The House of the Spirits

Homegoing Yaa Gyasi

Two half-sisters in eighteenth-century Ghana and their descendants across seven generations -- one line sold into slavery, one living in Ghana through colonialism and independence.

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.