them, but where's the representation for the fat chick, hm? Where are our romance novels, historical fictions, sci-fi chronicles, and chick-lit paperbacks? Where are our heroines and villains and fully developed personalities? Sure, we could just imagine characters the way we want them to look, but there's a certain level of satisfaction knowing that your mental image is close to the right one.


If you've read a book featuring a double-digit dame as either a main character or a well-developed secondary character, please post the title, author, and a brief summary like so:

T: Blah blah blah
A: John Doe.
S: etc. etc.

I think I've finally found all the books I've read that include large girls/women.


T: The Earth, my Butt, and Other Big Round Things
A: Carolyn Mackler
S: Virginia Shreves is a blonde big girl in a family of dark-haired athletes. Her mother's a nagging child psychiatrist, her dad is a womanizer, her sister escaped her mum by joining the Peace Corps, and her brother is her idol until one life-changing phone call. Worse yet, her best friend has moved away and her potential boyfriend is Froggy Welsh the Fourth (actual name).

T: Eating Heaven
A: Jennie Shortridge
S: Faced with her favorite uncle's terminal illness, Eleanor- a lonely food magazine writer- becomes his primary caretaker, feeding him all his favorite foods one last time. As she cooks and cleans and tends to Uncle Benny's increasing needs, she discovers long-buried secrets about her emotionally frayed family that tear her world apart.

T: Conversations with the Fat Girl
A: Liza Palmer
S: Maggie has been best friends with fellow fat girl Olivia since they were 12. Following gastric bypass surgery at 22, however, Olivia grows unrecognizable. Now 27, she's engaged to Adam, a fat-phobic Ken doll, and although Maggie is to be the maid of honor, she feels less and less a part of Olivia's new life. After Olivia disappoints her again and again, Maggie sets in motion a long-overdue and explosive confrontation.

T: The Next Big Thing
A: Johanna Edwards
S: Kat Larson has spent the better part of her life being the butt of fat jokes. When she discovers that a new reality show (Fat 2 Fabulous) for women size 16 and over is scouting for participants, she eagerly signs up. Because after all, losing weight will make everything in her life fall into place, right?

T: Good in Bed
A: Jennifer Weiner
S: Cannie Shapiro is in her late twenties, funny, independent, and a talented reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer. After a "temporary" break-up with her boyfriend of three years, she reads his debut column, "Good in Bed". Titled "Loving a Larger Woman," this very personal piece triggers events that completely transform her and those around her.

T: In Her Shoes
A: Jennifer Weiner
S: The Feller sisters are equal but opposite. Maggie is the good-looking, dyslexic little sister who knows how to get anything she wants--but not how to keep it. Rose is the plump, practical, responsible older sister who knows about law but not much about her own happiness. When Maggie lands in Rose's apartment, and Maggie insults Rose by seducing one of her sister's rare boyfriends, what follows is a chain of events that turns their sisterhood upside-down.

T: Love At Large
A: Various
S: Six short stories about fat women who find love when they least expect it.

T: Alternate Beauty
A: Andrea Rains Waggener
S: Ronnie Tremayne has big dreams: she wants to be a fashion designer. But as her mother never fails to remind her, in fashion, image is everything–and Ronnie is a size 28. When she learns that her job managing a plus-size boutique is in jeopardy, Ronnie loses control. After a late-night binge, she dozes off wishing for a world where fat is beautiful. When she awakens the next morning… it is.

T: Too Big to Miss
A: Sue Ann Jaffarian
S: At fortysomething, Odelia Grey is five-foot-one, weighing in at 230, and during her life, she's heard all the slurs and suffered all the consequences of being big. When her friend, Sophie, an activist for the rights of fat women, commits suicide, Odelia is shocked. She can't believe her confident friend would kill herself- or that she did so in full view of subscribers to the X-rated website she operated. So she investigates.

T: Curse of the Holy Pail
A: Sue Ann Jaffarian
S: Is the Holy Pail cursed? Every owner of the vintage Chappy Wheeler lunchboxa prototype based on the 1940s TV western has died. And now Sterling Price, business tycoon and a client of Odelia Greys law firm, has been fatally poisoned. Is it a coincidence that Price's one-of-a-kind lunch pail -worth over thirty grand- has disappeared at the same time? Treading cautiously since a recent run-in with a bullet, Odelia takes small bites of the mystery and is soon ravenous for more.

T: You Have Been Disconnected
A: Rida Allen
S: Phil Fink is a telecommuting software programmer with a history as one of the best at delivering what the customer needs. Phil has been requested by a customer to work on a really big project that could make or break Philanthropy Designs. Matt Collins, the customer representative from Centre Seating, Inc. is flying out to meet with Phil to work on the project. Matt has worked with Phil before and thinks of Phil as intelligent and creative, but there is only one problem: no one has ever met Phil face-to-face, and Phil- aka Phyllis- wants to keep it that way.

T: Leaving Winter
A: Kathleen A. S. Quinn
S: Cordelia has come to Rome for the Christmas holidays with dreams of a different life, but she finds that her loneliness and her embarrassment about her weight follow her. Just as she is giving up all hope, she meets Frank, a man with a terribly scarred face.

T: Bet Me
A: Jennifer Cruise
S: Minerva Dobbs is annoyed when her boyfriend dumps her three weeks before her sister's wedding. But she's downright furious a few moments later when she overhears her now "ex" boyfriend bet Calvin Morrisey that he can't take her home and bed her. In fact, she's so angry at them both that she lets Cal take her to dinner and decides to string him along until after her sisters' wedding

T: The Perfect Wife
A: Lynsay Sands
S: Avelyn is lovely, intelligent, sweet tempered, skilled in all pursuits expected of a great lady, and nicely rounded. Unfortunately, her nasty cousins have taunted her so unceasingly for so many years that she feels ugly, fat, and undesirable. A series of humiliating incidents on her wedding day and thereafter have also convinced her new husband, Paen de Gerville, that she is not only frail but accident-prone, and the comical misunderstandings that result lead to unhappiness for Avelyn.

T: Big Girls Don't Cry
A: Various
S: Four short stories about plus-sized black business women who find romance in interesting ways.

T: Man Stealing for Fat Girls
A: Michelle Embree
S: Angie, 16, wishes she were thin, so she tries to stop eating, which doesn't work. She wishes her mother wouldn't marry sleazy Rudy, but he's just moved in with all his stuff. She wishes the popular kids would leave her alone, but they've called her Lezzylard since seventh grade. After a horrible experience- the result of telling off the in-crowd girl leader Mindy- Angie prepares for revenge.

T: FAT!SO?
A: Marilyn Wann
S: Based on the author's size-acceptance zine, the book is a collection of essays, photos, information, and etc. compelling women of all sizes to accept their double digits and to shirk their allegiance to the dieting industry in favor of healthy eating and high self-esteem.

T: The Fat Girl's Guide to Life
A: Wendy Shanker
S: Shanker takes on the media, corporate America and even the medical establishment, arguing with their belief that it's impossible to be both fit and fat. "Let's take the focus off 'fat' and put it on health," she lectures. "Let's take the focus off 'skinny' and put it on good common sense. Let's take the focus off body image and put it on education, women's rights, human rights, the economy, baseball cards, anything."

Wow. That's a lot of books. I should consider start to read 3nodding
I just skimmed over the tittles, and most of them seems to talk about big-sized people, as in, that's the main purpose of the book. Doesn't it have one that tells a common kind of story, only featuring larger girls?
Of course, it would take her size in consideration, but I think you girls know what I mean.