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.
- Reversal of Fortune
- Books that show us how to unspoil our children and ourselves
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- How to Unspoil Your Child Fast, by Richard Bromfield
- Too Much of a Good Thing, by Dan Kindlon
- The Little Disturbances of Man, by Grace Paley
- The Millstone, by Margaret Drabble
- Child-Development Books
- Parenting titles that don't focus on raising superbabies
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- Nurture the Nature, by Michael Gurian
- The Wonder Years, by Tanya Remer Altmann, M.D., F.A.A.P.
- Why Gender Matters, by Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
- Trauma Through a Child's Eyes, by Peter A. Levine and Maggie Kline
- Your Child's Growing Mind, by Jane M. Healy, Ph.D.
- The Other Woman
- New voices mine the mother-nanny terrain
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- The Nanny Diaries, by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
- "How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement," by Caitlin Flanagan
- Searching for Mary Poppins, edited by Susan Davis and Gina Hyams
- And Nanny Makes Three, by Jessika Auerbach
- The Perfect Stranger, by Lucy Kaylin
- Global Woman, Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild
- Cultivating Genius
- Why are we literally buying into the cult of the wunderkind?
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- Buy, Buy Baby, by Susan Gregory Thomas
- Hothouse Kids, by Alissa Quart
- The Price of Privilege, by Madeline Levine
- Unless, by Carol Shields
- Dad Lit
- Reads by fathers that stand up in a deluge of mom-rants
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- The Bastard on the Couch, edited by Daniel Jones
- Crawling, by Elisha Cooper
- Alternadad, by Neal Pollack
- Fatherhood, by Bill Cosby
- Family Man, by Calvin Trillin
- Believing It All, by Marc Parent
- In a Father's Place, by Christopher Tilghman
- Little Children, by Tom Perrotta
- Paris to the Moon, by Adam Gopnik
- Women's Fib
- A new wave of writers debates the choices modern moms make
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- The Feminine Mistake, by Leslie Bennetts
- To Hell with All That, by Caitlin Flanagan
- Perfect Madness, by Judith Warner
- Get to Work, by Linda Hirshman
- The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
- Getting a Life, by Helen Simpson
- Keeping Score
- Literature that explores approaches to dividing parental labor
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- The Diary of an Honest Mum, by Jools Oliver
- A Life's Work, by Rachel Cusk
- To Hell with All That, by Caitlin Flanagan
- The Bitch in the House, edited by Cathi Hanauer
- Fruitful, by Anne Roiphe
- Love Works like This, by Lauren Slater
- Tell Me a Riddle, by Tillie Olson
- Naming the Sadness
- The very gray, very real area between postpartum depression and a bad day
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- A Life's Work, by Rachel Cusk
- Down Came the Rain, by Brooke Shields
- The Ghost in the House, by Tracy Thompson
- A Deeper Shade of Blue, by Ruta Nonacs
- Of Woman Born, by Adrienne Rich
- Operating Instructions, by Anne Lamott
