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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.

Pachinko Min Jin Lee

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

North and South Elizabeth Gaskell

A clergyman's daughter moves from the soft South to an industrial northern mill town and finds her prejudices about class, trade, and a difficult man slowly dismantled.

Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders

The night Lincoln visits his young son's grave -- told through a cacophony of ghosts caught between worlds.

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.