Books I regularly recommend to parents:
πAbsorbent Mind (Montessori) - she has the deepest reverse for the human condition focused on children.
π Positive Discipline series - great for instilling emotional intelligence and agency in young children.
π How to Talk so Children Listen and Listen so Children Talk (Faber) - fabulous practical communication tips.
π How Children Learn (Holt) - love his observations about helping young children to teach themselves.
π Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (Engelmann) - the bible of teaching reading.
π Magical Child (Pearce) - raising genius kids through play. He gets woo-woo at the end (but given that people love the telepathy tapes, maybe he's onto something).
Someone asked me to recommend a good book on parenting. I would guess that most books about parenting are tedious. So my recommendation is to read autobiographies, the early parts of which are usually implicitly about parenting.