Best family sagas

Description
From wikipedia: The family saga is a genre of literature which chronicles the lives and doings of a family or a number of related or interconnected families over a period of time. In novels (or sometimes sequences of novels) with a serious intent, this is often a thematic device used to portray particular historical events, changes of social circumstances, or the ebb and flow of fortunes from a multiple of perspectives.
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family saga
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The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
34,477 members
478 reviews
4.1
13 Members
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3
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
26,635 members
402 reviews
4
13 Members
CDVicarage, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, ALWINN, alex68, Bretzky1, bytheseabchcmbr, starbox, ahef1963, Paulo.Borghi, ryaSilvia, sg52,Fourpawz2
4
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
by Thomas Mann
5,700 members
109 reviews
4.2
10 Members
thorold, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, ALWINN, alex68, starbox, jeffza, ryaSilvia, FranzK72
5
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
78,865 members
1,434 reviews
½ 4.4
10 Members
CDVicarage, roby72, merrystar, ALWINN, cej1027, bytheseabchcmbr, starbox, ahef1963, Paulo.Borghi, ryaSilvia,
6
The Forsyte Saga
by John Galsworthy
2,527 members
42 reviews
4.2
11 Members
CDVicarage, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, susanbooks, ALWINN, alex68, starbox, ryaSilvia, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda
7
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
29,012 members
460 reviews
½ 4.3
7 Members
roby72, thecoroner, ALWINN, alex68, Bretzky1, starbox, FranzK72
8
The Good Earth
by Pearl S. Buck
13,924 members
264 reviews
4
9 Members
lahochstetler, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, alex68, ahef1963, Paulo.Borghi, ryaSilvia, FranzK72
9
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
29,658 members
331 reviews
½ 4.4
7 Members
roby72, thecoroner, ALWINN, alex68, Bretzky1, ryaSilvia, FranzK72
10
The House of the Spirits
by Isabel Allende
14,000 members
247 reviews
4.1
8 Members
Fourpawz2, roby72, merrystar, souloftherose, thecoroner, alex68, jeffza, FranzK72,Bretzky1
11
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
19,832 members
342 reviews
4.1
8 Members
lahochstetler, roby72, ALWINN, alex68, starbox, ahef1963, flippinpages, ManWithAnAgenda
12
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
23,525 members
425 reviews
½ 4.4
8 Members
Fourpawz2, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, ALWINN, alex68, starbox, FranzK72
13
One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44,607 members
697 reviews
4.2
8 Members
thorold, roby72, merrystar, thecoroner, ALWINN, alex68, starbox, FranzK72,Bretzky1
14
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
12,625 members
265 reviews
4
10 Members
CDVicarage, aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, starbox, ahef1963, Paulo.Borghi, FranzK72, ManWithAnAgenda,merrystar ,sg52
15
Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
27,245 members
632 reviews
4.1
7 Members
roby72, thecoroner, ALWINN, alex68, starbox, ahef1963, FranzK72
16
The Shell Seekers
by Rosamunde Pilcher
3,682 members
84 reviews
4
6 Members
CDVicarage, merrystar, bytheseabchcmbr, ahef1963, NHNick, Paulo.Borghi,starbox
17
The Leopard
by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
6,595 members
151 reviews
4.1
6 Members
CDVicarage, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, starbox, FranzK72
18
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
by Fannie Flagg
8,961 members
190 reviews
4.1
6 Members
KimarieBee, CDVicarage, bytheseabchcmbr, ahef1963, ryaSilvia, kraka
19
The Blind Assassin
by Margaret Atwood
16,521 members
384 reviews
3.9
6 Members
CDVicarage, roby72, ALWINN, starbox, ahef1963, Paulo.Borghi
20
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
38,655 members
632 reviews
4.1
7 Members
CDVicarage, roby72, ALWINN, Bretzky1, starbox, ryaSilvia, kraka,Krisbee
21
The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
17,679 members
198 reviews
3.9
5 Members
lahochstetler, CDVicarage, Krisbee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
22
The Makioka Sisters
by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
2,188 members
43 reviews
4.1
6 Members
aulsmith, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, starbox, ahef1963
23
We Were the Mulvaneys
by Joyce Carol Oates
6,165 members
92 reviews
½ 3.6
6 Members
lahochstetler, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, starbox, FranzK72
24
The Oresteia: Agamemnon / The Libation Bearers / The Eumenides
by Aeschylus
10,270 members
69 reviews
4
5 Members
CDVicarage, aulsmith, roby72, merrystar, Paulo.Borghi
25
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
26,368 members
502 reviews
4.2
5 Members
lahochstetler, Fourpawz2, starbox, kraka, ManWithAnAgenda
26
Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
23,529 members
443 reviews
½ 4.3
6 Members
CDVicarage, roby72, merrystar, ALWINN, alex68, ryaSilvia
27
Kristin Lavransdatter
by Sigrid Undset
3,035 members
75 reviews
4.2
5 Members
roby72, thecoroner, susanbooks, alex68, FranzK72
28
The Light Years
by Elizabeth Jane Howard
1,253 members
54 reviews
4
4 Members
CDVicarage, souloftherose, ahef1963, kraka
29
Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
5,792 members
223 reviews
4
6 Members
CDVicarage, roby72, merrystar, ahef1963, ryaSilvia, ManWithAnAgenda
30
Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
13,966 members
244 reviews
4
5 Members
thorold, alex68, Bretzky1, ahef1963, FranzK72
31
Franny and Zooey
by J. D. Salinger
14,875 members
171 reviews
4
5 Members
aulsmith, roby72, starbox, kraka, ManWithAnAgenda
32
Little Men
by Louisa May Alcott
8,154 members
66 reviews
½ 3.7
5 Members
CDVicarage, merrystar, bytheseabchcmbr, ahef1963, ryaSilvia
33
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
by Giorgio Bassani
2,071 members
55 reviews
3.8
5 Members
thorold, roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72
34
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
17,262 members
911 reviews
4
4 Members
lahochstetler, CDVicarage, Krisbee, ahef1963
35
Jo's Boys
by Louisa May Alcott
4,967 members
34 reviews
½ 3.6
4 Members
CDVicarage, bytheseabchcmbr, ahef1963, ryaSilvia
36
The Forgotten Garden
by Kate Morton
7,926 members
447 reviews
4
4 Members
CDVicarage, souloftherose, bytheseabchcmbr, ahef1963
37
Antigone / Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus
by Sophocles
13,248 members
51 reviews
4
4 Members
aulsmith, roby72, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
38
The House by the Medlar Tree
by Giovanni Verga
1,207 members
19 reviews
½ 3.5
4 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72
39
The Distant Hours
by Kate Morton
3,724 members
214 reviews
3.8
4 Members
KimarieBee, CDVicarage, bytheseabchcmbr, ahef1963
40
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
8,359 members
160 reviews
4.1
3 Members
susanbooks, ALWINN, flippinpages
41
The Viceroys
by Federico De Roberto
419 members
12 reviews
3.8
4 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72
42
The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
5,834 members
109 reviews
4.1
3 Members
KimarieBee, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
43
Penmarric
by Susan Howatch
760 members
9 reviews
3.9
3 Members
CDVicarage, ahef1963, Killick
44
The Mill on the Po
by Riccardo Bacchelli
81 members
5 reviews
4.2
4 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72
45
The Rainbow
by D. H. Lawrence
4,166 members
48 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
thorold, CDVicarage, starbox, FranzK72
46
Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls Wilder
16,380 members
289 reviews
4.1
3 Members
merrystar, susanbooks, ManWithAnAgenda
47
I Know This Much is True
by Wally Lamb
10,239 members
169 reviews
4.1
3 Members
cej1027, ahef1963, flippinpages
48
The Loving Spirit
by Daphne du Maurier
487 members
9 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
Fourpawz2, CDVicarage, souloftherose
49
The Magnificent Ambersons
by Booth Tarkington
1,640 members
50 reviews
3.8
5 Members
CDVicarage, roby72, alex68, ryaSilvia, FranzK72,starbox
50
A Suitable Boy
by Vikram Seth
5,769 members
108 reviews
4.2
3 Members
souloftherose, starbox, FranzK72
51
Cashelmara
by Susan Howatch
661 members
19 reviews
3.8
3 Members
CDVicarage, ahef1963, Killick
52
Family Lexicon
by Natalia Ginzburg
1,272 members
31 reviews
3.8
4 Members
roby72, thecoroner, alex68, FranzK72
53
Demelza
by Winston Graham
1,040 members
30 reviews
4.1
3 Members
Fourpawz2, CDVicarage, souloftherose
54
The Godfather
by Mario Puzo
11,039 members
184 reviews
4.2
3 Members
CDVicarage, ALWINN, ryaSilvia
55
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens
13,723 members
249 reviews
4.2
3 Members
merrystar, Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda
56
Ross Poldark
by Winston Graham
1,663 members
69 reviews
4
3 Members
Fourpawz2, CDVicarage, souloftherose
57
Marking Time
by Elizabeth Jane Howard
825 members
31 reviews
4.1
2 Members
CDVicarage, souloftherose
58
Dream of the Red Chamber
by Cao Xueqin
801 members
9 reviews
4
3 Members
roby72, alex68, FranzK72
59
The God of Small Things
by Arundhati Roy
19,732 members
373 reviews
3.9
3 Members
thorold, CDVicarage, ahef1963
60
The House at Riverton
by Kate Morton
5,450 members
249 reviews
3.8
3 Members
CDVicarage, bytheseabchcmbr, ahef1963
61
A House for Mr Biswas
by V. S. Naipaul
3,462 members
69 reviews
3.8
3 Members
thorold, starbox, ahef1963
62
Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry
2,565 members
53 reviews
4
3 Members
thorold, starbox, ahef1963
63
The Secret Keeper
by Kate Morton
3,439 members
229 reviews
4.1
3 Members
CDVicarage, Krisbee, ahef1963
64
How Green Was My Valley
by Richard Llewellyn
2,253 members
54 reviews
4.1
3 Members
Fourpawz2, CDVicarage, roby72
65
Confusion
by Elizabeth Jane Howard
722 members
24 reviews
4.1
2 Members
CDVicarage, souloftherose
66
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
17,347 members
226 reviews
4
3 Members
alex68, ahef1963, FranzK72
67
Coming Home
by Rosamunde Pilcher
1,899 members
42 reviews
4.1
3 Members
CDVicarage, merrystar, ahef1963
68
The Thorn Birds
by Colleen McCullough
7,597 members
148 reviews
4
3 Members
CDVicarage, merrystar, ahef1963,kraka
69
The Wheel of Fortune
by Susan Howatch
563 members
13 reviews
4
2 Members
CDVicarage, Killick
70
Cane River
by Lalita Tademy
3,001 members
54 reviews
3.9
2 Members
dara85, lahochstetler
71
Sarum
by Edward Rutherfurd
4,062 members
79 reviews
4
3 Members
CDVicarage, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
72
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
10,850 members
364 reviews
3.9
3 Members
CDVicarage, ahef1963, FranzK72
73
The Help
by Kathryn Stockett
30,686 members
1,494 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
CDVicarage, ALWINN, ahef1963
74
Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
8,309 members
593 reviews
4
3 Members
KimarieBee, CDVicarage, ahef1963
75
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
by Kate Atkinson
4,898 members
134 reviews
3.9
2 Members
KimarieBee, CDVicarage
76
Cold Sassy Tree
by Olive Ann Burns
4,154 members
87 reviews
3.9
2 Members
dara85, ManWithAnAgenda
77
Casting Off
by Elizabeth Jane Howard
645 members
20 reviews
4.1
2 Members
CDVicarage, souloftherose
78
Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
20,789 members
434 reviews
3.8
2 Members
Bretzky1, ManWithAnAgenda
79
Shanghai Girls
by Lisa See
4,642 members
302 reviews
3.8
2 Members
lahochstetler, aulsmith
80
Wives and Daughters
by Elizabeth Gaskell
4,129 members
89 reviews
4.1
2 Members
Fourpawz2, merrystar
81
The Little Stranger
by Sarah Waters
5,095 members
345 reviews
½ 3.6
3 Members
CDVicarage, starbox, ahef1963
82
The Children's Book
by A.S. Byatt
3,817 members
210 reviews
3.8
2 Members
thorold, CDVicarage
83
The Man of Property
by John Galsworthy
1,046 members
21 reviews
3.9
2 Members
CDVicarage, ManWithAnAgenda
84
In Chancery
by John Galsworthy
525 members
11 reviews
4
2 Members
CDVicarage, ManWithAnAgenda
85
The Winds of War
by Herman Wouk
3,338 members
55 reviews
4.2
Member
KimarieBee
86
Keeping the House
by Ellen Baker
372 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
87
The Stranger's Child
by Alan Hollinghurst
1,639 members
77 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
thorold, CDVicarage
88
China Court: The Hours of a Country House
by Rumer Godden
467 members
14 reviews
3.9
2 Members
CDVicarage, souloftherose
89
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
13,146 members
489 reviews
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, FranzK72
90
To Let
by John Galsworthy
490 members
11 reviews
4
2 Members
CDVicarage, ManWithAnAgenda
91
Roots
by Alex Haley
6,785 members
91 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
roby72, ALWINN
92
Swan Song
by John Galsworthy
342 members
7 reviews
4.1
2 Members
CDVicarage, ManWithAnAgenda
93
All Change
by Elizabeth Jane Howard
383 members
20 reviews
4
2 Members
CDVicarage, souloftherose
94
The Stone Diaries
by Carol Shields
5,794 members
121 reviews
3.8
2 Members
CDVicarage, starbox
95
Sins of the Fathers
by Susan Howatch
368 members
8 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
CDVicarage, ahef1963
96
The White Monkey
by John Galsworthy
323 members
10 reviews
3.8
2 Members
CDVicarage, ManWithAnAgenda
97
The Silver Spoon
by John Galsworthy
291 members
6 reviews
3.8
2 Members
CDVicarage, ManWithAnAgenda
98
Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
12,263 members
116 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
99
Chiefs
by Stuart Woods
789 members
31 reviews
4.2
Member
dara85
100
The Deptford Trilogy
by Robertson Davies
2,550 members
39 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
CDVicarage, ahef1963