Books About Writing Craft

• Welcome to the Writer’s Life by Paulette Perhach

• Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

• Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg

• Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

• The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr

Books About Mother Loss (not limited to death)

• Mothering Without a Map by Kathryn Black

• Motherless Daughters by Hope Edelman

• Motherless Mothers by Hope Edelman

• Mother of My Mother by Hope Edelman

Books About Family Trauma & Loss

• The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls

• Daughter of the Queen of Sheba by Jacki Lyden

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• Educated by Tara Westover

• I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeannette McCurdy