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Readers' Corner - Featured Genre
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Family Sagas

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.

Fiction


"The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family."
- Thomas Jefferson
  • The House of Lanyon by Valerie Anand
  • Darkest Hour by V. C. Andrews
  • The Big Rich by Bryan Burrough
  • Levi’s Will by W. Dale Cromer
  • The Steinway Saga by D.W. Fostle
  • The Forsyte Saga : To Let by John Galsworthy
  • Mama Flora’s Family by Alex Haley
  • The Story Sisters by Alice Hoffman
  • A Thousand Splendid Sun by Khaled Hosseini
  • American Dreams by John Jakes
  • Galway Bay by Mary Pat Kelly
  • Jubal Sackett by Louis L’Amour
  • Gemini Summer by Iain Lawrence
  • The Sisters: the Saga of the Mitford Family by Mary S. Lovell
  • Annapolis by William Martin
  • Miami by Evelyn Mayerson
  • Chesapeake by James A. Michener
  • Gate of his Enemies by Gilbert Morris
  • The Bellamy Saga by John Pearson
  • The Foreigner by David Plante
  • Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn by Gary Pomerantz
  • Sarum: the novel of England by Edward Rutherford
  • The Godfather Returns by Mark Winegardner

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Nonfiction


"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring close-knit family in another city."
- George Burns
  • Presidential Courage: brave leaders and how they changed America, 1789-1989 by Michael Beschloss
  • The Big Rich: the rise and fall of the greatest Texas oil fortunes by Bryan Burrough
  • The Roosevelts: an American Saga by Peter Collier

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