Broadly Conceived Reading & Recommendations

1.
Unpregnant
Unpregnant 3.76 avg rating — 10,362 ratings
2.
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Yellow Wall-Paper 4.07 avg rating — 338,293 ratings
3.
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times 4.19 avg rating — 77,381 ratings
4.
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos 4.38 avg rating — 9,728 ratings
5.
The Argonauts
The Argonauts 4.02 avg rating — 54,649 ratings
6.
Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness
Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness 4.24 avg rating — 4,623 ratings
7.
Motherhood
Motherhood 3.65 avg rating — 20,188 ratings
8.
Girls on the Verge
Girls on the Verge 4.04 avg rating — 3,160 ratings
9.
The Motherhood Penalty
The Motherhood Penalty 4.46 avg rating — 406 ratings
10.
Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights
Infamous Bodies: Early Black Women’s Celebrity and the Afterlives of Rights 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
11.
The Inland Sea
The Inland Sea 3.51 avg rating — 1,602 ratings
12.
What Have I Done?: Motherhood, Mental Illness & Me
What Have I Done?: Motherhood, Mental Illness & Me 4.49 avg rating — 801 ratings
13.
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family 3.78 avg rating — 685 ratings
14.
Detransition, Baby
Detransition, Baby 3.93 avg rating — 88,733 ratings
15.
Scholastic Affect: Gender, Maternity and the History of Emotions
Scholastic Affect: Gender, Maternity and the History of Emotions 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
16.
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route 4.29 avg rating — 2,520 ratings
17.
Diary of a Void
Diary of a Void
by: Emi Yagi
3.49 avg rating — 27,717 ratings
18.
The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions
The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions 3.51 avg rating — 6,987 ratings
19.
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution 4.23 avg rating — 2,733 ratings
20.
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty 3.81 avg rating — 638 ratings
21.
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology 4.14 avg rating — 2,409 ratings
22.
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother
A Life's Work: On Becoming a Mother 3.94 avg rating — 6,888 ratings
23.
Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story
Hard Pushed: A Midwife’s Story 4.16 avg rating — 3,432 ratings
24.
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began
Womb: The Inside Story of Where We All Began 4.09 avg rating — 1,962 ratings
25.
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama 3.71 avg rating — 35,015 ratings
26.
Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression
Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression 4.32 avg rating — 1,444 ratings
27.
I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement
I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement 4.52 avg rating — 876 ratings
28.
After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood
After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood 4.39 avg rating — 463 ratings
29.
No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right
No Choice: The Destruction of Roe v. Wade and the Fight to Protect a Fundamental American Right 4.39 avg rating — 343 ratings
30.
Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression 3.76 avg rating — 4,142 ratings
31.
Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth
Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth 3.91 avg rating — 69 ratings
32.
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities
The Edinburgh Companion to the Critical Medical Humanities really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
33.
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World 4.11 avg rating — 9,640 ratings
34.
Birth Notes: A Memoir of Recovery
Birth Notes: A Memoir of Recovery 4.49 avg rating — 63 ratings
35.
Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History
Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History 3.81 avg rating — 396 ratings
36.
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know 4.30 avg rating — 50,339 ratings
37.
Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within
Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within 3.76 avg rating — 16,072 ratings
38.
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready
And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready 3.91 avg rating — 7,222 ratings