Juicy SUMMER Reads for New Moms!

Looking for an engaging summer read? Check out these books about motherhood, health, and women’s lifestyle while lounging next to the pool or suntanning on the beach. 

Margo’s Got Money Troubles by Rufi Thorpe

After deciding to have her English professor’s baby, college freshman Margo Millet is strapped for cash while taking care of her infant Bodhi. She decides to turn to an unexpected source of income: OnlyFans, a subscription-based porn site. 

Surprisingly, Margo is very good at her new profession. However, her life turns downward when her former English professor comes back into her life; originally wanting nothing to do with Bodhi, he is now demanding full custody. 

Margo’s Got Money Troubles is sharp, funny, and has a fresh insight into young motherhood. If you’re looking to read a surprisingly lovable book about online porn, you should definitely check it out. The book is also under works to be adapted into an A24 TV show directed by Big Little Lies creator David E Kelley. 

Momfluenced by Sara Petersen

From Nara Smith to Ballerina Farms and, to some extent, Kylie Jenner, momfluencers dominate social media sites like Instagram and TikTok. Momfluencers are unique in how they sell an idealistic motherhood. In a culture that ridicules and demeans mothers, it’s to hope that your worries can be solved by clicking “buy now”. 

Momfluenced takes the insights of prominent experts and momfluencers to understand the glorification of the “perfect” mother. With a sense of humor and empathy, Petersen argues momfluencers sell us bamboo diapers and the dream of motherhood, with elements of whiteness, capitalism, and the heteronormative nuclear family included. 

Your Best Body after Baby: A Postpartum Guide to Exercise, Sex, and Pelvic Floor Recovery by Jen Torborg

Even though your pelvic floor is often unmentioned during pregnancy and postpartum, it’s an important component of your urinary and reproductive system that allows you to – in other words – hold it together there. It's difficult to recover when it’s weakened and stretched during childbirth. 

Luckily, Torborg’s book takes postpartum mothers through an easy-to-read guide to help them develop healthy habits and exercises to rejuvenate their bodies. The book offers advice, exercise, and habits to help moms return to having sex, exercising, and living other normal aspects of life they may have missed out on. 

The Friendship Breakup by Annie Cathyrn 

An understated part of parenthood is just how lonely it can be. That’s why a lot of parents will band together and form friendships over their shared experience of raising children. 

This is at the crux of The Friendship Breakup. Fallon Monroe, mother of one and self-help book enthusiast, has always relied on her mom friends to get through the tribulations of adulthood. So when her friends start to ghost her, Fallon does everything within her power to win her friends back – epic Mexican fiesta and all. 

This emotional book may be cringeworthy at times with Fallon’s attempts to win her friends back. But these efforts resonate with readers’ feelings of loneliness during adulthood, and the difficulties of keeping adult connections as your life shifts. This book will lead you to reconsider your friendships for the better.