5 must-read biography memoir books like Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood by Molly Caro May

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Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood

By: Molly Caro May

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"This book is an ancient call from our first mothers to connect to our bodies―for our own good and …

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Cover of Ina May's Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin

1. Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

By: Ina May Gaskin

4.36

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you. Drawing upon her thirty-plus year… read more

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  • parenting
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • self help
"It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet."

-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

"Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body."

-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

"It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physic…"

-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

"Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nu…"

-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

2. 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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3. Truth and Beauty

By: Ann Patchett

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writ… read more

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4. Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

By: Sally Mann

4.37

Format: 383 pages, Hardcover

A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Man… read more

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5. How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7

By: Adele Faber , Julie Adair King , Joanna Faber

3.87

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele F… read more

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6. 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
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
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7. The Last Mapmaker

By: Christina Soontornvat

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. As assistant to Mangkon’s most celeb… read more

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"I couldn't see it then, but I could see it now. I opened my eyes, releasing another stream of tears. I had been trying so hard to run from my past. But the past was like mottlefish ink. Even if it fa…"

-Christina Soontornvat, The Last Mapmaker

Cover of Grief Is for People by Sloane Crosley

8. Grief Is for People

By: Sloane Crosley

3.91

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this d… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • self help
"Grief is for people, not things."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Suicide is a tax on human consciousness."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"How will he know you loved him," she asks, "unless you try to destroy yourself?"

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

"Pictures should be of what you see, not of what the world sees when it sees you."

-Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

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9. All-Night Pharmacy

By: Ruth Madievsky

3.52

Format: 304 pages, ebook

*An instant national bestseller* Winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction Fin… read more

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  • adult
"You could fall asleep spooning her and wake up with a screwdriver pressed to your throat."

-Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy

Cover of Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Lucy   Jones

10. 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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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • memoir
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11. Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

By: Emily Nagoski

3.95

Format: 277 pages, Hardcover

This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a … read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"No one is “complete"

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"So how much rest is “adequate"

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"Dread is anxiety on steroids."

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

"Not knowing why is, itself, a profound type of suffering."

-Emily Nagoski, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

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12. We Dream of Space

By: Erin Entrada Kelly

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

It's January 1986. The launch of the Challenger is just weeks away, and Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelso… read more

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Cover of Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture by Sara  Petersen

13. Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

By: Sara Petersen

3.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

On Instagram, the private work of mothering is turned into a public performance, generating bil… read more

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  • parenting
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
Cover of Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood―and Trusting Yourself and Your Body by Erica Chidi

14. Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood―and Trusting Yourself and Your Body

By: Erica Chidi

4.31

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"What a gift to new and expecting moms. You have no idea the mountain and rollercoaster you're abou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • self help
Cover of Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) by Rebecca Roanhorse

15. Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

By: Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

Format: 597 pages, Hardcover

The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conc… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Roanhorse's Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3) book and Molly Caro May's Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood

  • adult
Cover of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

16. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

By: Mira Jacob

4.46

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ… read more

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  • biography memoir
  • adult
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

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17. I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This [But I'm Going to Anyway]

By: Chelsea Devantez

4.08

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic memoir-in-essays by comedian, screenwriter, and podcaster Chelsea Devantez, detailing her… read more

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  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy by Angela Garbes

18. 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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  • parenting
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
"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

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

19. 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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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • self help
Cover of How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent by Carla Naumburg

20. How to Stop Losing Your Sh*t with Your Kids: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Calmer, Happier Parent

By: Carla Naumburg

4.07

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Ever lose it with your kid? If so, you’re definitely not alone. Parenting is stressful, children ar… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • self help
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21. You Better Be Lightning

By: Andrea Gibson

4.63

Format: 115 pages, Paperback

You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson is a queer, political, and feminist collection guided by s… read more

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  • feminism
  • adult
  • nonfiction
"Good Grief Let your heart break so your spirit doesn't."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

"I will refuse to call it heaven if the people I love (who put me through hell) aren't there."

-Andrea Gibson, You Better Be Lightning

Cover of Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing by Jay  Stringer

22. Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

By: Jay Stringer

4.61

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Unwanted. It describes how we feel about some of the things we do. We don't wake up in the morning … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Jinxed (Jinxed, #1) by Amy McCulloch

23. Jinxed (Jinxed, #1)

By: Amy McCulloch

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Lacey Chu has big dreams of becoming a companioneer for MONCHA, the largest tech firm in North Amer… read more

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24. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

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  • feminism
  • adult
Cover of Sona and the Golden Beasts by Rajani LaRocca

25. Sona and the Golden Beasts

By: Rajani LaRocca

4.22

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From Newbery Honor and Walter Award–winning author Rajani LaRocca comes a gripping middle grade fan… read more

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Cover of Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World by Eve Rodsky

26. Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World

By: Eve Rodsky

3.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fair Play comes an inspirational guide for setting ne… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • parenting
  • self help
Cover of Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters by Morgan Harper Nichols

27. Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

By: Morgan Harper Nichols

4.22

Format: 109 pages, Kindle Edition

For over a decade, many of the stories and poems I have written eventually turned into songs, and f… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words by Kimberly Harrington

28. Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words

By: Kimberly Harrington

3.71

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An emotionally honest, arresting, and funny collection of essays about motherhood and adulthood... … read more

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  • parenting
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of The Best, Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood by Katherine May

29. The Best, Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood

By: Katherine May

4.18

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Motherhood is life-changing. Joyful. Disorientating. Overwhelming. Intense on every level. It's the… read more

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  • parenting
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • womens
Cover of Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood by Molly Caro May

30. Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood

By: Molly Caro May

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

"This book is an ancient call from our first mothers to connect to our bodies―for our own good and … read more

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  • parenting
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • autobiography
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
  • self help
Cover of When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women by Penny Simkin

31. When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women

By: Penny Simkin

4.42

Format: 450 pages, Paperback

When Survivors Give Birth is written for a mixed audience of maternity care professionals and para-… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting

6 Best womens books like Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood by Molly Caro May

Transform Your Habits

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Ina May Gaskin

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture

Sara Petersen

3.35

Transform Your Habits

Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy

Angela Garbes

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Amateur Hour: Motherhood in Essays and Swear Words

Kimberly Harrington

3.71

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The Brides of High Hill (The Singing Hills Cycle, #5)

Nghi Vo

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Service Model

Adrian Tchaikovsky

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Tainted Cup

Robert Jackson Bennett

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Transform Your Habits

Mirrored Heavens (Between Earth and Sky, #3)

Rebecca Roanhorse

4.31

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