Here is a collection of books recommended to explore further.
Surgical Menopause / Premature Ovarian Insufficiency (POI) / Early Menopause
Binnington, D., Navigating Menopause After Cancer: A comprehensive, empowering guide to all your treatment options, where to get help and how to feel better (independently published, 2025).
De Angelo, D., Sudden Menopause: Restoring Health and Emotional Well-Being (Hunter House, 2001).
Hardy, V., My Menopause, My Journal, My Rules – Menopause Journal (Book Printing UK, 2023).
Kemp, H., Surgical Menopause – Not Your Typical Menopause (Independently published, 2023).
King, L.A., Come Back Strong: Balanced Wellness after Surgical Menopause (Gunnison Press, 2017).
Short, H. & Leonhardt, M., The Complete Guide to POI & Early Menopause (Sheldon Press, 2022).
Sterling, E.W., Before Your Time: The Early Menopause Survival Guide (Atria; 0 edition, 2010)
Streicher, L.F., The Essential Guide to Hysterectomy: Advice from a Gynecologist on Your Choices Before, During, and After Surgery (M. Evans & Company, 2013).De Angelo, D., Sudden Menopause: Restoring Health and Emotional Well-Being (Hunter House, 2001).
General Menopause
Bezzant N., The Everything Guide: Hormones, Health and Happiness in Midlife and Beyond (Penguin Books, 2024).
Bezzant N., This Changes Everything: The Honest Guide to Menopause and Perimenopause (Penguin Books, 2022).
Bluming, A. & Tavris, C., Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women’s Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives — Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer (Little, Brown Spark, 2018). New edition to be released in December 2024.
Briden, L., Hormone Repair Manual: Every woman’s guide to healthy hormones after 40 (Macmillan Australia, 2021).
Danzebrink, D. Making Menopause Matter: The Essential Guide to What You Need to Know and Why (John Murray Press | Sheldon Press, 2024).
Gunter, J., The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism (Little, Brown Book Group, 2021).
Gunter, J., The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine (Kensington, 2019).
Haver, MC. The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts (Harmony/Rodale, 2024).
McCall, D., Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring (HQ, 2022).
Mosconi, L. The Menopause Brain: The New Science for Women to Navigate Midlife and Optimise Brain Health for Later Years (Allen & Unwin, 2024).
Mukherjee, A., The Complete Guide to the Menopause (Vermillon, 2021).
Newson, L., The Definitive Guide to the Perimenopause and Menopause (Hodder & Stoughton, 2023).
Pellegrino, N., Don’t Sweat It: How to make ‘the change’ a good one (Allen & Unwin, 2022).
Thebe, A., Menopocalypse: How I learned to Thrive During Menopause and How You Can Too (Greystone Books, 2020).
Pelvic and Sexual Health
Casperson, K. You Are Not Broken: Stop “Should-ing” All Over Your Sex Life (YANB Media, 2022).
Gunter, J., The Vagina Bible: The Vulva and the Vagina: Separating the Myth from the Medicine (Kensington, 2019).
King, L., Where Did My Libido Go? (Random House Australia, 2010).
Lewis, J., Me & My Menopausal Vagina: Living with Vaginal Atrophy (PAL Book, 2018).
Nagoski, E., Come As You Are (Scribe, 2021).
Parker, L., Vagina Problems (Griffin, 2020).
Simpson, J., The Pelvic Floor Bible: Everything You Need to Know to Prevent and Cure Problems at Every Stage in Your Life (Penguin Life, 2019).
Wright, P. Healing Pelvic Pain: Transforming the Trauma of Period Pain, Endometriosis and Chronic Pelvic Distress (Pan Macmillan Australia, 2023).
General’s Health
Briden, L. Metabolism Repair for Women: A compassionate science-based guide to balancing insulin, losing weight, and improving health (Pan Macmillan, 2024).
Malone, S. Grown Woman Talk: Your Guide to Getting and Staying Healthy (Crown, 2024).
Mosconi, L., The XX Brain: The Groundbreaking Science Empowering Women to Maximize Cognitive Health and Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease (Main, 2020).
Phillips, K. The Empowered Hysterectomy: Your Complete Handbook to Diagnosis, Decision, and Treatment (Balance, 2025).
Wu, J. Hello Sleep: The Science and Art of Overcoming Insomnia Without Medications (St Martin’s Press, 2023).
Gender Gap in Science/Feminism
Blackstock, U. Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine (Viking, 2024).
Block, J. Everything Below the Waist: Why Health Care Needs a Feminist Revolution (St. Martin’s Press, 2019).
Cleghorn, E. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosed and Myth in a Man-Made World (Dutton, 2021).
Comen, E. All in Her Head: The Truth and Lies Early Medicine Taught Us About Women’s Bodies and Why It Matters Today (Harper Wave, 2024).
Dusenbery, M. Doing Harm: The Truth About How Bad Medicine and Lazy Science Leave Women Dismissed, Misdiagnosed, and Sick (HarperOne, 2018).
Greenberger, P. Donner, K. Sex Cells: The Fight to Overcome Bias and Discrimination in Women’s Healthcare (Mayo Clinic Press, 2024).
Hossain, A. The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women (S&S/Simon Element, 2021).
Lindeman, T. Bleed: Destroying Myths and Misogyny in Endometriosis Care (ECW Press, 2023).
Owens, DC. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology (University of Georgia Press, 2017).
Pérez, CC. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men (Abrams Press, 2019).
Tang, K. It’s Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (Flatiron Books, 2024).
Mental Health
Kessler, D., Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief (Scribner, 2020).
Mate, G. When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection (Wiley, 2011).
Mate, G. & Mate, D. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (Ebury Publishing, 2022).
van der Kolk, B. The Body Keeps the Scores: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Penguin Books Ltd, 2014).
Childlessness
Benge, A., O’Brien, L. van Beek, K. Otherhood: Essays about being childless, childfree and child-adjacent (Massey University Press, 2024).
Day, J., Living the Life Unexpected: How to Find Hope, Meaning and a Fulfilling Future Without Children (Bluebird/Macmillan, 2nd Ed. 2020).
Kaufmann, K., Do you have kids? Life When the Answer Is No (She Writes Press, 2019).
Tonkin, L., Motherhood Missed: Stories from Women Who Are Childless by Circumstance (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018).
Warrington, R. Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood (Sounds True, 2023).
Relationships
Hayes, R. Mind Over Menopause: Nurturing Relationships, Loving your Body and Cultivating Balance for Thriving Life (Independently published, 2023).
Usher, K. Usher, N. A Couple’s Guide to Menopause: Navigating the Change Together (Hero Press, 2024).
Work
Usher, K. Your Second Phase: Reclaiming Work and Relationships During and After Menopause (LID Publishing, 2020).
[Updated: 31 Oct 2025]
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