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Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family

10 best books like Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family (Catherine Newman): And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready, Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year, Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool, Southern Lady Code, Horror Stories, The Lost Recipe for Happiness, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting, Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother

And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
AuthorMeaghan O'Connell
ISBN0316393843
Operating Instructions for the Millennial set: a fiercely honest account of becoming a mother before feeling like a grown up.

Meaghan O'Connell always felt totally alienated by the cutesy, sanctimonious, sentimental tone of most writing about motherhood. After getting accidentally...
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
AuthorAnne Lamott
ISBN1400079098
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...
Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts
AuthorKate Racculia
ISBN0358023939
A dying billionaire sends one woman and a cast of dreamers and rivals on a citywide treasure hunt in this irresistible novel by the author of Bellweather Rhapsody.

Tuesday Mooney is a loner. She keeps to herself, begrudgingly socializes, and spends much of her time watching old Twin Peaks and...
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
AuthorEmily Oster
ISBN0525559256
From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting

With EXPECTING BETTER, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies....
Southern Lady Code
AuthorHelen Ellis
ISBN0385543891
The bestselling author of American Housewife is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady.

Helen Ellis has...
Horror Stories
AuthorLiz Phair
ISBN0525511989
From the two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking album Exile in Guyville comes a haunting memoir in stories in the tradition of Patti Smith's M Train

When Liz Phair was just starting out in the Wicker Park, Chicago, music scene in the early 1990s,...
The Lost Recipe for Happiness
AuthorBarbara O'Neal
ISBN0553385518
In this sumptuous new novel, Barbara O’Neal offers readers a celebration of food, family, and love as a woman searches for the elusive ingredient we’re all hoping to find….

It’s the opportunity Elena Alvarez has been waiting for–the challenge of running her own kitchen in a world-class...
Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
AuthorAngela Garbes
ISBN0062662961
What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the science and culture of pregnancy and early motherhood that debunks myths and dated assumptions, offering guidance and camaraderie to women navigating one of the biggest and most profound changes in their lives.

Like...
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
AuthorPamela Druckerman
ISBN0449010880
The runaway New York Times bestseller that shows American parents the secrets behind France's amazingly well-behaved children
 When American journalist Pamela Druckerman had a baby in Paris, she didn't aspire to become a "French parent." But she noticed that French children slept through...
Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother
AuthorBeth Ann Fennelly
Beth Ann Fennelly, writing to a newly pregnant friend, goes beyond the nuts and bolts or sentimentality of other parenting literature, in letters that range in tone from serious to sisterly, from lighthearted to downright funny. Some answer specific questions; others muse about the identity shift...
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know
AuthorEmily Oster
ISBN1594204756
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...
The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality
AuthorKimberly Ann Johnson
ISBN1611804000
A holistic, practical guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emotional, relational, and spiritual levels.
Pregnancy, childbirth, and post-partum offer women some of the most emotionally enriching and satisfying experiences of their life. But many women...
No Happy Endings
AuthorNora McInerny Purmort
ISBN0062792407
The author of It’s Okay to Laugh and host of the popular podcast Terrible, Thanks for Asking—interviews that are “a gift to be able to listen [to]” (New York Times)—returns with more hilarious meditations on her messy, wonderful, bittersweet, and unconventional life.

Life has...
Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear
AuthorKim Brooks
ISBN1250089557
"Part memoir, part history, part documentary, part impassioned manifesto...it might be the most important book about being a parent that you will ever read." --Emily Rapp Black, New York Times bestselling author of The Still Point of the Turning World

"A beautifully told, harrowing story..."--Heather...
Inherit the Bones
AuthorEmily Littlejohn
ISBN1250089395
Secrets and lies can’t stay buried forever in Cedar Valley.

In the summer, hikers and campers pack the small Colorado town’s meadows and fields. And in the winter, skiers and snowboarders take over the mountains. Season by season, year after year, time passes and the lies, like the aspens...
A Season to Lie
AuthorEmily Littlejohn
ISBN1250089417
Following her acclaimed debut Inherit the Bones, this is Emily Littlejohn’s next mesmerizing mystery featuring Colorado police officer Gemma Monroe.

In Emily Littlejohn's follow-up to her acclaimed debut, Inherit the Bones, police officer Gemma Monroe has just returned to work from...
Lost Lake
AuthorEmily Littlejohn
ISBN1250178304
An enthralling, atmospheric new novel from the author of acclaimed debut Inherit the Bones, featuring Colorado police officer Gemma Monroe.

On a bright Saturday in early spring, Detective Gemma Monroe responds to a missing person call at Lost Lake, near the small town of Cedar Valley, Colorado....
I'm Just Happy to Be Here: A Memoir of Renegade Mothering
AuthorJanelle Hanchett
ISBN0316503770
"A refreshingly raw, contrasting perspective on the foolproof idea of motherhood." --POPSUGAR
"By turns painful and funny... A searingly candid memoir." --Kirkus
"Far from your cookie-cutter story of addiction... [I'm Just Happy to Be Here] describes Hanchett's journey to recovery...
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