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The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips and Advice for Dads-to-Be The Expectant Father: Facts, Tips and Advice for Dads-to-Be (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.88 — 8,209 ratings — published 1995
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Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,995 ratings — published 2006
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Yol Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,080,966 ratings — published 2006
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1) Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.78 — 249,830 ratings — published 1974
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Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.12 — 47,980 ratings — published 2019
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Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads Be Prepared: A Practical Handbook for New Dads (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.04 — 3,109 ratings — published
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Raising a Modern-Day Knight: A Father's Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood Raising a Modern-Day Knight: A Father's Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,390 ratings — published 1996
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The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.26 — 63,557 ratings — published 2011
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Dad Is Fat Dad Is Fat (ebook)
by (shelved 12 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.78 — 81,049 ratings — published 2013
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Minding Frankie Minding Frankie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.87 — 29,522 ratings — published 2010
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Sh*t My Dad Says Sh*t My Dad Says (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.99 — 161,588 ratings — published 2010
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Gilead (Gilead, #1) Gilead (Gilead, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.85 — 129,603 ratings — published 2004
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Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.72 — 5,979 ratings — published 2009
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The Kite Runner The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,593,976 ratings — published 2003
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We're Pregnant! The First Time Dad's Pregnancy Handbook (First-Time Dads) We're Pregnant! The First Time Dad's Pregnancy Handbook (First-Time Dads)
by (shelved 10 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,066 ratings — published 2018
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The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did] The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did] (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.09 — 41,618 ratings — published 2019
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The Birth Partner The Birth Partner (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.32 — 8,725 ratings — published 1989
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The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year (New Father Series) The New Father: A Dad's Guide to the First Year (New Father Series)
by (shelved 10 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,637 ratings — published 1997
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The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love and Raising Great Kids The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love and Raising Great Kids (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.52 — 2,385 ratings — published 2023
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Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.32 — 2,448 ratings — published 2001
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Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms Habits of the Household: Practicing the Story of God in Everyday Family Rhythms (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.53 — 28,069 ratings — published 2021
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Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family Point Man: How a Man Can Lead His Family (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 2,039 ratings — published
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To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,090,660 ratings — published 1960
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Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five Brain Rules for Baby: How to Raise a Smart and Happy Child from Zero to Five (Audiobook)
by (shelved 8 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.30 — 15,450 ratings — published 2010
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Manhood for Amateurs Manhood for Amateurs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.73 — 8,082 ratings — published 2009
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The First Part Last (Heaven, #2) The First Part Last (Heaven, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.97 — 15,881 ratings — published 2003
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Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,908 ratings — published 1991
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Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.49 — 47,837 ratings — published 2022
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Things My Son Needs to Know About the World Things My Son Needs to Know About the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.99 — 36,823 ratings — published 2012
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How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.27 — 40,580 ratings — published 1980
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Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.28 — 59,197 ratings — published 2013
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The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips & Advice on First-Year Maintenance The Baby Owner's Manual: Operating Instructions, Trouble-Shooting Tips & Advice on First-Year Maintenance (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.83 — 3,748 ratings — published 2003
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Between the World and Me Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.40 — 375,125 ratings — published 2015
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Shepherding a Child's Heart Shepherding a Child's Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.20 — 15,028 ratings — published 1995
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Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.95 — 91,311 ratings — published 2001
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Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.89 — 20,282 ratings — published 2019
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Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes Family Shepherds: Calling and Equipping Men to Lead Their Homes (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,704 ratings — published 2011
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Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,189 ratings — published 2018
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The Underwater Welder The Underwater Welder (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,006 ratings — published 2012
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Words are our Sorcery Words are our Sorcery (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.54 — 148 ratings — published 2014
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The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.89 — 31,686 ratings — published 2002
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You Have What It Takes: What Every Father Needs to Hear You Have What It Takes: What Every Father Needs to Hear (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.10 — 483 ratings — published 2004
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Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.33 — 660 ratings — published 2012
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Fatherhood Fatherhood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,552 ratings — published 1986
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 4.30 — 216,647 ratings — published 2024
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1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as fatherhood)
avg rating 3.89 — 11,114 ratings — published 1995
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Christopher Hitchens
“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”
Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

George MacDonald
“Then came the reflection, how little at any time could a father do for the wellbeing of his children! The fact of their being children implied their need of an all-powerful father: must there not then be such a father? Therewith the truth dawned upon him, that first of truths, which all his church-going and Bible-reading had hitherto failed to disclose, that, for life to be a good thing and worth living, a man must be the child of a perfect father, and know him. In his terrible perturbation about his children, he lifted up his heart—not to the Governor of the world; not to the God of Abraham or Moses; not in the least to the God of the Kirk; least of all to the God of the Shorter Catechism; but to the faithful creator and Father of David Barclay. The aching soul which none but a perfect father could have created capable of deploring its own fatherly imperfection, cried out to the father of fathers on behalf of his children, and as he cried, a peace came stealing over him such as he had never before felt.”
George MacDonald, Heather and Snow

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