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).
Campbell, N., A Woman’s Choice: Navigating Early Menopause. (By The Book, 2026).
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).
Clark, F. Menowars: Why Menopause’s Moment has Gone Horribly Wrong, and how you can Navigate your Way through it. (Sheldon Press, 2025).
Danzebrink, D. Making Menopause Matter: The Essential Guide to What You Need to Know and Why (John Murray Press | Sheldon Press, 2024).
Faubion, S.S. The New Rules of Menopause: A Mayo Clinic Guide to Perimenopause and Beyond. (Mayo Clinic Press, 2023).
Gamble-Turner, J. & Moseley, R. Autistic Menopause: A Guide to the Menopausal Transition for Autistic People and those Supporting Them. (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2026).
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).
Newson, L. The Power of Hormones: Break Free from Fear and Misinformation about Hormones and Harness them for a Healthier, Happier Life. (Hodder & Stoughton, 2026).
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
Manikowski, L. So Now What?: Create a Life You Love Without the Children You Always Dreamed Of (LM Publishing, 2025).
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).
Louie, N. Others Like Me. (Dialogue Books, 2024).
Pyne, L. Finding Joy Beyond Childlessness. (Make Your Mark Global, LTD, 2018).
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: 5 March 2026]
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