- Motherhood
- Creating with God: The Holy, Messy Blessedness of Pregnancy (Sarah Jobe)
- Peaceful Parent, Happy Kid: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting (Laura Markham)
- The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birth Year (Louise Erdrich) (also here)
- What Mothers Do: Especially When It Looks Like Nothing (Naomi Stadlen)
- Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son’s First Year (Anne Lamott)
- Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear (Kim Brooks)
- Homemaking
- A Mother’s Rule of Life: How to Bring Order to Your Home and Peace to Your Soul (Holly Pierlot)
- Keeping House: The Litany of Everyday Life (Margaret Kim Peterson)
- Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture (Shannon Hayes)
- Faith
- In this House of Brede (Rumer Godden)
- Lost in the Cosmos: A Last Self-Help Book (Walker Percy)
- St Patrick’s Summer: An Adventure Catechism (Marigold Hunt)
- The Heart of Perfection: How the Saints Taught Me to Trade My of Perfect for God’s (Colleen Carroll Campbell)
- Literature You Should Read Because You Are Alive In This Beautiful World
- Anne of Green Gables and also while you’re at it Anne of the Island, Rilla of Ingleside and The Blue Castle at a very minimum.
- Gilead, the most beautiful book without a plot of all time.
- Persuasion or Mansfield Park or Sense and Sensibility but probably all six Austens to be on the safe side.
- The Secret Garden to better believe in magic.
- Alas, Babylon to remember the world can be rebuilt and saved.
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