Hamnet

The Thorn Birds Colleen McCullough

Three generations of the Cleary family build their lives on an Australian sheep station -- and the women keep falling for men they can never fully have.

Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak

A Russian doctor and poet is swept through revolution, civil war, and exile, sustained only by a love affair that the twentieth century conspires to destroy.

Kristin Lavransdatter Sigrid Undset

A headstrong Norwegian woman in the fourteenth century falls in love against her father's wishes -- and spends the rest of her life reckoning with what that choice cost.

Pachinko Min Jin Lee

Four generations of a Korean family in Japan -- a vast, tender epic about sacrifice, identity, and the cost of belonging.

The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende

Four generations of the Trueba family in an unnamed South American country, where clairvoyance is as ordinary as political violence and love survives everything except itself.