No Easy Answers: Top Ten Family Novels to Live In for a While

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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

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Christmas in Austin by Benjamin Markovits

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Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard

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Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

The Most Fun We Ever Had by Claire Lombardo

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Mum & Dad by Joanna Trollope

The Return by Roland Merullo

Should We Stay or Should We Go by Lionel Shriver

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The Smash-Up by Ali Benjamin

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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!

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