I love families, and this week for TTT I’ve compiled a few of my favorite family stories. Do we share any favorites?
10 Stories About Families
I’m linking up with That Artsy Reader Girl: Top Ten Tuesday.
This week’s prompt for Top Ten Tuesday is a February freebie, and since we celebrate Love in February, my focus is For the Love of Families. It wasn’t easy to narrow my list to ten. I could probably make an additional list of ten right now, but these are the first that popped into my mind.
Families are complicated, but I promise that none of these are dysfunctional family stories.
Most titles are links to my reviews, which contain Amazon affiliate links, and a few titles are direct Amazon affiliate links.
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
(Novella) When a beloved family member faces Alzheimer’s…
Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
(Nonfiction)
A family of the heart…
A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus
(Middle Grade)
A found family…
Another MG story with similar themes: The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (and don’t miss the follow-up: The War I Finally Won)
Far From the Tree by Robin Benway
(Young Adult) Familes and adoption…
We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter
A family torn apart by war and the heartwarming reunion…
A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza
Complicated family drama and the prodigal son…
Family of Spies by Christine Kuehn
(Nonfiction)
Uncovering unsettling family secrets…
The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal
Three very different sisters honor their mother’s last wishes…
The Sisters of Seaview (Series) by Julie Klassen
Four sisters and their mom struggle to rebuild their lives after the death of the father/husband…
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
(Young Adult Classic)
A beloved classic featuring four sisters and their mom…
QOTD:
Do you have a favorite story about families?
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