2015 Book List: Completed

• The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief & Healing - Ed. Kevin Young
• The Taste of Country Cooking - Edna Lewis
• Raising Real Men - Hal and Melanie Young
• Twelve Recipes - Cal Peternell
• For the Children's Sake - Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (audio)
• Brown Eggs and Jam Jars - Aimee Wimbush-Bourque
• Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe (audio)
• One Good Dish - David Tanis
• Life Skills for Kids: Equipping Your Child for the Real World - Christine Field
• Mansfield Park - Jane Austen (audio)
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Help for the Harried Homeschooler: A Practical Guide to Balancing Your Child's Education with the Rest of Your Life - Christine Field
• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children - Ross Greene
• Notes from a Blue Bike: The Art of Living Intentionally in a Chaotic World - Tsh Oxenreider
• Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition - Ramiel Nagel
• Boys Should Be Boys: 7 Secrets to Raising Healthy Sons - Meg Meeke

2014 Booklist: Completed

• Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles : Winning for a Lifetime - Mary Sheedy Kurcinka
• Better Late than Early: A New Approach to Your Child's Education - Moore & Moore
• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children - Ross W. Greene
• Emily Dickinson: An Interpretive Biography - Thomas H. Johnson
• Between the Woods and the Water: On Foot to Constantinople: From The Middle Danube to the Iron Gates - Patrick Leigh Fermor (first chapter only, would like to read in full)
• The Way of Boys: Promoting the Social and Emotional Development of Young Boys - Anthony Rao
• Practical Paleo: A Customized Approach to Health and Whole-Foods Lifestyle - Diane Sanfilippo
• Nurture by Nature: Understand Your Child's Personality Type - And Become a Better Parent - Tieger & Barron-Tieger
• The Nourished Kitchen: Farm-to-Table Recipes for the Traditional Foods Lifestyle - Jennifer McGruther
• MotherStyles: Using Personality Type to Discover Your Parenting Strengths - Janet Penley
• Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences - Leonard Sax
• A Woman's Journey Round the World - Ida Laura Pfeiffer (audio) (half-done)
• The Elliott Homestead: From Scratch: Traditional, whole-foods dishes for easy, everyday meals - Shaye Elliot
• Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child - Anthony Esolen
• Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (audio)
• A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (audio)
• Coriolanus - William Shakespeare (audio)
• Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men - Leonard Sax
• Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne (audio)
• Mitten Strings for God: Reflections for Mothers in a Hurry - Katrina Kenison
• The Heart of Learning - Lawrence Williams
• The Call to Brilliance - Resa Steindel Brown (skimmed)
• Take My Advice: Letters to the Next Generation from People Who Know a Thing or Two - James L. Harmon
• Family Feasts for $75 a Week - Mary Ostyn
• The Sane Mother's Guide to Raising a Large Family - Mary Ostyn
• Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers (audio)
• Fed Up with Frenzy: Slow Parenting in a Fast-Moving World - Susan Sachs Lipman
• The Stay-at-Home Survival Guide: Field-Tested Strategies for Staying Smart, Sane, and Connected While Caring for Your Kids - Melissa Stanton
• The Cat of Bubastes - G.A. Henty (audio)

2013 Booklist: Completed

• Heidi - Johanna Spyri (audio)
• Ladled: Nourishing Soups for All Seasons - Kimberly Harris
• Minimalist Parenting: Enjoy Modern Family Life More by Doing Less - Kristine Koh, Asha Dornfest
• Healing Spices: How to Use 50 Everyday and Exotic Spices to Boost Health and Beat Disease - Bharat B. Aggarwal, Debora Yost
• Future Men - Douglas Wilson
• Stay Home, Stay Happy: 10 Secrets to Loving At-Home Motherhood: Rachel Campos-Duffy
• Slow Family Living - Bernadette Noll
• Little Lord Fauntleroy - Francis Hodgson Burnett (audio)
• Good Poems - Selected by Garrison Keillor (audio)
• Skellig - David Almond (audio)
• The Golden Compass - Phillip Pullman (audio)
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini (audio)
• The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen: Nourishing, Big-Flavor Recipes for Cancer Treatment and Recovery - Rebecca Katz
• A Christmas Blizzard - Garrison Keillor (audio)
• Your 8 Year Old - Louise Bates Ames
• Not Your Mother's Make-ahead and Freeze Cookbook - Jessica Fisher
• Storey's Guide to Raising Poultry - Glenn Drowns
• Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks - Dave Holderread
• The Help - Katherine Stockett (audio)
• Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier (audio)
• The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (audio)
• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne (audio)
• Happier at Home: Kiss More, Jump More, Abandon a Project, Read Samuel Johnson, and My Other Experiments in the Practice of Everyday Life - Gretchen Rubin
• Room with a View - E.M. Forster (audio)
• Anne of Avonlea - L.M. Montegomery (audio)
• Hatchet - Gary Paulsen (audio)
• Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense - David Guterson
• The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom - Mary Griffith
• Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (audio)
• The Cricket in Times Square - George Selden (Read Aloud)
• Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montegomery (audio)
• The Wilder Life: My Adventures in the Lost World of Little House on the Prairie - Wendy McClure
• Lengendary Learning: The Famous Homeschoolers' Guide to Self-Directed Excellence - Jamie McMillin
• The Horse and His Boy - C.S. Lewis (audio)
• Your Five Year Old: Sunny and Serene - Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg
• Your Two Year Old: Terrible or Tender - Louise Bates Ames, Frances Ilg Your Seven Year Old: Life in a Minor Key - Louise Bates Ames, Frances Ilg

2012 Booklist: Completed

• One Whaling Family: A Stirring Adventure - the Authentic Account of a Great Whaling Captain Who Took His Family to Sea - Edited by Harold Williams
• Mortality - Christopher Hitchens
• Why? - Tomie DePaola (Read Aloud)
• Salted: A Manifesto on the World's Most Essential Mineral, with Recipes - Mark Bitterman
• Food in Jars: Preserving in Small Batches Year-Round - Marisa MeClellan
• The Preservation Kitchen: The Craft of Making and Cooking with Pickles, Preserves, and Aigre-doux - Paul Virant, Kate Leahy
• A Householder's Guide to the Universe: A Calendar of Basics for the Home and Beyond - Harriet Fasenfest
• Your One Year Old: The Fun-Loving, Fussy 12 to 24 Month Old - Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg
• Your Four Year Old: Wild and Wonderful - Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg
• Your Six Year Old: Loving and Defiant - Louise Bates Ames, Frances L. Ilg
• Chez Panisse Cafe Cookbook - Alice Waters
• I'm Still Scared - Tomie DePaola (Read Aloud)
• An Invitation to Indian Cooking - Madhury Jaffrey (again)
• Things Will Never Be the Same - Tomie DePaola (Read Aloud)
• The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home - Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Bauer
• Bringing Up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting - Pamela Druckerman
• The King of the Golden River - John Ruskin (Read Aloud)
• A Charlotte Mason Education - Catherine Levison
• A Home Start in Reading - Ruth Beechick
• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C.S. Lewis (Read Aloud)
• What a Year - Tomie DePaola (Read Aloud)
• On My Way - Tomie DePaola (Read Aloud)
• The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking - Kate Payne
• Fat: An Appreciation of a Misunderstood Ingredient, with Recipes - Jennifer McLagan
• The Essential Oils Handbook: All the Oils You Will Ever Need for Health, Vitality and Well-Being - Jennie Harding
• The Mystery of the Periodic Table - Benjamin D. Wiker
• Here We All Are - Tomie dePaola (Read Aloud)
• 26 Fairmount Avenue - Tomie dePaola (Read Aloud)
• The Complete Illustrated Guide to Aromatherapy: A Practical Approach to the Use of Essential Oils for Health & Well-being - Julia Lawless
• Earthly Bodies & Heavenly Hair: Natural and Healthy Bodycare for Every Body - Dina Falconi

2011 Booklist: Completed

Tart and Sweet: 101 Canning and Pickling Recipes for the Modern Kitchen - Kelly Geary & Jessie Knadler When Children Love to Learn: A Practical Application of Charlotte Mason's Philosophy for Today - Elaine Cooper Curly Girl: The Handbook - Lorraine Massey The Joy of Pickling - Linda Ziedrich The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had - Susan Wise Bauer A Literary Education - Catherine Levison Well-Preserved: Recipes and Techniques for Putting Up Small Batches of Seasonal Foods - Eugenia Bone The Lives of the Great Composers - Harold C. Schonberg The Great Composers - Wendy Thompson The Great Composers - Jeremy Nicholas 50 Artists You Should Know - Thomas Koster and Lars Roper Put 'em Up!: A Comprehensive Home Preserving Guide for the Creative Cook, from Drying and Freezing to Canning and Pickling - Sheri Brooks Vinton The Art of Simple Food: Notes, Lessons, and Recipes from a Delicious Revolution - Alice Waters Handmade Home: Simple Ways to Repurpose Old Materials into New Family Treasures - Amanda Blake Soule Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty - Mark Winne The Cloud Collector's Handbook - Gavin Pretor-Pinney Inside Picture Books - Dr. Ellen Handler Spitz Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race, and Themselves - Edited by Camille Peri and Kate Moses Steady Days: A Journey Toward Intentional, Professional Motherhood - Jamie Martin Making Great Cheese: 30 Simple Recipes from Cheddare to Chevre - Barbara Ciletti Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking - Madhur Jaffrey An Invitation to Indian Cooking - Madhur Jaffrey The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl - Ree Drummond The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels -- A Love Story - Ree Drummond Organized Simplicity: The Clutter-Free Approach to Intentional Living - Tsh Oxenreider She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana - Haven Kimmel The Adventures of Peter Cottontail - Thornton W. Burgess (Read Aloud) Lady Lollipop - Dick King-Smith (Read Aloud) The Adventures of Johnny Chuck - Thornton W. Burgess (Read Aloud) The Adventures of Reddy Fox - Thornton W. Burgess (Read Aloud) Mothers Who Think: Tales Of Real-life Parenthood - Edited by Camille Peri and Kate Moses

2010 Booklist: Completed

• The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun - Gretchen Rubin
• The Idle Parent: Why Laid-Back Parents Raise Happier and Healthier Kids - Tom Hodgekinson
• Home Education - Charlotte Mason
• Full Moon Feast: Food and the Hunger for Connection - Jessica Prentice
• A Charlotte Mason Education - Catherine Levison
• My Grandmother's Chinese Kitchen: 100 Family Recipes and Life Lessons - Eileen Yin-Fei Lo
• The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food -- Before the National Highway System, Before Chain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When the Nation's Food Was Seasonal - Mark Kurlansky
•  More Charlotte Mason Education - Catherine Levison
• A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning - Karen Andreola
• The Lost Art of Real Cooking: Rediscovering the Pleasures of Traditional Food One Recipe at a Time - Ken Albala and Rosanna Nafziger
• Little Heathens: Hard Times and High Spirits on an Iowa Farm During the Great Depression - Mildred Armstrong Kalish
• Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition - Ramiel Nagel
• The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History - Katherine Ashenburg
• Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems 1991-1995 - Hayden Carruth
• The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry (half-done, savoring it for later)
• The Fourfold Path to Healing: Working the Laws of Nutrition, Therapeutics, Movement and Meditation in the Art of Medicine - Thomas S. Cowan, MD with Sally Fallon and Jaimen McMillan
• Glass Ceilings and 100-Hour Couples: What the Opt-Out Phenomenon Can Teach Us about Work and Family - Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy
• Feeding the Whole Family: Recipes for Babies, Young Children, and Their Parents - Cynthia Lair
• Preserving Food Withouth Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation - The Gardners and Farmers of Terre Vivante
• Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition for a New Era - Boston Women's Health Book Collective
• Food and Loathing: A Lament - Betsy Lerner
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World - Michael Pollan
• Keeping Bees: A Complete Practical Guide - Paul Peacock
• The Secret Garden Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Frances Hodgson Burnett's THE SECRET GARDEN - Amy Cotler

READ ALOUD

• Old Mother West Wind - Thornton W. Burgess
• Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie, Edited and Abridged by Josette Frank
• The Trolley Car Family - Eleanor Clymer
• Winnie-the-Pooh - A.A. Milne
• Stuart Little - E.B. White
• The Brownies: Their Book - Palmer Cox
• My Father's Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett
• Elmer and the Dragon - Ruth Stiles Gannett
• The Dragons of Blueland - Ruth Stiles Gannett
• Mr. Popper's Penguins - Richard Atwater and Florence Atwater
• Alice for the Very Young - Lewis Carroll
• The Secret Garden - Francis Hodgson Burnett

2009 Booklist: Completed

• The Boxcar Children - Gertrude Chandler Warner (Read Aloud)
• The Family Under the Bridge - Natalie Savage Carlson (Read Aloud)
• The Complete Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
• Crocodile Gene and His Friends - Eduard Uspenski (Read Aloud)
• The Orchard: A Memoir - Adele Crockett Robertson
• Charlotte's Web - E.B. White (Read Aloud)
• The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved: Inside America's Underground Food Movements - Sandor Ellix Katz
• Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life - Pamela Smith Hill
• Kitchen Literacy: How We Lost Knowledge of Where Food Comes From and Why We Need to Get It Back - Ann Vileisis
• By the Shores of Silver Lake - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Read Aloud)
• The More With Less Cookbook - Doris Janzen Longacre
• Birth Order and You: How Your Sex and Position in the Family Afftects Your Personality and Relationships - Richardson & Richardson
• Garden of Eating: A Produce-dominated Diet and Cookbook - Rachel Albert-Matesz and Don Matesz
• On the Banks of Plum Creek - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Read Aloud)
• Farmer Boy - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Read Aloud)
• Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis - Kim Todd
• Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Read Aloud)
• The Good Women of China: Hidden Voices - Xinran
• Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods - Sandor Ellix Katz
• Little House in the Big Woods - Laura Ingalls Wilder (Read Aloud)
• Fundamentals of Homeschooling: Notes on Successful Family Living - Ann Lahrson-Fisher
• The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections - Amanda Blake Soule
• Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three - Paula Polk Lillard, Lynn Lillard Jessen
• Skinny Bitch - Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin
• Real Food: What to Eat and Why - Nina Planck
• Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India - Madhur Jaffrey
• Food is Your Best Medicine - Harvey Bieler, MD
• Dr. Jensen's Better Bowel Care: A Complete Program for Tissue Cleansing through Bowel Management - Bernard Jensen
• French Women Don't Get Fat - Mireille Guiliano
• Your Vital Child: The Ultimate Resource for Using Food, Vitamins, Herbs, and Other Natural Methods to Make Your Children the Healthiest They Can Be - Mark and Angela Stengler, N.D.s
• The Well-Adjusted Child: The Social Benefits of Homeschooling - Rachel Gathercole
• Riding Shotgun: Women Write About Their Mothers - Edited by Kathryn Kysar
• Allergy and Candida Cooking: Understanding and Implementing Plans for Healing - Sondra Lewis
• Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence - David Keirsey
• Books That Build Character: A Guide to Teaching Your Child Moral Values Through Stories - Kilpatrick, Wolfe, Wolfe
• What is the What? - Dave Eggers
• The Self-sufficient Life and How To Live It: The Complete Back-to-basics Guide - John Seymour
• The Heart Can Be Filled Anywhere on Earth - Bill Holm
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows
• No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies - Naomi Klein
• The Contrary Farmer - Gene Logsdon

2008 Booklist: Completed

• Chez Panisse Vegetables - Alice Waters
• The Heirloom Tomato From Garden to Table: Recipes, Portraits, and History of the World's Most Beautiful Fruit - Amy Goldman, Photographs by Victor Schrager
• The Read-Aloud Handbook - Jim Trelease (2007 Edition)
• The Compleat Squash: A Passionate Grower's Guide to Pumpkins, Squashes, and Gourds -Amy Goldman
• Good Poems: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor
• Sugar Blues - William Dufty
• The Music of Failure - Bill Holm
• Mable Riley: A Reliable Record of Humdrum, Peril, and Romance - Marthe Jocelyn
• The Read-Aloud Handbook - Jim Trelease (1983 Edition)
• The Dead Get By With Everything - poems by Bill Holm
• Shipwrecked! The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy - Shoda Blumberg
• Author Talk - Compiled and Edited by Leonard S. Marcus
• Boxelder Bug Variations: A Meditation on an Idea in Language and Music - Bill Holm
• The Happiest Toddler on the Block - Harvey Karp
• Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health - Toni Weschler
• Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Wisdom and Virtues - Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by Stephen Hines
• Writings to Young Women from Laura Ingalls Wilder: On Life as a Pioneer Woman - Laura Ingalls Wilder, edited by Stephen Hines
• Positive Discipline for Preschoolers - Nelsen, Erwin, & Duffy
• The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships - Harriet Lerner, Ph.D.
• Many Thousand Gone: African Americans from Slavery to Freedom - Virginia Hamilton, Illustrated by Leo and Diane Dillon
• Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care - Jennifer Block
• In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto - Michael Pollan
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals - Michael Pollan
• Plain Secrets: An Outsider among the Amish - Joe Mackall
• Storey's Guide to RAISING CHICKENS - Gail Damerow
• Chickens: Tending a Small-Scale Flock for Pleasure and Profit - Sue Weaver
• The Cast Iron Skillet Cookbook - Sharon Kramis & Julie Kramis Hearne
• Smart Soapmaking: The Simple Guide to Making Traditional Handmade Soap Quickly, Safely, and Reliably, or How to Make Luxurious Handcrafted Soaps for Family, Friends, and Yourself - Anne L. Watson
• AFFLUENZA - De Graaf, Wann, & Naylor
• The Discipline Book - Sears & Sears
• Honey for a Woman's Heart - Gladys Hunt
• Good Poems: Selected and Introduced by Garrison Keillor