What to Read After Mothers of Invention
Readers who loved Mothers of Invention by Drew Gilpin Faust keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Mothers of Invention is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Mothers of Invention
Race and Reunion
For Cause and Comrades
Soul by Soul
Good wives
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
A diary from Dixie
Bold spirit
Manliness & civilization
What this cruel war was over
Oldest living Confederate widow tells all.
Revolutionary Mothers
Ordeal by Fire
Cheap Amusements
Been in the storm so long
Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs
A Slave No More
Founding Mothers
Life and times of Frederick Douglass
Mary Chesnut's Civil War
Voyage Long and Strange
Ar'n't I a woman?
The face of war
A midwife's tale
The plantation mistress