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Keep It In the Family
Were you an avid reader of the Wagons West! series of the 1980s? Were you glued to the television for the lavish miniseries Poldark or The Forsyte Saga? Did you ever enjoy one of the Whiteoak Chronicles novels by Mazo DelaRoche and wonder…what happened next? Have you thrilled to the centuries-spanning sagas of The Kent Family Chronicles or The Australians, or have you gotten hooked on more recent series such as The Berrybender Chronicles or the descendents of A Woman of Substance? Then perhaps you’d like to sample more of the numerous Family Sagas shown in this extensive booklist.
Some of the following novels are “stand alones”, while many are entries in popular series. In the cases of stand-alone novels, individual titles are in alphabetical order following the author’s name. In the case of series, the novels are arranged in “series order” following the name of the series. We’ve included a number of titles in this list which are not currently owned by the Lincoln City Libraries. These appear here for the sake of providing complete series listings, or to identify classic Family Sagas which may be out-of-print, but may still be worth pursuing. All books owned by Lincoln City Libraries are hotlinked to their entries in our library catalog, so that you may check on their current availability. If you see a title on this list that is not hotlinked to our collection, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.
Keep it in the Family:
Multi-Generational Family Sagas
Alice Adams
Richard Adams
Elizabeth Adler
Bess Streeter Aldrich
Isabel Allende
Evelyn Anthony
Jeffrey Archer
Louis Auchincloss
The Winthrop Covenant
Lynn Austin
Tilly Bagshawe
Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game
James Baldwin
Clive Barker
Lois Battle
Wendell Berry
Stephen Birmingham
The Auerbach Will
Carriage Trade
The LeBaron Secret
Those Harper Women
Leona Blair
Vicente Blasco Ibanez
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Janine Boissard
The Moreau Family
A Matter of Feeling
Christmas Lessons
A Time to Choose
Cecile
Heinrich Boll
Malcolm Bosse
The Warlord
T. Coraghessen Boyle
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Woman of Substance series
A Woman of Substance
Hold the Dream
To Be the Best
Emma’s Secret
Unexpected Blessings
Just Rewards
The House of Deravenal series
The Ravenscar Dynasty
The Heir
Being Elizabeth
Dionne Brand
At the Full and Change of the Moon
Matthew Braun
Jimmy Breslin
Table Money
Andre P. Brink
Jacqueline Briskin
The VanVliet Family
Paloverde
Rich Friends
The Onyx
Gwen Bristow
The Plantation trilogy
Deep Summer
The Handsome Road
This Side of Glory
Louis Bromfield
Dee Brown
Sandra Brown
Samuel Butler
Beverly Byrne
The Flames of Vengeance
The Firebirds
Taylor Caldwell
Barber and Bouchard families trilogy
Dynasty of Death
The Eagles Gather
The Final Hour
Philip Caputo
Gladys Hasty Carroll
Dunnybrook
Sing Out the Glory
Angela Carter
Wise Children
Jack Cavanaugh
American Family Portrait
The Patriots
The Adversaries
The Pioneers
The Peacemakers
John Cheever
The Wapshot Family
The Wapshot Chronicle
The Wapshot Scandal
Lars Saabye Christensen
Winston Churchill
The Carvels
Richard Carvel
The Crisis
Jonathan Coe
William Laurence Coleman (“Lonnie”)
The Beulah Land trilogy
Beulah Land
The Legacy of Beulah Land
Look Away, Beulah Land
Catherine Cookson
The Bannaman Legacy
The Desert Crop
The Maltese Angel
The Mallen trilogy
The Mallen Streak
The Mallen Girl
The Mallen Lot
J. California Cooper
Michael Cunningham
David Davidar
The House of Blue Mangoes
Robertson Davies
The Manticore
Murther and Walking Spirits
Celeste De Blasis
The Proud Breed
The Swan Saga
The Wild Swan
Swan’s Chance
A Season for Swans
Mazo DelaRoche
The Whiteoak Chronicles
The Building of Jalna
Morning at Jalna
Mary Wakefield
Young Renny
Whiteoak Heritage
The Whiteoak Brothers
Jalna
Whiteoaks of Jalna
Finch’s Fortune
Master of Jalna
Whiteoak Harvest
Wakefield’s Course
Return to Jalna
Renny’s Daughter
Variable Winds at Jalna
Centenary at Jalna
R. F. Delderfield
The Craddock Family
A Horseman Riding By
The Green Gauntlet
The Swann Trilogy
God is an Englishman
Theirs Was the Kingdom
Give Us This Day
Ivan Doig
Elsie Burch Donald
Sara Donati
Fire Along the Sky
Queen of Swords
Michael Dorris
The Cloud Chamber
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Emma Drummond
Joan M. Drury
Dame Daphne DuMaurier
Dominic Dunne
Dorothy Dunnett
Niccolo Rising
Race of Scorpions
The Spring of the Ram
Alan Ebert
Dorothy Eden
John Ehle
The Wright Family
Lion on the Hearth
The Land Breakers
The Road
Time of Drums
Winter People
Last One Home
The Journey of August King
Robert S. Elegant
Dynasty
Mandarin
Julie Ellis
The Hampton Saga
The Hampton Heritage
The Hampton Women
Louise Erdrich
Nomi Eve
Howard Fast
The Lavette Chronicles
The Immigrants
Second Generation
The Establishment
The Legacy
The Immigrant’s Daughter
William Faulkner
Edna Ferber
Lolita Files
Thomas J. Fleming
The Stapleton Family
Liberty Tavern
Promises to Keep
The Spoils of War
The Wages of Fame
When This Cruel War is Over
Ken Follett
Dorothea Benton Frank
Marianne Fredriksson
Margaret Gaan
The Red Barbarian Saga
Red Barbarian
White Poppy
Blue Mountain
James Galsworthy
The Forsyte Saga
A Man of Property
In Chancery
To Let
The Forsyte Saga [1-3]
The White Monkey
The Silver Spoon
Swan Song
A Modern Comedy [4-6]
Maid in Waiting
Flowering Wilderness
One More River
End of the Chapter [7-9]
On Forsyte ‘Change
Caravan
The Forsyte Saga [2002 miniseries DVD – 3 discs]
The Forsyte Saga, Series 2 [2003 miniseries DVD – 2 discs]
The Forsyte Saga – The Complete Saga [2002 and 2003 miniseries DVD – 7 discs]
Cristina Garcia
The Aguero Sisters
Dreaming in Cuban
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
John E. Gardner
The Secret Generations trilogy
The Secret Generations
The Secret Houses
The Secret Families
Catherine Gaskin
The Ambassador’s Women
The Charmed Circle
Catherine Gavin
The Sunset Dream
Anne George
Kaye Gibbons
Janice Holt Giles
American West saga
The Kentuckians
Hannah Fowler
The Land Beyond the Mountains
The Believers
Johnny Osage
Voyage to Santa Fe
Savannah
The Great Adventure
Six-Horse Hitch
Gloria Goldreich
Leah Goldfeder saga
Leah’s Journey
Leah’s Children
Elizabeth Goudge
Eliot Family
Bird in the Tree
Pilgrim’s Inn
Heart of the Family
Winston Graham
The Poldark saga
Ross Poldark (a.k.a. The Renegade)
Demelza
Jeremy Poldark
Warleggan
The Black Moon
The Four Swans
The Angry Tide
The Stranger From the Sea
The Miller’s Dance
The Loving Cup
The Twisted Sword
Bella Poldark
Poldark (1975 miniseries DVD)
Poldark II (1977 miniseries DVD)
Poldark (1995 movie DVD)
Poldark: The Complete First Season (2015 DVD)
Shirley Ann Grau
The Condor Passes
The Keepers of the House
Andrew M. Greeley
Lauren Groff
Joel Gross
The Books of Rachel
The Lives of Rachel
Home of the Brave
Alex Haley
Marek Halter
The Book of Abraham
Karen Harper
Marilyn Harris
The Eden Saga
This Other Eden
Prince of Eden
The Eden Passion
The Women of Eden
Eden Rising
American Eden
Eden and Honor
Jim Harrison
Sarah Harrison
Tennant Family Saga
Flowers of the Field
A Flower That’s Free
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Constance Heaven
The Kuragin Trilogy
The House of Kuragin
The Astrov Legacy
Heir to Kuragin
The Ravensley series
Lord of Ravensley
The Ravensley Touch
Ursula Hegi
Max Hennessy
19th Lancers Trilogy
Soldier of the Queen
Blunted Lance
The Iron Stallions
Eleanor Hibbert
(a.k.a. Philippa Carr)
Knave of Hearts trilogy [see also Philippa Carr]
Knave of Hearts
Voices in a Haunted Room
The Return of the Gypsy
Oscar Hijuelos
The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O’Brien
Deborah Hill
Merrick Family Trilogy
This is the House
The House of Kingsley Merrick
Pamela Hill
Ruth Beebe Hill
Jane Aiken Hodge
The Purchis Saga
Savannah Purchase
Judas Flowering
Wide is the Water
Peter Hoeg
Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Cazalet Chronicle
Light Years
Marking Time
Confusion
The Cazalets [2001 miniseries VHS – 3 tapes]
Susan Howatch
Cashelmara
Penmarric
The Wheel of Fortune
VanZale Saga
The Rich are Different
Sins of the Fathers
William Humphrey
The Ordways
Evan Hunter
Susan Isaacs
Almost Paradise
Red, White and Blue
Rona Jaffe
Family Secrets
The Road Taken
John Jakes
Charleston
The Kent Family Chronicles
The Bastard
The Rebels
The Seekers
The Furies
The Titans
The Warriors
The Lawless
The Americans
Civil War Trilogy
North and South
Love and War
Heaven and Hell
North and South [1985 miniseries DVD – 5 discs]
The Crown Family Saga
Homeland
American Dreams
Pamela Jekel
Deep Water
Gary Jennings
Ruth Prawar Jhabvala
Douglas C. Jones
Arkansas Trilogy
Winding Stair
Elkhorn Tavern
Weedy Rough
Rose Jourdain
Mary Pat Kelly
William Kennedy
Ken Kesey
Judith Krantz
Rosalind Laker
To Dance With Kings
Warwycks of Easthampton
Warwyck’s Women
Claudine’s Daughter
Warwyck’s Choice
Louis L’Amour
The Sacketts
Sackett’s Land
To the Far Blue Mountains
The Warrior’s Path
Jubal Sackett
Ride the River
The Daybreakers
Sackett
Lando
Mojave Crossing
The Sackett Brand
The Lonely Men
Treasure Mountain
Mustang Man
Galloway
The Sky-Liners
The Man From the Broken Hills
Ride the Dark Trail
Lonely on the Mountain
The Sackett Companion [a Guidebook to the series]
Syrell Rogovin Leahy
Wolfe Family Saga
Family Ties
Family Truths
Ella Leffland
Breath and Shadows
Bem LeHunte
The Seduction of Silence
Madeleine L’Engle
Jeffrey Lent
Penelope Lively
Norah Lofts
William Stuart Long
The Australians
The Exiles
The Settlers
The Traitors
The Explorers
The Adventurers
The Colonists
The Goldseekers
The Gallant
The Empire Builders
The Seafarers
The Nationalists
The Imperialists
Stephen Longstreet
The Pedlocks
The Pedlocks: The Story of a Family
God and Sarah Pedlock
Pedlock & Sons
Pedlock Saint, Pedlock Sinner
The Pedlock Inheritance
The Pedlocks in Love
The Fiores
All or Nothing
Our Father’s House
Sons and Daughters
Bette Lord
Malcolm Macdonald
For They Shall Inherit
The Stevenson Chronicles
The World From Rough Stones
The Rich Are With You Always
Sons of Fortune
Abigail
Mary Mackey
Naguib Mahfouz
The Cairo Trilogy
Palace of Desire
Palace Walk
Sugar Street
Thomas Mann
John P. Marquand
William Martin
Roger Martin du Gard
Thibaults Saga
The Thibaults
Summer 1914
John Masters
The Savage Family
Coromandel
The Deceivers
Nightrunners of Bengal
The Lotus and the Wind
Far, Far the Mountain Peak
Bhowani Junction
To the Coral Strand
Donald McCaig
Colleen McCullough
Tamara McKinley
Larry McMurtry
The Berrybender Narratives
Sin Killer
The Wandering Hill
By Sorrow’s River
Folly and Glory
Marijane Meaker
Hometown
Anne Melville
The Lorimer Saga
The Lorimer Line
Alexa
Blaize
Family Fortunes
Fern Michaels
James Michener
Centennial
Chesapeake
Mexico
Poland
Sue Miller
Ruth Moore
Speak to the Winds
Marcel Moring
Gilbert Morris
The House of Winslow
The Honorable Imposter
The Captive Bride
The Indentured Heart
The Gentle Rebel
The Saintly Buccaneer
The Holy Warrior
The Reluctant Bridegroom
The Last Confederate
The Dixie Widow
The Wounded Yankee
The Union Belle
The Final Adversary
The Crossed Sabres
The Valiant Gunman
The Gallant Outlaw
The Jeweled Spur
The Yukon Queen
The Rough Rider
The Iron Lady
The Silver Star
The Shadow Portrait
The White Hunter
The Flying Cavalier
The Glorious Prodigal
The Amazon Quest
The Golden Angel
The Heavenly Fugitive
The Fiery Ring
The Pilgrim Song
The Beloved Enemy
The Shining Badge
The Royal Handmaid
The Silent Harp
The Virtuous Woman
The Gypsy Moon
The Unlikely Allies
The High Calling
The Hesitant Hero
The Widow’s Choice
The White Knight
Wright Morris
Toni Morrison
Sallyann J. Murphey
Metcalfe Family Album: Six Generations of Traditions and Memories
Vladimir Nabakov
Gloria Naylor
Fae Myenne Ng
Joyce Carol Oates
Elizabeth Ogilvie
The Bennett Island series
High Tide at Noon
Storm Tide
Ebbing Tide
How Wide the Heart
An Answer in the Tide
The Summer of the Osprey
Robert B. Parker
Mary Emily Pearce
Apple Tree Lean Down
The Land Endures
Jane Peart
American Quilt
The Pattern
The Pledge
The Promise
Richard Peck
Michael Phillips
The Stonewycke Legacy
Stranger at Stonewycke
Shadows Over Stonewycke
Treasure of Stonewycke
Marge Piercy
Rosamunde Pilcher
Belva Plain
Harvest
Random Winds
Sight of the Stars
The Evergreen Saga
Evergreen
The Golden Cup
Tapestry
David Plante
The Francouer Family
The Family
The Woods
The Foreigner
The Country
The Catholic
The Native
Richard Pitts Powell
Eugenia Price
St. Simon’s Island series
The Lighthouse
New Moon Rising
The Beloved Invader
The Savannah Quartet
Savannah
To See Your Face Again
Before the Darkness Falls
Stranger in Savannah
The Georgia Trilogy
Bright Captivity
Where Shadows Go
Beauty From Ashes
Reynolds Price
The Great Circle
The Surface of Earth
The Source of Light
David Pryce-Jones
The Afternoon Sun
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Claire Rayner
The Performer Series
Gower Street
The Haymarket
Paddington Green
Soho Square
Bedford Row
Covent Garden
Charing Cross
The Strand
Chelsea Reach
Shaftesbury Avenue
Piccadilly
Mordecai Richler
Conrad Richter
The Awakening Land trilogy
The Trees
The Fields
The Town
Jean Rikhoff
The Timble Family
Dear Ones All
Voyage In, Voyage Out
Rites of Passage
The Butte Family
Butte’s Landing
One of the Raymonds
Sweetwater
Alexandra Ripley
The Tradds and the Ansons
Charleston
On Leaving Charleston
Dana Fuller Ross
Wagons West
Independence!
Nebraska!
Wyoming!
Oregon!
Texas!
California!
Colorado!
Nevada!
Washington!
Montana!
Dakota!
Utah!
Idaho!
Missouri!
Mississippi!
Louisiana!
Tennessee!
Illinois!
Wisconsin!
Kentucky!
Arizona!
New Mexico!
Oklahoma!
Celebration!
The Holts
Oregon Legacy
Oklahoma Pride
Carolina Courage
California Glory
Hawaii Heritage
Sierra Triumph
Yukon Justice
Pacific Destiny
Homecoming
Awakening
The Holts: Frontier Trilogy
Westward!
Expedition!
Outpost!
The Holts: Empire Trilogy
Honor!
Vengeance!
Justice!
Salman Rushdie
Edward Rutherfurd
The Princes of Ireland: The Dublin Saga
Russka
Sarum
Thomas Sanchez
Rabbit Boss
Winnie Crandall Saunders
Sir Walter Scott
Harriet Segal
The Skylark’s Song
Vikram A. Seth
Anya Seton
The Hearth and Eagle
Ntozake Shange
Irwin Shaw
Beggarman, Thief
Rich Man, Poor Man
Voices of a Summer Day
Sidney Sheldon
Master of the Game
Sidney Sheldon’s Mistress of the Game (as by Tilly Bagshawe)
Susan Richards Shreve
Anne Rivers Siddons
Mona Simpson
Katherine Sinclair
A Distant Dawn
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Katie Singer
The Wholeness of a Broken Heart
Robert Skimin
Chikara! A Sweeping Novel of Japan and America from 1907 to 1983
Connie Lynne Smith
Vanished Glory: A Family in America
Lee Smith
The Devil’s Dream
Family Linen
Oral History
Wilbur A. Smith
The Ballantyne Family Saga
Flight of the Falcon
Men of Men
The Angels Weep
Cathy Cash Spellman
Leonard St. Clair
The Seadon Fortune
Hilda Stahl
The White Pine Chronicles
The Inheritance
Danielle Steel
Wallace Stegner
John Steinbeck
Richard Martin Stern
Brood of Eagles
Robert Louis Stevenson
Fred Mustard Stewart
The Glitter and the Gold
The Savage Family
The Young Savages
The Naked Savages
The Savages in Love and War
Jessica Stirling
The Stalkers
Strathmore
Call Home the Heart
The Beckman Family Saga
The Drums of Time
The Blue Evening Gone
The Gates of Midnight
The Cochrans
Treasures on Earth
Creature Comforts
Hearts of Gold
Clark Stuart
Walks Far Woman
Jean Stubbs
The Howarth Family Saga
By Our Beginnings
An Imperfect Joy
Vivian Inheritance
The Northern Coorespondent, 1831-1851
Frank Swinnerton
A Tigress in the Village
Reay Tannahill
Return of the Stranger
Booth Tarkington
William Makepeace Thackery
Elswyth Thane
Dawn’s Early Light
Ever After
Homing
Kissing Kin
The Light Heart
This Was Tomorrow
Yankee Stranger
Bodie Thoene
Galway Chronicles
Only the River Runs Free
Of Men and Angels
All Rivers to the Sea
Michael M. Thomas
Hanover Place
Lynda Trent
Adriana Trigiani
Henri Troyat
The Seed and the Fruit
Amelie in Love
Amelie and Pierre
Elizabeth
Tender and Violent Elizabeth
The Encounter
The Danov Family
My Father’s House
The Red and the White
Strangers on Earth
Thomas Tryon
In the Fire of Spring
The Wings of the Morning
Anne Tyler
Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
Searching for Caleb
Dorothy Uhnak
Sigrid Undset
John Updike
Leon Uris
Jane Urquhart
Robert Vaughn
American Chronicles
The Lost Generation
Over There
Penny Vincenzi
Hugh Walpole
The Herries family series
Bright Pavilions
Rogue Herries
Judith Paris
The Fortress
Vanessa
Jan Webster
The Glasglow saga
Colliers Row
Saturday City
Beggerman’s Country
Jerome Weidman
A Family Fortune
Paul Wellman
The Wedge family trilogy
Walls of Jericho
The Chain
Jericho’s Daughters
Eudora Welty
Kate Wenner
Rebecca West
The Aubrey family series
The Fountain Overflows
This Real Night
Cousin Rosamund
Glenway Wescott
The Grandmothers: A Family Portrait
Dorothy West
Ben Ames Williams
The Currain Family
House Divided
The Unconquered
Daoma Winston
A Story of the Fall River Line, 1847 to 1937
Larry Woiwode
The Neumiller family
Beyond the Bedroom Wall
Born Brothers
Barbara Wood
Virginia Woolf
Nancy L. Zaroulis
Norman Zollinger
Riders to Cibola
Web booklist January 2005 sdc / Last Updated October 2016