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Family Saga
11 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.
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Authors Like Brit Bennett: 5 Literary Writers to Read
Authors like Brit Bennett for fans of The Vanishing Half and The Mothers — Celeste Ng, Colson Whitehead, Tayari Jones, Yaa Gyasi, and Toni Morrison, with where to start.
Books Like East of Eden: 9 Epic Family Novels
If Steinbeck's sweeping saga of two families, good and evil, and the American soil moved you, these epic novels of family and morality hit the same nerve.
Books Like The Corrections: 9 Family Saga Novels
If Franzen's sprawling, mordant portrait of a Midwestern family drew you in, these literary novels of family, ambition, and disappointment hit the same nerve.
Where to Start with Abraham Verghese: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Abraham Verghese — whether to begin with Cutting for Stone or The Covenant of Water. A complete reading guide to the physician-novelist.
Where to Start with Brit Bennett: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Brit Bennett — whether to begin with The Vanishing Half or The Mothers. A complete reading guide to the American author.
Where to Start with Georgia Hunter: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Georgia Hunter — how to approach We Were the Lucky Ones, her true-story novel about a Polish Jewish family scattered across four continents during the Second World War. A complete reading guide.
Where to Start with Joyce Carol Oates: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Joyce Carol Oates — whether to begin with We Were the Mulvaneys, them, or Blonde. A complete reading guide to the American literary novelist.
Where to Start with Min Jin Lee: A Reading Guide
Where to start with Min Jin Lee — whether to begin with Pachinko or Free Food for Millionaires. A complete reading guide to the Korean-American novelist.
Best Books About Family: Essential Reading List
The best books about family — from East of Eden and One Hundred Years of Solitude to The Corrections and Homegoing. Family novels that reveal how we are shaped by where we come from.
Best Multigenerational Fiction: Epic Family Sagas Across Time
The best multigenerational fiction — from Pachinko and Homegoing to One Hundred Years of Solitude and The House of the Spirits. Epic family sagas across generations.
Books Like One Hundred Years of Solitude: Saga Reads
If García Márquez's Macondo swept you away, these novels share its magical worlds, multigenerational scope, and the sense of history as a living, breathing force.
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