Books like Dream of the Red Chamber
Jia Baoyu, the sensitive heir of a great aristocratic family in eighteenth-century China, grows up among his cousins in a vast garden, as love, ambition and debt bring the household down.
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The Tale of Genji
The loves and losses of Genji, the dazzling son of an emperor reduced to commoner rank, unfold across the Heian court in what is often called the world's first novel, before the story passes to his heirs.
The Family Moskat
The wealthy Moskat family of Warsaw and its old patriarch Meshulam, from the turn of the century to the German bombardment of 1939.
Buddenbrooks
Four generations of a Lübeck merchant family from their commercial height through their slow bourgeois rot, in the novel that made the 25-year-old Mann.
The Forsyte Saga
Three novels following the Forsytes, a wealthy London family of the late Victorian age, beginning with Soames, a solicitor who treats his beautiful wife Irene as one more of his possessions.
The Good Earth
A Chinese peasant marries an unloved kitchen slave, and across forty years of drought, revolution, and unexpected wealth they rise and the land goes on telling them what they are.
A Suitable Boy
In newly independent India in 1951, Mrs Rupa Mehra sets out to find a suitable husband for her younger daughter Lata, who has ideas of her own.
Pavilion of Women
On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu, the serene mistress of a great Chinese household, announces she will choose a concubine for her husband so that she can at last live for herself.
Big Breasts and Wide Hips
Shangguan Lu, a peasant woman in Gaomi, bears eight daughters and at last a son, Jintong, whose account of the family runs from the Japanese invasion to the 1990s.
Anna Karenina
A married aristocrat's affair with a dashing officer unravels her life, her family, and her sanity against the backdrop of Russian high society.
War and Peace
Five aristocratic families navigate love, ambition, and survival as Napoleon's invasion of Russia reshapes the world around them.
Spring Snow
A young Japanese aristocrat falls in love with the wrong woman in pre-war Tokyo, and the rigid codes of beauty and duty destroy them both.
White Teeth
A Bangladeshi family, a Jamaican family, and a Jewish-Catholic couple collide in North London at the turn of the millennium, and their intersecting lives map multicultural Britain.