Books for Mother's Day

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Society & Culture, Books

4.7 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

If you had a mother who was a strong influence in your life, we wanted to honor her with this week’s Book Case episode. Sometimes we want to find all the right words to tell mom how much she meant to us and we can’t find them. This week we share some great books that would make terrific gifts for Mother’s Day. From Mary Laura Philpott to Niall Wiliams to Whoopi Goldberg, there is something in this week’s Book Case for every type of mom. Grab a pen and paper and join us to make your Mother’s Day shopping easy this year. Join us! Find books mentioned on The Book Case: ⁠https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/shop/story/book-case-podcast-reading-list-118433302 Books mentioned on this week's show: Where Rivers Part by Kao Kalia Yang Bits and Pieces by Whoopi Goldberg The Time of the Child by Niall Williams Life: A Love Story by Elizabeth Berg Bomb Shelter by Mary Laura Philpott Class Clown by Dave Barry Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, book nerds.
0:08.0	It is Thursday, which is your favorite day, and it's your favorite day because its bookcase drops the episode day.
0:14.5	I am Kate, half of the duo that hosts this show.
0:18.6	You say drop the podcast day.
0:20.8	You make it sound like a fumble in football. Oops, I dropped it. Yeah. Sure. We can go with that. We can go with that. Because that is what I do to a football. Yes, you do. And you don't know this, but Kate is the most athletically gifted person I've ever known, I think. Except for everybody else.
0:37.7	Except for everybody else.
0:39.3	Yeah.
0:39.5	That's right. That's right.
0:41.4	Anyway, we're doing a show this week.
0:44.6	We're what now?
0:45.2	We're nine days for Mother's Day?
0:47.4	Ten days for Mother's Day, I guess.
0:49.4	And we got talking and we thought, you know, what better gift for Mother's Day than a book?
0:56.7	It really is.
0:57.7	It's reasonably priced.
1:00.2	Oh, too expensive books are these days, but anyway, it's reasonably priced.
1:04.0	And, you know, what president is going to take 10, 12 hours, 15 hours of your mother's time.
1:11.8	So you give the book to get mom out of your hair.
1:14.4	Just give her a book.
1:15.2	No, no.
1:16.0	No, but she'll, if you pick one of these books that we're going to recommend, she'll love it.
1:21.4	And as she reads it, she'll think about you.
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