Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood

10 best books like Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood (Anne Enright): Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard, Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home, Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, Ongoingness: The End of a Diary, The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year, The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being, And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives, More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say), The Innocents

Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

Author	Anne Lamott
ISBN	1400079098

The most honest, wildly enjoyable book written about motherhood is surely Anne Lamott's account of her son Sam's first year. A gifted writer and teacher, Lamott (Crooked Little Heart) is a single mother and ex-alcoholic with a pleasingly warped social circle and a remarkably tolerant religion to...

On Being Human: A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, and Listening Hard

Author	Jennifer Pastiloff
ISBN	1524743569

An inspirational memoir about how Jennifer Pastiloff’s years of waitressing taught her to seek out unexpected beauty, how deafness taught her to listen fiercely, how being vulnerable allowed her to find love, and how imperfections can lead to a life full of wild happiness.

Centered around...

Women's Work: A Reckoning with Work and Home

Author	Megan K. Stack
ISBN	0385542097

From National Book Award finalist Megan K. Stack, a stunning memoir of raising her children abroad with the help of Chinese and Indian women who are also working mothers

When Megan Stack was living in Beijing, she left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have her first child and...

Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life

Author	Amber Scorah
ISBN	0735222541

A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countries.

A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the message...

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

Author	Sarah Manguso
ISBN	1555977030

“[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” —The New Yorker

In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. “I wanted to end each day with...

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year

Author	Louise Erdrich
ISBN	0060927011

“[Louise ] Erdrich holds up an articulate strength. Moving, memorable… [The Blue Jay’s Dance is] a book that breaks ground.”—Boston Sunday Globe

Fifteen years after its initial publication, New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich’s beloved memoir The Blue Jay’s...

The Montessori Toddler: A Parent's Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being

Author

Simone Davies

There is no doubt about it. Toddlers can be tricky. On one hand they can be lovely. On the other hand they can be really hard work. They'll make you laugh. And they will probably bring you to tears. Or at least a high level of frustration.

I felt the same way when my children were small and I was struggling...

And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives

Author	John M. Gottman
ISBN	1400097371

Having a baby is a joyous experience, but even the best relationships are strained during the transition from duo to trio. Lack of sleep, never-ending housework, and new fiscal concerns often lead to conflict, disappointment, and hurt feelings. In And Baby Makes Three Love Lab(TM) experts John Gottman...

More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say)

Author	Elaine Welteroth
ISBN	0525561587

“Elaine gifts us all with a beautifully intimate and powerful retelling of her ever-unfolding journey. In sharing her joys, pitfalls, adventures, self-doubt, and successes, she reminds us that through uncovering and discovering the many facets of ourselves, we are more than enough.”
—Yara...

The Innocents

Author

Michael Crummey

From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness.
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline....

Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby to Love Good Food

Author	Gill Rapley
ISBN	0091923808

The fully updated and revised edition of Baby-led Weaning is a practical and authoritative guide to introducing solid food, enabling your child to grow up a happy and confident eater. It shows parents why baby-led weaning makes sense and gives them the confidence to trust their baby's natural skills...

Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know

Author	Emily Oster
ISBN	1594204756

What to Expect When You're Expecting meets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standard recommendations about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting.

Pregnancy—unquestionably one of the most pro­found, meaningful experiences of adulthood—can...

Expectation

Author	Anna Hope
ISBN	0857524909

Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry – and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends.

Ten years on, they are not...

How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids

Author

Jancee Dunn

This book gave me so many "ah-ha" moments that after a hundred pages I started to feel like an idiot. Why did I assume that so many of these little "life after baby" marital frustrations had only ever happened to me? How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids made me feel like I was part of a larger group called...

A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother

Author	Rachel Cusk
ISBN	0312311303

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book, A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother is multi-award-winning author Rachel Cusk's honest memoir that captures the life-changing wonders of motherhood.

Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years

The experience...

Period. It's About Bloody Time

Author

Emma Barnett

At a time when women around the world are raising their voices in the fight for equality, there is still one taboo where there remains a deafening silence: periods. Period. is an agenda-setting manifesto to remove the stigma and myths continuing to surround the female body. Bold and unapologetic, Emma...

Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth About Speaking the Truth

Author

Jess Phillips

'Joyfully candid and very funny.' Guardian

'Jess Phillips knows the truth . . . and here she shows how scary and sad as well as joyful and liberating the answers can be.' Damian Barr

'Everywoman has all the laughs [of Lena Dunham and Caitlin Moran] with a backbone of real glinting anger...

Labor Day: Birth Stories for the Twenty-first Century: Thirty Artful, Unvarnished, Hilarious, Harrowing, Totally True Tales

Author	Eleanor Henderson
ISBN	0374239320

Thirty acclaimed writers share their personal birth stories—the extraordinary, the ordinary, the terrifying, the sublime, the profane

It’s an elemental, almost animalistic urge—the expectant mother’s hunger for birth narratives. Bookstores are filled with month-by-month...