Deborah Blumenthal
Fat Chance: A Love Story of Food and Fantasy. Red Dress Ink, 2004.
Full-figured columnist Maggie O'Leary writes a column called “Fat Chance,” in which she debunks myths about the obese, and tries to bolster her readers' confidence. When she is asked by handsome actor Mike Taylor to act as his consultant on a film project in which he is going to play a diet doctor, she secretly decides to go on a diet in order to better fit the “Hollywood” mold. But what will happen when word gets out that this champion of queen-sized gals everywhere has sold out?

Elyse Friedman
Waking Beauty. Three Rivers, 2004.
Overweight, unattractive, unfulfilled, and working as a cleaning lady, 22-year-old Allison Penny is miserable in her life, until she wakes up one morning in a flawless and beautiful body. She wastes no time in living life to the fullest, experiencing all of the power and fun that come with being drop-dead gorgeous. But she is soon wondering whether it’s what's on the outside that really counts…or what’s inside?

Whitney Gaskell
True Love (and other lies). Bantam, 2004.
Travel writer Claire Spencer doesn't believe in such things as love at first sight or happily ever after. So she is thrown for a loop when Jack, the sexy man sitting next to her on a flight from New York to London, asks her out. Claire finds herself smitten, but then learns that her best friend Maddy has just been dumped...by none other than Jack.

Jane Green
Jemima J.: A Novel about Ugly Ducklings and Swans. Broadway, 1999.
Plus-sized Brit Jemina Jones struggles with weight and the dating scene by turning to the Internet for romance, where she finds hunky Brad who runs a gym in Los Angeles. When he wants to arrange a meeting, Jemina pulls out all the stops to lose weight and transform herself. But does being thin guarantee happiness?

Jane Heller
Infernal Affairs. Kensington, 1996.
Be careful what you wish for! After being dumped for a new, younger model, out-of-shape, Florida real-estate agent Barbara Chessner appeals to a higher authority for help and wakes up the next morning in the perfect body. But she quickly learns that she has made a Faustian bargain with The Other Guy and finds herself in a fiendishly hilarious situation.

Louise Kean
The Perfect Fit: Fat-free Dreams Just Don't Taste the Same. HarPap, 2007, 2005.
Sunny Weston thought that beating her addiction to food and losing the excess weight that has challenged her love life would be the answer to all her problems. Instead, she finds herself less happy than anticipated, unsure of exactly who she is anymore, and unexpectedly attracted to the misogynistic, thrice-divorced (but oddly charming) Cagney James in spite of her long-unrequited love for her now attainable co-worker, Adrian.

Living Large. NAL, 2003
Includes: Reunion (Rochelle Alers); Surprise (Donna Hill); Bare Essentials (Brenda Jackson); and Strictly Business (Francis Ray).
A delightful African-American fiction anthology about the joys and passions of size 14 (and up) gals who are livin' large…and lovin' larger!

Liza Palmer.
Conversations with the Fat Girl. Warner Books/5 Spot, 2005.
27-year-old Maggie has sat on the side-lines while all of her friends have gotten married and started families, while she still works at the local coffee house. Now, even Olivia, her best friend since forever, has shed those extra pounds—courtesy of gastric-bypass surgery—and has found her man, leaving Maggie to wonder if she will ever be loved for her full-figured self.

Kimberla Lawson Roby
Changing Faces. Morrow, 2006.
Whitney is a plus-size gal who has tried every fad diet known to woman-kind only to have short-lived success. Still, she is hopeful of finding true love, while her two best friends try to overcome their own weaknesses to obtain the happiness they deserve.

Robin Schwarz
Night Swimming. Warner, 2004.
Misdiagnosed with cancer and given only a year to live, overweight and loveless small-town girl Charlotte Clapp steals $2 million from the bank where she is employed and resolves to make her last days count. She loses the weight and gains a friend in Skip, the pool boy at her luxury apartment complex, but her past is about to catch up with her.

Jennie Shortridge
Eating Heaven. NAL, 2005.
In Portland, Oregon, Eleanor Samuels must put her love affair with food on the back burner when she takes on the task of caring for her beloved Uncle Benny. Eleanor engages in a flirtation with the new chef in town, uncovers some long-hidden secrets about her emotionally frazzled family, and finds both love and self-love.

Jill Smolinski
The Next Thing on My List. Shaye Areheart, 2007.
After a dark turn of events involving Weight Watchers, a chili recipe, and a car accident in which her passenger, Marissa, dies, plumpish June Parker comes to possess a list Marissa made outlining “20 Things to Do by My 25th Birthday.” June resolves to finish the list--which includes such mundane items as “going bra-less,” “run a 5k race” and “kiss a stranger”--for Marissa, with often humorous results.

Sarah Strohmeyer
The Cinderella Pact. Dutton, 2006
When her application for a job as an advice columnist is [ ], plus sized Nola Devlin, an editor for Sass!, a sleazy celebrity tabloid, creates “Belinda Apple”—a svelte and glamorous British alter-ego who becomes the elusive star of the magazine. But very quickly Nola encounters problems keeping her identities straight.