List of books for fence sitters, some books are directly related to the decision, some are stories of motherhood and some more or less related to making decisions.
created by Lene_elisabeth
last updated July, 2026
The Midnight Library
Matt Haig
Life in Three Dimensions: How Curiosity, Exploration, and Experience Make a Fuller, Better Life
Shigehiro Oishi
The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World
Laura Carroll
Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence
Amy Blackstone
Kid Me Not: An anthology by child-free women of the '60s now in their 60s
Aralyn Hughes
Instead: Navigating the Adventures of a Childfree Life - A Memoir
Maria Coffey
Others Like Me: The Lives of Women without Children
Nicole Louie
Beyond Motherhood: Choosing Life Without Children
Safer Safer
Someone Other Than a Mother: Flipping the Scripts on a Woman's Purpose and Making Meaning beyond Motherhood
Erin S. Lane
Do You Have Kids?: Life When the Answer Is No
Kate Kaufmann
This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story
Jackie Shannon Hollis
Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood
Ruby Warrington
Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids
Meghan Daum
Olive
Emma Gannon
Motherhood
Sheila Heti
Fledging
Rose Diell
Wild Egg: A story of one woman's search for her childfree life
Jennifer Flint
The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano
Donna Freitas
Climate Anxiety and the Kid Question: Deciding Whether to Have Children in an Uncertain Future
Jade Sasser
The Parenthood Dilemma: Procreation in the Age of Uncertainty
Gina Rushton
So When Are You Having Kids: The Definitive Guide for Those Who Aren’t Sure If, When, or How They Want to Become Parents
Jordan Davidson
The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions
Nell Frizzell
Motherhood – Is It For Me?: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Clarity
Denise L. Carlini
Rewilding Motherhood: Your Path to an Empowered Feminine Spirituality
Shannon K. Evans
The Best, Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Honestly About Motherhood
Katherine May
Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood
Lucy Jones
The Baby Decision: How to Make the Most Important Choice of Your Life
Merle Bombardieri
Regretting Motherhood
Orna Donath
A Life's Work
Rachel Cusk
To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma
Molly Millwood
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