And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
By: Meaghan O'Connell
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
And Now We Have Everything is O'Connell's exploration of transitioning into motherhood as a fledgli…
Want to Read $ 11.99"I don't want to be a mother. I want to be a writer. I want to be taken seriously. I want money. I want more time. I want to lose weight. I want to be beautiful. I want a day completely to myself, though I don't even remember what I used to do with them, when days to myself were a thing I had."-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
"I don't want to be a mother. I want to be a writer. I want to be taken seriously. I want money. I want more time. I want to lose weight. I want to be beautiful. I want a day completely to myself, though I don't even remember what I used to do with them, when days to myself were a thing I had."-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
"I didn’t know before that when parents talked about 'checking on' their children, they meant checking to make sure they weren’t dead. And when they talked about their love for their children, maybe that’s what they meant too. It was love but keener, with sharper edges, softer undersides. It was love wrapped up with desperate terror, inextricable."-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
"I didn’t know before that when parents talked about 'checking on' their children, they meant checking to make sure they weren’t dead. And when they talked about their love for their children, maybe that’s what they meant too. It was love but keener, with sharper edges, softer undersides. It was love wrapped up with desperate terror, inextricable."-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
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1. All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
By: Jennifer Senior
3.89
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. Award-winning journalist… read more
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"Children live life as a controlled experiment."-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
"What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion"-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
"The phrase "having it all" has little to do with having what we want."-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
"Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive."-Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
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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4. After Birth
By: Elisa Albert
3.65
Format: 135 pages, Hardcover
A widely acclaimed young writer's fierce new novel, in which childbirth and new motherhood are as h… read more
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5. Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family
By: Catherine Newman
4.10
Format: None pages,
To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of Bringing Up Ben & Birdy,a week… read more
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6. The Killer Whale Who Changed The World
By: Mark Leiren-Young
4.01
Format: 30 pages,
The fascinating and heartbreaking account of the first publicly exhibited captive killer whale -- a… read more
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7. Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
By: Anne Lamott
3.59
Format: 370 pages, Paperback
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8. 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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9. Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know
By: Emily Oster
4.15
Format: 130 pages,
What to Expect When You're Expectingmeets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standa… read more
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10. The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise
By: Julia Stuart
4.34
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportiv… read more
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11. Natural Hospital Birth: The Best of Both Worlds
By: Cynthia Gabriel
3.25
Format: 198 pages, Paperback
These days, many mothers-to-be find themselves torn between the desire for a natural childbirth wit… read more
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12. 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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13. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
By: Jessi Klein
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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"A mother's heroic journey is not about how she leaves, but how she stays."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"But becoming a mother alters every ince of your body, your routine, your soul, your heart."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"Motherhood leaves you inevitably and profoundly changed; you can be similar to who you were - maybe? - but you'll never be the same."-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
"Because now I know that everything bad can happen, and I am responsible for it not. Because sometimes I feel like keeping us from dying will kill me. Because I am on board, and I'm exhausted. Because…"-Jessi Klein, I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
14. Sh!t No One Tells You About Pregnancy (Sh!t No One Tells You, 4)
By: Dawn Dais
3.55
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
The fourth book in Dawn Dais' popular Sh!t No One Tells You series covers all the indignities a wom… read more
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15. Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
By: Jessica Grose
3.48
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"If this book feels like it’s sounding the alarm on the state of American motherhood, well, that’s… read more
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16. Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood
By: Chelsea Conaboy
3.62
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Health and science journalist Chelsea Conaboy explodes the concept of “maternal instinct” and tells… read more
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17. Unwifeable: A Memoir
By: Mandy Stadtmiller
3.58
Format: 321 pages, Hardcover
Provocative, fearless, and dizzyingly uncensored, Mandy spills every secret she knows about dating,… read more
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18. Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility
By: Michelle Tea
4.02
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
From PEN/America Award winner, 2021 Guggenheim fellow, and beloved literary and tarot icon Michelle… read more
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19. 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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"I want you as much as I fear you"-Szilvia Molnar, The Nursery
20. Oh My Mother!: A Memoir in Nine Adventures
By: Connie Wang
3.70
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
"Hilarious, candid, and heartfelt . . . It's like Eat Pray Love meets The Amazing Race with hints o… read more
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21. Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
By: Lili Anolik
3.58
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music … read more
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22. Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
By: Angela Garbes
4.22
Format: 256 pages, ebook
What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the scie… read more
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"The origins of the placenta can be traced back to a virus."-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
"Her enthusiasm for the organ is contagious. Enough to convince you that the alphabet posters in kindergarten classrooms should declare that "P" is for 'placenta'..."-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
"The foundation of the female pelvis is composed of two hip bones, which come together to form a deep bowl that is filled by the uterus, ovaries, bladder, urethra, vagina, and colon."-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
"Throughout pregnancy, I liked to lie in bed and imagine all the changes happening inside me: cells splitting, fingernails and eyelashes growing, veins spreading, brain and gray matter forming and fol…"-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
23. No One Tells You This
By: Glynnis MacNicol
3.91
Format: 294 pages, Hardcover
If the story doesn’t end with marriage or a child, what then?This question plagued Glynnis MacNicol… read more
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"We're always drawn to the clearest articulation of what we think we lack."-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This
"And I knew the simple act of reading would give my mind a certain sort of peace nothing else could."-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This
"We're the first generation that can make enough of our own money to live the way we want. I feel like we have a responsibility to figure out what this means."-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This
"This is why people have babies...because it's exhausting not to know what you're supposed to do next. A baby is basically a nonnegotiable map for the next two decades."-Glynnis MacNicol, No One Tells You This
24. The Baby Decision: How to Make the Most Important Choice of Your Life
By: Merle Bombardieri
4.22
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
“A Warmly Empathic, Wide-Ranging Manual” – Kirkus Reviews"This valuable unbiased book skillfully sh… read more
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25. 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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26. Enough About the Baby: A Brutally Honest Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood
By: Becky Vieira
3.90
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
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27. The Golden State
By: Lydia Kiesling
3.68
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In Lydia Kiesling’s razor-sharp debut novel, The Golden State, we accompany Daphne, a young mother … read more
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"It’s not very comforting,"-Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State
"...motherhood is not a house you live in but a warren of beautiful rooms, something like Topkapi … some well-trod but magnificent place you’re only allowed to sit in for a minute and snap a photo bef…"-Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State
"The drive is supposed to take six and a half hours but somehow we have been on the road for eight when we come to the wooden sign sunk into grass that signifies the entrance to Deakins Park, and alth…"-Lydia Kiesling, The Golden State
28. And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
By: Meaghan O'Connell
3.92
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
And Now We Have Everything is O'Connell's exploration of transitioning into motherhood as a fledgli… read more
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"I don't want to be a mother. I want to be a writer. I want to be taken seriously. I want money. I want more time. I want to lose weight. I want to be beautiful. I want a day completely to myself, tho…"-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
"I didn’t know before that when parents talked about 'checking on' their children, they meant checking to make sure they weren’t dead. And when they talked about their love for their children, maybe t…"-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
"Who wanted to be a mother, anyway? Mom called to mind a relationship with someone, not an individual...There was no mother I wanted to be. I wanted to be myself, but better...To me, this was what a m…"-Meaghan O'Connell, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
29. The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby’s Brain and Transform Their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting
By: Greer Kirshenbaum
4.45
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The latest research in neuroscience and parenting come together in this groundbreaking book, which … read more
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30. How to Care for a Human Girl
By: Ashley Wurzbacher
3.43
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From “a writer at the top of her game” ( The New York Times ) comes a bighearted and sharply funny … read more
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31. Rebirth: The Journey of Pregnancy After a Loss
By: Joey Miller MSW LCSW
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
From an expert counselor, a compassionate, comprehensive guide to healing, conception, and pregnanc… read more
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