What is your all time favorite/s multi-generational family saga?
What is your all time favorite/s multi-generational family saga?
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What is your all time favorite/s multi-generational family saga?
John Jakes “Kent Family Chronicles” .
I agree!! Still have them all!! My first long series???
Roses by Leila Meacham
Loved it!
I loved this one too!
A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford
One of my favorites!
One of my favorites!
The Shoemakers wife by Adriana Trigiani. Will be re-reading it soon
You’d probably love Elizabeth Street by Laurie Fabiano. It’s so good.
@Diane thank you I will get it
@Janice Let me know how you like it. I know you will!
The Thorn Birds, I loved it when I read it many years ago
Me too!
Jeffrey Archer’s Clifton family chronicles and also Cain & Able series by same author.
Must finally read Kane and Abel!
Love Comes Softly series bt Jeannette Oak.
‘Kin’ by Lesley Crewe was good, read recently..
The Blessings by Elise Juska
North and South by John Jakes
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Somerset by Leila Meacham
The Moreland Dynasty by Cynthia Harrod-Eagle
Beverly Lewis – Abram’s Daughters
I have forgotten just how wonderful some of these stories are.. thank you for listing them!
It’s been a very long time since I read one. Time to revisit Thorn Birds.
The Thornbirds and the Kent Family Chronicles
A Woman of Substance series by Barbara Taylor Bradford.
Roses by Leila Meacham
Kin by Lesley Crewe
That’s what I said.
Barbara Taylor Bradford’s Woman of Substance series.
Karen Kingsbury Baxter Family….multiple series focused on different pieces of the same family!!! Started with the “R” series & just has grown from there!!! I’m not sure how many books she has written that contain members of the Baxter family.
John Jakes Kent Family Chronicles, Herman Wouk’s Winds of War and War and Remembrance and Ken Follett’s Kingsbridge Novels.
Karen Kingsbury’s books about the Baxter family
Roots by Alex Hayley.
Probably all of Kate Morton’s books. 🙂
The Thornbirds. Or anything by Leila Meacham.
Loved Alex Haley’s Roots!
Everything listed above plus The Tea Rose series by Jennifer Donnelly, The Shell Seekers by Rosamund Pilcher and I still absolutely love Gone With the Wind!!
Outlander series
“The Thornbirds” by Colleen McCullough
In The Land Of The Long White Cloud series by Sarah Lark
Richard North Patterson’s “Clifton” series.
Did you mean Jeffrey Archer? I looked this up because I really like Richard North Patterson , and couldn’t find it.
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
I love the John Jakes Kent Family Chronicles. Just downloaded the first in the Ken Follet series, The Century Trilogy. I don’t read this genre a lot anymore, but looking forward to reading it.
Outlander ?
Ken Follett’s “Kingsbridge” series, Jeffrey Archer’s “Clifton Cronicles”, Jan Karon’s “Mitford” series
The Shell Seekers or A Woman of Substance.
And ?Ken Follett’s Trilogy of a Century.
The Thornbirds
The Thornbirds
Poldark Series by Winston Graham – 12 books in the series. Loved it!
Emma Harte series by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Her Mother’s Hope
Her Daughter’s Dream
By Francine Rivers
The Outlander by Diana Gabaldon.
The Thorn Birds!
I read that book! Also remember the movie with Richard Chamberlain!
The North and the South trilogy by John Jakes
Beach Music by Pat Conroy
Beach Music is one of my favorite books! I do miss Pat Conroy.
Emma Hart by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Lots of good answers here!
The Forsyth Saga was good,too. It has been a while since I read it. I looked it up in my Kindle. &1.99 right now! I might have to reread it!
That was great too
ROOTS. I remember it came out when I was in my early teens and I was mesmerized ! That where my love of Historical Fiction began!
My own family, hahaha!!
The Thorn Birds by Coleen McCullough
Belva Plain’s Vegas Series..
Are you thinking of Fern Micheal’s, I don’t think Belva Plain wrote a Vegas Series.
She did Crescent City.
@Patricia , you are so right, sorry I had a brain freeze for a moment ?
The Godfather By Mario Puzo and I second/ third North & South
Middlesex
The River House by Frances Parkinson Keyes!
Virginia Andrews
Fern Michaels wrote a series of books, and each part of the family lived and worked in different parts of the country — Kentucky, Las Vegas, and Texas. I remember loving those books because of the family saga piece.
I just read my first Fern Michaels book, No safe secret-I really liked it! I’ll check out her series:)
@Kris Oh, I hope you will like them! They are older books, so I hope the themes will still resonate today. Life changes so fast these days! All in all, I think her books are usually pretty good and satisfying. I’d love to know what you think if/when you get the chance!
@Becca thanks! I’m thinking a trip to Half-Price Books is in my future:)
@Kris Sounds like fun!! I love used book stores! Let’s be honest, though — I love buying books just about anywhere, doesn’t just have to be a bookstore! 🙂
@Becca I can’t walk past books ANYWHERE without stopping:)
All of a Kind Family. Yes a children’s novel series but fantastic story and lessons
The Harte Family Saga by Barbara Taylor Bradford beginning with A Woman of Substance. I read that sooooo long ago.
My favorite too Vicki. I even have the video disks to watch. I read this series so long ago, it may be time for a reread. It’s amazing how this series stayed with Us through the years.
I just checked and the first book is on Kindle Unlimited.
@Vicki Thanks! I have the series in hardcover.
I think I had it in paperback and don’t think I still have them. I am very happy for you that you still have them.
“Family”
The Peachtree Bluff trilogy ( 2 have been released so far), by @Kristy.
Through a Glass Darkly by Karleen Koen
A woman of substance, rich man poor man, a Valley of the Dolls lol!
The heart listens series by Helen van Slyke
Rich Man, Poor Man and The Thornbirds
And the Ladies of the Club
Janet Dailey’s Calder Family series. Fern Michaels Sisterhood.
Thornbirds
The Thorn Birds, Centennial, The Immigrants