This is one of two books that I think every Catholic homeschooler has to have.  This is a tremendous resource, especially if you're just getting started or thinking about it.		This is the other book that I think every Catholic homeschooler needs.  It's classical curriculum with a large family in mind and a complete plan laid out.
	This book goes subject by subject with great information and wisdom from other homeschoolers.		This book was coedited by the same person as The Catholic Homeschool Companion.  This one goes through the experience of many different  families and how they live a homeschooling life.  It's quite inspirational.
	This is a no-nonsense practical guide to homeschooling with lots of ideas that are especially good for a large family by the foundress of Seton Homeschool.		This wonderful book lays out a philosophy of children's literature that is very sound and based on a good, strong Christian background.  It's especially good for parents of young children and goes beautifully with the Charlotte Mason philosophy of education based on using living books instead of "twaddle."  I love that word!
	Similar to Books Children Love, this book offers great wisdom in selecting the best of books for your children with both guidelines and lists.		This is a wonderful compilation of the educational philosophy of Charlotte Mason, the 19th century British educator who helped mothers teach their own children.  It is a gentle form of education that is quite in line with classical education.  Charlotte Mason believed in lots of time spent outdoors, well-formed habits, living books, narration, and science journals.  Whenever I find myself overwhelmed by trying to do too much, I find this book a great comfort, and we use many of her methods regularly.
	This is another tremendous compilation of the philosophy of Charlotte Mason from a long-time homeschooler who found a better way.		This book continues where the last one left off and focuses especially on the education of older children.
	This book is by a mother and daughter team, and the daughter also wrote Story of the World and a number of other good resources.  It is well written and well thought out with a method for a thorough, challenging classical curriculum.  I think that this book is well worth reading, but don't try to do everything in it or you may feel overwhelemed.		This should alleviate any parent's fears that homeschooling would make college difficult.  In fact, we recently spoke to admissions counselors at several good, faithful Catholic universities, and all of them stated that homeschoolers did well at their universities and they looked on them favorably.
	If you're thinking about throwing in the homeschooling towel and putting the kids in public school, you might want to read this first.  This is my favorite book by Gatto.		Put together a persecuted professor and his wife and four unique boys trying to make it on 49 acres of deforested CA mountainside.  You wouldn't think homeschooling would be possible in these circumstances, but the Colfaxes managed it with aplumb.  This is a great story.
	This is a brilliant, thoroughly Catholic explanation of what makes good literature and what doesn't by the author of Father Elijah.  Everything this man writes is at the top of my reading list.		If you want a clear, simple explanation for teaching reading, arithmetic, and writing without a lot of fanfare and expensive stuff, this is it.