The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
By: Julie Phillips
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of 2022 An insightful, provocative, and witty exploration of the relationship bet…
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1. The Blessing
By: Nancy Mitford
3.79
Format: 221 pages, Paperback
With characteristically amusing malice, Mitford blends a comedy of manners with culture shock as Gr… read more
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"How lucky I am! I could never have loved anybody else half as much.’‘I know.’‘Still, I wish you wouldn’t say “I know"-Nancy Mitford, The Blessing
"Oh poor Octave, no luck at all, as usual," said Madame Rocher, "he is still with his regiment, still only a captain. Of course, if it hadn't been for this wretched war, he would be at least a colonel…"-Nancy Mitford, The Blessing
"A pair of young mothers now became the centre of interest. They had risen from their lying-in much sooner than the doctors would otherwise have allowed. (French doctors are always very good about rec…"-Nancy Mitford, The Blessing
2. A Line Made By Walking
By: Sara Baume
3.74
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about … read more
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- art
"Art, and sadness, which last forever."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
"I open my eyes to find the morning adjourned."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
"People don't like it when you say real things."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
"But now I remember, of course, I'm never going to be old."-Sara Baume, A Line Made By Walking
3. The Volcano Lover
By: Susan Sontag
3.64
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Set in 18th century Naples, based on the lives of Sir William Hamilton, his celebrated wife Emma, a… read more
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"To travel is to shop."-Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
"Desire wills its perpetuation ad infinitum."-Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
"How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!"-Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
"With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven."-Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover
4. Life Among the Savages
By: Shirley Jackson
3.94
Format: None pages,
Shirley Jackson, author of the classic short story The Lottery, was known for her terse, haunting p… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
Similar categories in Rachel Cusk's A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother book and Julie Phillips's The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
6. Little Labors
By: Rivka Galchen
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rivka Galchen's Little Labors is a droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, a… read more
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7. No One Belongs Here More Than You
By: Miranda July
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Screenwriter, director, and star of the acclaimed film Me and You and Everyone We Know, Miranda Jul… read more
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8. A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
By: Joanna Biggs
4.01
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by the New York Times , The Week , Vulture , Elle, and The Mi… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
"The wound my unsuspecting heart formerly received is not healed,"-Joanna Biggs, A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again
9. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
10. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- art
- history
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
11. Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
By: Leah Hazard
4.10
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking, triumphant investigation of the uterus--from birth to death, in sickness and in h… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
12. All Fours
By: Miranda July
3.81
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more
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- feminism
- audiobook
"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"-Miranda July, All Fours
"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"-Miranda July, All Fours
"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"-Miranda July, All Fours
"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"-Miranda July, All Fours
13. Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution
By: Cat Bohannon
4.32
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved,… read more
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- feminism
- nonfiction
- history
- audiobook
14. Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
By: Lucy Jones
4.54
Format: 310 pages, Hardcover
A radical new examination of the transition into motherhood and how it affects the mind, brain and … read more
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- parenting
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- audiobook
15. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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- audiobook
"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
16. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
By: Melissa Febos
4.24
Format: 171 pages, Paperback
Memoir meets craft masterclass in this “daring, honest, psychologically insightful” exploration of … read more
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- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Writing is a form of freedom more accessible than many"-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"...The more we believe we ought to be something that we are not, the more money we will spend in that mission."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"Every single thing I have created worth a damn has been a practice of love, healing, and redemption. I know this process to be divine."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
"I have found that a fulfilling writing life is one in which the creative process merges with the other necessary processes of good living, which only the individual can define."-Melissa Febos, Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
17. You Could Make This Place Beautiful
By: Maggie Smith
4.08
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful
18. Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
By: Angela Garbes
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America… read more
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- parenting
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"We are caught between how we were raised and how we really want to live."-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
"More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible,"-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
"Doing this requires knowledge of the history of mothering and care work—how they came to be seen as naturally female, which is to say invisible and undervalued."-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
"When you become a mother, you engender life, endless possibilities. Mothering is creative in a very literal sense—it is cultivating all that potential, bringing a small person into consciousness."-Angela Garbes, Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
19. Coventry: Essays
By: Rachel Cusk
3.73
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three "literary masterpieces… read more
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- art
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
"The rules of writing are mostly indistinguishable from the rules of living, but this tends to be the last place people look when searching for 'there'."-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"Indeed, we believe everyone has a book in them - a book, not a symphony, and not even a poem. What is it, this book everyone has in them? It is, perhaps, that haunting entity, the 'true' self. The tr…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"War is a narrative: it might almost be said to embody the narrative principle itself. It is the attempt to create a story of life, to create agreement. In war, there is no point of view; war is the e…"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
"In marriage, the woman compensates for her lack of external power by commandeering the story. Isn't that right? She fills the silence, the mystery of her own acts and aims, with a structured account …"-Rachel Cusk, Coventry: Essays
20. Modern Poetry: Poems
By: Diane Seuss
4.53
Format: 112 pages, Hardcover
Diane Seuss’s signature voice―audacious in its honesty, virtuosic in its artistry, outsider in its … read more
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21. The Nursery
By: Szilvia Molnar
3.78
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Um casal que vive em Nova York, uma gravidez, o nascimento da primeira filha. O enredo poderia ser … read more
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- audiobook
"I want you as much as I fear you"-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery
22. The Best American Essays 2023
By: Vivian Gornick
3.91
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning writer Vivian Gornick. Vivian Gor… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
- essays
23. Linea Nigra
By: Jazmina Barrera
4.30
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Simultaneously a work of collaboration between mother and child and a diary of worry and joy, Linea… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
"Una amiga me contó de Mary Shelley, que estaba embarazada mientras escribía Frankenstein. Era evidente, y sin embargo todas las veces que leí la novela no lo había visto: Frankenstein es una histori…"-Jazmina Barrera, Linea Nigra
24. The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
By: Julie Phillips
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of 2022 An insightful, provocative, and witty exploration of the relationship bet… read more
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- art
- history
- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- feminism
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
25. Transformed by Birth: Cultivating Openness, Resilience, and Strength for the Life-Changing Journey from Pregnancy to Parenthood
By: Britta Bushnell
4.46
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
As expecting parents, you’re bombarded with more information—and opinions—than ever about the “righ… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
"Birth doesn't ask you to be fearless. It asks you to be brave."-Britta Bushnell, Transformed by Birth: Cultivating Openness, Resilience, and Strength for the Life-Changing Journey from Pregnancy to Parenthood
"Birth, while transcendent, otherworldly, spiritual, and profound, is actually intense hard work that tests our ideas of what “spiritual"-Britta Bushnell, Transformed by Birth: Cultivating Openness, Resilience, and Strength for the Life-Changing Journey from Pregnancy to Parenthood
"When we enter the world of birth, we step across the threshold from the mundane to the sacred. Pregnancy and birth are a space between worlds — a liminal space — a place where you are no longer not a…"-Britta Bushnell, Transformed by Birth: Cultivating Openness, Resilience, and Strength for the Life-Changing Journey from Pregnancy to Parenthood
26. Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art
By: Lauren Elkin
4.16
Format: 354 pages, Hardcover
'Destined to become a new classic'A dazzlingly original reassessment of women's stories, bodies and… read more
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- art
- history
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
27. How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family
By: Sonora Jha
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
"This book is a true love letter, not only to Jha's own son but also to all of our sons and to the … read more
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- parenting
- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- essays
- audiobook
"Teaching a boy to expect to make mistakes and to expect to be held accountable when he makes mistakes is the key. Teaching a boy to be able to laugh at himself... wouldn't that be such a gift? Teachi…"-Sonora Jha, How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family
"Feminism will help my son be in a rational fellowship. To this reasonable mother, that means that he will be given permission to be wrong sometimes, to fail, to fall, to cry, to be protected rather t…"-Sonora Jha, How to Raise a Feminist Son: Motherhood, Masculinity, and the Making of My Family
28. Liars
By: Sarah Manguso
3.89
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A searing novel about being a wife, a mother, and an artist, and how marriage makes liars out of us… read more
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- audiobook
"I was in charge of everything and in control of nothing."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
"I needed my suffering to be acknowledged. After that, maybe I’d think about getting through it."-Sarah Manguso, Liars
29. Reproduction
By: Louisa Hall
3.82
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood … read more
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- feminism
- parenting
- audiobook
30. Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself
By: Lisa Marchiano
4.53
Format: 246 pages, Kindle Edition
Join a respected Jungian analyst for a deep dive into the emotional and symbolic journey of motherh… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- audiobook
"It is a balm to our worried heart to know that whatever struggle we are engaged in is part of the universal human story."-Lisa Marchiano, Motherhood: Facing and Finding Yourself
31. The Light Room
By: Kate Zambreno
3.60
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
“Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in clo… read more
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- parenting
- biography
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