Novels featuring Fathers

Description
Books that depict the father-child relationship, whether in a positive or negative light.
1
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
90,103 members
1,559 reviews
½ 4.4
6 Members
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2
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
by Mark Haddon
47,928 members
1,395 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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3
The Shipping News
by Annie Proulx
14,357 members
276 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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4
Northern Lights
by Philip Pullman
40,150 members
792 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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5
A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
45,543 members
1,039 reviews
4
3 Members
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Emma
by Jane Austen
44,185 members
570 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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7
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
37,387 members
336 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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8
Matilda
by Roald Dahl
26,287 members
523 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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9
Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman
21,685 members
492 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Explanations
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10
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
17,365 members
1,037 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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11
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
13,458 members
418 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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12
Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
13,240 members
337 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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13
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
9,316 members
392 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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14
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
9,253 members
191 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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15
The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
7,100 members
101 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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16
Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Beverly Cleary
9,949 members
155 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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17
Doctor Sleep
by Stephen King
9,867 members
359 reviews
4
2 Members
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18
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
9,211 members
125 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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19
A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
6,642 members
143 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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20
Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
6,289 members
182 reviews
4
2 Members
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21
The Warden
by Anthony Trollope
4,878 members
139 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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22
An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro
4,423 members
117 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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23
Home
by Marilynne Robinson
4,304 members
159 reviews
4
2 Members
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24
Library at Mount Char
by Scott Hawkins
3,885 members
278 reviews
4
2 Members
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25
The Cabin at the End of the World
by Paul Tremblay
2,608 members
128 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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26
Hangsaman
by Shirley Jackson
1,105 members
28 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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27
The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
38,975 members
1,513 reviews
4.1
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28
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
27,451 members
480 reviews
½ 4.4
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29
The Shining
by Stephen King
27,403 members
530 reviews
4.1
Member
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30
The Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
9,970 members
97 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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31
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
6,316 members
215 reviews
½ 3.6
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32
Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
6,136 members
226 reviews
4
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33
Tinkers
by Paul Harding
4,145 members
244 reviews
½ 3.5
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34
The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
3,742 members
105 reviews
3.1
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35
The Optimist's Daughter
by Eudora Welty
2,960 members
101 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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36
Two by Two
by Nicholas Sparks
2,718 members
48 reviews
3.8
Member
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37
The Bone Shard Daughter
by Andrea Stewart
2,071 members
26 reviews
4
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38
How High We Go in the Dark
by Sequoia Nagamatsu
1,816 members
75 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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39
Romola
by George Eliot
1,660 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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40
The Mouse and His Child
by Russell Hoban
1,152 members
32 reviews
4.2
Member
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41
Small Spaces
by Katherine Arden
1,126 members
67 reviews
4
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42
The Extraordinaries
by TJ Klune
1,050 members
35 reviews
4
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43
Fourth of July Creek
by Smith Henderson
1,006 members
56 reviews
3.9
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44
The Marsh King's Daughter
by Karen Dionne
990 members
78 reviews
3.9
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45
Mapping the Interior
by Stephen Graham Jones
894 members
38 reviews
½ 3.7
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46
The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May
by Mark Z. Danielewski
869 members
20 reviews
½ 3.5
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47
Wakenhyrst
by Michelle Paver
659 members
29 reviews
3.8
Member
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48
The Devil Takes You Home: A Novel
by Gabino Iglesias
624 members
20 reviews
3.8
Member
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49
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
by George Meredith
535 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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50
The Strangers in the House
by Georges Simenon
488 members
16 reviews
½ 3.7
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51
Telephone
by Percival Everett
365 members
33 reviews
3.9
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52
Death of an Ordinary Man
by Glen Duncan
352 members
10 reviews
3.2
Member
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53
Brighten the Corner Where You Are
by Fred Chappell
258 members
7 reviews
4
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54
The Afterlives: A Novel
by Thomas Pierce
181 members
5 reviews
½ 3.3
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55
Ghost Abbey
by Robert Westall
142 members
1 review
½ 3.6
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56
Summer Switch
by Mary Rodgers
135 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
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