The Best Books for Mother’s Day

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The moving story of Maya Angelou’s relationship with her mother is shared here, in a book that traces the evolution of their bond and the opportunities for healing and reconciliation they found in the journey.

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In this Elizabeth Strout novel, a hospital visit brings together an estranged mother-daughter pair who grapple with the trauma of the past in order to understand the present.

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The bonds between the four March sisters and their mother, Marmee, are at the heart of this classic book by Louisa May Alcott.

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Explore the charming, witty, and heartfelt stories of Barbara and George Bush, as told by granddaughter Jenna Bush Hager.

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This memoir by America’s former First Lady delivers a personal account of the experiences that defined the woman she would become, her greatest joys and disappointments, and what her time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue was really like.

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Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel is a story about unexpected motherhood and follows a young woman who becomes responsible for a 3-year-old and must reevaluate everything she thought she didn't want out of life.

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This stunning novel explores both the wonderful and heartbreaking moments of motherhood and female friendship in nineteenth century China, with themes still so relatable today.

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This spare, moving book about new motherhood is set in a post-apocalyptic flooding world, a landscape that is filled with danger, but in which a mother and her child still find hope.

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Written by USA Today Washington Bureau chief Susan Page, The Matriarch recounts the public and personal details that helped shape two presidencies and define an era in American politics.

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This poignant novel by writer Amy Tan explores the complex and tender relationships between four mothers and their four daughters over four decades.

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Three daughters in crisis are called home by their ill mother only to discover new bonds between them all in Jane Green’s heartfelt tale.

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This novel explores the unbreakable bonds of family through the story of Li-yan and her daughter, Haley, who are separated by many miles but who yearn to find each other again.

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A young woman grapples with the loss of her mother and struggles to understand the shape of unexpected motherhood in this moving novel by Zinzi Clemmons.

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This funny novel follows what happens when an architect and mother named Bernadette Fox disappears, leaving her daughter to put together the pieces of her life and try to track down the missing Bernadette.