Here are the perfect nonfiction books to add to your spring reading list! 

What My Mother And I Don’t Talk About by Michelle Filgate: 

Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we don’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse. While some of the writers in this book are estranged from their mothers, others are extremely close.  The anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers, as Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.”

I Miss You When I Blink by Mary Laura Philpott:

Mary Laura Philpott presents a charmingly relatable and wise memoir-in-essays about what happened after she checked off all the boxes on her successful life’s to-do list and realized she might need to reinvent the list—and herself.

Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb:

With startling wisdom and humor, Lori Gottlieb invites us into her world as both therapist and patient, examining the truths and fictions we tell ourselves and others as we teeter on the tightrope between love and desire, meaning and mortality, guilt and redemption, terror and courage, hope and change.

Fifty Things That Aren’t My Fault by Cathy Guisewife:

From the creator of the iconic “Cathy” comic strip comes her first collection of funny, wise, poignant, and incredibly honest essays about being a woman in what she lovingly calls “the panini generation.”

Burnout by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski:

Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the cycle of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Instead of asking us to ignore the very real obstacles and societal pressures that stand between women and well-being, they explain with compassion and optimism what we’re up against—and show us how to fight back.

Nanaville by Anna Quindlen

A bighearted book of wisdom, wit, and insight, celebrating the love and joy of being a grandmother, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and #1 New York Times bestselling author. Quindlen offers thoughtful and telling observations about her new role, no longer mother and decision-maker but secondary character and support to the parents of her grandson.

Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It by Patricia Marx and Roz Chast

Every mother knows best, but New Yorker writer Patty Marx’s knows better. Patty has never been able to shake her mother’s one-line witticisms from her brain, so she’s collected them into a book, accompanied by full color illustrations by New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast.

Act Natural by Jennifer Traig

Moving from ancient Rome to Puritan New England to the Dr. Spock craze of mid-century America, Traig cheerfully explores historic and present-day parenting techniques ranging from the misguided, to the nonsensical, to the truly horrifying. Have our techniques actually evolved into something better? Or are we still just scrambling in the dark?

The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates

In this candid and inspiring book, Gates traces her awakening to the link between women’s empowerment and the health of societies. She shows some of the tremendous opportunities that exist right now to “turbo-charge” change. And she provides simple and effective ways each one of us can make a difference.

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These will definitely make great gifts for mother’s day!

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