📚 20+ Motherhood Books That Changed How I Parent (+ Fall Reads)

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

Ordering Your Private World

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 Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know About Raising Confident, Capable Kids

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. 💝