An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood
By: Emma Brockes
3.92
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
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1. Single Mothers by Choice: A Guidebook for Single Women Who Are Considering or Have Chosen Motherhood
By: Jane Mattes
3.68
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The first handbook for the paoidly growing number of American women choosing single motherhood, wri… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
2. The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country
By: Helen Russell
4.10
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Denmark is officially the happiest nation on Earth. When Helen Russell is forced to move to rural J… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
3. 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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4. The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
By: Jake Bittle
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
“The Great Displacement is closely observed, compassionate, and far-sighted.” —Elizabeth Kolbert, P… read more
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- nonfiction
5. This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
By: Lyz Lenz
3.99
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
A manifesto on the gender politics of marriage (bad) and divorce (actually pretty good!) in America… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"So much of our culture depicts young girls dreaming about their weddings. But every middle-aged woman I know dreams about living alone in the woods, maybe with a dog."-Lyz Lenz, This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life
6. Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
By: Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson
4.22
Format: 272 pages, Kindle Edition
An enthusiastic, witty, and informative introduction to the world of insects and why we—and the pla… read more
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- nonfiction
"As far as we know, our planet is the only place in the universe where there is life. Many would say that we humans have a moral duty to rein in our dominance of the Earth and give our millions of fel…"-Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson, Buzz, Sting, Bite: Why We Need Insects
7. 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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- nonfiction
- parenting
- memoir
8. Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
By: Annalee Newitz
3.79
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human history—and figure out why … read more
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- nonfiction
"Often it is in the most squalid and filthiest of places that we can uncover profound truths about a society that considers itself civilized."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"There was no giant sign proclaiming the end of life as they'd known it; instead, there was a mounting pile of annoyances and disappointments."-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
"City leaders pour resources into beautiful spectacles for political reasons, rather than providing good roads, functioning sewers, relatively safe marketplaces, and other basic amenities of urban lif…"-Annalee Newitz, Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of the Urban Age
9. Why We Swim
By: Bonnie Tsui
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An immersive, unforgettable, and eye-opening perspective on swimming—and on human behavior itself. … read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
10. I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
By: Madeline Pendleton
4.61
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her j… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
"Don't listen if anyone ever tells you it's a dog-eat-dog world. Dogs are pack animals. We're stronger together."-Madeline Pendleton, I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money
11. 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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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
12. Conjure Women
By: Afia Atakora
3.89
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing—and for the conjuring of curses—are at the h… read more
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"It was an honor to lift this burden and so the burden was light."-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
"It was folly to think that she was the only one that had ever had any secrets."-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
"Ain't every woman's daughter made from the death of the mama, somehow or another?"-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
"In death he looked himself a celebration - though surely his life had never been. But here it was, close up: freedom. He'd reached finally what he'd been running toward."-Afia Atakora, Conjure Women
13. Weirdo
By: Sara Pascoe
3.28
Format: 359 pages, Hardcover
Tonight, Sophie is working at a pub, about to wrap cutlery, when she turns to find Chris ordering t… read more
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14. The Good Wife of Bath
By: Karen Brooks
4.20
Format: 560 pages, Paperback
In the middle ages, a famous poet told a story that mocked a strong woman. It became a literary cla… read more
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"I've always said, never trust a person without brows, a maxim that has proven true on more than one occasion."-Karen Brooks, The Good Wife of Bath
15. Dear Future Mama: A TMI Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood from Your Bestie
By: Meghan Trainor
3.97
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The real talk you want about pregnancy, birth, body image, and the newborn days from Meghan Trainor… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
16. In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation
By: Isabel Zapata
4.19
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A MEDITATION ON IN VITRO FERTILIZATION THAT EXPANDS AND COMPLICATES THE STORIES WE TELL ABOUT PREGN… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
"La primera regla de la fertilización in vitro es que no se habla de la fertilización in vitro. Si entre la avalancha de libros, blogs y películas es difícil encontrar las voces de las mujeres que dec…"-Isabel Zapata, In Vitro: On Longing and Transformation
17. Liberty's Daughter
By: Naomi Kritzer
4.06
Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition
Beck Garrison lives on a seastead — an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise ships, a… read more
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18. Speak of the Devil
By: Rose Wilding
3.55
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
All of us knew him. One of us killed him... Seven women stand in shock in a seedy hotel room; a … read more
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19. Loot
By: Tania James
3.82
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century - a hero’s quest, a love story, the s… read more
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"She is reading; he loves the lost expression on her face when she reads."-Tania James, Loot
20. Chasing Hillary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling
By: Amy Chozick
3.74
Format: 400 pages, ebook
For a decade, award-winning New York Times journalist Amy Chozick chronicled Hillary Clinton’s purs… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
21. I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness
By: Daniel Allen Cox
3.57
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
*LONGLISTED FOR THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE DE MONTREAL* “I spent eighteen years in a group that taugh… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
22. Going Solo: My choice to become a single mother using a donor
By: Genevieve Roberts
4.05
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Going Solo is the empowering and uplifting story of one woman's choice to become a single mother. … read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- memoir
23. An Excellent Choice: Panic and Joy on My Solo Path to Motherhood
By: Emma Brockes
3.92
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
From the author of She Left Me The Gun, an explosive and hilarious memoir about the exceptional an… read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- queer
24. Lesbian Love Story
By: Amelia Possanza
3.78
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Saidiya Hartman and Jeanette Winterson, Lesbian Love Story is an intimate journey in… read more
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- nonfiction
- biography
- memoir
- queer
"Lesbians, in my eyes, are defined as the ones who invent their own systems of love: Romantic love. Family love. Friend love. A love for community, and for strangers too. They love when there is nothi…"-Amelia Possanza, Lesbian Love Story
25. The Pornography Wars: The Past, Present, and Future of America's Obscene Obsession
By: Kelsy Burke
3.76
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
For readers of Peggy Orenstein and Rebecca Traister, an authoritative, big think look at pornograph… read more
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- nonfiction
26. Inconceivable: Heartbreak, Bad Dates and Finding Solo Motherhood
By: Alexandra Collier
4.24
Format: 300 pages, Kindle Edition
Written with warmth, intelligence and humour, Alexandra Collier's inspiring memoir takes us on the … read more
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- autobiography
- nonfiction
- memoir
27. The Coyotes of Carthage
By: Steven Wright
3.50
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Toussaint Andre Ross has one more shot. Despite being a successful African-American political consu… read more
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28. Fifty-seven Fridays: Losing Our Daughter, Finding Our Way
By: Myra L. Sack
4.73
Format: 266 pages, Hardcover
“A wondrous, hopeful, heart-breaking witness to one of the darkest journeys imaginable… This will b… read more
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- nonfiction
- memoir
29. Liv's Alone: Amateur Adventures in Solo Motherhood
By: Liv Thorne
4.24
Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition
When Liv Thorne was in her twenties, and single, she would joke to friends that if Mr Right didn't … read more
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- parenting
30. The Kickass Single Mom
By: Emma Johnson
4.10
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The go-to guide for the more than 10 million American women who are single parents, from the creato… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
"If you fight with a crazy person, an onlooker cannot tell the difference."-Emma Johnson, The Kickass Single Mom
"On alimony: "Why should it be your ex's responsibility to give you a lifestyle that you yourself cannot afford?"-Emma Johnson, The Kickass Single Mom
"Work and money are not luxuries, and your children benefit in countless ways by having a proud, successful, financially comfortable mother. Go earn, and never look back."-Emma Johnson, The Kickass Single Mom
"Just because I didn't have a spouse to help and enjoy those activities with didn't mean they couldn't happen. Just because my plan A didn't work out didn't mean plan B couldn't be really kickass. In …"-Emma Johnson, The Kickass Single Mom
31. Now My Heart is Full: A Memoir
By: Laura June
3.59
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
A deeply affecting memoir of motherhood and daughterhood, and how we talk about both, from popular … read more
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- parenting
- biography
- memoir
- autobiography
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
