An incomplete list of books and essays I’ve loved and liked on motherhood.

Little Labors by Rivka Galchen
Ongoingness: The End of a Diary by Sarah Manguso (her 300 Arguments also has a lot on the topic.)
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
A Life’s Work by Rachel Cusk
The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy
Happily: A Personal History-with Fairy Tales by Sabrina Orah Mark
Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty by Jacqueline Rose
Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places essays by Ursula K. Le Guin
Mother Reader: Essential Writings on Motherhood edited by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Waiting for Birdy by Catherine Newman
And now we have everything by meaghan o’connell
Maternal Theory: Essential Readings by Andrea O'Reilly
Mother Brain by chelsea conaboy
Operating Instructions by Anne Lamott
Like a Mother by Angela Garbes
Mother Reader edited by Moyra Davey
On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Biss
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
A Woman is a Woman Until She is A Mother by Anna Prushinskaya
Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear by Kim Brooks
Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America by Sarah Menkedick
Second Thoughts: On Having and Being a Second Child by Lynn Berger
Homing Instincts: Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm by Sarah Menkedick
The Blue Jay’s Dance by Louise Erdrich
Linea Nigra by Jazmina Barrera
Night Lights by Phyllis Theroux
The Almost Mothers by Laura Besley
You Be Mother by Meg Mason
Family Happiness by laurie colwin
Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
The Golden State by Lydia Kiesling
NIGHTBITCH by Rachel Yoder
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellman
Reproduction by Louisa Hall
The Most Important Job In The World by Gina Rushton
The Nursery Szilvia Molnar
Mother Ship by Francesca Segal
Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years by Heidi Julavits
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem by Julie Phillips
My Wild and Sleepless Nights: A Mother's Story by Clover Stroud
Mother Is a Verb: An Unconventional History Sarah Knott
Breathe: A Letter to My Sons by Imani Perry
The Child by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold

ARTICLES
THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE WRITES THE BOOK by Ursula K. le Guin
Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over by Sabrina Orah Mark and her entire “Happily” essay series.
Mothers as Makers of Death by Claudia Dey
MOTHER, WRITER, MONSTER, MAID by RUFI THORPE
The Grand Shattering by Sarah Manguso
The Heartbreaking Ingenuity of the Mother-Writer by Olivia Campbell
Why All the Books About Motherhood? By Lauren Elkin
Why Are We Only Talking About ‘Mom Books’ by White Women? by angela garbes
Winter: effulgences and devotions by sarah vap
The Long Devotion: Poets Writing Motherhood edited by Emily Pérez and Nancy Reddy
The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry