The Thorn Birds
Meggie loves priest Ralph across decades on Drogheda sheep station.
2,280-word summary · 10 min read
Tag: family saga
8 books with this tag.
Fall of Giants
Five families from Wales to Russia live through World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the fight for women's votes.
2,255-word summary · 10 min read
The Godfather
Vito Corleone and son Michael navigate mafia wars, loyalty, and power in Puzo's crime saga.
2,950-word summary · 13 min read
The Dutch House
Danny and Maeve Conroy lose their Elkins Park mansion to a stepmother, then spend decades parked outside it, bound by love and old grievance.
2,234-word summary · 10 min read
Pachinko
Four generations of a Korean family in Japan, from Sunja's fall and brave marriage to pachinko parlors, discrimination, and sons who choose different ways to…
2,210-word summary · 10 min read
East of Eden
In California's Salinas Valley, the Trasks and Hamiltons replay Cain and Abel through love, betrayal, and the hard choice to rise above the past across two…
2,734-word summary · 12 min read
Middlesex
Cal Stephanides traces three generations from Greece to Detroit to explain being intersex and becoming himself.
2,013-word summary · 9 min read
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Seven generations of the Buendia family rise and fall in Macondo, where memory, war and miracles blur together.
2,093-word summary · 9 min read