🏷️ Family Saga
24 entries tagged with this trope
Transcendent Kingdom
Yaa Gyasi · 2020
Neuroscientist Gifty studies reward-seeking behavior in mice while reflecting on her family's immigration from Ghana and her brother's opioid addiction. Science meets spirituality.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family living in Japan face discrimination and hardship. An epic saga of love, family, and the search for belonging.
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021
One legendary party. Four siblings. A lifetime of secrets. Set in 1980s Malibu with the kind of family drama that keeps you turning pages at 2 AM.
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
1974. A family moves to Alaska for a fresh start. The wilderness is beautiful and deadly. So is the father. Kristin Hannah writes survival — both literal and emotional — like no one else.
The Nightingale
Kristin Hannah · 2015
Two sisters in Nazi-occupied France survive the war in very different ways. One hides. One fights. Both are extraordinary. The kind of book that changes you.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. Discrimination, love, sacrifice, and the pachinko machines that symbolize a rigged game they keep playing. Epic in every sense.
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell · 2020
The story of Shakespeare's son Hamnet, who died at 11 and inspired Hamlet. But this isn't Shakespeare's story — it's Agnes's, his wife. A meditation on grief and art that is achingly precise.
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020
Twin sisters from a small Southern Black community grow up to live very different lives. One passes as white. Their daughters meet as strangers. Identity, race, and the lies we tell ourselves.
The Great Alone
Kristin Hannah · 2018
1974. A family moves to Alaska for a fresh start. The wilderness is beautiful and deadly, but the real danger is inside their cabin. Kristin Hannah does not miss.
The Vanishing Half
Brit Bennett · 2020
Twin sisters from a small Black community grow up to live in opposite worlds — one passes as white, the other stays. Their daughters' lives collide decades later.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. Begins in 1911 with a forbidden pregnancy and spans nearly a century. The Apple TV adaptation barely scratches the surface.
The Four Winds
Kristin Hannah · 2021
Texas, 1934. Dust Bowl is destroying everything. Elsa must decide: fight for the land or head west to California. A love letter to the strength of American women.
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021
The Riva siblings host their legendary end-of-summer party in 1983 Malibu. By morning the house is on fire. A sizzling family saga told across one wild night.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. From a forbidden pregnancy in 1910s Korea to the pachinko parlors of 1980s Osaka. Epic, devastating, and impossibly human.
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021
One epic night at a Malibu party in 1983. Four siblings. A famous father who abandoned them. Decades of secrets about to explode. TJR does family drama like no one else.
Jade City
Fonda Lee · 2017
Godfather meets wuxia. Two clans control the jade trade that powers their warriors.
The Covenant of Water
Abraham Verghese · 2023
Three generations of a family in Kerala, India, and a strange condition passed through their bloodline.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. Quietly devastating.
Jade City
Fonda Lee · 2017
The Godfather meets martial arts magic. Two clans control jade—a magical resource—and a city on the brink of war. Family loyalty vs. survival.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. From a fishing village to postwar Osaka. History is the characters. The opening line: 'History has failed us, but no matter.'
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021
One legendary party in Malibu, 1983. Four siblings. A house that burns by morning. A family legacy that can't survive the night.
Malibu Rising
Taylor Jenkins Reid · 2021
Four famous siblings throw their annual end-of-summer party in 1983 Malibu. By morning the house burns. The night in between changes everything.
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan. Beginning in 1910 and sweeping across the century. This book will break your heart and put it back differently.
Homegoing
Yaa Gyasi · 2016
Two half-sisters in 18th century Ghana. One marries an Englishman; one is enslaved. Each chapter follows a descendant across generations into modern-day America.