13 must-read parenting books like Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be by Kristin Liam Kali

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Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be

By: Kristin Liam Kali

4.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Making a baby through love and science? Get the guidance you need to navigate the conception proce…

If you liked the parenting plot in Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be by Kristin Liam Kali , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood by Jennifer Senior

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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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
"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

Cover of Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All! by Harlyn Aizley

2. Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All!

By: Harlyn Aizley

4.00

Format: 50 pages, Paperback

A 2006 Lambda Literaryfinalist in the LGBT anthology category After author Harlyn Aizley gave birth… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • queer
  • lgbt
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3. Are You My Mother?

By: Alison Bechdel

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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4. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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

5. 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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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
"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

6. Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health

By: Toni Weschler

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Celebrating 10 years of helping hundreds of thousands of women achieve pregnancy, avoid pregnancy n… read more

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7. Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag

By: None

3.75

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

First pregnancy can be a fraught, uncomfortable experience for any woman, but for resolutely butch … read more

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8. The Commitment: Love, Sex, Marriage, and My Family

By: Dan Savage

3.70

Format: 368 pages,

In a time when much of the country sees red whenever the subject of gay marriage comes up, Dan Sava… 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. Woman on the Edge of Time

By: Marge Piercy

3.29

Format: None pages,

Connie Ramos, a woman in her mid-thirties, has been declared insane. But Connie is overwhelmingly s… read more

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Cover of Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1) by Emma R. Alban

11. Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

By: Emma R. Alban

3.82

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from havin… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Becky   Kennedy

12. 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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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
Cover of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself by Marisa Crane

13. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

By: Marisa Crane

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."

-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself

Cover of Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender by Kit Heyam

14. Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

By: Kit Heyam

4.30

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity   Today’s narratives about trans people … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
"It’s not as simple as saying that ‘while the terminology is new, the experiences are not.’ The advent of new terminology can genuinely shift how we think about gender, as well as what names we give t…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

"It's important that we, as historians or as queer people, don't treat gender and sexuality as two things that use to be entangled but have now been teased apart. There can be a tendency in white quee…"

-Kit Heyam, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

Cover of Alice Sadie Celine by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

15. Alice Sadie Celine

By: Sarah Blakley-Cartwright

3.01

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

It’s opening night, but Alice’s performance in the local Bay Area production of The Winter’s Tale i… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Arrival Stories: Women Share Their Experiences of Becoming Mothers by Amy Schumer

16. Arrival Stories: Women Share Their Experiences of Becoming Mothers

By: Amy Schumer

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A wide range of women—actors, athletes, academics, CEOs, writers, small-business owners, birth work… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
"It was here that I learned just how intertwined joy and sorrow are; how life after loss is full of experiences that hold seemingly opposing feelings in a single moment. - Emma Hansen"

-Amy Schumer, Arrival Stories: Women Share Their Experiences of Becoming Mothers

Cover of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

17. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • health
Cover of Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul B. Preciado

18. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2) by Steven  Rowley

19. The Guncle Abroad (The Guncle, #2)

By: Steven Rowley

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

Patrick O'Hara is called back to his guncle duties . . . This time for a big family wedding in Ita… read more

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  • lgbt
Cover of How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood by Trystan Reese

20. How We Do Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood

By: Trystan Reese

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

As featured in  People magazine : One LGBTQ family’s inspiring, heartfelt story of the many alterna… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy by Angela Garbes

21. 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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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • health
"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

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22. Sorry, Bro

By: Taleen Voskuni

3.66

Format: 354 pages, Paperback

An Armenian-American woman rediscovers her roots and embraces who she really is in this vibrant and… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"For all my mom knows, I am as straight as Taylor Swift (my mortal enemy)."

-Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro

"There's a moon ring on her index finger, and with her other hand she pinches the moon and twists the ring all the way around and back. I want to be that moon. The I immediately tell myself to dial it…"

-Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro

"I don't need to do a quick self-assessment to know that I read as super-duper straight. And, let's be real, a basic bitch. My hair is long past my shoulders, styled and sleek and very conventional. S…"

-Taleen Voskuni, Sorry, Bro

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

23. 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
  • health
Cover of Chef's Kiss (Chef's Kiss, #1) by T.J.   Alexander

24. Chef's Kiss (Chef's Kiss, #1)

By: T.J. Alexander

3.69

Format: 308 pages, Paperback

A high-strung pastry chef’s professional goals are interrupted by an unexpected career transition a… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of The Baby Decision: How to Make the Most Important Choice of Your Life by Merle Bombardieri

25. 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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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • health
Cover of Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance by Syan Rose

26. Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance

By: Syan Rose

4.20

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Over the past ten years, we have witnessed the rise of queer and trans communities that have defied… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Why Did No One Tell Me This?: The Doulas' (Honest) Guide for Expectant Parents by Natalia Hailes

27. Why Did No One Tell Me This?: The Doulas' (Honest) Guide for Expectant Parents

By: Natalia Hailes

4.27

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Full of honest advice and inclusive options, Why Did No One Tell Me This? is the funny, personality… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • health
Cover of Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be by Kristin Liam Kali

28. Queer Conception: The Complete Fertility Guide for Queer and Trans Parents-to-Be

By: Kristin Liam Kali

4.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Making a baby through love and science? Get the guidance you need to navigate the conception proce… read more

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  • parenting
  • lgbt
  • health
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Baby Making for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents by Marea Goodman, LM, CPM

29. Baby Making for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents

By: Marea Goodman, LM, CPM

4.63

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

This inclusive, straightforward guide to fertility is What to Expect Before You’re Expecting for fa… read more

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  • parenting
  • lgbt
  • medicine
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Your Birth Plan: A Guide to Navigating All of Your Choices in Childbirth by Megan   Davidson

30. Your Birth Plan: A Guide to Navigating All of Your Choices in Childbirth

By: Megan Davidson

4.44

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

There is no right way or best way to give birth, but if you’re pregnant, you’re likely already hear… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Feed the Baby: An Inclusive Guide to Nursing, Bottle-Feeding, and Everything In Between by Victoria Facelli IBCLC

31. Feed the Baby: An Inclusive Guide to Nursing, Bottle-Feeding, and Everything In Between

By: Victoria Facelli IBCLC

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Finally, a book on newborn feeding that focuses on the milks and the methods, for all families. Get… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting

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Transform Your Habits

All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood

Jennifer Senior

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All!

Harlyn Aizley

4.00

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Are You My Mother?

Alison Bechdel

4.42

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The Argonauts

Maggie Nelson

3.91

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Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Ina May Gaskin

4.36

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Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation

Pam England , Rob Horowitz

4.01

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Penny Simkin

4.75

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The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer

Harvey Karp

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