Parenting & Motherhood

The self before and after. These books take seriously what it means to become a parent — the love, the loss of self, the ambivalence that nobody warns you about.

On the Society & Self shelf.

Books shelved as Parenting & Motherhood

• Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool — Emily Oster
• How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids — Jancee Dunn
• Tantrum — Rachel Eve Moulton
• The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding — La Leche League International
• Doña Bárbara — Rómulo Gallegos
• Siblings Without Rivalry — Elaine Marsh
• Under Pressure: Confronting the Epidemic of Stress and Anxiety in Girls — Lisa Damour
• Things in Nature Merely Grow — Yiyun Li
• Good Inside — Becky Kennedy
• The Montessori Baby: A Parent's Guide to Nurturing Your Baby with Love, Respect, and Understanding — Sanny Van Loon
• Dragonfly in Amber — Diana Gabaldon
• The Sleeping Sisters: A Novel — Jennifer Givhan
• Unconditional Parenting — Alfie Kohn
• Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner
• No-Drama Discipline — Daniel J. Siegel, MD
• El nudo materno — Jane Lazarre
• The Sleeping Sisters — Jennifer Givhan
• The September House — Carissa Orlando
• The Push — Ashley Audrain
• How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk — Adele Faber
• Little Women — Louisa May Alcott
• The Hazel Wood — Melissa Albert
• The Yes Brain — Daniel J. Siegel
• Hija de la fortuna — Isabel Allende

Related genres

• LGBTQ+ Fiction
• Coming of Age
• Family Drama
• Social Commentary
• Feminist Fiction
• War Fiction
• Identity & Belonging
• Political Fiction
• Sapphic Fiction
• Addiction
• Music Fiction

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