11 Books to Help Organize Your Home to Fit Every Lifestyle

This approachable book from Laura Wittman provides bite-sized tasks to tackle at home when you have time. 

In Clutter Rehab, the author and organization addict, as she puts it, emphasizes putting systems in place. The goal is to use these systems so that, over time, you can begin to rein in the chaos at home.

Alicia Rockmore and Sarah Welch share their story and system for getting organized at home. The two women both have different organization styles. 

This helps them connect with a wide array of clients and understand the vast spectrum of what it means to be disorganized. In this way, the book helps the reader feel seen without feeling judged.

KC Davis relies on a philosophy in the book How to Keep House While Drowning: our homes are meant to work for us, not the other way around. 

Davis helps readers recognize the patterns that cause us to feel stuck. Most importantly, the book helps readers to separate feelings of worthiness from the state of their home.

Donna Smallin has provided a practical guide to the art of decluttering. The approaches are simple, effective, and still provide an in-depth road map. 

We begin by evaluating the clutter at home, then move on to developing a plan, finding creative storage solutions, and so much more. 

At the end, readers will feel ready to take on potential clutter as it comes into the home without letting it take over.

Empire of Things won’t teach you how to declutter, but will urge you to evaluate what you bring into your life. 

By looking at the impacts consumerism has had over the course of history, one may feel called to reevaluate their relationship with stuff. 

If we struggle with an endless desire for more, perhaps that can be traced to the patterns of consumption learned from culture.

Emily Mester brings us into her mind and connects the dots of her life to that of American consumption. Mester has a deep connection to the accumulation of things through her family, as well as a love of shopping herself. 

Instead of a crusade against the clutter, the author invites us to sit with our need for stuff. The wit Mester brings forth is more like a revelation with a friend, where we look American consumption in the eye, instead of shrinking back in shame.

Author Jennifer Howard has a monumental task ahead of her: cleaning out her deceased mother’s home. It takes two years and a huge emotional toll. 

With this experience as her lighthouse, Howard illuminates the dark underbelly of American consumerism and how it permeates our lives. 

Howard excavates meaning from a daunting task, taking the reader along. It leaves us called to ask: what does all of this stuff actually mean to us?

Erin Boyle shares a practical approach to simple, minimal living in her first book. 

She not only addresses decluttering and getting organized, but she also writes about cleaning, simplifying, and making your home an oasis. 

If you’re looking to keep items of utility while also crafting a beautiful space, Boyle’s book is the perfect read. 

Randy Frost and Gail Steketee write a stark look at compulsive hoarding in the book Stuff. Through vivid case studies, the reader can learn more about hoarding and develop compassion for those who suffer from it. 

It’s an intense portrait of the extremes of living in a modern consumerist culture. Reading this book can help to shift our perspective about our own relationship with the items we bring into our lives.

Dana White asks us to define the rooms in our home to align them with their purpose. Readers are also introduced to the visibility rule, starting with the spaces you can see first. 

This helps us to feel the benefits of decluttering faster. These rules, and more, will help us in our journey with White to make home feel like home again. 

Professional organizer Amanda Sullivan describes her work as archeological. She enters clients’ homes, and instead of simply organizing, she looks for the why. 

It is there we often find the reason that clutter continuously overwhelms us. In her book, she uses 7 concepts and 7 habits as the foundation for building a more functional life.