Our stories. Stories and essays about childlessness, infertility, ageing without children, choosing to be childfree, and people who did not have children for one reason or another.
* We've tried to add triggers where they're known, but we will have missed many. All titles about childlessness come with a general trigger warning for childlessness, infertility, pregnancy loss and associated issues.
Title | Author | Notes | Triggers* | ISBN |
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Nobody's Father: Life Without Kids | Bruce Gillespie, Lynne Van Luven | Childless and childfree men | 9781894898744 | |
Downriver Nomad: A Triathlete's Adventures and Adversities into the Rapids | Rob Hutchings | Childless men | 9780473588342 | |
Resurrection Year | Sheridan Voysey | Christian childless couple | 9780849964800 | |
Surviving Childlessness: Faith and Furbabies | Steph Penny | 9780645062700 | ||
The Facts of Life | Paula Knight | Graphic novel | Illness, miscarriage | 9780271078465 |
All Over the Map | Laura Fraser | 9780307450630 | ||
Wild Egg: A story of one woman's search for her childfree life | Jennifer Flint | Childfree by choice | 9781913590574 | |
Misfits: A Personal Manifesto | Michaela Coel | 9781250843449 | ||
Eat Pray Love | Elizabeth Gilbert | 9780143038412 | ||
I Am An Island | Tamsin Calidas | 9780857526656 | ||
Mum's Not the Word: Childless Childfree | Denise Felkin | Photo book of women without children, for various reasons. | 9781776920129 | |
You Probably Think This Song is About You | Kate Camp | IVF | 9781776920129 | |
Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores The Truth about Parenting and Happiness | Jessica Valenti | Parenthood | 9781477800096 | |
The Receptionist: An Education at The New Yorker | Janet Groth | |||
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait | Frida Kahlo, Carlos Fuentes | 9780810959545 | ||
So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y'all Don't Even Know | Retta | 9781250109347 | ||
New Life, No instructions | Gail Caldwell | Death | 9780804190855 | |
I Loved, I Lost, I Made Spaghetti | Giulia Melucci | Stories and recipes | 9780446534420 | |
Hungry | Grace Dent | 9780008333171 | ||
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo | Hayden Herrera | 9780060085896 | ||
Self Made Woman | Denise Chanterelle DuBois | LGBTIQ Memoir | 9780299313906 | |
The Pursuit of Motherhood | Jessica Hepburn | 9781783066346 | ||
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country | Pam Houston | 9780393357660 | ||
Frida Kahlo at Home | Suzanne Barbezat | 9780711237322 | ||
Dreaming of a life unlived: Intimate stories and portraits of women without children | Yvonne John | 9781526201218 | ||
Childless Voices: Stories of Longing, Loss, Resistance and Choice | Lorna Gibb | Sterilization, IVF, infertility | 9781783782628 | |
Childless By Marriage | Sue Fagalde Lick | 9780983389460 | ||
BeWILDered | Laura Waters | |||
21 Miles: Swimming in Search of the Meaning of Motherhood | Jessica Hepburn | Motherhood, IVF | 9781783526109 | |
Childless: a Story of Freedom and Longing | Sian Prior | 9781922458568 | ||
Motherhood Missed: Stories from Women Who Are Childless by Circumstance | Lois Tonkin | Childless by circumstance | 9781785923371 | |
I'm Taking My Eggs and Going Home: How One Woman Dared to Say No to Motherhood | Lisa Manterfield | 9780983012504 | ||
Confessions of a Childfree Woman: A Life Spent Swimming Against the Mainstream | Marcia Drut-Davis | Childfree by choice | 9780615819235 | |
Do You Have Kids? Life When the Answer is No | Kate Kaufmann | 9781631525810 | ||
Silent Sorority: A Barren Woman Gets Busy, Angry, Lost and Found | Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos | 9781439231562 | ||
This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story | Jackie Shannon Hollis | Childfree/childless couple. Childless by circumstance. | 9781942436393 | |
The Mother of All Dilemmas: Dreams of Motherhood and the Internship that Changed Everything | Kathleen Guthrie Woods | 9781737304814 | ||
Notes to Self | Emilie Pine | Essays | Sexual assault | 9781984855459 |
She I Dare Not Name: A spinster's meditations on life | Donna Ward | |||
Salt Water and Honey: Lost Dreams, Good Grief and a Better Story | Lizzie Lowrie | From a Christian perspective | Miscarriage | 9781788930956 |
Over The Top: A Raw Journey to Self Love | Jonathan Van Ness | Queer/LGBTIQA+, no parenthood or childless focus | Abuse, mental health, self harm | 9780062906373 |
I Always Wanted to Be a Dad: Men Without Children | Robert Nurden | Childless men | 9781838447779 |