While you’re here, don’t forget to enter my blogaversary giveaway of a brand-new, unread copy of Patry Francis’ new book, All the Children Are Home! Read my review here. If you have trouble entering, please email me at lauriec@baystatera.com.
If you like to read about households with issues and complicated family dynamics – families not so much in crisis but in a seemingly permanent state of hot mess – try living in one of these top ten family novels for a while. Maybe your own family will look better by comparison!
Listed in alphabetical order, these novels about families are just ones I’ve read within the few years, although some would make my overall Top Ten, too!
All the Children Are Home by Patry Francis
Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits
Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo
Mum & Dad by Joanna Trollope
The Return by Roland Merullo
Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver
The Smash-Up by Ali Benjamin
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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I’m sharing this with Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, so you’ll find many other Top Ten book lists there!
