Need book club suggestions! Topic: mother/child relationship Fiction or non-fiction. TIA!
Need book club suggestions!
Topic: mother/child relationship
Fiction or non-fiction. TIA!
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Pieces of Her by Karin Slaughter, It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover, and The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah.
I’ll See You In Paris.
Fire Fly Lane Kristin Hannah
Written by Mary Pflum Peterson . . .
White Dresses: A Memoir of Love and Secrets, Mothers and Daughters
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See.
The Scarlet Letter, Nathanial Hawthorn
Battle Hymn of the tiger mother
Unfortunate Ursula Underwood by Susannah Lewis.
What was Mine by Helen Klein Ross was so good! I gave my daughter and mother each a copy!
winter garden Kristin Hannah
Baby Teeth
House rules by jodi picoult
White Oleander
i read this. Terrific writing.
Snow Child
Jewel by Brett Lott
Come Home by Lisa Scottoline
We are not ourselves by Matthew Thomas
All Girls Filling Station Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg. There are different generations of women and stores of mothers and daughters and also family relationships.
@Margaret was going to suggest this one!!!
The family next door by Sally Hepworth
A Mother’s Promise or The Secrets of Midwives as well! She is one of my favorite authors!
@Amanda I have the mothers promise in my TBR pile. Was the secrets of midwives good ? I wasn’t sure about that one based on the description.
@Bec I’ve read all 4 of her books, and Promise was my favorite, Midwives a close second. Both just excellent!! I’m really looking forward to The Mother in Law, her new one coming out later this month!
@Amanda thanks for the advice. Her most recent book is out already here in Australia, I keep meaning to buy it.
@Bec, you’re welcome! You’re lucky, we always have to wait longer for her releases here in the US!
The Living in Her dying Sara Bragin
Amy Tan’s, Kitchen God’s Wife and Joy Luck Club, both older books, but have daughters becoming aware of their mothers’ experiences .
Bastard of Istanbul
Hush, Swing, Hush isn’t just about the relationship, but the main character is a divorced mom with an eleven-year-old boy who has Asperger’s. The relationship of mother and child is touched on throughout the novel.
By a guy, but “100 books to read before….” it gave us a lot to talk about.
I can’t seem to find this. Is the title “100 books to read before” ? Who’s the author.
Defending Jacob
This Is How It Always Is
My book club just read Educated. It’s more of a family dynamic, but there are plenty of things to discuss about the mother/child dynamic. If you’re looking for more humorous, the #imomsohard ladies just released a book. I haven’t read it yet, but I love their videos.
Definitely this one…. highly recommend!!
Fierce Kingdom
The Secret Daughter
Love saves the day. Gwen cooper
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout
Love Anthony
Kristin Hannah
Handle with Care, My Sister’s Keeper both by Jodi Picoult
That is my favorite Picoult book.
And the title is my name!
“My Old Sweetheart” by Susannah Moore, set in Hawaii. OMG. Beautiful. Don’t give it to young kids as it is pretty sad but for young adults or adult s it is glory.
The Snow Child! Great book.
My heart!! This was such a great book ❤️
@Greta Just awesome. Sad there will be no more from this author, she died recently.
She did!? Oh no – how sad
So many great suggestions. Thanks all!
Red Clocks is a great read! Kind of a interesting twist on mother-daughter relationships!
The Dream Daughter by Diane @Diane
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Loved this one!
The Joy Luck Club
The Queen of Bloody Everything by Joanna Nadin, The Memory Box by Margaret Forster, an Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine, although not immediately obvious as a mother daughter relationship, becomes more so as the story reaches its climax.
Mom, Daughter and sister too
The Divine Secrets of the ya ya sisterhood
Would be perfect, but I read it already. Good book!
Firefly lane deals with two different mother/daughter relationships and friendships
Freefall by Jessica Barry
Have Mother, Will Travel by Claire Fontaine and Mia Fontaine.
Tea girl of hummingbird lane. Lisa See
MOtherless Daughters by Karen Edelman for women who lost thier mothers young.
Her Mothers Hope –
Francine Rivers
Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng That’s the title..not 100% sure of the author’s name
@Nicola I second this! Celeste Ng is the author
Eleanor oliphant is completely fine
Lisa Carey the mermaids singing 3 generations beautiful story from all the womens POV
I really like the one in JA Jance’s Joanna Brady series – super books
House rules by Jodi picoult
The Most Wanted by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Cute little hand grenade
The Joys of Motherhood – Buchi Emecheta
Everything I Never Told You.
White Oleander, been a while but pretty twisted
Read it. Loved it.
The Divine secrets of the ya ya sisterhood
White oleander stayed wth me. So good.
Good Me Bad Me
Wild From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed. The Room by Emma Donoghue.
Room by Emma Donoghue
When the Rainbow comes and goes.
Little Women
Everything I Never Told You (Ng, I think.)
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
The Mars room by rachel kushner. It’s about a mother getting out of jail and trying to reconnect w/ her son as well as start her life again.
I f you are into Christian cozy mysteries, my four Darcy and Flora cozies, The Cemetery Club, Grave Shift, Best Left Buried, and Grave Heritage are about the exploits of a 40 something woman and her 60 something mother.
The Story of Lucy Gault, is actually about the life of a child who goes missing after abandonment by her mother and father.
It depends on whether you want a loving mother/daughter relationship or a contentious one? My autobiography, “GUIDED,” won the Int’l Body-Mind-Spirit Book Award and is a harrowing story of coming into this life in the early 1950s unwanted, unloved, and abused physically, emotionally, and psychologically for the first 16 years of my life, I escaped that toxic family environment with nothing, and by age 19, I became a successful architect, home designer, home builder, and owned the 3rd-largest construction company in northern CA – all without one bit of formal education. It was only divine intervention that allowed me to become a self-taught business phenomenon in a man’s world by the early 1970s. It also reads like a suspense novel, as the underlying story is about my family hiding all the sinister secrets from their past that I didn’t find out about until I was 55 years old. Spoiler alert!… My husband likes to say GUIDED is a love story too because, in Part 4 of the book, I meet him and live happily-ever-after! Here’s a series of Video trailers for the first 8 Chapters of my life story… Enjoy! – and GUIDED is very popular with book clubs. https://bit.ly/2xxTRzN
NON-FICTION- https://www.romper.com/p/17-books-to-build-a-stronger-mother-daughter-relationship-5406
FICTION – https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/29916.Best_Mother_Daughter_Relationship_Fiction
You’re amazing! Thank you
NON FICTION – https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/nonfiction-family-relationships
I Only Say This Because I Love You by Debora Tanner
A memory of violets
Pachinko it’s a main theme