Family Drama

The people you cannot resign from. Fiction about inheritance, obligation and long-running injury within a family, across a generation or several.

On the Society & Self shelf.

Books shelved as Family Drama

• David Copperfield — Charles Dickens
• Jo's Boys — Louisa May Alcott
• Sharp Objects — Gillian Flynn
• If There Be Thorns — V.C. Andrews
• Cousin Pons — Honoré de Balzac / Herbert J. Hunt
• A Little Life — Hanya Yanagihara
• Fancy Nancy — Jane O'Connor
• The Thirteenth Tale — Diane Setterfield
• The God of Small Things — Arundhati Roy
• Patina — Jason Reynolds
• Sing, Unburied, Sing — Jesmyn Ward
• Everything Leads to You — Nina LaCour
• The Covenant of Water — Abraham Verghese
• Big Little Truths — Liane Moriarty
• The Sound and the Fury — William Faulkner
• The Vanishing Half — Brit Bennett
• Siren Says — Jennifer Herrera
• You Knew Me When — Emily Liebert
• In Five Years — Rebecca Serle
• Little Women — Louisa May Alcott
• Practical Magic — Alice Hoffman
• The Winners — Fredrik Backman
• Where There Was Fire: A Novel — John Manuel Arias
• Everything Under — Daisy Johnson

Related genres

• LGBTQ+ Fiction
• Coming of Age
• Social Commentary
• Parenting & Motherhood
• Feminist Fiction
• War Fiction
• Identity & Belonging
• Political Fiction
• Sapphic Fiction
• Addiction
• Music Fiction

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