I read Last House by Jessica Shattuck last year and I’ve been chasing the high ever since. I love the historical fiction element, the multigenerational tale, and the storytelling of humanity and relationships and family. Any recs similar to this one?
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The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The House at Old Vine series by Norah Lofts
The Morland Dynasty series by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The Cazelet Chronicles follows a large English family from start of the second world war to afterwards
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
*100 Years of Solitude*
*The House of the Spirits*
Amy Tan’s books are pretty solid for this
Pillars of The Earth. Ken Follett.
Greenwood by Michael Christie!
North Woods by Daniel Mason
The Love Songs of WEB DuBois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
I don’t know if this one falls into the historical fiction category, but I loved A Yellow Raft in Blue Water by Michael Dorris.
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner (American West)
Thorn birds
Nearly any Kate Morton book.
Sarum by Edmund Rutherford is this over a period of thousands of years. It works.
The Covenant of Water
Ken Follett’s Century trilogy.