Histories, discussions, and general non fiction works featuring people without children.
* 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 | Genre | Notes | Triggers | ISBN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Baby Matrix: Why Freeing Our Minds From Outmoded Thinking About Parenthood & Reproduction Will Create a Better World | Laura Carroll | Sociology, Psychology, Feminism, Philosophy | Pronatalism | 9780615642994 | |
| Childlessness in the Age of Communication: Deconstructing Silence | Cristina Archetti | 9781000033380 | |||
| How is a Man Supposed to be a Man? Male Childlessness -- a Life Course Disrupted | Robin A. Hadley | Childless men | 9781800731875 | ||
| These Precious Days | Ann Pratchett | Essays | 9780063092785 | ||
| Regretting Motherhood | Orna Donath | Sociology, Psychology, Feminism | parenthood | 9781623171377 | |
| Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids | Megan Daum | Sociology, Feminism | 9781250052933 | ||
| Childfree by Choice: The Movement Redefining Family and Creating a New Age of Independence | Amy Blackstone | Sociology | Childfree by choice | 9781524744090 | |
| Belonging: remembering ourselves home | Toko-pa Turner | Philosophy, Spirituality | 9781775111207 | ||
| Otherhood: modern women Finding a new kind of happiness | Melanie Notkin | Feminism, Sociology, Philosophy | 9781580055215 | ||
| The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration | Isabel Wilkerson | American History, Race | 978067944432 | ||
| The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II | Denise Kiernan | History, World War II | 9781451617528 | ||
| Dear You: A Letter to my Unborn Children | Tessa Broad | 9781910453407 | |||
| Without Children: The Long History of Not Being a Mother | Peggy O'Donnell Heffington | History, Feminism, Sociology | 9781541675575 | ||
| The Baby Boon: How family-friendly america cheats the childless | Elinor Burkett | Politics | 9780743242646 | ||
| Nobody's Mother: Life Without Kids | Lynne Van Luven | Feminism, Essays | 9781894898409 | ||
| The Seed: Infertility is a Feminist Issue | Alexandra Kimball | Feminism, Sociology | 9781552453858 | ||
| Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather: A Scandalous History of Birds, Hats and Votes | Tessa Boase | History | 9781781316542 | ||
| Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood | Ruby Warrington | Feminism, Sociology | 9781683649274 | ||
| How to Be Childless: A History and Philosophy of Life Without Children | Rachel Chrastil | History | 9780190918620 |