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There are a lot of books that include stories of creative mothers or are by creative mothers. Here are some of them.
And Now We Have Everything
by Meaghan O'Connell
Things That Helped
by Jessica Friedmann
An Excellent Choice
by Emma Brockes
Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year
by Anne Lamott
The Mother Act
by Heidi Reimer
Raising a Rare Girl
by Heather Lanier
The Days of Abandonment
by Elena Ferrante
The Republic of Motherhood
by Liz Berry
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
by Adrienne Rich
Drifts: A Novel
by Kate Zambreno
Mothers
by Jacqueline Rose
Little Labors
by Rivka Galchen
I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton (American Music Series)
by Lynn Melnick
The Equivalents
by Maggie Doherty
Free Woman
by Lara Feigel
To Write as if Already Dead (Rereadings)
by Kate Zambreno
Troubling Love
by Elena Ferrante
Homing Instincts
by Sarah Menkedick
Acts of Creation
by Hettie Judah
Our Andromeda
by Brenda Shaughnessy
The Folded Clock
by Heidi Julavits
The Story of the Lost Child
by Elena Ferrante
A River of Stars
by Vanessa Hua
Nightbitch: A Novel
by Rachel Yoder
The Blue Jay's Dance
by Louise Erdrich
A Woman Is a Woman Until She Is a Mother
by Anna Prushinskaya
Matrescence
by Lucy Jones
A Ghost in the Throat
by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Bring Down the Little Birds
by Carmen GimŽnez Smith
Bring Down the Little Birds
by Carmen GimŽnez Smith
Revolutionary Mothering
by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Oceanic
by Aimee Nezhukumatathil
After Birth
by Elisa Albert
The Lost Daughter
by Elena Ferrante
A Child of One's Own
by Rachel Bowlby
Guidebook to Relative Strangers
by Camille T Dungy
SORRY I GAVE BIRTH I DISAPPEARED BUT NOW I'M BACK
by Andi Galdi Vinko
Good Mom on Paper: Writers on Creativity and Motherhood (Essais, 13)
by Stacey May Fowles
A Life's Work
by Rachel Cusk
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
by Angela Garbes
Like a Mother
by Angela Garbes
The Golden State
by Lydia Kiesling
Dept. of Speculation (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Jenny Offill
Amateur Hour
by Kimberly Harrington
Body Full of Stars
by Molly Caro May
Little Labors
by Rivka Galchen
That Kind of Mother
by Rumaan Alam
That Kind of Mother
by Rumaan Alam
The Motherhood Affidavits
by Laura Jean Baker
Making Babies: Stumbling into Motherhood
by Anne Enright
The Story of a New Name (Neapolitan Novels Book 2)
by Elena Ferrante
The End We Start From
by Megan Hunter
This Boy We Made
by Taylor Harris
A Circle of Quiet
by Madeleine L'Engle
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay (Neapolitan Novels Book 3)
by Elena Ferrante
My Brilliant Friend
by Elena Ferrante
The Beach at Night
by Elena Ferrante
On Immunity
by Eula Biss
Now My Heart Is Full
by Laura June
Ongoingness
by Sarah Manguso
How Not to Exclude Artist Mothers (and Other Parents)
by Hettie Judah
My Body Created a Human
by Emma Ahlqvist
Weird Girls
by Caroline Hagood
Send Me Into the Woods Alone
by Erin Pepler
Wicked But Virtuous
by Mirka Mora
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
by Julie Phillips
