*Giveaway closed. Thanks to all who entered!*
I have loved reading for as long as I can remember. As a child I gravitated toward fiction, and now I gravitate toward nonfiction, but I try to be intentional about reading a little bit of everything (I leave the business books to my husband though! He gives me the cliff-note version). As an adult, I learned to love poetry alongside my kids.
I wanted to put together some of my favorite books AND do a giveaway. One of you will have the chance to win one of the books below! Sign up at the top of this post, and on October 15, I will pick a winner. You can pick whichever book you'd like, and I will send it your way! I love knowing that a book I love will be read and loved by another person! At the bottom of this post, you can find a downloadable PDF with all of these books listed, alongside their covers, so you can save for your own use.
Parenting/Motherhood:
- Rewilding Motherhood by Shannon K. Evans
- She Deserves Better by Sheila Wray Gregoire
- A Place to Belong by Amber O’Neal Johnston
- Raising Good Humans by Hunter Clarke-Fields
- Parenting Forward by Cindy Wang Brandt
- Whole and Healthy Family by Jodi Mockabee
- Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman
Homeschooling:
- For the Children’s Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
- The Call of the Wild + Free by Ainsley Arment
- Modern Miss Mason by Leah Boden
- Home Education by Charlotte Mason
- Mindful Learning by Craig Hassed
Relationships:
- Boundaries by Henry Cloud
- Belonging by Toko-pa Turner
Womanhood:
- The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr
- The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
- Defiant by Kelley Nikondeha
Spirituality/Christianity:
- The Reckless Way of Love by Dorothy Day
- The Very Good Gospel by Lisa Sharon Harper
- Jesus and John Wayne by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
- How the Bible Actually Works by Peter Enns
- Inspired by Rachel Held Evans
- Jesus of Nazareth by Dorothee Soelle
Fiction:
- Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
- The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
- The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi Dare
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Divorce:
- Better Than Okay by Brandi Wilson
- Is It Me? By Natalie Hoffman
Healthy You!:
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary L. McBride
- No Bad Parts by Richard C. Schwartz
- Eastern Body, Western Mind by Anodea Judith
Memoir/Nonfiction Storytelling:
- After the Last Border by Jessica Doudeau
- The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
- I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
- Educated by Tara Westover
- All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore
Poetry/Essay:
- Walking on Water by Madeleine L’Engle
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Devotions by Mary Oliver
- Susceptible to Light by Chalen Harkin
- What Kind of Woman by Kate Baer
If you're interested in downloading this list for your own use, you can click here to view or print the PDF!
Yay! This is an amazing list. Thank you for sharing and for including my book. - Amber