Family Life books
Family life books on in prose, ranked by community signal — 28 titles across the catalogue.

Lost Lambs
Madeline Cash
2026

Piglet
Lottie Hazell
2024

Blue Sisters: A Read with Jenna Pick
Coco Mellors
2024

Piglet
Lottie Hazell
2024

The Wishing Game
Meg Shaffer
2023

The Bandit Queens
Parini Shroff
2023

Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Satoshi Yagisawa
2023

Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
2023

Free Love
Tessa Hadley
2022

Remarkably Bright Creatures
Shelby Van Pelt
2022

The Cherry Robbers
Sarai Walker
2022

Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
2021

Little Disasters
Sarah Vaughan
2021

The End of Her
Shari Lapena
2020

Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo
2019

Postscript
Cecelia Ahern
2019

My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite
2018

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Taylor Jenkins Reid
2017

A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
2016

The Guest Cat
Takashi Hiraide
2014

Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
2014

Fallen
Karin Slaughter
2011

The Pumpkin Eater
Penelope Mortimer
2011

To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
2010

Of Bees and Mist
Erick Setiawan
2009

The L-shaped Room
Lynne Reid Banks
2004

Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner
1995

The Cement Garden
Ian McEwan
1994
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