If you are in the mood for an immersive book you can dive into, multigenerational family sagas are a great option. These stories allow you to get to know a character and their descendants over several decades and across the world, with a focus on how time changes us and shapes our experiences. The people we want to become aren’t necessarily the people we are, and generational books do an excellent job helping us understand that gap and seeing where we come from.
Interested in checking out some other generational family stories? Check out our Family Saga Book List and be sure to check out the rest of our Staff Curated Book Lists.
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Lost Souls at the Neptune Inn by Betsy Carter When an elusive stranger arrives in 1960s New Rochelle, three generations of women are forever changed. Over the course of their lives, Geraldine, Emilia Mae, and Alice Wingo navigate their relationships with each other and the changing world around them. |
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The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Download the audiobook via eZone
A stunning novel about twin sisters, inseparable as children, who ultimately choose to live in two very different worlds, one black and one white. The story weaves together multiple strands and generations of this family, from the Deep South to California, from the 1950s to the 1990s. |
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Unseen City by Amy Shearn A multi-generational portrait of New York and the unexpected connections between a lonely Brooklyn librarian, a widower returning to his roots, and a ghost still lingering in a home that was once part of an activist-founded farming settlement. |
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The American Fiancee by Eric Dupont Over the course of the twentieth century, three generations of the Lamontagnes will weather love, passion, jealousy, revenge, and death. Their complicated family dynamic will propel their rise, and fall, and take them around the world until they finally confront the secrets of their complicated pasts |
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The Silence by Susan Allott Download the audiobook via eZone A powerful debut novel revolving around a shocking disappearance, two neighbor families, and shameful secrets from the past that refuse to stay buried. Deftly explores the deterioration of relationships and the devastating truths we keep from those we love. |
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The Wedding Dress by Danielle Steel Download the audiobook via eZone Danielle Steel’s epic new novel follows a wedding dress as is it passed down through four generations of women in one family. Through love, loss, tragedy, and victory, the wedding dress remains a cherished constant for the women who wear it in each generation and forge a destiny of their own. |
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The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar Three generations of Syrian Americans are linked by a mysterious species of bird and by the truths they carry close to their hearts. Searching for somewhere to belong, Nadir uncovers the silences kept in the name of survival by his own community, his own family, and within himself, and discovers the family that was there all along. |
This list compiled by Reference Staff at Barrington Public Library. Please contact us at 401-247-1920 x2 with any questions or if you would like help placing a hold on one of these titles.
