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Unusual Families
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February 2002
Compiled by Suzanne Booker,
from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
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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