Below is a list of books that I have in our bookcase that I have used extensively during my marriage years. I hope to pass these books on to my daughters when they are married. 

More-With-Less Cookbook

I own a lot of cookbooks, and this is definitely my favorite.  The authors take the time to explain how mixing certain foods create whole proteins, and try to educate us in how to spend less money while getting the biggest nutritional bang for our money.  Even tho they teach us how to mix non-protein foods to make a full protein meal, they don't exclude meat from their recipes.  This is the book that gave us our favorite grape nuts recipe.

Training Our Daughters To Be Keepers At Home

Sadly, this book is no longer a book.  The information is now out on CD.  I looked and looked before I found a used (but well kept) copy on Ebay.  This book covers the how-to of most of the homemaking skills.  From sewing to gardening to cooking to taking care of children and the elderly, everything is covered in step by step, precept upon precept increments.  It is an excellent home economics book, set up to cover a girl's education from 11 years old to 18 years old.  And for those of us mothers who did not recieve training in a certain area, the book covers the years from 18 to 99.

Stocking Up lll

I was raised in a home where we canned from our garden every year.  Even so, there were little things I had forgotten how to do by the time it was my turn to preserve food for my family.  Great how-to book as well as a good resource.  Covers canning, freezing, and drying

Living Life On Purpose

I love this book. Kym Wright covers many areas that affect the stay-at-home mom. The book is a combination of chapters and worksheets and Bible Studies.  Kym has 8 children of her own, and has used her talents to organize her family and home so that she can spend time seeking the Lord and loving on her family.  There's just too much good in this book to share in a quick review.

The Encyclopedia Of Country Living

One of my very old, dog eared favorites.  Carla has put together a wonderful book full of odds and ends of country living that give a woman (and man) a good start at figuring out how to live in the country and enjoy it.  Her writing style is that of a good friend chatting in the kitchen.  Even if you don't live in the country...nor have any desire to...the book is a friendly addition to a homemaker's library. 

How To Grow More Vegetables

This is another dog-eared favorite. This books shows you how you can use a regular house lawn area to provide a family of 4 with an entire year's worth of vegies. If you have more land, then you can have more goodies.  Really good information here, especially for town dwellers that wished they had a little more land so they could be a little more self-sufficient.

The Big Book Of Home Learning

Do I really need to say anything about Mary Pride's books?  They've been around forever it seems, and my copies are so well read that they don't even have covers anymore. I need to get around to getting the more recent editions one of these days.  I hope my daughter's will homeschool, and Mary Pride does a good job presenting the how-tos and whys of homeschooling, as well as tracking down all the possible curriculums and resources for homeschool moms.

Christian Home Educator's Curriculum Manual

Cathy Duffy gives us more of the same as Mary Pride, but in a different format.  I found both books to be useful and motivating, so keep both books in our bookcases...and will recommend both authors to my daughters.

Speed Cleaning

This little book is a must have.  It is written by a fellow who heads up cleaning teams who go into peoples homes and...clean!  They teach you how to start at one corner of a room, and efficiently and quickly whip it into shape and really clean it...fast.  There are different sets of instructions for each room in your house.  This book has ideas that really work in any home.  I've used it to train my children to clean each room, and it makes it easier for the kids not to forget the things that need to be done in each room.  They have other books that I also own, but this is the first one I would recommend to my daughters.

Confessions Of An Organized Homemaker

There are lots of great household organization books out there. This author happens to be my favorite.  She also happens to be the first author I read on the subject.  I think we just clicked, and I went on to read and apply her other books as well. The only negative I see is that she does not come from a homeschooling perspective. Her kids are government schooled. So most of the tips are for homes in which the children are not home all day, and she naturally doesn't have anything to say about organizing the school supplies.  However, as a beginner, first-time-trying-to-organize-your-own-home, these books are keepers.