Parents


The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
About a Boy
Requiem for a Dream
Meet the Parents
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
Love You Forever
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Educated
Big Little Lies (Big Little Lies, #1)
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness
Stella Brings the Family
Oliver Twist by Charles DickensA Little Princess by Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsRebecca by Daphne du MaurierGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Death of a Parent in Fiction
410 books — 59 voters
Flowers in the Attic by V.C. AndrewsBear, Otter, and the Kid by T.J. KluneA Child Called "It" by Dave PelzerCarrie by Stephen  KingWhen Love Is Not Enough by Wade Kelly
Worst Mothers Ever
247 books — 202 voters

Matilda by Roald DahlThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerA Christmas Carol by Charles DickensGirl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Lousy Authority Figures
163 books — 31 voters

Shannon L. Alder
When you loved someone and had to let them go, there will always be that small part of yourself that whispers, "What was it that you wanted and why didn't you fight for it? ...more
Shannon L. Alder

Oscar Wilde
To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

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This group is for Mommy/Daddy-Authors. If you are a full time mom or dad and still have time to …more
13 members, last active 2 years ago
Middle Grade Sports Books For parents and teachers of kids in the 8-12 age range that love devouring sports books.
2 members, last active 11 years ago
Reading if you are at school or a parent of someone at school. Talking about books families enjo…more
3 members, last active 11 years ago
Mums and Dads Who (try to) Read This is a group for tired out parents longing to sit down and read but never seen to find the ti…more
2 members, last active 4 years ago