Tag: family

476 books with this tag.

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Nineteen Minutes

Jodi Picoult · 2007

Sterling High student Peter Haddon commits a school shooting and lawyer Jordan McAfee defends him while Josie Cormier hides truth.

2,267-word summary · 10 min read

Mansfield Park

Jane Austen · 1814

Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.

2,389-word summary · 11 min read

Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel · 1989

Tita expresses forbidden love for Pedro through meals in revolutionary Mexico.

2,590-word summary · 12 min read

Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021

Solar robot Klara loves Josie and bargains with the Sun to save her.

2,251-word summary · 10 min read

I'll Give You the Sun

Jandy Nelson · 2014

Twins Noah and Jude split after their mother's death, bound by art, guilt and first love.

2,260-word summary · 10 min read

Homegoing

Yaa Gyasi · 2016

Half sisters Effia and Esi lines span Ghana to America across centuries.

2,552-word summary · 11 min read

Hello Beautiful

Ann Napolitano · 2023

Four sisters in Chicago love, lose, and find each other again across thirty years.

2,144-word summary · 10 min read

Goodnight Moon

Margaret Wise Brown · 1947

A small bunny says goodnight to each object in the green room in this 1947 bedtime classic.

2,600-word summary · 12 min read

Apples Never Fall

Liane Moriarty · 2021

A retired tennis coach vanishes, and her four children rethink their family story.

2,315-word summary · 10 min read

And the Mountains Echoed

Khaled Hosseini · 2013

When Abdullah and Pari are split in 1952 Afghanistan, their parting echoes across decades from Kabul to Paris to California in linked stories of loss and…

2,572-word summary · 11 min read

An Offer From a Gentleman

Julia Quinn · 2001

Benedict falls for a masked Sophie at a ball, then finds her working as a housemaid after her stepmother evicts her.

2,320-word summary · 10 min read

After You

Jojo Moyes · 2015

Lou grieves Will, falls from a roof, joins a group, and meets Sam and a surprise from Will's past.

2,031-word summary · 9 min read

Cutting for Stone

Abraham Verghese · 2009

Twin surgeon brothers come of age in Ethiopia and America in Verghese's sweeping medical saga.

2,664-word summary · 12 min read

Yours Truly

Abby Jimenez · 2023

Divorced ER doctor Briana Ortiz fake dates anxious newcomer Jacob Maddox, trading honest letters while her brother waits for a kidney donor.

2,475-word summary · 11 min read

Where the Red Fern Grows

Wilson Rawls · 1961

Billy earns two hounds and hunts raccoons in the Ozarks with love and loss.

2,990-word summary · 13 min read

What Alice Forgot

Liane Moriarty · 2009

After a gym fall erases ten years, Alice, 39, wakes as her 29 year old self and must relearn her three kids and failing marriage as a stranger.

2,495-word summary · 11 min read

Untamed

Glennon Doyle · 2020

Glennon Doyle leaves a strained marriage, falls for Abby Wambach, and rebuilds life around honesty and desire.

2,561-word summary · 11 min read

The Woman in Me

Britney Spears · 2023

Britney Spears tells her own story from teen stardom to a thirteen year conservatorship, and how she fought to reclaim her voice and freedom.

2,505-word summary · 11 min read

The Viscount Who Loved Me

Julia Quinn · 2000

Anthony Bridgerton vows to marry without love until Kate Sheffield challenges him at every turn.

2,666-word summary · 12 min read

The Light Between Oceans

M.L. Stedman · 2012

Lighthouse keeper Tom Sherbourne and Isabel raise a boat baby on Janus Rock and face her true mother on shore.

2,818-word summary · 13 min read

The Kiss Quotient

Helen Hoang · 2018

Stella Lane hires escort Michael Phan to practice dating and learns logic fails where touch and family press in.

2,716-word summary · 12 min read

The Family Upstairs

Lisa Jewell · 2019

Libby Jones inherits a Chelsea mansion and a past tied to a cult house, two runaways, and a baby left waiting.

3,300-word summary · 15 min read