Novels featuring Fathers

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Books that depict the father-child relationship, whether in a positive or negative light.
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
73,252 members
1,394 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by Mark Haddon
42,563 members
1,294 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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The Shipping News
by E. Annie Proulx
12,982 members
244 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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4
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1)
by Philip Pullman
34,138 members
712 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
36,622 members
907 reviews
4
3 Members
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Emma
by Jane Austen
35,240 members
486 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Hamlet
by William Shakespeare
30,776 members
285 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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Matilda
by Roald Dahl
20,137 members
450 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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Anansi Boys
by Neil Gaiman
19,279 members
450 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
13,415 members
916 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
10,582 members
280 reviews
4
3 Members
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Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
10,373 members
359 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
8,519 members
182 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
by Alison Bechdel
7,481 members
349 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
6,397 members
92 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy
7,930 members
107 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Dear Mr. Henshaw
by Beverly Cleary
7,235 members
144 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Doctor Sleep
by Stephen King
6,763 members
315 reviews
4
2 Members
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A Thousand Acres
by Jane Smiley
5,913 members
135 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
5,407 members
160 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Warden
by Anthony Trollope
4,130 members
121 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro
3,621 members
96 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Home
by Marilynne Robinson
3,518 members
142 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Library at Mount Char
by Scott Hawkins
2,535 members
239 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Cabin at the End of the World
by Paul Tremblay
1,390 members
80 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Hangsaman
by Shirley Jackson
703 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Road
by Cormac McCarthy
32,364 members
1,372 reviews
4.1
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East of Eden
by John Steinbeck
21,702 members
389 reviews
½ 4.4
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The Shining
by Stephen King
21,299 members
430 reviews
4.1
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30
The Swiss Family Robinson
by Johann David Wyss
8,442 members
87 reviews
½ 3.5
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Plainsong
by Kent Haruf
5,332 members
205 reviews
4
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Tinkers
by Paul Harding
3,418 members
223 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Emperor's Children
by Claire Messud
3,407 members
103 reviews
3.1
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The Optimist's Daughter
by Eudora Welty
2,496 members
91 reviews
½ 3.5
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Before the Coffee Gets Cold
by Toshikazu Kawaguchi
1,501 members
75 reviews
½ 3.6
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Romola
by George Eliot
1,367 members
19 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Mouse and His Child
by Russell Hoban
986 members
28 reviews
4.2
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Fourth of July Creek
by Smith Henderson
876 members
49 reviews
3.9
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The Bone Shard Daughter
by Andrea Stewart
815 members
18 reviews
4.1
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The Marsh King's Daughter
by Karen Dionne
679 members
61 reviews
3.9
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The Familiar, Volume 1: One Rainy Day in May
by Mark Z. Danielewski
646 members
19 reviews
½ 3.5
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How High We Go in the Dark
by Sequoia Nagamatsu
634 members
35 reviews
3.9
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Small Spaces
by Katherine Arden
616 members
46 reviews
4.1
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The Extraordinaries
by TJ Klune
519 members
28 reviews
4
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The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
by George Meredith
463 members
5 reviews
½ 3.5
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Wakenhyrst
by Michelle Paver
432 members
22 reviews
3.9
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The Strangers in the House
by Georges Simenon
393 members
14 reviews
3.8
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Mapping the Interior
by Stephen Graham Jones
355 members
19 reviews
3.8
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Death of an Ordinary Man
by Glen Duncan
325 members
10 reviews
½ 3.3
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Brighten the Corner Where You Are
by Fred Chappell
229 members
7 reviews
4
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The Devil Takes You Home
by Gabino Iglesias
186 members
9 reviews
4
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Telephone
by Percival Everett
158 members
19 reviews
3.9
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The Afterlives
by Thomas Pierce
130 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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Summer Switch
by Mary Rodgers
119 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
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Ghost Abbey
by Robert Westall
117 members
2 reviews
½ 3.5
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