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…
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1. 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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- memoir
- feminism
- nonfiction
- womens
- audiobook
"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
2. It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
By: Mary Louise Kelly
3.86
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Operating Instructions meets Glennon Doyle in this new book by famed NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly… read more
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- self help
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- memoir
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
- audiobook
"In his book "Being Mortal", the surgeon Atul Gawande accurately describes the joy that flows from being good at your work. 'You become a doctor for what you imagine to be the satisfaction of the work…"-Mary Louise Kelly, It. Goes. So. Fast.: The Year of No Do-Overs
3. 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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- self help
- parenting
- nonfiction
- family
- adult
- audiobook
4. Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself: 5 Steps to Banish Guilt and Beat Burnout When You Already Have Too Much to Do
By: Morgan Cutlip
4.03
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Loving your kids isn’t supposed to mean you completely disappear or get swallowed up by the demands… read more
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- audiobook
- parenting
- nonfiction
- adult
- self help
"You are not needy. You are not too much. You are not required to give all of you in order for others to thrive. You must not give all of you. In fact, it is imperative that you don't. You deserve to …"-Morgan Cutlip, Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself: 5 Steps to Banish Guilt and Beat Burnout When You Already Have Too Much to Do
5. Poverty, by America
By: Matthew Desmond
4.27
Format: 284 pages, Hardcover
Reimagining the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in Ameri… read more
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- nonfiction
- audiobook
"To live and strive in modern America is to participate in a series of morally fraught systems. If a family’s entire financial livelihood depends on the value of its home, it’s not hard to understand …"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"The rest of us, on the ·other hand-we members of the protected classes-have grown increasingly· dependent on our welfare programs. In 2020 the federal government spent more than $193 billion on homeo…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
"In her book The Government-Citizen Disconnect, the political scientist Suzanne Mettler reports that 96 percent of American adults have relied on a major government program at some point in their live…"-Matthew Desmond, Poverty, by America
6. How to Keep House While Drowning
By: K.C. Davis
4.25
Format: 151 pages, Kindle Edition
How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will revol… read more
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- mental health
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- adult
- audiobook
"Shame has never helped anyone's mental health."-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
"No one ever shamed themselves into better mental health."-K.C. Davis, How to Keep House While Drowning
7. The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
By: Amanda Montell
3.54
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the bestselling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult, a delicious blen… read more
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- mental health
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- adult
- audiobook
"While magical thinking is an age-old quirk, overthinking feels distinct to the modern era—a product of our innate superstitions clashing with information overload, mass loneliness, and a capitalistic…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
"Information transmission research suggests that folks with higher anxiety are quicker to engage with, and slower to disengage from, negative information; so "as a trait and state," anxiety itself per…"-Amanda Montell, The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
8. I'll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood
By: Jessi Klein
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The eagerly anticipated second essay collection from Jessi Klein, author of the acclaimed New York … read more
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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
9. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
By: Jonathan Haidt
4.46
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in t… read more
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- parenting
- mental health
- nonfiction
- self help
"Socially prescribed perfectionism is closely related to anxiety; people who suffer from anxiety are more prone to it. Being a perfectionist also increases your anxiety because you fear the shame of p…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
"Girls in virtual networks are subjected to hundreds of times more social comparison than girls had experienced for all of human evolution. They are exposed to more cruelty and bullying because social…"-Jonathan Haidt, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
10. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive book on the rise of “toxic achievement cultu… read more
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- audiobook
- parenting
- nonfiction
- family
- self help
11. Hey, Hun: Sales, Sisterhood, Supremacy, and the Other Lies Behind Multilevel Marketing
By: Emily Lynn Paulson
3.62
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
She signed up for the sisterhood, free cars, and the promise of a successful business of her own. I… read more
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- memoir
- feminism
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- adult
- audiobook
12. One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
By: Kate Kennedy
3.78
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
From pop culture podcaster and a voice of a generation, Kate Kennedy, a celebration of the millenni… read more
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- feminism
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- audiobook
"Why would I ever let someone who drafts make-believe football teams make me believe I should be embarrassed by my interests?"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"Pregnancy loss...is an open wound with the most vulnerable scab, forced to constantly replenish its surface-level protection as it's picked at daily, not by you, but inadvertently by other people's j…"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"I'm a weird contradiction of someone who pursues and values traditions but tries to reject the parts that are oppressive, unfair or unnecessary, because we can adapt things to who we are, not to who …"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
"That's the thing about girlhood. You and your friends have to take yourselves seriously, because no one else will. We had to keep our emotional behavior to diary pages and fangirl in private, perform…"-Kate Kennedy, One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In
13. 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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- self help
- parenting
- memoir
- feminism
- mental health
- nonfiction
- family
- womens
- adult
- audiobook
14. 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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- womens
- adult
- audiobook
15. 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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- self help
- parenting
- feminism
- mental health
- nonfiction
- adult
- audiobook
16. 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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"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
17. 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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- memoir
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- womens
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"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
18. Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood
By: Minna Dubin
3.83
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A frank, feminist examination of the hidden crisis of rage facing American mothers—and how we can f… read more
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"4 Key Questions to Ask Your Rage: 1. Where does it hurt? 2. What are you afraid of? 3. What are you trying to protect? 4. What do you need?"-Minna Dubin, Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood
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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20. Touched Out: Motherhood, Misogyny, Consent, and Control
By: Amanda Montei
4.17
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An overwhelmed Mom reveals the intersection between misogyny and American motherhood and tracks a p… read more
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- memoir
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- womens
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21. Holding It Together: How Women Became America's Safety Net
By: Jessica Calarco
4.23
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the cau… read more
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