📚 Obesity

Books with obesity on their catalogue record, first published between 1863 and 2021, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject obesity in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,518 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Fat is a feminist issue	Susie Orbach	1978	28
	Fat Land	Greg Critser	2003	10
	Feeding the Hungry Heart	Geneen Roth	1982	9
	Handbook of pediatric and adolescent obesity treatment	William T. O'Donohue	2007	9
	Obesity	G. Michael Steelman	2010	9
	Practical Manual of Clinical Obesity	Victor Lawrence	2013	8
	Fat Is Feminist Issue	Susie Orbach	1979	7
	Weight loss surgery for dummies	Marina S. Kurian	2005	7
	This Is Big	Marisa Meltzer	2020	7
	This slimming business	John Yudkin	1958	6
	Fat! So?	Marilyn Wann	1994	6
	Eating Less	Gillian Riley	1998	6
	Handbook of Obesity	George A. Bray	1998	6
	Clinical obesity in adults and children	Peter G. Kopelman	2010	6
	End of the Obesity Epidemic	Michael Gard	2010	6
	Childhood Obesity	Michael I. Goran	2016	6
	Living with Bariatric Surgery	Denise Ratcliffe	2018	6
	Letter on corpulence addressed to the public	William Banting	1863	5
	The big beauty book	Ann Harper	1983	5
	Losing Your Pounds of Pain	Doreen Virtue	1994	5
	The Genetics of obesity	Claude Bouchard	1994	5
	Dr. Atkins' new diet revolution	Atkins, Robert C.	1997	5
	Preparing for weight loss surgery	Robin F. Apple	2006	5
	Gene Eating	Giles Yeo	2018	5
	Hooked	Michael Moss	2021	5
	The slim gourmet	Martin Lederman	1955	4
	The fat is in your head	Charlie W. Shedd	1972	4
	Think slim, be slim	Elsye Birkinshaw	1976	4
	Food for thought	Elisabeth L.	1980	4
	Does This Make Me Look Fat?	Leah Feldon	2000	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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