Parenting and Family

Raising children, family relationships, caregiving and the domestic side of a life. Read by parents and by anyone negotiating obligations to the people they live with.

78 books

Books 78

Generation to Generation

T1 Generation to Generation

Kelin E. Gersick, John A. Davis, Marion McCollom Hampton, Ivan Lansberg · 1997 · The three-circle model; the founding text of family-business study.

Keeping the Family Business Healthy

T2 Keeping the Family Business Healthy

John L. Ward · 1987 · Growth, succession and ownership planning; the field's first practical manual.

T2 Family Wealth

James E. Hughes Jr. · 1997 · Human and intellectual capital as what a family actually preserves.

The Nurture Assumption

T2 The Nurture Assumption

Judith Rich Harris · 1998 · Challenges the evidence that parenting shapes adult outcomes

Michael Mauboussin

Lisa Brennan-Jobs · 2018 · Memoir by his daughter; the closest thing to a private record.

Andrew Wilkinson Vlad Tenev

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

T4 Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son

George Horace Lorimer · 1902

Mohnish Pabrai Ryan Holiday

T4 Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown · 1947

Arianna Huffington

Where the Wild Things Are

T4 Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak · 1963

Richard Branson

How to Teach Your Baby to Read

T4 How to Teach Your Baby to Read

Glenn Doman · 1964

The Giving Tree

T4 The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein · 1964

Alexis Ohanian Mark Zuckerberg

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Goo

T4 Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Judith Viorst · 1972

One Monster After Another

T4 One Monster After Another

Mercer Mayer · 1974

How to Teach Your Baby Math

T4 How to Teach Your Baby Math

Glenn Doman · 1979

Prisoners of Childhood

T4 Prisoners of Childhood

Alice Miller · 1981

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search fo

T4 The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

Alice Miller, Ruth Ward · 1981

Mohnish Pabrai Tim Ferriss

Don’t Shoot the Dog!

T4 Don’t Shoot the Dog!

Karen Pryor · 1984

Naval Ravikant Nir Eyal Tim Ferriss Tristan Harris

Oh, the Places You'll Go!

T4 Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Dr. Seuss · 1990

Richard Branson

Parenting With Love and Logic

T4 Parenting With Love and Logic

Foster Cline · 1990

Teach Your Child How To Think

T4 Teach Your Child How To Think

Edward De Bono · 1990

Uncommon Sense for Parents With Teenagers

T4 Uncommon Sense for Parents With Teenagers

Michael Riera · 1995

Mars and Venus in Love

T4 Mars and Venus in Love

John Gray · 1996

T4 Raising Boys

Steve Biddulph · 1998

The Barefoot Investor

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Wor

T4 The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

John Gottman, Nan Silver · 1999

Andrew Wilkinson Superbook reading lists

Field Guide to the American Teenager: A Pare

T4 Field Guide to the American Teenager: A Parent's Companion

Joseph Di Prisco, Michael. Riera · 2000

The Scientist in the Crib

T4 The Scientist in the Crib

Alison Gopnik · 2000

Steve Jurvetson

What a Difference a Daddy Makes - The Lastin

T4 What a Difference a Daddy Makes - The Lasting Imprint a Dad Leaves on His Daughter's Life

Kevin Leman · 2000

The Book With No Pictures

T4 The Book With No Pictures

B.J. Novak · 2001

Good Night, Little Bear

T4 Good Night, Little Bear

Patsy Scarry · 2004

Leslie Patricelli · 2005

Addiction Proof Your Child

T4 Addiction Proof Your Child

Stanton Peele · 2007

Loving Every Child

T4 Loving Every Child

Janusz Korczak · 2007

A Gift to My Children

T4 A Gift to My Children

Jim Rogers · 2009 · Also issued as A Gift to My Daughters.

Free-Range Kids

T4 Free-Range Kids

Lenore Skenazy · 2009

Michael Lewis · 2009

Andrew Wilkinson Sheryl Sandberg

Losing Mum and Pup

T4 Losing Mum and Pup

Christopher Buckley · 2009

Andrew Wilkinson

The Five Love Languages

T4 The Five Love Languages

Gary Chapman · 2009

Patrick Bet-David

Heroes for My Son

T4 Heroes for My Son

Brad Meltzer · 2010

The Conscious Parent

T4 The Conscious Parent

Shefali Tsabary · 2010

Hervé Tullet · 2011

Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

T4 Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

Bryan Caplan · 2011

Andrew Wilkinson Paul Graham

The Whole-Brain Child

T4 The Whole-Brain Child

Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson · 2011

Graham Duncan Zoë Foster Blake

T4 We Found a Hat

Jon Klassen · 2011

Zoë Foster Blake

T4 Wired for Love

Stan Tatkin, Harville Hendrix · 2011

Andrew Wilkinson

How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and t

T4 How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character

Paul Tough · 2012

Jim Gaffigan · 2013

T4 Raising Girls

Steve Biddulph · 2013

T4 Startup Life

Brad Feld, Amy Batchelor · with Amy Batchelor · 2013 · Open Library lists Feld alone; written with Amy Batchelor

Sacred Cows: The Truth About Divorce and Mar

T4 Sacred Cows: The Truth About Divorce and Marriage

Danielle Teller, Astro Teller · 2014

Andrew Wilkinson

T4 Free to Learn

Peter Gray · 2015

The Opposite of Spoiled

T4 The Opposite of Spoiled

Ron Lieber · 2015

T4 The Pie Life

Samantha Ettus · 2016

Kathryn Minshew

T4 Drop the Ball

Tiffany Dufu · 2017

Sheryl Sandberg

Gemma Hartley · 2018

Sheryl Sandberg

Just Let Me Look at You

T4 Just Let Me Look at You

Bill Gaston · 2018

Andrew Wilkinson

Tomorrow I'll Be Brave

T4 Tomorrow I'll Be Brave

Jessica Hische · 2018

Isabel Gillies · 2019

Arianna Huffington

Eve Rodsky · 2019

Arianna Huffington

T4 Finding Chika

Mitch Albom · 2019

Arianna Huffington Keith Wasserman

How to Raise Successful People

T4 How to Raise Successful People

Esther Wojcicki · 2019

Ana Fabrega Anne Wojcicki Arianna Huffington Susan Wojcicki

Diane Tavenner · 2019

Raising an Aging Parent

T4 Raising an Aging Parent

Ken Druck · 2019

Arianna Huffington

What to Do When I'm Gone

T4 What to Do When I'm Gone

Suzy Hopkins · 2020

Arianna Huffington

The Anxious Generation

T4 The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt · 2024

Andrew Wilkinson Bill Gates The Barefoot Investor Superbook reading lists

A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons fo

T4 A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing

Jim Rogers

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Adult Children of Alcoholics

T4 Adult Children of Alcoholics

Janet Woititz

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Chamath Palihapitiya

T4 Barefoot Kids

Scott Pape

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The Barefoot Investor

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and th

T4 Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Andrew Solomon

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Superbook reading lists

T4 Father to Son

Harry H. Harrison Jr

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Free to Be... You and Me

T4 Free to Be... You and Me

Marlo Thomas

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Sheryl Sandberg

Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent

T4 Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

Becky Kennedy

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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So

T4 How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

Adele Faber

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Brian Armstrong

Letters to His Son

T4 Letters to His Son

Lord Chesterfield

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Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a

T4 Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman

The Earl Of Chesterfield

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Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Trans

T4 Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation

Daniel J. Siegel

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Parents Who Lead

T4 Parents Who Lead

Stewart D. Friedman, Alyssa F. Westring

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Arianna Huffington

The Disappearance of Childhood

T4 The Disappearance of Childhood

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Patrick Collison

The Price of Privilege

T4 The Price of Privilege

Madeline Levine

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The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Stra

T4 The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

Daniel J. Siegel, Tina Payne Bryson

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