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Books my home would be incomplete without…
- The Joy of Cooking (and The All New, All Purpose Joy of Cooking)
- The Betty Crocker Cooky Book
- The DASH Diet for Hypertension
- The No-Salt Cookbook
- Betty Crocker’s Picture Cookbook (and Betty Crocker’s New Cookbook: Everything You Need to Know to Cook and
Betty Crocker’s Healthy New Choices) - The Mother’s Almanac and The Father’s Almanac
- Where’s Mom Now That I Need Her? and Where’s Dad Now That I Need Him?
- Crock-Pot Cooking
- Mothers In The Kitchen, edited by Roberta Johnson (out of print, originally published in 1971 by the La Leche League, recipes submitted and tested by LLL moms)
- Our Bodies, Ourselves
- Peterson Field Guide to birds for your region (mine is Western US), also plants, trees, and/or wildflowers for your region, and rocks and minerals
- Golden Guides from St. Martin’s Press and Field Guides from St. Martin’s Press for other topics in the natural sciences
- Stephen J. Gould’s The Book of Life
- Carl Sagan’s Cosmos
- Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time
- Camping & Wilderness Survival
- US Army Survival Manual
- books by Joseph Campbell
- Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light In The Attic
- Norton Anthology of Poetry
- the complete poetry of Robert Frost
- the complete works of Shakespeare
- art books of Andrew Wyeth and Jamie Wyeth
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Gift from the Sea
- some version of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad
- Michael Wood’s In Search of the Trojan War
- Edith Hamilton’s Mythology
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