21 must-read parenting books like The Manager Mom Epidemic: How Moms Got Stuck Doing Everything for Their Families and What They Can Do About It by Thomas W. Phelan

Cover of The Manager Mom Epidemic: How Moms Got Stuck Doing Everything for Their Families and What They Can Do About It by Thomas W. Phelan

The Manager Mom Epidemic: How Moms Got Stuck Doing Everything for Their Families and What They Can Do About It

By: Thomas W. Phelan

3.36

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Are you a mom who does it all? This is the book for you. It's impossible to deny—most moms continu…

If you liked the parenting plot in The Manager Mom Epidemic: How Moms Got Stuck Doing Everything for Their Families and What They Can Do About It by Thomas W. Phelan , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife

By: Peggy Vincent

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

An inspiring collection of birth stories by a charming midwife. Each time she knelt to "catch" anot… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
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2. The Birth Partner

By: Penny Simkin

4.75

Format: 335 pages, Paperback

Fully updated and revised, this guide covers the time from the last few weeksof pregnancy through t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • self help
Cover of The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place by Andy Crouch

3. The Tech-Wise Family: Everyday Steps for Putting Technology in Its Proper Place

By: Andy Crouch

4.01

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Making conscientious choices about technology in our families is more than just using internet filt… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
Cover of Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish

4. Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

By: Adele Faber , Elaine Mazlish

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Already best-selling authors with How to Talk So Kids Will Listen Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele F… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • self help
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5. The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman

By: Timothy Ferriss

3.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Thinner, bigger, faster, stronger... which 150 pages will you read? Is it possible to: Reach your g… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family by Diana West, La Leche League International, Diane Wiessinger, Linda J. Smith, Teresa Pitman

6. Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

By: Diana West , La Leche League International , Diane Wiessinger , Linda J. Smith , Teresa Pitman

4.00

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Sweet Sleepis the first and most complete book on nights and naps for breastfeeding families. It's … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • parenting
  • childrens
Cover of Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Abby Craden, Pamela Druckerman

7. Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

By: Abby Craden , Pamela Druckerman

4.02

Format: 10 pages, Audiobook

The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Dr… read more

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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • self help
"You don’t say, “I’m sorry,"

-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

"Letting children “live their lives"

-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

"...the main point of parental authority is to authorize children to do things, not to block them."

-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

"One day I have a revelation. ‘I think we’re actually quite compatible,’ I tell him. ‘You’re irritable, and I’m irritating."

-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

8. Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

By: Michael G. Thompson , Teresa Barker , Dan Kindlon

4.25

Format: 432 pages,

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9. The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality

By: Kimberly Ann Johnson

4.33

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A holistic, practical guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emot… read more

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10. The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life

By: Anya Kamenetz

2.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

"Blending scholarly evidence and the experiences of numerous families, The Art of Screen Time is a … read more

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11. Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food

By: Gill Rapley , Tracey Murkett

3.85

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Contrary to popular belief, there is no research that supports the current mainstream view that bab… read more

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12. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

By: Amy Chua

3.97

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

An awe-inspiring, often hilarious, and unerringly honest story of one mother's exercise in extreme … read more

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13. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

By: La Leche League International , None

3.17

Format: None pages,

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14. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

By: Becky Kennedy

4.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more

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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • self help
Cover of Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids by Hunter Clarke-Fields

15. Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

By: Hunter Clarke-Fields

3.95

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

“A wise and fresh approach to mindful parenting.” —Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance A k… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • self help
"The only way out of our difficult feelings is through."

-Hunter Clarke-Fields, Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids

Cover of Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans by Michaeleen Doucleff

16. Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans

By: Michaeleen Doucleff

4.15

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When Dr. Michaeleen Doucleff becomes a mother, she examines the studies behind modern parenting gui… read more

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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • self help
Cover of Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster

17. Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

By: Emily Oster

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting With E… read more

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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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"This idea—that what parents need or want will play a role in choices—can be hard to admit. In a sense, I think this is at the core of a lot of the “Mommy War"

-Emily Oster, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

Cover of Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace

18. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It

By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace

4.17

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • self help
Cover of Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

19. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."

-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

Cover of The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years (The ParentData Series) by Emily Oster

20. The Family Firm: A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years (The ParentData Series)

By: Emily Oster

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The instant New York Times bestseller! “Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts … read more

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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • self help
Cover of Everybody Fights: So Why Not Get Better at It? by Kim Holderness

21. Everybody Fights: So Why Not Get Better at It?

By: Kim Holderness

4.33

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

A USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller Learn how to fight better and end arguments feel… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • self help
Cover of Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition by Lily Nichols

22. Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition

By: Lily Nichols

4.51

Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition

Prenatal nutrition can be confusing. A lot of the advice you’ve been given about what to eat (or wh… read more

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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • self help
Cover of The Manager Mom Epidemic: How Moms Got Stuck Doing Everything for Their Families and What They Can Do About It by Thomas W. Phelan

23. The Manager Mom Epidemic: How Moms Got Stuck Doing Everything for Their Families and What They Can Do About It

By: Thomas W. Phelan

3.36

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Are you a mom who does it all? This is the book for you. It's impossible to deny—most moms continu… read more

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  • adult
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Cover of Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith

24. Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture

By: Virginia Sole-Smith

4.31

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER By the time they reach kindergarten, most kids believe that “fat” is b… read more

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  • childrens
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Cover of The Mama Natural Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth by Genevieve Howland

25. The Mama Natural Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth

By: Genevieve Howland

4.29

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

With 80 million views on her YouTube channel and even more on MamaNatural.com, Howland's (a.k.a. Ma… read more

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  • childrens
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  • adult
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Cover of The Highly Sensitive Parent: Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron

26. The Highly Sensitive Parent: Be Brilliant in Your Role, Even When the World Overwhelms You

By: Elaine N. Aron

3.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Parenting is the most valuable and rewarding job in the world, and also one of the most challenging… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • self help
Cover of #IMomSoHard by Kristin Hensley

27. #IMomSoHard

By: Kristin Hensley

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In their highly-anticipated first book, the hilarious mom duo with millions of followers explores a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
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"I am always going to look like I like cheese, because I like cheese."

-Kristin Hensley, #IMomSoHard

"As long as your kids are fed, safe, and happy sometimes, your winning."

-Kristin Hensley, #IMomSoHard

Cover of Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be by Timothy P. Carney

28. Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be

By: Timothy P. Carney

4.09

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the sa… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
Cover of Ready, Set, Go!: A Gentle Parenting Guide to Calmer, Quicker Potty Training by Sarah Ockwell-Smith

29. Ready, Set, Go!: A Gentle Parenting Guide to Calmer, Quicker Potty Training

By: Sarah Ockwell-Smith

3.68

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A calmer, simpler approach to potty training If you're like most parents, you're probably feeling … read more

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  • adult
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  • self help
Cover of Life Admin Hacks: The step-by-step guide to saving time and money, reducing the mental load and streamlining your life by Mia Northrop

30. Life Admin Hacks: The step-by-step guide to saving time and money, reducing the mental load and streamlining your life

By: Mia Northrop

3.55

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

A super-practical guide to cleaning up your admin load and freeing up head space. You have no i… read more

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  • self help
Cover of How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet by Sophie Egan

31. How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet

By: Sophie Egan

3.73

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

A radically practical guide to making food choices that are good for you, others, and the planet.  … read more

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  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • self help

11 best-selling adult books like The Manager Mom Epidemic: How Moms Got Stuck Doing Everything for Their Families and What They Can Do About It by Thomas W. Phelan

Transform Your Habits

Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime Strategies for the Breastfeeding Family

Diana West , La Leche League International , Diane Wiessinger , Linda J. Smith , Teresa Pitman

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Abby Craden , Pamela Druckerman

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Becky Kennedy

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

Emily Oster

4.14

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“You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Transform Your Habits

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life

Lyz Lenz

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Becky Kennedy

4.55

Transform Your Habits

Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

Maria Bamford

3.77

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