Most Influential Parenting Books
1. 
The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two
by:
William Sears
4.17 avg rating — 7,515 ratings 2. 
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
by:
Adele Faber
4.27 avg rating — 37,561 ratings 
4. 
The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
by:
Harvey Karp
3.90 avg rating — 30,616 ratings 5. 
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The No-Cry Sleep Solution: Gentle Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep Through the Night 3.49 avg rating — 9,190 ratings
8. 
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
by:
Alfie Kohn
4.16 avg rating — 8,885 ratings 
10. 
Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
by:
Adele Faber
4.19 avg rating — 16,398 ratings 
12. 
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
by:
Meredith Small
4.18 avg rating — 2,049 ratings 13. 
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The Attachment Parenting Book : A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby
by:
Martha Sears
4.15 avg rating — 3,731 ratings 16. 
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder
by:
Richard Louv
3.93 avg rating — 14,733 ratings 17. 
Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion
by:
Dale McGowan
4.07 avg rating — 1,800 ratings 
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Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic 4.20 avg rating — 7,910 ratings
21. 
On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep
by:
Gary Ezzo
3.69 avg rating — 16,476 ratings 
26. 
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
by:
Gordon Neufeld
4.16 avg rating — 10,830 ratings 27. 
The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost
by:
Jean Liedloff
4.01 avg rating — 3,444 ratings 
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How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
by:
Joanna Faber
4.39 avg rating — 22,967 ratings 30. 
Kids Are Worth It!: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline
by:
Barbara Coloroso
4.21 avg rating — 1,649 ratings 31. 
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Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting (The Peaceful Parent Series)
by:
Laura Markham
4.22 avg rating — 10,369 ratings 
35. 
Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
by:
Kim John Payne
4.22 avg rating — 15,229 ratings 36. 
Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: Transforming parent-child relationships from reaction and struggle to freedom, power and joy
by:
Naomi Aldort
4.05 avg rating — 1,463 ratings 37. 
Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children
by:
Thomas Gordon
4.24 avg rating — 2,196 ratings 38. 
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby
by:
Tracy Hogg
3.79 avg rating — 10,341 ratings 
40. 
What's Going On in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life
by:
Lise Eliot
4.10 avg rating — 2,273 ratings 41. 
1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12
by:
Thomas W. Phelan
3.88 avg rating — 10,278 ratings 42. 
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
by:
Mary Pipher
3.89 avg rating — 26,412 ratings 43. 
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The Wonder Weeks: How to Turn Your Baby's 8 Great Fussy Phases into Magical Leaps Forward
by:
Frans X. Plooij
3.92 avg rating — 6,565 ratings 46. 
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
by:
Peter O. Gray
4.26 avg rating — 4,065 ratings 47. 
Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene
by:
Ingrid Bauer
3.92 avg rating — 660 ratings 48. 
The Fussy Baby Book: Parenting Your High-Need Child From Birth to Age Five
by:
William Sears
4.11 avg rating — 593 ratings 49. 
Buddhism for Mothers: A Calm Approach to Caring for Yourself and Your Children
by:
Sarah Napthali
4.25 avg rating — 2,211 ratings 50. 
For the Love of Discipline: When the Gospel Meets Tantrums and Time-Outs
by:
Sara Wallace
4.58 avg rating — 683 ratings 51. 
The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children
by:
Shefali Tsabary
4.29 avg rating — 6,681 ratings 52. 
Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief
by:
Dale McGowan
4.19 avg rating — 1,343 ratings 52. 
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Guide
by:
Penny Simkin
4.21 avg rating — 3,165 ratings 54. 
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The Family Nutrition Book : Everything You Need to Know About Feeding Your Children, from Birth Though adolescence
by:
William Sears
4.05 avg rating — 320 ratings 
58. 
Bright From the Start: The Simple, Science-Backed Way to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind from Birth to Age 3
by:
Jill Stamm
4.05 avg rating — 1,140 ratings 
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Earthways: Simple Environmental Activities for Young Children
by:
Donald Cook
4.32 avg rating — 80 ratings 62. 
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Children's Vaccinations
by:
Stephanie Cave
4.02 avg rating — 557 ratings 
64. 
Out of Control: Why Disciplining Your Child Doesn't Work and What Will
by:
Shefali Tsabary
4.26 avg rating — 728 ratings 65. 
Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids: 7 Keys to Turn Family Conflict into Cooperation
by:
Sura Hart
4.02 avg rating — 489 ratings 
67. 
Every Natural Fact: Five Seasons of Open-Air Parenting
by:
Amy Lou Jenkins
4.16 avg rating — 38 ratings 
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The Three-Martini Playdate: A Practical Guide to Happy Parenting
by:
Christie Mellor
3.73 avg rating — 969 ratings 71. 
Baby-led Weaning: Helping Your Baby To Love Good Food
by:
Gill Rapley
3.93 avg rating — 8,668 ratings 
73. 
Adventures in Gentle Discipline: A Parent-to-Parent Guide
by:
Hilary Flower
4.09 avg rating — 185 ratings 74. 
Have a New Kid by Friday: How to Change Your Child's Attitude, Behaviour & Character in 5 Days
by:
Kevin Leman
3.83 avg rating — 3,641 ratings 
76. 
Connection Parenting: Parenting Through Connection Instead of Coercion, Through Love Instead of Fear
by:
Pam Leo
4.33 avg rating — 568 ratings 
79. 
Swagger: 10 Urgent Rules for Raising Boys in an Era of Failing Schools, Mass Joblessness, and Thug Culture
by:
Lisa Bloom
3.83 avg rating — 419 ratings 80. 
Liberated Parents, Liberated Children: Your Guide to a Happier Family
by:
Adele Faber
4.37 avg rating — 796 ratings 80. 
Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
by:
William Pollack
3.82 avg rating — 1,585 ratings 82. 
Sacred Parenting: How Raising Children Shapes Our Souls
by:
Gary L. Thomas
4.29 avg rating — 1,757 ratings 82. 
Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five
by:
John Medina
4.30 avg rating — 14,610 ratings 
85. 
Raising Boys: Why Boys Are Different - And How to Help Them Become Happy and Well-Balanced Men
by:
Steve Biddulph
3.73 avg rating — 4,418 ratings 86. 
Hearing Is Believing: How Words Can Make or Break Our Kids
by:
Elisa Medhus
3.87 avg rating — 38 ratings 87. 
The Educated Child: A Parents Guide From Preschool Through Eighth Grade 3.94 avg rating — 344 ratings
88. 
The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
by:
Daniel J. Siegel
4.27 avg rating — 55,254 ratings 
90. 
Attached at the Heart: Eight Proven Parenting Principles for Raising Connected and Compassionate Children 4.22 avg rating — 348 ratings
93. 
Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
by:
Jon Kabat-Zinn
4.08 avg rating — 2,001 ratings 94. 
Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation
by:
Becky A. Bailey
4.30 avg rating — 2,244 ratings 
95. 
Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence
by:
Robert Epstein
3.96 avg rating — 74 ratings 95. 
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Mother Matters: A Holistic Guide to Being a Happy, Healthy Mom
by:
Dayna M. Kurtz
4.23 avg rating — 22 ratings 95. 
MY DAUGHTER NATASHA: Discovering Life’s Hard Truths One Street At A Time
by:
Artie Dimanche
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings