Editors Reads

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Family Saga

8 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Books Like One Hundred Years of Solitude: Magical Realism and Epic Family Sagas

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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