Mother's Day Gift Ideas

I always struggle with what to get my mom for Mother's Day. How do you truly show appreciation for the woman who gave you, well, everything? For the past several years, my default gift has been books. Give what you'd like to get, right? 

So here's a list I compiled of recent reads (and TBRs) that might make your mom's day. 

For the mother who…

didn’t already receive a copy at Christmas

Becoming by Michelle Obama

binge-watches #GOT

Circe by Madeline Miller

doesn’t really have time to read, but was intrigued by this interview on Fresh Air

Educated by Tara Westover

appreciates quirky novels

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal

would love to cook more, but in the meantime watches those cooking videos on Insta that make it look so easy

Half Baked Harvest Cookbook: Recipes from My Barn in the Mountains by Tieghan Gerard

is new to all this

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos by Lucy Knisley

wishes Samin Nosrat lived next door

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat

binge-listens to  The Longest Shortest Time

Weird Parenting Wins: Bathtub Dining, Family Screams, and Other Hacks from the Parenting Trenches by Hillary Frank

mostly just recycles all those issues of  The New Yorker, but read this profile

Women Talking by Miriam Toews