Best Homeschooling Books
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1 The Well-Trained Mind: A Gu...
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4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 2,543 ratings
2 A Thomas Jefferson Educatio...
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 1,769 ratings
3 Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden...
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 2,259 ratings
4 How Children Learn
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 972 ratings
5 The Original Homeschooling ...
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4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 221 ratings
6 Teach Your Own: The John Ho...
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 640 ratings
7 How to Read a Book: The Cla...
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 3,193 ratings
8 Educating the Wholehearted ...
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 385 ratings
9 Project-Based Homeschooling...
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4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 87 ratings
10 For the Children's Sake
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 701 ratings
11 360 Degrees Longitude: One ...
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 398 ratings
12 Teach Ye Diligently
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4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 513 ratings
13 Leadership Education: The P...
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4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 299 ratings
14 A Thomas Jefferson Educatio...
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 402 ratings
15 The Teenage Liberation Hand...
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 694 ratings
16 Thomas Jefferson Education ...
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4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 135 ratings
17 Teach the Children: An Agen...
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4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 48 ratings
18 The Well-Educated Mind: A G...
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3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 1,028 ratings
19 Home Learning Year by Year:...
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3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 316 ratings
20 Last Child in the Woods: Sa...
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3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 4,545 ratings
21 You Are Your Child's First ...
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4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 532 ratings
22 The Complete Home Learning ...
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 55 ratings
23 The Three R's
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4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 186 ratings
24 Honey for a Child's Heart: ...
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4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 938 ratings
25 Handbook of Nature Study
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4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 249 ratings
26 Free Range Learning How Hom...
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 107 ratings
27 Learning All The Time
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4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 467 ratings
28 Homeschooling for Excellence
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3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 217 ratings
29 Your Child's Growing Mind: ...
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4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 125 ratings
29 Carry On, Mr. Bowditch
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 5,388 ratings
31 A Charlotte Mason Companion...
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4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 771 ratings
32 More Charlotte Mason Educat...
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3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 151 ratings
33 Instead of Education: Ways ...
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 201 ratings
34 Pocketful Of Pinecones: Nat...
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 148 ratings
35 The Latin-Centered Curricul...
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 82 ratings
36 The Unschooling Handbook: H...
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3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 527 ratings
37 Teaching the Trivium: Chris...
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 103 ratings
38 Games for Reading
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 41 ratings
39 Discipline That Lasts a Lif...
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 78 ratings
40 The Way They Learn
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 363 ratings
41 Zuto: The Adventures of a C...
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4.54 of 5 stars 4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
41 Year of Little Lesson Plans
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4.95 of 5 stars 4.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
43 How Children Fail
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4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 669 ratings
44 The Successful Homeschool F...
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3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 164 ratings
45 Boys Adrift: The Five Facto...
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 1,548 ratings
46 Family Matters: Why Homesch...
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 231 ratings
47 Teaching Montessori in the ...
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 311 ratings
48 Do Hard Things: A Teenage R...
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4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 4,013 ratings
49 Teach Your Kids to Think!: ...
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3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings
50 A Charlotte Mason Education...
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3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 401 ratings
51 How to Tutor Your Own Child...
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3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 31 ratings
52 The Core: Teaching Your Chi...
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 189 ratings
52 Cellular Biology: Organelle...
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4.74 of 5 stars 4.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
54 A Little Way of Homeschooling
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4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 48 ratings
54 Chemistry: The Atom and Ele...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings
56 Reading Magic: Why Reading ...
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 743 ratings
57 A Philosophy of Education
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4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 61 ratings
58 Parenting a Free Child: An ...
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 67 ratings
59 The Unprocessed Child: Livi...
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3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 50 ratings
59 And the Skylark Sings with Me
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3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 105 ratings
61 Teach Me to Do It Myself: M...
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4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 147 ratings
62 Poetic Knowledge: The Recov...
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4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings
63 Catholic Home Schooling
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3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 35 ratings
63 How to Raise an Amazing Chi...
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3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 445 ratings
63 Way to Be!: 9 Rules For Liv...
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4.64 of 5 stars 4.64 avg rating — 4,737 ratings
66 D'Aulaires' Book of Greek M...
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4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 6,926 ratings
67 Cultural Literacy: What Eve...
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3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 553 ratings
68 Why Johnny Can't Tell Right...
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4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
68 You're a Better Parent Than...
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
70 Why Gender Matters: What Pa...
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4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 954 ratings
71 A Thomas Jefferson Educatio...
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 23 ratings
72 Homeschoolers' College Admi...
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4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
73 In His Steps
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4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 7,840 ratings
74 Great Yarns for the Close K...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
74 The Education Of The Heart:...
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3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings
76 I'm Not Your Friend, I'm Yo...
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3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 16 ratings
77 The Latin-Centered Curricul...
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 82 ratings
77 The Pig in the Pantry: and ...
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 40 ratings
77 Neverdark
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4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 90 ratings
77 Home Schooling: The Right C...
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3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 28 ratings
77 The Heart of Wisdom Teachin...
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4.52 of 5 stars 4.52 avg rating — 21 ratings
77 Teen Life: Everything a Tee...
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4.62 of 5 stars 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
77 Home Is Where the Learning Is
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4.6 of 5 stars 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
77 Born To Learn
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3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
77 Homeschooling Our Children,...
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3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 165 ratings
77 Awaken the Genius in Your C...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
87 Homeschool Genesis:  A Stor...
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3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
87 Rudiments of America's Chri...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
87 Ten P's in a Pod: The Milli...
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4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 142 ratings
87 Knowing and Teaching Elemen...
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4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings
87 Waldorf Community Exchange:...
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
87 Cellular Biology: Organelle...
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4.74 of 5 stars 4.74 avg rating — 19 ratings
93 Wisdom's way of learning
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4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
93 Joan of Arc
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3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 127 ratings
93 Keeping the Kids: How to Ke...
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4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
93 The Writer's Jungle: A Surv...
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4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
93 Immersion Mastery
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5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
98 Writing Road to Reading 5th...
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3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings
98 A Picture Perfect Childhood
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4.72 of 5 stars 4.72 avg rating — 18 ratings
98 Recovering the Lost Tools
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4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 326 ratings
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message 1: by Myranda (new)

Myranda Wow - it's so hard to put these in a particular order! There are so many that are wonderful -- I *may* be able to choose which are in the top 10, but those first 10 run pretty close!:-)

Thanks for the new list:-)


message 2: by Victoria (new)

Victoria Obviously a lot has changed since I homeschooled my kids 30 or so years ago. We called it unschooling then; taking kids out of rigid public schools and letting them find the joy of learning. FYI, they turned out OK. One's a research chemist, one became a George Mason Scholar at GMU and one is a terrific Mom. All are high achievers:)


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