Family life in literature

*Grant Allen: "The Woman Who Did" (published in 1895) (a "New Woman" has a child but refuses to get married)
*Nina Bawden: "The Birds on the Trees" (son failing to live up to his parents' expectations)
*Christine Bell: "The Perez Family" (Cuban exiles in Florida)
*Kate Bingham: "Mummy's Legs" (three generations of women thinking they can do without men)
*Lily Brett: "Just Like That" (Holocaust survivors and their children in contemporary New York)
*James M. Cain: "Mildred Pierce" (ungrateful daughter)
*Erskine Caldwell: "Tobacco Road" (poor whites trying to make ends meet in the American South)
*Ernest Callenbach: "Ecotopia" (green utopia devoid of conventional sexual morality)
*Ivy Compton-Burnett: "The Present and the Past" and all her other novels (love, hate and incest in Edwardian England)
*Amanda Craig: "A Vicious Circle" and the other novels in her cycle (satires of contemporary Britain)
*Helen Dunmore: "Your Blue-Eyed Boy" (the past catching up with a mother of two)
*Jeffrey Eugenides: "The Virgin Suicides" (five sisters committing suicide in quick succession in suburban America)
*Joy Fielding: "Kiss Mommy Goodbye" (divorce, battle over custody, and subsequent kidnapping)
*David Gates: "Jernigan" (dysfunctional family headed by a hard-drinking, slightly paranoid father)
*Kaye Gibbons: "Ellen Foster" (little girl looking for love and protection)
*Jennifer Haigh: "Mrs. Kimble" (three women falling prey to a swindler)
*Kent Haruf: "The Tie That Binds" (several generations of a farming family on the Great Plains of Colorado)
*Nick Hornby: "About a Boy" (single mother suffering from depression)
*Josephine Humphreys: "Rich in Love" (wealthy Southern family experiencing an unexpected domestic crisis)
*Marsha Hunt: "Joy" (family secrets)
*Christopher Isherwood: "All the Conspirators" (evil mother)
*P.D. James: "Innocent Blood" (blood ties are stronger than anything else)
*Tama Janowitz: "By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee" (white trash heading for Hollywood to realize their American Dream)
*Nella Larsen: "Passing" (African American wife and mother torn between allegiance to her race and her friendship with another woman)
*Eric Malpass: "Oh My Darling Daughter" (a 17 year-old girl takes charge of the household when her mother walks out on her family)
*Nancy Mitford: "The Pursuit of Love" (eccentric aristocratic family spend the interwar years in Britain falling in and out of love)
*Bharati Mukherjee: "Jasmine" (Indian immigrant ends up as the mother in a patchwork family)
*Marge Piercy: "Woman On the Edge of Time" (feminist utopia advocating complete equality between men and women)
*Bernice Rubens: "A Solitary Grief" (a father unable to cope with the fact that his child has Down's syndrome)
*Matthew Sharpe: "The Sleeping Father" (promiscuous mother leaves her family, father has a stroke)
*Irwin Shaw: "Lucy Crown" (a married woman destroys her seemingly perfect marriage and alienates her son by having a fling with a young man)
*Graham Swift: "Tomorrow" (impending disclosure of a family secret)
*Anne Tyler: "A Patchwork Planet" (a young father as the black sheep of the family)

ee also

* Family saga