Books

Essays on being a mature woman still looking for a life of purpose while popular culture treats her as finished. Weldon is funny about invisibility without letting anyone off the hook for it. Winner of the Gilda Prize.

Sisters Emily and Amelia Nagoski explain why women experience burnout differently than men, and offer science-backed strategies for completing the stress cycle and recovering your wellbeing. Essential for women who have spent decades caregiving, working, and putting themselves last.

Brené Brown’s landmark work on vulnerability — how the willingness to be seen, to take risks, and to embrace imperfection is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, and creativity. Transformative for women who have spent decades in shame-driven perfectionism.

Psychologist and Buddhist teacher Tara Brach offers radical acceptance — of ourselves, our bodies, our pain — as the foundation of healing and freedom. Essential for women who have spent decades judging themselves and are ready to stop.

A practical and emotional guide for women who find themselves suddenly single after 50 — whether through divorce, widowhood, or the end of a long-term relationship. Addresses finances, housing, identity, dating, and rebuilding a life.

The definitive guide for families caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s or other dementias. Practical, compassionate, and comprehensive — a must-have for the millions of women who are dementia caregivers, usually for a parent or spouse.

Sarton in her mid-sixties, newly settled in a house above the Maine shore, keeping the daily account of weather, flowers, visitors and work that became the model for a whole genre of later-life writing. Quieter than Journal of a Solitude, and considerably warmer.

Journalist Melinda Blau draws lessons from nine women in their nineties and hundreds whose lives challenge stereotypes about old age. Their friendships reveal the sustaining power of curiosity, purpose, gratitude, humor, resilience, and connection across generations.