Mom's the Word
Mothers in Fiction

In the Name of Salomé by Julia Alvarez

Hens Dancing by Raffaella Barker

Half a Heart by Rosellen Brown

Mommy by Mistake by Rowan Coleman

Not My Daughter by Barbara Delinsky

Circle of Three by Patricia Gaffney

Another Piece of My Heart by Jane Green

The Other Mother by Gwendolen Gross

Confessions of Super Mom by Melanie Hauser

Mama Flora's Family by Alex Haley and David Stevens

Five Quarters of the Orange by Joanne Harris

Windfalls by Jean Hegland

Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me by Karen Karbo

Momzillas by Jill Kargman

The Birth of Love by Joanna Kavenna

Not Ready for Mom Jeans by Maureen Lipinski

This Heavy Silence by Nicole Mazzarella

The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan

Mothers and Daughters by Rae Meadows

The Good Mother by Sue Miller

The Brambles by Eliza Minot

Motherhood is Murder* by Diana Orgain

MotherKind by Jayne Anne Phillips

I Don't Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother by Allison Pearson

Julia's Child by Sarah Pinneo

The Sunday List of Dreams by Kris Radish

Why Moms are Weird by Pamela Ribon

Come Home by Lisa Scottoline

Broadway Baby by Alan Shapiro

Household Words by Joan Silber

Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson

Age Before Beauty* by Virginia Smith

The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan

Mothers and Sons: Stories by Colm T. Tóibín

Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner

The Yummy Mummy by Polly Williams

The Sound of Us by Sarah Willis

The Ten-Year Nap by Meg Wolitzer

Piece of Work by Laura Zigman

*part of a series