The Complete Mothers' Library
Looking for comfort? Advice? Or just proof that you're not the only one experiencing the internal chaos so intrinsic to child-rearing? Here, great titles that address an array of your most pressing parenting issues.
- parental influences
- lorrie moore's favorites
- The Reading List
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Fever Pitchby Nick Hornby
- The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
- Fugitive Spring by Deborah Digges
- A Hand to Guide Me by Denzel Washington
- The Odyssey by Homer
- literary parenting influences
- rachel cusk's favorites
- The Reading List
- Flambards by K. M. Peyton
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley
- Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
- maternal characters
- ruth reichl's reading picks
- The Reading List
- Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
- Hearts by Hilma Wolitzer
- Away by Amy Bloom
- The Little Disturbances
of Man by Grace Paley - The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
- Child Care Policies
- parental-leave policies and publicly funded child care worldwide.
- The Reading List
- Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five by Penelope Leach
- Child Care Today: Getting It Right for Everyone by Penelope Leach
- Perfect Madness by Judith Warner
- mom activists
- Author and humorist Sandra Tsing Loh suggests books to help you change the world in kick-ass ways
- The Reading List
- Looking for a Few Good Moms, by Donna Dees-Thomases
- Cool It, by Bjorn Lomborg
- If Women Counted, by Marilyn Waring
- Ask a Mexican, by Gustavo Arellano
- The Trouble with Diversity, by Walter Benn Michaels
- Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society, by Carola Suarez-Orozco, Marcela M. Suarez-Orozco, and Irina Todorova
- Keeping Up
- Books that explain our financial woes
- The Reading List
- The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
- (Not) Keeping Up With Our Parents, by Nan Mooney
- The Feminist Mistake, by Leslie Bennetts
- Parenting, Inc., by Pamela Paul
- motherhood
- the five books that defined journalist judith warner as a mother
- The Reading List
- What to Expect When You're Expecting by Heidi Murkoff with Sharon Mazel
- The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Love Works Like This by Lauren Slater
- American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- The Norton Anthology of Poetry by by Margaret Ferguson, Jon Stallworthy, and Mary Jo Salter
- The Things We Pass Along
- Parenting with ADHD
- The Reading List
- Driven to Distraction, by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratney
- ADD-Friendly Ways to Organize Your Life, by Judith Kolberg and Kathleen Nadeau
- ADD & Romance, by Jonathan Halverstadt
- Women With Attention Deficit Disorder, by Sari Solden
- parental fears
- Books that help a mother of four confront her deepest parental fears
- The Reading List
- The Fifth Child, by Doris Lessing
- A Life's Work, by Rachel Cusk
- Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
- "People Like That Are the Only People Here," from Birds of America, by Lorrie Moore
- A Life's Work, by Rachel Cusk
- Perfect Madness, by Judith Warner
- Flux, by Peggy Orenstein
- Is Your Mama a Llama?, by Deborah Guarino and Steven Kellogg
- surviving infidelity
- stretching the silken ties of marriage without snapping them
- The Reading List
- The Senator's Wife by Sue Miller
- The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shrive
