Dysfunctional Families

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dysfunctional families
1
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
27,115 members
588 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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2
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
20,618 members
797 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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3
The Family of Pascual Duarte
by Camilo José Cela
1,522 members
28 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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4
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
21,892 members
337 reviews
4
3 Members
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5
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
12,591 members
265 reviews
4
3 Members
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6
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,172 members
137 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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7
The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
13,440 members
250 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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8
He Knew He Was Right
by Anthony Trollope
986 members
28 reviews
3.9
2 Members
Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda
9
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
44,364 members
1,331 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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10
Matilda
by Roald Dahl
22,137 members
479 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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11
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
28,743 members
532 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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12
The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
5,829 members
108 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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13
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
17,316 members
226 reviews
4
2 Members
alex68, ahef1963
14
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
14,934 members
803 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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15
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
19,778 members
335 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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16
Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
5,787 members
223 reviews
4
3 Members
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17
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
8,170 members
424 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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18
Running with Scissors
by Augusten Burroughs
14,657 members
309 reviews
½ 3.5
3 Members
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19
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
43,298 members
1,749 reviews
4
3 Members
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20
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards
17,358 members
480 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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21
Independent People
by Halldór Laxness
2,915 members
103 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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22
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
8,321 members
114 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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23
White Oleander
by Janet Fitch
11,333 members
169 reviews
3.9
2 Members
alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
24
Escape
by Carolyn Jessop
1,759 members
107 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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25
The Story of a New Name
by Elena Ferrante
3,458 members
140 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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26
Summer of My German Soldier
by Bette Greene
3,036 members
47 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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29
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
9,826 members
516 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
dara85, ManWithAnAgenda
30
Cathedral: Stories
by Raymond Carver
3,081 members
96 reviews
4.2
2 Members
alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
31
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
8,170 members
368 reviews
4.2
2 Members
Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda
32
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson
6,258 members
143 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
Dilara86, alex68
33
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
22,889 members
408 reviews
3.9
2 Members
alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
34
Naked
by David Sedaris
12,335 members
121 reviews
4
2 Members
alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
35
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
22,171 members
1,543 reviews
3.9
2 Members
dara85, ahef1963
36
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and Mistakes We Knew We Were Making
by Dave Eggers
13,421 members
209 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
alex68, ManWithAnAgenda
37
Fall on Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
5,448 members
125 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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38
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
7,806 members
396 reviews
4.1
2 Members
alex68, ahef1963
39
Sharp Objects
by Gillian Flynn
9,762 members
539 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
40
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
38,541 members
630 reviews
4.1
Member
alex68
41
The Misfortunates
by Dimitri Verhulst
940 members
40 reviews
3.8
Member
Dilara86
42
Shot in the Heart
by Mikal Gilmore
717 members
22 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
43
Fenrir : een lang weekend in de Ardennen
by Hella S. Haase
114 members
1 review
½ 3.6
Member
Dilara86
44
Me and Emma
by Elizabeth Flock
1,234 members
48 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
45
Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
8,598 members
416 reviews
3.8
Member
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46
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
8,077 members
180 reviews
3.9
Member
alex68
47
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
14,819 members
216 reviews
3.9
Member
alex68
48
All Families are Psychotic
by Douglas Coupland
2,621 members
34 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
49
My Lobotomy
by Howard Dully
1,081 members
47 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
50
The End of Eddy: A Novel
by Édouard Louis
850 members
29 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
51
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
13,273 members
194 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
52
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
9,526 members
100 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
alex68
53
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
8,738 members
257 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
54
Keeping the House
by Ellen Baker
372 members
33 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
55
Story of a Girl
by Sara Zarr
1,290 members
86 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
56
The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan
3,562 members
98 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
alex68
57
Sins of the Father
by Eileen Franklin
37 members
1 review
3.2
Member
dara85
58
Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer's Daughter
by Melissa G. Moore
170 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
59
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
7,103 members
203 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
60
In My Father's House
by Min S. Yee
28 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
dara85
61
A Spot of Bother
by Mark Haddon
5,762 members
185 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ahef1963
62
Freedom
by Jonathan Franzen
9,559 members
409 reviews
3.8
Member
alex68
63
All Over but the Shoutin'
by Rick Bragg
2,328 members
60 reviews
4
Member
dara85
64
A Head Full of Ghosts
by Paul Tremblay
2,154 members
145 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
66
The Spellman Files
by Lisa Lutz
2,847 members
210 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
67
Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf
2,348 members
226 reviews
4
Member
alex68
68
The Silver Star: A Novel
by Jeannette Walls
1,802 members
91 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
69
Dark Horse
by Tami Hoag
1,674 members
19 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
dara85
70
A Rule Against Murder
by Louise Penny
3,048 members
162 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
71
At the Edge of the Orchard
by Tracy Chevalier
949 members
66 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
72
A Complicated Kindness
by Miriam Toews
2,282 members
66 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
ahef1963
73
The Flying Troutmans
by Miriam Toews
916 members
78 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
74
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
4,975 members
257 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
75
The Vegetarian
by Han Kang
3,449 members
290 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
alex68
76
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J. D. Vance
6,905 members
339 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
77
Like Father Like Son
by Robert Scott
34 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
dara85
78
City of Ashes
by Cassandra Clare
15,121 members
428 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
79
The Secrets She Keeps
by Michael Robotham
606 members
50 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
80
City of Glass
by Cassandra Clare
13,609 members
406 reviews
4.1
Member
ahef1963
81
Push
by Sapphire
3,665 members
161 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
82
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
by Maria Semple
7,515 members
543 reviews
3.9
Member
ahef1963
83
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
by Jeanette Winterson
2,103 members
102 reviews
4.1
Member
alex68
84
Rumble Fish
by S. E. Hinton
1,971 members
47 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
85
The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets
by Sarah Miller
120 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
86
A Nearly Normal Family
by M. T. Edvardsson
858 members
58 reviews
3.8
Member
alex68
87
High on Arrival
by Mackenzie Phillips
406 members
18 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
dara85
88
Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison
2,854 members
121 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
89
Change Me into Zeus's Daughter: A Memoir
by Barbara Robinette Moss
343 members
3 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
90
Claiming Georgia Tate
by Gigi Amateau
93 members
3 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
91
If You Knew My Sister
by Michelle Adams
107 members
9 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
92
A Brother's Journey
by Richard B. Pelzer
497 members
12 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
dara85
93
A Child Called "It"
by Dave Pelzer
8,467 members
301 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
94
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
by Gregg Olsen
1,086 members
55 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
95
You Will Know Me
by Megan Abbott
1,152 members
71 reviews
½ 3.6
96
The Elementals
by Michael McDowell
819 members
49 reviews
3.9
97
Rooms
by Lauren Oliver
793 members
47 reviews
½ 3.4
98
Raney
by Clyde Edgerton
570 members
7 reviews
3.9
99
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
16,615 members
341 reviews
3.8
100
Eleanor and Park
by Rainbow Rowell
9,107 members
639 reviews
4.1