Dysfunctional Families

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dysfunctional families
1
The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
29,402 members
611 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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2
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
23,014 members
842 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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3
Angela's Ashes
by Frank McCourt
23,592 members
351 reviews
4
4 Members
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4
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
9,298 members
392 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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5
Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh
14,073 members
286 reviews
4
4 Members
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6
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,632 members
143 reviews
½ 3.7
4 Members
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7
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,336 members
275 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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8
Matilda
by Roald Dahl
26,105 members
522 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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9
Running with Scissors
by Augusten Burroughs
15,399 members
321 reviews
½ 3.5
4 Members
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10
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
47,823 members
1,394 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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11
Persuasion
by Jane Austen
33,109 members
576 reviews
4.2
4 Members
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12
The Family of Pascual Duarte
by Camilo José Cela
1,752 members
33 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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13
The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
6,488 members
114 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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14
The Goldfinch
by Donna Tartt
18,219 members
867 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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15
The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
22,515 members
369 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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16
Cold Comfort Farm
by Stella Gibbons
6,392 members
240 reviews
4
4 Members
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17
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
10,251 members
503 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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18
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
by Stieg Larsson
48,116 members
1,819 reviews
4
4 Members
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19
He Knew He Was Right
by Anthony Trollope
1,064 members
28 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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20
We Need to Talk About Kevin
by Lionel Shriver
8,540 members
412 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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21
Naked
by David Sedaris
12,989 members
126 reviews
4
3 Members
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22
Educated: A Memoir
by Tara Westover
13,167 members
607 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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23
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
26,427 members
447 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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24
Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
26,315 members
1,630 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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25
The Memory Keeper's Daughter
by Kim Edwards
18,541 members
491 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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26
The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
19,430 members
247 reviews
4
2 Members
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27
Independent People
by Halldór Laxness
3,405 members
120 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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28
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
9,167 members
124 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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29
Escape
by Carolyn Jessop
1,913 members
113 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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30
White Oleander
by Janet Fitch
12,317 members
177 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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31
The Story of a New Name
by Elena Ferrante
4,435 members
172 reviews
½ 4.3
2 Members
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32
The Burning Bed
by Faith McNulty
183 members
½ 4.5
2 Members
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34
Cathedral: Stories
by Raymond Carver
3,409 members
97 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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35
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
by Jeanette Winterson
6,945 members
160 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
Dilara86, alex68
36
Summer of My German Soldier
by Bette Greene
3,327 members
49 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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37
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius / Mistakes We Knew We Were Making
by Dave Eggers
14,067 members
212 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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38
Fall on Your Knees
by Ann-Marie MacDonald
5,816 members
127 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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39
The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
7,830 members
220 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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40
A Spot of Bother
by Mark Haddon
6,057 members
192 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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41
A Head Full of Ghosts
by Paul Tremblay
2,785 members
160 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
42
On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
10,118 members
235 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
43
The Vegetarian
by Kang Han
5,936 members
399 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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44
Sharp Objects
by Gillian Flynn
12,219 members
576 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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45
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
43,903 members
695 reviews
4.1
Member
alex68
46
The Nest
by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney
3,722 members
160 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
47
Me and Emma
by Elizabeth Flock
1,304 members
48 reviews
3.9
Member
dara85
48
The Misfortunates
by Dimitri Verhulst
1,004 members
39 reviews
3.8
Member
Dilara86
49
Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
10,554 members
446 reviews
3.8
2 Members
dara85, sturlington
50
We the Animals
by Justin Torres
1,475 members
74 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
51
My Lobotomy
by Howard Dully
1,172 members
51 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
52
Fenrir een lang weekend in de Ardennen
by Hella S. Haasse
118 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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53
The World According to Garp
by John Irving
16,377 members
209 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
54
American Pastoral
by Philip Roth
8,862 members
188 reviews
3.9
Member
alex68
55
Keeping the House
by Ellen Baker
391 members
34 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
dara85
56
As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
16,837 members
238 reviews
3.9
Member
alex68
57
Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
4,351 members
226 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
58
All Families are Psychotic
by Douglas Coupland
2,753 members
36 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
59
Story of a Girl
by Sara Zarr
1,352 members
88 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
60
The End of Eddy
by Édouard Louis
1,064 members
34 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
Dilara86
61
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
by David Sedaris
13,963 members
211 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
62
Sons and Lovers
by D. H. Lawrence
10,440 members
104 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
alex68
63
Heartburn
by Nora Ephron
2,206 members
88 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
64
The Complete Maus
by Art Spiegelman
10,697 members
286 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
65
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
by Erika L. Sánchez
2,509 members
64 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
66
Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer's Daughter
by Melissa G. Moore
188 members
5 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
67
Revolutionary Road
by Richard Yates
7,398 members
258 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
68
The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan
3,893 members
109 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
alex68
69
In My Father's House
by Min S. Yee
36 members
1 review
½ 3.5
Member
dara85
70
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
17,832 members
356 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
71
All Over but the Shoutin'
by Rick Bragg
2,509 members
63 reviews
4
Member
dara85
72
Modern Lovers
by Emma Straub
1,070 members
43 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
sturlington
73
Old Filth
by Jane Gardam
2,565 members
151 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
74
This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel
by Jonathan Tropper
3,498 members
183 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
75
Big Little Lies
by Liane Moriarty
8,701 members
446 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
77
Freedom
by Jonathan Franzen
10,667 members
426 reviews
3.8
Member
alex68
78
The Silver Star
by Jeannette Walls
2,075 members
95 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
79
Eligible
by Curtis Sittenfeld
2,185 members
176 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
sturlington
80
Crazy Rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan
7,241 members
263 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
81
Dark Horse
by Tami Hoag
1,800 members
19 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
dara85
82
At the Edge of the Orchard
by Tracy Chevalier
1,097 members
70 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
83
The Family Fang
by Kevin Wilson
1,781 members
84 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
84
Flowers in the Attic
by V. C. Andrews
7,268 members
211 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
sturlington
85
The Spellman Files
by Lisa Lutz
3,020 members
209 reviews
3.8
Member
ahef1963
86
Our Souls at Night
by Kent Haruf
2,856 members
240 reviews
4
Member
alex68
87
The Great Alone
by Kristin Hannah
7,812 members
332 reviews
4.1
Member
dara85
88
The Middlesteins
by Jami Attenberg
991 members
63 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
sturlington
89
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
by J. D. Vance
8,831 members
397 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
90
The Great Santini
by Pat Conroy
2,168 members
42 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
91
A Rule Against Murder
by Louise Penny
3,650 members
178 reviews
4
Member
ahef1963
92
Like Father Like Son
by Robert Scott
37 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
dara85
93
A Complicated Kindness
by Miriam Toews
2,465 members
73 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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94
Our Endless Numbered Days
by Claire Fuller
890 members
57 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
95
The Secrets She Keeps
by Michael Robotham
741 members
58 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
dara85
96
The Liar's Club: A Memoir
by Mary Karr
4,359 members
89 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
97
Push
by Sapphire
4,112 members
172 reviews
3.8
Member
dara85
98
The Flying Troutmans
by Miriam Toews
965 members
79 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
ahef1963
99
The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
3,732 members
105 reviews
3.1
Member
sturlington
100
The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets
by Sarah Miller
144 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
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