Books like The Joy Luck Club

1. 

   The Karamazov Brothers

   Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880

   Because shares tags: classics, family.

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

2. 

   Mansfield Park

   Jane Austen · 1814

   Because shares tags: classics, family.

   Fanny Price loves Edmund amid Crawfords theatricals at Mansfield.

3. 

   Goodnight Moon

   Margaret Wise Brown · 1947

   Because shares tags: classics, family.

   A small bunny says goodnight to each object in the green room in this 1947 bedtime classic.

4. 

   A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

   Betty Smith · 1943

   Because shares tags: classics, family.

   Francie Nolan grows up poor in 1910s Williamsburg, reading on fire escapes while her family scrapes by, and learns how schooling can lift…

5. 

   A Light in the Attic

   Shel Silverstein · 1981

   Because shares tags: classics, family.

   Silverstein's attic poems and line drawings turn chores, monsters, and homework into jokes and small rebellions.

6. 

   Where'd You Go, Bernadette

   Maria Semple · 2012

   Because shares tags: family, mothers daughters.

   Bee compiles emails to find architect mother Bernadette missing before Antarctica.

7. 

   The Red Tent

   Anita Diamant · 1997

   Because shares tags: family, classics.

   Dinah retells Genesis from the women's tent, loving Jacob's wives and surviving Shechem and Egypt.

8. 

   Pet Sematary

   Stephen King · 1983

   Because shares tags: family, classics.

   Doctor Louis buries Church and then Gage in ground that returns them wrong, learning dead is better.

9. 

   The Metamorphosis

   Franz Kafka · 1915

   Because shares tags: classics, family.

   Gregor Samsa wakes as an insect, cannot go to work, and watches his family shift from shock to cold relief.

10. 

    The Grapes of Wrath

    John Steinbeck · 1939

    Because shares tags: classics, family.

    The Joads lose their Oklahoma farm and drive to California for work that is not there.

11. 

    Matilda

    Roald Dahl · 1988

    Because shares tags: classics, family.

    Brilliant Matilda Wormwood teaches herself to read, faces her crooked parents and the fearsome Miss Trunchbull, and finds Miss Honey.

12. 

    Little Women

    Louisa May Alcott · 1868

    Because shares tags: classics, family.

    Alcott's Little Women retold: Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy March through the Civil War years and beyond.

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