The family saga is a genre of literature which chronicles the lives and doings of a family or a number of related or interconnected families over a period of time. In novels (or sometimes sequences of novels) with a serious intent, this is often a thematic device used to portray particular historical events, changes of social circumstances, or the ebb and flow of fortunes from a multitude of perspectives. The word saga comes from Old Norse, where it meant "what is said, utterance, oral account, notification" and "(structured) narrative, story (about somebody)", and was originally borrowed into English from Old Norse by scholars in the eighteenth century to refer to the Old Norse prose narratives known as sagas.The typical family saga follows generations of a family through a period of history in a series of novels. A number of subgenres of the form exist such as the AGA saga. Successful writers of popular family sagas include Susan Howatch, R. F. Delderfield and Philippa Carr. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works in the genre family saga 49
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The Promise
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Too Much and Never Enough
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The Kingdom
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Golden Boy
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The Forgotten Garden
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The Tenth Circle
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Middlesex
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Old Town in the Green Groves
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The Corrections
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White Teeth
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Holes
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Picture Perfect
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Birdsong
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Songs of the Humpback Whale
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Tracks
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Seeds of Yesterday
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Blackwater
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Kingdom Come
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The Americans
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The Lawless
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The Warriors
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The Furies
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The Titans
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The Rebels
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The Seekers
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The Bastard
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The Hired Man
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The Courtney Novels series
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A Heritage and Its History
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East of Eden
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These Happy Golden Years
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By the Shores of Silver Lake
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