Hey everyone! I’m looking for dysfunctional family novel recs. Bonus points for families with many siblings. Thanks!
Hey everyone! I’m looking for dysfunctional family novel recs. Bonus points for families with many siblings. Thanks!
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i haven’t read it yet but I have The Nest sitting on my bookshelf and it seems to fit what you are looking for!
I have that too!
Maine by J Courtney Sullivan
@Katrina perfect!
Loved that book and definitely fits the description.
Eden by @Jeanne, This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper, Shelter by Jung Yun, The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman, We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas, A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler,
The Nest!
The Winter Street series by Elin Hildebrand, Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan, Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng, Saints for all Occasions by J. Courtney Sullivan, The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson, Before You Know Kindness by Chris Bohjalian,
Realizing this a genre I love! 🙂
Me too! Thanks!
This is where I Leave You !! Hilarious!!
The Family Fang
Omg I love this book.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00D9GY2BU
Commonwealth
Loved that book!
Without Merit
The Nest or this is Where I Leave You
Don’t try to Find me. It takes a while but it’s pretty good.
Marlena
The Sound of Gravel non fiction reads like fiction holy crap
Have you read her cousin’s book, The Polygamist’s Daughter? I need to read that too.
@Caryn i did as well
In Her Shoes. It’s sisters, but they’re very dysfunctional, and I loved this book soooo much.
So good.
Way better than the movie
Agreed
h has a seriously shitty family in this…
http://amzn.to/2zmmDoY
So good!!
Thank you!!
Uh, habe you read my books? ?
I haven’t read the book yet, but I did see the HBO miniseries of Olive Kitteridge (book by Elizabeth Strout). The series was excellent, and I’ve heard the book is better (of course).
The Promise Between Us by @Barbara is a wonderful, informative story about OCD and a family. You will love Maisy…the little girl that ties everyone together. It comes out in January…I read an ARC. Very good! ?
@Tina probably has some good recommendations
Spoonbenders!
LOVED this book
The Hart series by Ella Fox or the neighbor from hell series by rl Mathewson.
Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave.
The Winter Street series by Elin Hildebrand.
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb – This is How It Always is by Laurie Frankel
Starting This Is How It Always Is this week. I’ve heard so many good things about it!
7 Days of Us!!
Roanoke Girls by Amy Engel, but it has a taboo topic
The good house by @Ann ; modern girls by @Jenny ; two family house by @Lynda
Running with scissors by auguston boroughs
Great book!
Following
“How to Behave in a Crowd”
It was so dysfunctional, so awesome and had six children
Ooo. This looks awesome
It’s from Camille something something
I have a novel that fits (for sure). How to Grow an Addict. http://www.jawright.net/
Ugh, sorry about the emoji. Cat bumped me as I was typing and I couldn’t get it removed on the iPhone app. For dysfunction (but sad, not funny) in families I would recommend Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.
Amazing book.
Flowers in the Attic series.
Love those books!
Me too. I reread them a few years ago. Definitely a messed up family in those books. Lol
The original books that were written by VC Andrews were awesome. I hated that a ghost writer kept writing under her name later after her death.
Funny my mom & I were just talking about those books at Thanksgiving!
All VC Andrews books had dysfunctional families.
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The Sunshine Sisters by Jane Green fits the bill and is so so good.
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. Brilliant dysfunctional family novel.
Truly dysfunctional! It was so sad.
As well as her newest, Little Fires Everywhere.
This was so dysfunctional and so sad! Read it last month
Loved that book so much I had to write a review for Amazon and Goodreads.
Without Merit by Colleen Hoover!
Karen Rock has a new series. The youngest has passed due to his addiction. “Rocky Mountain Cowboys”
Etched in sand by Regina calcaterra. This is a true story. She collaborated with her sister for a second book called girl unbroken for her sisters story. Unbelievable story. It’s a must read!
@Diana ‘s Things Unsaid just went to audio and is full of dysfunction!
Oh cool. I’ve been interested in reading this. Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you, @Nicole and @Lisa
Running With Scissors is beyond dysfunctional! It really bothered me! Glass Castle is dysfunctional but a great book. The Nest is another one that comes to mind.
I did really enjoy The Nest… and it’s exactly what you described.
Not a novel, but The Glass Castle.
Hate to toot own horn but The fam in THE FIFTH OF JULY is so dysfunctional I am featuring dysfunctional families for #dysfunctionalfridays
You can too here anytime, @Kelly ;p
Toot
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn?
The Perfect Son, Echoes of The Family, and Barbara Claypole White has 2 other titles and a new book out in January. It is called The Promise of Us,due out in January.
Yup, that’s my thing. (Hopeful family drama with a healthy dose of mental illness.)
Two more : Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak and The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang. They’re both terrific!
Without Merit by @Colleen has a pretty dysfunctional family