Big family saga - any suggestions please?

[Esmereldada]

i fancy a big 'ol family saga.

Was about to buy Giant (as in Liz Taylor in Texas epic film) but wondered whether you had any other ideas please?

Have got pretty wide ranging taste but not up to War and Peace and don't really do much chick lit stuff.

Thank you x

North and South (not Gaskell), The Forsythe Saga,

R F Delderfield did some epic family sagas, A Horseman Riding By.

Gone With the Wind

Aha Fivegomad, cracking suggestions. Have read all of those but 25 years ago and wouldnt mind a reread.

Strange isnt it, how you just get in the mood for a type of book?

And Ladies of the Club - lovely book read this years ago and fancy a reread of this one.

East of Eden, Steinbeck

How funny - Goodreads just recommended that for me!

here you go there is a whole category on Amazon.

Ladies of the Club I mean.

Genius thank you (and now realise I am lazy cow and could have found that myself!)

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The Hardacre sagas were good, havent read them since the 80s though.

We were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates

Cazalet chronicles- Elizabeth Jane Howard

A good fact book is The Mitfords : Letters between Six Sisters, absolutely fascinating.

Something slightly different not techinally a family saga but spans the same people over the years is The Raj Quartet, set in India during the last months of Britains rule over India.

Brothers -Bernice Ruben - read it 3 times

How about House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende here

Middlesex. Fantastic book, Pulitzer Prize winner.

Second vote for the Cazalet chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard.

And another vote for the Cazalets.

A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth? Huge, delightful, a proper Indian saga.

Have you read Poisonwood Bible? That's a brilliant family saga. Bit heavy going to start but you'll be hooked once you're past the first two chapters.

Ah yes, definitely agree with A Suitable Boy and The Poisonwood Bible.

I'm not sure if it fits into the category of family saga, but "Small Island" by Andrea Levy is brilliant - I think the BBC made it into a programme a couple of years ago. It follows a newlywed Jamaican couple living in London in the 1950s, and their British landlady and her husband's experiences of the war.