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FROM: Suzanne Booker <[removed]@monroe.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 10:35 AM

Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic) about
eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold Comfort Farm,"
the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in "The Queen
and I."
Thanks!
Susie

FROM: "Community Relations Department" <[removed]@mail.sgcl.org>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 10:35 AM

The Family in John Irving's Hotel New Hampshire is certainly eccentric.


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From: "Suzanne Booker" <[removed]@monroe.lib.in.us>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:24 AM
Subject: Eccentric families


> Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic) about
> eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold Comfort Farm,"
> the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in "The Queen
> and I."
> Thanks!
> Susie
>
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: Kim Rutter <[removed]@lvdl.org>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 10:45 AM

Childress: Crazy in Alabama; Burns: Cold Sassy Tree; Richardson: The
Bachelor Brothers' Bed and Breakfast; Wells: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya
Sisterhood; Flagg: Welcome to the World, Baby Girl;

Kim Uden Rutter
Head, Technical Services
Lake Villa District Library
Lake Villa, IL

"If I went west, I think I would go to Kansas."--Abraham Lincoln


-----Original Message-----
From: Suzanne Booker [[removed]@monroe.lib.in.us]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:25 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Eccentric families


Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic) about
eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold Comfort Farm,"
the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in "The Queen
and I."
Thanks!
Susie

FROM: Nanci Milone Hill <[removed]@noblenet.org>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 10:45 AM

Love Among the Walnuts, by Jean Ferris is a Young Adult novel, but it
fits the bill wonderfully!

Nanci Milone Hill, Assistant Director
Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield Massachusetts
[removed]@noblenet.org
North of Boston Library Exchange


On Thu, 14 Feb 2002,
Suzanne Booker
wrote:

> Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic) about
> eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold Comfort Farm,"
> the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in "The Queen
> and I."
> Thanks!
> Susie
>
>
> ......................................................................
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> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

--
Nanci Milone Hill, Assistant Director
Lucius Beebe Memorial Library, Wakefield Massachusetts
[removed]@noblenet.org
North of Boston Library Exchange

FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 10:45 AM

I think all of Anne Tyler's families are eccentric, not just "The Accidental
Tourist." I especially liked the man who wears the various hats, I think
it's in "Morgan's Passing."
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

-----Original Message-----
From: Suzanne Booker [[removed]@monroe.lib.in.us]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:25 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Eccentric families


Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic) about
eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold Comfort Farm,"
the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in "The Queen
and I."
Thanks!
Susie

FROM: "Crawford, Stacy (Kent)" <[removed]@AIB.EDU>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 11:06 AM

How about the Plum family in Janet Evanovich's series (One for the money,
Two for the dough, etc.)?

Stacy Crawford

-----Original Message-----
From: Suzanne Booker [[removed]@monroe.lib.in.us]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:25 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Eccentric families


Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic) about
eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold Comfort Farm,"
the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in "The Queen
and I."
Thanks!
Susie

FROM: "Anne Baker Jones" <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 11:17 AM

The families in Beach Music by Pat Conroy, also the family in Prince of
Tides.


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From: "Suzanne Booker" <[removed]@monroe.lib.in.us>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 10:24 AM
Subject: Eccentric families


> Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic) about
> eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold Comfort Farm,"
> the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in "The Queen
> and I."
> Thanks!
> Susie
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Marijane Reich" <[removed]@dhfs.state.wi.us>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 11:27 AM

I thought of Nancy Mitford and her strange, but funny family in Pursuit of love and Love in a cold climate. I remember watching Masterpiece Theatre do one of her books many years ago and loved it. Went out and got her books and started reading them. They are repeating Love in a cold climate now in Wisconsin - managed to miss the first episode, but will watch the 2nd one.
mj

Marijane Reich
Patients' Librarian
Mendota Mental Health Institute
Madison, WI

>>> [removed]@monroe.lib.in.us 02/14/02 10:24AM >>>
Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic) about
eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold Comfort Farm,"
the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in "The Queen
and I."
Thanks!
Susie

FROM: "Dr. Joni Richards Bodart" <[removed]@earthlink.net>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 12:51 PM

What about Simple Gifts, by Joanne Greenberg? The family is definitely
unique, and the book is hilarious, short and easy to booktalk!

Joni Richards Bodart
Univ of Denver/DPL

FROM: [removed]@carmel.lib.in.us (Lisa Dick)
REC'D: 2/14/02, 1:44 PM

Michael Lee West - "Crazy Ladies", "American Pie"
Lorna Landvik - "Patty Jane's House of Curl"
Melanie Sumner - "School of Beauty and Charm"

>
>From: Suzanne Booker <[removed]@monroe.lib.in.us>
>Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:24:43 -0500 (EST)
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Eccentric families
>
>Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic) about
>eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold Comfort
Farm,"
>the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in "The
Queen
>and I."
>Thanks!
>Susie
>
>
Lisa Dick
Readers' Advisory Librarian
Carmel Clay Public Library
55 - 4th Ave. SE
Carmel, IN 46032
(317) 814-3948
[removed]@carmel.lib.in.us

"Rosenberg's First Law of Reading: Never apologize for your reading tastes"

FROM: David Wright <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 2:05 PM

Ada, by Vladimir Nabokov
The Van, by Roddy Doyle
Human Croquet, by Kate Atkinson
A House and its Head, by Ivy Compton-Burnett
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
The Darling Buds of May, by H.E. Bates
Honour thy Father, by Lesley Glaister

David Wright
Seattle Public Library

--- Suzanne Booker <[removed]@monroe.lib.in.us>
wrote:
> Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at
> least vaguely comic) about
> eccentric families. Some examples: the
> Starkadders in "Cold Comfort Farm,"
> the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the
> Royal Family in "The Queen
> and I."
> Thanks!
> Susie
>
>
>
......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the
> archives?
> Everything Fiction_L:
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FROM: "Phillipich, Luann" <[removed]@co.dakota.mn.us>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 2:26 PM

Has anyone mentioned "Disobedience" by Jane Hamilton? I think a quote from
Amazon pretty much says it all:

A wayward wife, an Oedipally obsessed e-mail snoop, a pint-sized Civil War
reenactor(oops, make that living historian), and a cheerfully oblivious
cuckold comprise the Shaws of Chicago, the decidedly quirky characters of
Jane Hamilton's fourth novel, Disobedience. An unlikely family to fall prey
to the vagaries of modern life, the Shaws are consumed with clog dancing,
early music, and the War Between the States.

FROM: "Madeline Guzman" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 4:42 PM

What about these wonderful books....

Bee Season--Myla Goldberg
Practical Magic--Alice Hoffman
The World According to Garp--John Irving
The Loves of Judith--Meir Shalev
Amy and Isabelle--Elizabth Strout

Madeline, patron
Montgomery County Libraries, Maryland


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>Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic) about
>eccentric families.

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FROM: "Marsha Valance" <[removed]@mpl.org>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 5:04 PM

One of the truly great eccentric families of all times is the Kelling family of Boston, in Charlotte MacLeod's hilarious series of mysteries about Sarah Kelling (later Sarah Kelling Bittersohn). Start with THE WITHDRAWING ROOM.
And surely Raleigh Whitter Hayes's family in Michael Malone's HANDLING SIN qualifies, not to mention the Kwimper family in Richard Powell's FOLLOW THAT DREAM (later a not-too-memorable film starring the King).


Marsha Valance
Regional Librarian
Wisconsin Regional Library f/t Blind & Physically Handicapped
813 West Wells St.
Milwaukee, WI 53233
1.800.242.8822 [in-state]
<[removed]@mpl.org>

>>> [removed]@hotmail.com 02/14/02 10:37PM >>>
What about these wonderful books....

Bee Season--Myla Goldberg
Practical Magic--Alice Hoffman
The World According to Garp--John Irving
The Loves of Judith--Meir Shalev
Amy and Isabelle--Elizabth Strout

Madeline, patron
Montgomery County Libraries, Maryland


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>
>Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic) about
>eccentric families.

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FROM: Vicki Novak - LIBRARYX <[removed]@MAIL.MARICOPA.GOV>
REC'D: 2/14/02, 5:15 PM

I don't think anyone has mentioned The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen.
It's a dysfunctional and eccentric family described with some dark humor.


Vicki Novak
[removed]@mail.maricopa.gov

Adult Services
North Central Regional Library
Maricopa County Library District
17811 N. 32nd St.
Phoenix, AZ 85032-1201

http://mcld.maricopa.gov

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/15/02, 6:50 AM

It's a play, but the first one that comes to mind is Kaufman & Hart's "You
Can't Take It With You."

Charlotte MacLeod's Sarah Kelling/Max Bittersohn mystery novels are overrun
with eccentric relatives.

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FROM: "Jodi Felde" <[removed]@ncats.net>
REC'D: 2/15/02, 10:25 AM

Iron Shoes by Molly Giles

Jodi Felde
Reference Staff
Fremont Area District Library
Fremont, MI

FROM: Molly Williams <[removed]@adelphia.net>
REC'D: 2/15/02, 2:38 PM

HI,

I sent this two days ago but never saw it on the list so am sending
it again:

_Sleeping Arrangements_ by Laura Cunningham (fabulous book)
("A moving, funny memoir of a wildly unorthodox Bronx childhood in
the 1950's -- the story of a girl who starts out fatherless, is
orphaned at 8, is raised by two extremely odd strangers who happen
to be her uncles, and slowly accumulates for herself a strong
and--no matter how eccentric--deeply loving family.")

_The Darling Buds of May_ by HE Bates

_The Bad Place_, by Dean Koontz

_God Don't Like Ugly_ by Mary Monroe (Rhoda's family is eccentric)

Anything by Ellen Gilchrist

~ Molly Wms.
--
Molly Williams
Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library (Maine)
daily library weblog: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm
[removed]@waterboro.lib.me.us

Suzanne Booker wrote:

> Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic)
about
> eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold
Comfort Farm,"
> the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in
"The Queen
> and I."
> Thanks!
> Susie
>
>
>

FROM: JANE BAIRD <[removed]@library.ci.anchorage.ak.us>
REC'D: 2/15/02, 3:30 PM

Oooo! My most favorite eccentric family is found in a YA book. "Love
Among the Walnuts" by Jean Ferris is fabulous!

Jane Baird
Anchorage Municipal Libraries

FROM: Cynthia Orr <[removed]@cpl.org>
REC'D: 2/15/02, 4:02 PM

This isn't fiction, but My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell would
definitely fit.

---
Cynthia Orr
Collection Manager
Cleveland Public Library
17133 Lake Shore Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44110
(216) 623-2906
Fax - (216)623-2977
www.cpl.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Molly Williams" <[removed]@adelphia.net>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: Eccentric families


> HI,
>
> I sent this two days ago but never saw it on the list so am sending
> it again:
>
> _Sleeping Arrangements_ by Laura Cunningham (fabulous book)
> ("A moving, funny memoir of a wildly unorthodox Bronx childhood in
> the 1950's -- the story of a girl who starts out fatherless, is
> orphaned at 8, is raised by two extremely odd strangers who happen
> to be her uncles, and slowly accumulates for herself a strong
> and--no matter how eccentric--deeply loving family.")
>
> _The Darling Buds of May_ by HE Bates
>
> _The Bad Place_, by Dean Koontz
>
> _God Don't Like Ugly_ by Mary Monroe (Rhoda's family is eccentric)
>
> Anything by Ellen Gilchrist
>
> ~ Molly Wms.
> --
> Molly Williams
> Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library (Maine)
> daily library weblog: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm
> [removed]@waterboro.lib.me.us
>
> Suzanne Booker wrote:
>
> > Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic)
> about
> > eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold
> Comfort Farm,"
> > the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in
> "The Queen
> > and I."
> > Thanks!
> > Susie
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@cityofcarrollton.com>
REC'D: 2/15/02, 4:12 PM

Along those lines, what about "Cheaper by the Dozen" about the Gilbreth
family, motion study experts back in the early 20th century? I loved that
book and its sequel "Belles on their toes."
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

-----Original Message-----
From: Cynthia Orr [[removed]@cpl.org]
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 3:51 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: Eccentric families


This isn't fiction, but My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell would
definitely fit.

---
Cynthia Orr
Collection Manager
Cleveland Public Library
17133 Lake Shore Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44110
(216) 623-2906
Fax - (216)623-2977
www.cpl.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Molly Williams" <[removed]@adelphia.net>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: Eccentric families


> HI,
>
> I sent this two days ago but never saw it on the list so am sending
> it again:
>
> _Sleeping Arrangements_ by Laura Cunningham (fabulous book)
> ("A moving, funny memoir of a wildly unorthodox Bronx childhood in
> the 1950's -- the story of a girl who starts out fatherless, is
> orphaned at 8, is raised by two extremely odd strangers who happen
> to be her uncles, and slowly accumulates for herself a strong
> and--no matter how eccentric--deeply loving family.")
>
> _The Darling Buds of May_ by HE Bates
>
> _The Bad Place_, by Dean Koontz
>
> _God Don't Like Ugly_ by Mary Monroe (Rhoda's family is eccentric)
>
> Anything by Ellen Gilchrist
>
> ~ Molly Wms.
> --
> Molly Williams
> Volunteer, Waterboro Public Library (Maine)
> daily library weblog: http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm
> [removed]@waterboro.lib.me.us
>
> Suzanne Booker wrote:
>
> > Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic)
> about
> > eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold
> Comfort Farm,"
> > the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in
> "The Queen
> > and I."
> > Thanks!
> > Susie
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: JANE BAIRD <[removed]@library.ci.anchorage.ak.us>
REC'D: 2/15/02, 5:47 PM

Some of the families in the Mitford books by Jan Karon are pretty eccentric.

Jane Baird
Anchorage Municipal Libraries

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/16/02, 2:03 PM

>From: Cynthia Orr <[removed]@cpl.org>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Eccentric families
>Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 16:51:13 -0500
>
>This isn't fiction, but My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell would
>definitely fit.
>

There's a second book, too: "Birds, Beasts, & Relatives."

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FROM: "Jeffrey, Denise B" <[removed]@education.tas.gov.au>
REC'D: 2/17/02, 4:00 PM

Hector's hobbies and Molly's flashings by Annie Leith tell the story of present day English eccentrics. Also, the Monarch of the Glen by Compton McKenzie is more in the same vein with a Scottish setting. This is a popular BBC television series currently screening (for a second time) in Australia.

Denise

Denise Jeffrey,
Senior Librarian (Selection),
State Library of Tasmania,
91 Murray St.,
Hobart 7000

Phone 61 3 6233 7049
Fax 61 3 6233 7506
Email [removed]@education.tas.gov.au
http://www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/services/goodread.htm

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From: Jodi Felde [[removed]@ncats.net]
Sent: Saturday, 16 February 2002 3:27 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: eccentric families


Iron Shoes by Molly Giles

Jodi Felde
Reference Staff
Fremont Area District Library
Fremont, MI

FROM: "Cheryl Conro" <[removed]@geneva.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 2/18/02, 5:47 PM

Hello,

How about the Hunsenmeir sisters in Rita Mae Brown's Bingo and Loose
Lips? And then there are the quirky families in Peter Hedges' books
What's Eating Gilbert Grape? and An Ocean in Iowa. And, of course,
the very eccentric family in Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle.

Cheryl Conro
Geneva Public Library
Geneva, IL

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From: [removed]@monroe.lib.in.us
To: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org,
Subject: RE: Eccentric families
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:24:43 -0500 (EST)

>Hi - I'm looking for fiction (preferably at least vaguely comic)
>about
>eccentric families. Some examples: the Starkadders in "Cold Comfort
>Farm,"
>the Learys in "The Accidental Tourist," and the Royal Family in "The
>Queen
>and I."
>Thanks!
>Susie
>
>
>.....................................................................
>.
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html
>

FROM: "Anne Paradise" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/22/02, 1:35 PM

*Not* fiction and very old, but a hoot- "My Family Right or Wrong" by
Strauss.


Anne Holcomb Paradise
Extension Librarian Gary Public Library
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be on our own." Lois Lowry, "Looking Back"


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FROM: Suzanne Booker <[removed]@monroe.lib.in.us>
REC'D: 2/27/02, 12:30 PM

Thanks for all the great suggestions. I've put together a nice
display entitled "Unusual Families." Here's the list...let me know if you
see any errors.

NONFICTION:
Cunningham, Laura - Sleeping Arrangements
Durrell, Gerald - My Family and Other Animals and Birds, Beasts and
Relatives (the Durrells)
Gilbreth, Frank - Cheaper by the Dozen and Belles on their Toes (the
Gilbreths)
MacDonald, Betty - The Egg and I (the Kettles)
Monroe, Mary - God Don't Like Ugly
Strauss - My Family Right or Wrong

FICTION:
Ansa, Tina McElroy - Ugly Ways (The Lovejoys)
Atkinson, Kate - Behind the Scenes at the Museum (The Lennoxes), Human
Croquet (The Fairfaxes)
Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (The Bennetts)
Bates, H.E. - The Darling Buds of May (The Larkins)
Beck, K.K. - Murder in a Mummy Case (The Brockhurts)
Bird, Sarah - The Yokota Officers Club (the Roots)
Brown, Rita Mae - Bingo, Loose Lips (the Hunsenmeir sisters)
Burns, Olive Ann - Cold Sassy Tree
Chin, Frank - Donald Duk (the Duks)
Chute, Carolyn - The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Compton-Burnett, Ivy - A House and Its Head
Conroy, Pat - The Prince of Tides (The Wingos), Beach Music (The McCalls)
Coupland, Douglas - All Families are Psychotic (The Drummonds)
Crisswell, Millie - The Trouble with Mary (the Russos)
Desai, Kiran - Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard (the Chawlas)
Doyle, Roddy - The Van
Dunn, Katherine - Geek Love (The Binewskis)
Enger, Lief - Peace Like a River (the Lands)
Esquivel, Laura - Like Water for Chocolate
Evanovich, Janet - the Stephanie Plum series
Ferris, Jean - Love Among the Walnuts (The Huntington-Ackermans)
Flagg, Fannie - Welcome to the World, Baby Girl
Ford, Marjorie Leet - Do Try to Speak as We Do (the Haig-Ereildouns)
Franzen, Jonathan - The Corrections (The Lamberts)
Gibbons, Stella - Cold Comfort Farm (the Starkadders)
Gilchrist, Ellen - any of her books
Giles, Molly - Iron Shoes
Glaister, L. - Honour Thy Father
Goldberg, Myla - Bee Season (the Naumanns)
Gowdy, Barbara - Mister Sandman (the Canaries), Falling Angels (the
Fields)
Graves, Robert - I, Claudius (the Julio-Claudians)
Greenberg, Joanne - Simple Gifts (the Fleuris)
Gregory, Deborah - The Cornflake House
Hamilton, Jane - Disobedience
Hedges, Peter - What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, The Oceans of Iowa
Hoffman, Alice - Practical Magic
Irving, John - The Hotel New Hampshire (the Berrys), The World
According to Garp
Johnston, Wayne - The Divine Ryans
Karon, Jan - any
Kaufman, George & Hart, Moss - You Can't Take it With You (the
Sycamores)--play
Keillor, Garrison - The Sandy Bottom Orchestra (The Greens)
Kingsolver, Barbara - The Poisonwood Bible (the Prices)
Klause, Annette - Blood and Chocolate
Koontz, Dean - The Bad Place
Landvik, Lorna - Patty Jane's House of Curl
Lansdale, Joe - The Bottoms
Lee, Harper - To Kill a Mockingbird (the Finches)
Leith, Annie - Hector's Hobbies and Molly's Flashings
Lennon, J. Robert - The Funnies (the Mixes)
Leslie, Diane - Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime
Lewis, Roy - The Evolution of Man, or How I Ate My Father
MacLeod, Charlotte - the Sarah Kelling/Max Bittersohn series (The
Withdrawing Room, etc.) (the Kellings)
McKenzie, Compton - The Monarch of the Glen (the Roydes)
MacPherson, Rett - Comedy of Heirs
Maguire, Gregory - Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister (the Fishers)
Malone, Michael - Handling Sin (the Hayes)
Mitford, Nancy - The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate
Morrison, Toni - Beloved
Nabokov, Vladimir - Ada
Ng, Mei - Eating Chinese Food Naked (the Lees)
O'Carroll, Brendan - The Mammy, The Granny, The Chisellers (the
Brownes)
Park, June - The Bingo Queens of Paradise (the Moons)
Perez da Costa, Suneeta - Homework (the Pereiras)
Priestly, J.B. - The Old Dark House (aka "Benighted") - (the Fems)
Puzo, Mario - The Family (the Borgias), The Godfather (the Corleones)
Richardson, Bill - The Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast
Robinson, Bruce - The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman
Roy, Arundhati - The God of Small Things
Rudnick, Paul - I'll Take It (the Eskers)
Shalev, Meir - The Loves of Judith
Smith, Dodie - I Capture the Castle (the Mortmains)
Strout, Elizabeth - Amy and Isabelle
Stubbs, Jean - Family Games (the Malpas family)
Sumner, Melanie - School of Beauty and Charm
Townsend, Sue - The Queen and I (the Royal Family)
Tyler, Anne - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (the Tulls), The
Accidental Tourist (the Learys), Morgan's Passing
Waugh, Evelyn - Brideshead Revisited (the Flytes)
Wells, Rebecca - Divine Secrets of the YaYa Sisterhood
West, Michael Lee - Crazy Ladies, American Pie
Wodehouse, P.G. - most anything
Woolf, Virginia - To the Lighthouse (the Ramsays)
Yanez Cossio, Alicia - Bruna and Her Sisters in the Sleeping City

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