library of a book worm

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little country mama book bliss on the front porch swing

another homeschool year is in the books (year nine, and going strong).

2020 was full of mayhem, mystery and miracles. buried within the changes and challenges, life revealed some pretty incredible blessings to each of us⚡️⛈☀️🌱🌈

somewhere near the top of our list of blessings was the fact that both our kiddos suddenly fell head over heels in love with reading. a dream come true for this mama!! (who reads religiously every single night and devours 3-5 books simultaneously // 50+ books a year)

loving to read = constant learning + growing // the ability to expand your mind + life // discovering new sides of yourself // teaching yourself anything ⚡️🔭🪁💡🧩🐛🦋📖🔬🧠🕸🤹🗝

books have *literally* changed my life over and over and over again. and i wanted to share some of my biggest change-makers.

hallelujah for the written word!! 🙌 and enormous gratitude for being a modern human, with the sum total of all human knowledge at our fingertips 📖📱

here are some of the top books that have changed my life 😍

SOUL-STIRRING NOVELS

1. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley

2. The Red Tent, Anita Diamant

3. The Fifth Sacred Thing, Starhawk

4. The Boudica Series, Manda Scott

5. Outlander, Diana Gabaldon

6. Dune, Frank Herbert

7. The Dovekeepers, Alice Hoffman

8. The Overstory, Richard Powers

9. Circe, Madeline Miller

10. Wild, Cheryl Strayed

11. The Great Alone, Kristin Hannah

12. Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel

13. The Pillars of the Earth series, Ken Follett

14. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

15. Maiden Voyage, Tania Aebi

16. The Birth House, Ami McKay

nightstand wizardry

used book store magic <3

SPIRITUAL WAYSHOWERS

1. Nature and the Human Soul, Bill Plotkin

2. Be Here Now, Ram Dass

3. Inner Engineering, Sadhguru

4. Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

5. Cosmos, Carl Sagan

6. The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron

7. The Presence Process, Michael Brown

8. Feeling is the Secret, Neville Goddard

9. The Way of the Shaman, Michael Harner

10. Awakening to the Spirit World, Sandra Ingerman

11. Black Elk Speaks, John G. Neihardt

12. The Magdalen Manuscript, Tom Kenyon + Judi Sion

13. The Sorcerer’s Crossing, Taisha Abelar

14. Traveler’s Joy, Juliette de Baircly Levy

15. The Secret Language of Birthdays

16. Plant Intelligence and the Imaginal Realm, Stephen Harrod Buhner

17. Living in the Light, Shakti Gawain

18. The Places That Scare You, Pema Chodron

19. Wherever You Go, There You Are, Jon Kabbat-Zinn

the kiddos + their 2020 books

not pictured: countless audio, library + picture books

reading together is the foundation of our homeschool

FAMILY FAVORITES

1. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

2. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

3. Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne

4. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkein

5. The Lord of the Rings Series, J.R.R. Tolkein

6. The Chronicles of Narnia Series, C.S. Lewis

7. The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling

8. The Percy Jackson Series, Rick Riordan

9. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

10. The Borrowers, Mary Norton

11. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

12. The Call of the Wild, Jack London

13. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh, Robert O’Brien

14. Matilda, Roald Dahl

15. The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman

MOTHERING INSPIRATION

1. Nature’s Children, Juliette de Baircly Levy

2. Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives, Deepak Chopra

3. There’s No Such Things as Bad Weather, Linda Akeson McGurk

4. The Call of the Wild + Free, Ainsley Arment

5. Free-Range Kids, Lenore Skenazy

6. Spiritual Midwifery, Ina May Gaskin

7. The Continuum Concept, Jean Liedloff

8. Magical Child, Joseph Chilton Pearce

9. Spirit Babies: How to Communicate with the Child You’re Meant to Have, Walter Makichen

10. Sacred Birthing: Birthing a New Humanity, Sunni Karll

mama's 2020 stack

in a forever love affair with quotes

garden bounty // green bean bookmark

HEALING / BODY CONSCIOUSNESS

1. Becoming Supernatural, Dr. Joe Dispenza

2. Anatomy of the Spirit, Caroline Myss

3. Maps to Ecstasy, Gabrielle Roth

4. The Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton

5. Vibrational Medicine, Richard Gerber

6. Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field, Barbara Brennan

7. Luminous Life, Jacob Liberman

8. Ayurveda: The Science of Self-Healing, Dr. V Lad

9. Bodymind, Ken Dychtwold 

10. Molecules of Emotion, Candace Pert

11. Nonviolent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg

YOGIC TEACHINGS

1. Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramhansa Yogananda

2. The Bhagavad Gita, Easwaran

3. Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar

4. Pranayama: The Breath of Yoga, Gregor Maehle

5. Moola Bandha: The Master Key, Swami Satyananda Saraswati

6. Hatha Yoga Pradapika, Swami Muktibodhananda