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Books about women and family




The Center of the Universe:  A Memoir (2009), Nancy Bacharch

All Over But the Shoutin' (1997), Rick Bragg

The Road From Coorain (1990), Jill Kerr Conway

The Pioneer Women:  Black Heels to Tractor Wheels:  A Love Story (2011), Ree Drummond

Swallow the Ocean:  A Memoir (2009), Laura Flynn

How I Came into my Inheritance and Other True Stories (2002), Dorothy Gallagher

The Liar's Club:  A Memoir (2005), Mary Karr

A Girl Named Zippy:  Growing Up Small in Mooreland, Indiana (2002), Haven Kimmel

The Color of Water:  A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother (2006), James McBride

Mostly True:  A Memoir of Family, Food and Baseball (2006), Molly O'Neill

Tender at the Bone:  Growing Up at the Table (2010), Ruth Reichl

The Women Who Raised Me (2008), Victoria Rowell

Stuffed:  Adventures of a Restaurant Family (2002), Patricia Volk

The Glass Castle (2006), Jeannette Walls

Denial:  A Memoir of Terror (2010), Jessica Stern

Girls of a Tender Age (2005), Mary-Ann Tirone Smith

Before the Knife:  Memories of an African Childhood (2002), Carolyn Slaughter

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), Maya Angelou

Gather Together in My Name (1975), Maya Angelou

Singin' and Swingin' and Gettin' Merry Like Christmas (1976), Maya Angelou

All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes (1986), Maya Angelou

The Kids Are All Right (2009), Liz Welch

A Remarkable Mother (2008), Jimmy Carter

Paula (1995), Isabel Allende

Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1972), Mary McCarthy

Foreign Correspondence:  A Pen Pals Journey from Down Under to All Over (1999), Geraldine Brooks.

From This Day Forward (2002). Cokie Roberts

About Alice (2006). Calvin Trillium

Blackbird:  A Childhood Lost and Found (2001). Jennifer Lauck

The Sweeter the Juice (1995). Shirlee Hazlip.

Sleeping Arrangements (2000).  Laura Cunningham.

Take my ex-husband but not too far.  (1991).  Barbara Malley.

Midstream.  (1996). LeeAnne Schreider.

Lonely Girls with Burning Eyes. (1992).  Marion Novak.

When Summers in the Meadow. (2003). Christine Breen.

Tide, Feather, Snow:  A Life in Alaska. (2010). Miranda Weiss.

Extraordinary People Ordinary Lives:  A Family Memoir. (2010). Condalezza Rice

The Golden Road. (2007). Caille Millner

Secret Daughter:  A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away.  (2006). June Cross

Whisper My Secret. (2006). JB Rowley

Shocked:  My Mother, Schiaparelli and Me. (2013). Patrica Volk

Un-Remarried Widow. (2013). Artis Henderson

This is the Story of a Happy Marriage (2013). Ann Patchett

Come by Here (2007).  Clarence Major

Her (2013). Christa Parravani

Maude (2014), Donna Mabry

When I Married My Mother. (2014). Jo Maeder

House of Happy Endings. (2008).  Leslie Garis

Traveling to Infinity (2014). Jane Hawking

A Bridge Between:  Northern Italy Come Hell or High Water (2012). Vela Pola.

Stories of My life (2014). Katherine Patterson.


Bastards: A Memoir (2015).  Mary Anna King,

Outskirts of Hope ​(2015). Jo Iverster.

Butterfly Groove (2015) Jessica Barraco

Laughing Without an Accent (2008). Firoozeh Dumas

White Dresses (2016) Mary Peterson.

Ghost Songs (2015) Mary Peterson

Memoirs of a Sunday Brunch (2012) Julia Pandl

Educated (2018) Tara Westover

A Girls Guide to MIssiles. (2018).  New York:  Penguin.

All You Can Ever Know, (2018). New York: Catapult.

Inheritance (2019) Dani Shapiro.

When I was White.  (2019).  Sarah Valentine.

Murder, Motherhood and Miraculous Grace.  (2019). Debra Moerke.

The World According to Fanny Davis.  (2019). Bridgett Davis.

Memorial Drive. (2020). Natasha Trewethey. 

Freckled. (2018). Toby Neal.

The Window Seat. (2021). Aminatta Forna.

How To Forget. (2019). Kate Mulgrew.