Let’s talk books today. Specifically: motherhood + parenting books.
Good books are timeless. I’m thankful I can continue to find comfort in reading good books that encourage and teach me new things.
In fact, I find myself constantly sending my sister book recommendations on motherhood and parenting now that she has a toddler running around – the cutest niece on the planet, if I may so boldly add.
But she lives across the country so while I wish I could be there to help her navigate early motherhood in person, books have become my way of showing up for her from afar.
Our conversations go a bit like this:
Her: "I don't know what I'm doing."
Me: "Same. 😂 Here are a couple books that won't fix it but will hopefully make you feel less alone and that really helped me during those exact stages of early motherhood." 🥰
These books have comforted me, challenged me, and encouraged me through every season of parenting these past 15+ years.
I've learned that leaning on the wisdom found in these pages is akin to reading Psalms or Proverbs over and over again (which I highly recommend as well)!
And if you're curious about what I'm reading right now, I've also listed my current fall reads below.
Timeless MOTHERHOOD BOOKS:
Check out the entire booklist here or they are listed individually below:
Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul
Parenting Teens with Love and Logic
Priorities: Tyranny of the Urgent
Mere Motherhood: Morning Times, Nursery Rhymes, & My Journey Toward Sanctification
Mom Heart Moments: Daily Devotions for Lifegiving Motherhood
Eve in Exile and the Restoration of Femininity
Calm My Anxious Heart: A Woman's Guide to Finding Contentment
Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
What Do You Really Want for Your Children?
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
The Courage to Be Disliked: A single book can change your life
Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World
Devoted: Great Men and Their Godly Moms
Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Power of Less to Raise Happy, Secure Children
Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity
The Practice of the Presence of God
Adamant: Finding Truth in a Universe of Opinions
Boy Mom: What Your Son Needs Most from You
Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life
Finding Selah: The Simple Practice of Peace When You Need It Most
Hopefully this list comes your way at a good time as you’re on the hunt for holiday gift ideas for yourself or a dear friend. 💝
fall BOOKS:
Trust God, Love People: Stories of My Openhanded Faith
The Dynamic Power of Obedience: An Essential Christian Practice for Bearing Fruit
Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God
The Wreath (Kristin Lavransdatter, #1)
The Wife (Kristin Lavransdatter, #2)
Anne of Green Gables (we finally finished!)
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
What Stalks the Deep (Sworn Soldier, #3)
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore
You can find a few more books I've read on my Amazon list here, but I do want to mention that those titles include content warnings and/or contain content that doesn't align with our Christian beliefs.
I've really enjoyed this season of reading and hope you are too!