Books

Recommended reads for women navigating midlife and beyond.

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Better Than I Ever Expected: Straight Talk About Sex After Sixty

by Joan Price · 2006

Joan Price writes candidly about sexuality after sixty — desire, dating, body changes, and intimacy. Warm, funny, and deeply affirming for any woman wondering if her erotic life is over. It is not.

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Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?

by Roz Chast · 2014

New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast turns her signature anxious wit on the hardest subject: her elderly parents’ final years. This graphic memoir is funny, wrenching, and utterly honest about the mess of aging parents, overwhelmed adult children, and the things families can’t quite say out loud. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.

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I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman

by Nora Ephron · 2006

Nora Ephron’s wickedly funny essays about the indignities and joys of getting older as a woman. From bad hair days to the terrors of the medicine cabinet, she makes aging not just bearable but hilarious.

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I Remember Nothing

by Nora Ephron · 2010

Nora Ephron’s final essay collection looks squarely at aging and memory with her characteristic wry precision. She writes about what she can no longer remember, what she wishes she’d said, and the strange experience of watching her own life become something that already happened. Funny, melancholy, and completely honest.

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My Year of Really Bad Dates

by Rachel J. Lithgow · 2025

After her father’s death and divorce from her husband of two decades, Rachel leaves a thirty-year career and navigates a year of disastrous midlife dating — dark, wry, and ultimately hopeful.

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The Menopause Manifesto

by Jen Gunter · 2021

Dr. Jen Gunter cuts through menopause misinformation with science, humor, and feminist fire. Tackles HRT, bone health, cardiovascular risk, and medical neglect of menopausal women.

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