Riot Recommendation

Riot Recommendation: What’s Your Favorite Book About Families?

S. Zainab Williams

Executive Director, Content

S. Zainab would like to think she bleeds ink but the very idea makes her feel faint. She writes fantasy and horror, and is currently clutching a manuscript while groping in the dark. Find her on Twitter: @szainabwilliams.

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This Riot Recommendation is sponsored by HarperAudio, publisher of Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

The Little House Series by Laura Ingalls Wilder is now available in digital audio! Listen to excerpts from all nine audiobooks, performed by Cherry Jones, plus the playing of “Pa’s fiddle” by Paul Woodiel: https://soundcloud.com/harperaudio_us/sets/little-house-series

Whether they’re about being shipwrecked on a desert island, the lives of sisters, or getting by in 1940s Brooklyn, family stories present the familiar and relatable, often alongside the exceptional and uncanny. Tell us in the comments below: what’s your favorite book about families?