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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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. |
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. |
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.