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    Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.

    Lara tells daughters about young love with actor Peter Duke at Tom Lake.

  2. The Paper Palace

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  3. The Karamazov Brothers

    Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

    Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.

    Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha Karamazov face their father, murder, faith, and doubt in Dostoevsky's final novel.

  4. She's Come Undone

    Wally Lamb · 1992

    Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.

    Abused as a girl, divorced and struggling with weight, Dolores Price slowly finds healing after years of trauma.

  5. Scythe

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    Because shares tags: dystopian, science fiction.

    Citra and Rowan become apprentice scythes who must glean one another.

  6. Mansfield Park

    Jane Austen · 1814

    Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.

    Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.

  7. I, Robot

    Isaac Asimov · 1950 · Robot #1

    Because shares tags: science fiction, robots.

    Powell Donovan test Three Laws while Calvin narrates positronic puzzles.

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    Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.

    Half sisters Effia and Esi lines span Ghana to America across centuries.

  9. Cress

    Marissa Meyer · 2014 · The Lunar Chronicles #3

    Because shares tags: science fiction, dystopian.

    Imprisoned hacker Cress joins Cinder Scarlet Wolf Thorne to stop Levana's wedding to Kai.

  10. And the Mountains Echoed

    Khaled Hosseini · 2013

    Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.

    When Abdullah and Pari are split in 1952 Afghanistan, their parting echoes across decades from Kabul to Paris to California in linked…

  11. Cutting for Stone

    Abraham Verghese · 2009

    Because shares tags: literary fiction, family.

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    Marissa Meyer · 2013 · The Lunar Chronicles #2

    Because shares tags: science fiction, dystopian.

    Scarlet searches for her grandmother with Wolf while escaped Cinder fights Levana in the Lunar Chronicles sequel.

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