A book with a family member term in the title

[Kathy]

I read America's First Daughter by Stephanie Dray for this one. Excellent historical fiction.

[Carrie]

I read A Reliable Wife for this one

[Alix]

I'll be reading America's First Daughter for this one. It's been on my shelf for almost a year! Has anyone read it?

Also... does anyone know how to properly post a book title in these comments so that it's clickable??? Can't quite figure out how you've all been doing it

[Tracy]

Alix wrote: "I'll be reading America's First Daughter for this one. It's been on my shelf for almost a year! Has anyone read it?

Also... does anyone know how to properly post a book title in these comments so..."

When you are typing in your post there is a link above the text box that says "add book/author". If you click on it it will open a box for you to type in your book or author and you can add the link to your page (or you can change it to display the book cover :-)

America's First Daughter

[Indre]

Sisters one, two, three. By Nancy Star.

[Debbie]

I just searched all the family member terms I could think of in my shelves and came across some titles that others might be interested in:


I have read and suggest:
- Being a Green Mother - one of the Incarnations of Immortality series by Piers Anthony. Lovely series, but this one might be able to stand alone.
- What My Mother Doesn't Know - YA drama. A girl falls for a boy, but keeps their involvement a secret from her mother, who wouldn't approve. It's a cute book, quick read, seemed realistic when I read it. I think it might be written as a verse novel. (She has a few others with family roles in the titles, too.)
- The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less - A wonderful tribute to a mother who underwent so much to gain so little, in my opinion.
- Little Brother - Great sci-fi story set in San Francisco after 9/11. I remember reading it 8ish years ago and thinking it was really relevant then; with all the surveillance that our devices allow now, I can only imagine how much more familiar it would feel.
- Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter - My 9th graders have read this for reading circles in the past and loved it. The things this stepmom (and the rest of the family) do is horrid, but a little understandable when she explains the cultural assumptions of the time.

I've searched my to-be-read list and there are so many mothers, daughters, fathers, wives, and husbands, that I don't even know where to start! I know I should read something that I would normally never make the time to get around to, like Lucky Child: A Daughter of Cambodia Reunites with the Sister She Left Behind or The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared or even Balance Is a Crock, Sleep Is for the Weak: An Indispensable Guide to Surviving Working Motherhood, but I really love fiction, so I'd prefer to read Daughter of Smoke & Bone or The Storyteller's Daughter: A Retelling of the Arabian Nights or My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry. Or maybe I should read books that are already on my Kindle or in my classroom, like Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer or A Brother's Journey or Adventures from the Land of Stories: The Mother Goose Diaries. Too many decisions.

[Chinook]

I went with Children of the New World: Stories, which I really, really enjoyed. There were on or two dud stories in my opinion but most of them were amazing.

[Wendy]

I think I'll do Bunner Sisters by Edith Wharton. It's on the 1001 Books list and it's quite short :)

Other thoughts:
The Orphan Master's Son
Burger's Daughter
Cousin Bette
City Sister Silver
The Dead Father
The Godfather
Fathers and Sons
An Obedient Father
Père Goriot
Uncle Silas (if you like victorian-era creepy gothic)

Or for more fairy-tale influenced stuff - My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales

[Erika]

I am reading The Daughter by Jane Shemlit. Never heard of it or her but the story is interesting. And it happens to fit into a category.

[Sara Grace]

I read American Housewife.

[Carolina]

Johanna wrote: "I'm going to read My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry for this prompt. I loved A Man Called Ove so I'm hoping I'll enjoy this one too.

I always end up s..."
I loved "My grandmother....", I'm reading "A man called Ove now, and though I like it, I think the other is better!

[Wendy]

Lol, I just realized that Kindred totally works for this! I'm going to slot it there :)

[courtney]

I read My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier for this prompt. It also just came out as a movie - it was great!

[Emily]

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Came out this year, quick and easy read, approx 400 pages. I read it in a weekend, hard to put down!

[Aleesha]

I read Mom & Me & Mom

Love Maya Angelou's writing❤

[Sandy]

I read " As Close As Sister's" by Coleen Faulkner. It is about 3 friends who come to a cottage to help a 4th friend who is dying of cancer. It's a good beach book about women and their close friendships.

[Juliebean]

For those who read America's First Daughter, can you tell me how Sally Hemmings is portrayed? To clarify, I don't like words like "affair" or "mistress" since she was a teenage slave, if that makes sense.

[Juliebean]

I didn't see Instant Mom mentioned. I picked that up on special not too long ago, and I think that's what I'll be reading.

[Tania]

I just finished The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve for this prompt, but I was also considering Good Wives by Louisa May Alcott and The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris.

[Rachel]

I'm just finishing up The Forgotten Daughter, which I really liked. It's very well-written, although it doesn't keep my attention quite as well as I hoped. I'm not sure if it's the book itself though, or just my inability to focus this week.

[Priya]

The Husband's Secret

Such a great read by Liane Moriarty (of Big Little Lies)

[Trina]

I read Ann Claycomb's The Mermaid's Daughter for this one. I didn't have much sympathy for the title character at first, but she grew on me. It's based on the Little Mermaid story, in that the great-great-great (etc.) granddaughter of the original mermaid in the 1800s bears the curse that was never broken, as has her mother, and her mother, and so on. Music -- singing and opera -- features in a big way. I'm a singer, so that kept me going until I read a bit further in. But by the end, I was enthralled.

It's kind of esoteric, and I could see by the reviews that it did not appeal to everyone. But I loved it.