Recommended Books About Menopause

The following books about menopause are just a few of the many available that you might find helpful. Some are about symptoms and treatments. Other menopause books have stories about women and their experiences.

1. Is it Hot in Here? Or is it me? The Complete Guide to Menopause
by Pat Wingert and Barbara Kantrowitz
This really is a complete guide, and one of the must-have books about menopause, covering everything a woman wants or needs to know about menopause.

2. The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change
by Christiane Northrup M.D.
Dr. Northrup helps to change the negative views on menopause and encourage women to grow and develop.

3. The Secret Pleasures of Menopause
by Christiane Northrup M.D.
Menopause can be the best years of a woman's life but she needs to embrace them.

4. The Menopause Makeover
by Staness Jonekos with Wendy Klein, M.D.
Are you looking to make some changes to your diet, exercise and beauty routines? Are you struggling with weight gain during menopause? Look no further. The Menopause Makeover is a 12-week plan to help you look and feel great again. Author Staness Jonekos shares her own inspirational story, as well as a specific strategy to lose weight and take charge of your life.

Pick up a copy of the book and check out Staness' website at www.menopausemakeover.com.

5.What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About: Premenopause
by John R. Lee, M.D., Jesse Hanley, M.D., and Virginia Hopkins
Contains great advice for handling the before menopause and taking care of yourself in preparation for menopause.

6. The Juicy Tomatoes Guide to Ripe Living after 50
by Susan Swartz
Funny stories told by women after fifty and how they met those challenges and opportunities that come with age.

7. The Hot Flash Club: A Novel
by Nancy Thayer
One of a handful of fictional books about menopause, The Hot Flash Club follows four women bound together by menopause, who after discussions of motherhood, sex and men discover they have a lot more to offer.

8. A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman
by Joan Anderson
Grown children and an empty nest force the author to put herself first and find a way to get her life back on track.

9. An Unfinished Marriage
by Joan Anderson
Marriage sometimes has to transform itself after your children grow up, middle age happens and then retirement.

10. A Walk on the Beach: Tales of Wisdom From an Unconventional Woman
by Joan Anderson
The two Joans meet during walks on the beach and the women forge a strong friendship not found often enough.

11. The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself
by Joan Anderson
The importance of doing for yourself the things that need to be done before life gets away.

12. Menopause Sucks: What to Do When Hot Flashes and Hormones Make You and Everyone Else Miserable
by Joanne Kimes and Elaine Ambrose
Sometimes funny books about menopause can lighten your mood. And this is one. Humor can be found between the emotional and physical transformations of menopause.