Parenting Against the Apocalypse
books from parents’ perspectives that acknowledge our current dystopia. suggestions always welcome!
created by kishmish
last updated August, 2026
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wanted to link a few other lists that might be of interest!
@violet.booklover has a few, including 🔗Revolutionary Parenting Books, 🔗Pregnancy and Childbirth, and 🔗Sexual & Reproductive Justice + Health Books
@mxbookworm’s list of 🔗Neurodivergent Affirming Parenting Books
@Emmalee's list 🔗To Parent or Not to Parent in Current Society
@sunnysunshine's list on 🔗Children's Liberation
@carinareads’s 🔗social reproduction reading list
and @lauraaaa.mercedes's list about 🔗care (work) & interdependence
a few that are more literary & fiction focused (also less broadly about parenthood, focused on more specific subsets of that experience): @ellies.encyclopedia’s 🔗books involving motherhood
@milddaydreams’s 🔗Motherhood (Oh What Fun)
and—a little different but this resonated a lot with me conceptually during pregnancy—@aliyahmk’s 🔗pray god you can cope: pregnancy horror
If you know of any other lists that relate and you think I should link, please let me know! 💞
thank you for your list and these recs!! really appreciate
kishmishOP
very kind of you! 💞 i love your water list so much that i was tempted to link it here too, to be honest. i was trying to self-justify, like, parenthood is vaguely like water, right?/j
hahaha that reminds me of this essay that actually brings the two together
kishmishOP
i love this so much—visceral, gorgeous, heartbreaking. thank you for linking it. going to spend 3-5 business days mulling it over and crying.
i’m so glad it was meaningful to you ♥️ it’s one i’ve returned to for many years
