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Nay

(12,051 posts) Fri Jun 15, 2012, 08:02 PM Jun 2012

Needed: Title & author of your favorite family saga. I have an idea for a family

saga-type novel, around 100,000 words, and I'd love to hear what other readers/writers think are wonderful examples of the genre. I have read a good number, but I need to read a few more to get in the groove of writing my own. Or maybe I'm procrastinating??

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Needed: Title & author of your favorite family saga. I have an idea for a family (Original Post) Nay Jun 2012 OP

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides n/t Chan790 Jun 2012 #1

Owl on Every Post by Sonora Babb. zonkers Aug 2012 #5

Downton Abbey is a big hit as a family saga. sybylla Jun 2012 #2

The novels by R.F. Delderfield, which came out in the 1970's. SheilaT Jul 2012 #3

Fallon Blood - Robert Jordan Xyzse Jul 2012 #4

Chan790

(20,176 posts)

1. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides n/t

Reply to Nay (Original post)

Sat Jun 16, 2012, 05:39 PM

Jun 2012

zonkers

(5,865 posts)

5. Owl on Every Post by Sonora Babb.

Reply to Chan790 (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 28, 2012, 04:43 PM

Aug 2012

http://www.amazon.com/Owl-Every-Post-Sanora-Babb/dp/0826315313

sybylla

(8,655 posts)

2. Downton Abbey is a big hit as a family saga.

Reply to Nay (Original post)

Fri Jun 29, 2012, 11:04 AM

Jun 2012

I have to say it's one of my faves, considering it's a genre I'm not that big into. Never watched the Sopranos or Dallas.

Though if someone started listing more examples, I might realize I like them more than I know.

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)

3. The novels by R.F. Delderfield, which came out in the 1970's.

Reply to Nay (Original post)

Sun Jul 1, 2012, 07:09 PM

Jul 2012

The first one is God is An Englishman.

Norah Lofts is another lesser-known writer of that genre. Her Town House trilogy actually covers a good thousand years. It's the story of a house and the people who live in it over that period of time.

Many of the other books she wrote, if taken as a larger whole, are in effect a village saga, with stories of various people and families who live in her fictitious part of southern England over many years.

Xyzse

(8,217 posts)

4. Fallon Blood - Robert Jordan

Reply to Nay (Original post)

Tue Jul 24, 2012, 01:46 PM

Jul 2012

Writing as Reagan O'Neil.

I found it interesting, depicting a multi-generational series.

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