30+ of Your Favorite Multigenerational Books
This Riot Recommendation for favorite multigenerational books is sponsored by Number One Chinese Restaurant by Lillian Li. Published by Henry Holt & Co.
The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland is not only a go-to solution for hunger pangs and a beloved setting for celebrations; it is also its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. Generous in spirit, unaffected in its intelligence, multivoiced, poignant, and darkly funny, Number One Chinese Restaurant looks beyond red tablecloths and silkscreen murals to share an unforgettable story about youth and aging, parents and children, and all the ways that our families destroy us while also keeping us grounded and alive.
“Read multigenerational books: Because modern medicine isn’t sci-fi enough to let you watch your great-grandkid’s life unfold!” But seriously. A good multigenerational novel gives you something that you can’t get in reality: an intimate longview of family dynamics playing out across decades. Below are just some of the multigenerational books you told us we just gotta read. The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë East of Eden by John Steinbeck Dandelion Dynasty Books by Ken Liu …And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich As Close to Us as Breathing by Elizabeth Poliner Roots by Alex Haley Casa Rossa by Francesca Marciano TheSignature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton Gilead by Marilynne Robinson The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness Tolbecken by Samuel Shellabarger The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
The Beijing Duck House in Rockville, Maryland is not only a go-to solution for hunger pangs and a beloved setting for celebrations; it is also its own world, inhabited by waiters and kitchen staff who have been fighting, loving, and aging within its walls for decades. Generous in spirit, unaffected in its intelligence, multivoiced, poignant, and darkly funny, Number One Chinese Restaurant looks beyond red tablecloths and silkscreen murals to share an unforgettable story about youth and aging, parents and children, and all the ways that our families destroy us while also keeping us grounded and alive.
“Read multigenerational books: Because modern medicine isn’t sci-fi enough to let you watch your great-grandkid’s life unfold!” But seriously. A good multigenerational novel gives you something that you can’t get in reality: an intimate longview of family dynamics playing out across decades. Below are just some of the multigenerational books you told us we just gotta read. The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë East of Eden by John Steinbeck Dandelion Dynasty Books by Ken Liu …And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven The Almost Sisters by Joshilyn Jackson Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi The Last Anniversary by Liane Moriarty Pachinko by Min Jin Lee The Bourbon Thief by Tiffany Reisz The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora by Pablo Cartaya Stolen Beauty by Laurie Lico Albanese The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich As Close to Us as Breathing by Elizabeth Poliner Roots by Alex Haley Casa Rossa by Francesca Marciano TheSignature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton Gilead by Marilynne Robinson The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins The All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness Tolbecken by Samuel Shellabarger The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
