Needed: Title & author of your favorite family saga. I have an idea for a family

[Nay]

saga-type novel, around 100,000 words, and I'd love to hear what other readers/writers think are wonderful examples of the genre. I have read a good number, but I need to read a few more to get in the groove of writing my own. Or maybe I'm procrastinating??

[Chan790]

1. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides n/t

[zonkers]

5. Owl on Every Post by Sonora Babb.

http://www.amazon.com/Owl-Every-Post-Sanora-Babb/dp/0826315313

[sybylla]

2. Downton Abbey is a big hit as a family saga.

I have to say it's one of my faves, considering it's a genre I'm not that big into. Never watched the Sopranos or Dallas.

Though if someone started listing more examples, I might realize I like them more than I know.

[SheilaT]

3. The novels by R.F. Delderfield, which came out in the 1970's.

The first one is God is An Englishman.

Norah Lofts is another lesser-known writer of that genre. Her Town House trilogy actually covers a good thousand years. It's the story of a house and the people who live in it over that period of time.

Many of the other books she wrote, if taken as a larger whole, are in effect a village saga, with stories of various people and families who live in her fictitious part of southern England over many years.

[Xyzse]

4. Fallon Blood - Robert Jordan

Writing as Reagan O'Neil.

I found it interesting, depicting a multi-generational series.