John Holt is a good place to start when starting or thinking about unschooling or even homeschooling your children. He is not everyone’s cup of tea- but worth the read. Try How Children Learn (Classics in Child Development) and Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

Parenting A Free Child: An Unschooled Life, by Rue Kream
Moving a Puddle, by Sandra Dodd
The Unprocessed Child: Living Without School, by Valerie Fitzenreiter

The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom

And the Children Played

Child’s Work: Taking Children’s Choices Seriously

Better Than School: One Family\’s Declaration of Independence

School Free - The Home Schooling Handbook

Challenging Assumptions in Education

Also very good reading:
The Continuum Concept:

The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost (Classics in Human Development)

Creative Parenting: How to Use the New Continuum Concept to Raise Children Successfully from Birth Through Adolescence

A MUST read for your pre-teens and teens: The Teenage Liberation Handbook

The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education

Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School

Dumbing Us Down by John Gatto

Dumbing Us Down : The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

Homeschooling Books and Homeschool Related Books

Please also see my page that deals swith unschooling books, specifically. This is a list og books that deal with homeschooling in general or books that are realted in some way to homeschooling. If you have a book you would like to recommend- please post in comments section and I will add. Thanks!

Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling

So You\’re Thinking About Homeschooling: Fifteen Families Show How You Can Do It