Start with high-confidence family life books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Palaver
Bryan Washington
Sea Wife
Amity Gaige
Crow Talk
Eileen Garvin, Helen Laser
Good People
Patmeena Sabit
Before I Forget
Tory Henwood Hoen
The Last Thing He Told Me
Laura Dave
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Mill on the Floss
George Eliot
Pere Goriot
Honoré de Balzac
The Shepard of the Hills
Harold Bell Wright
Loon Point
Carrie Classon
Training Days
May-lee Chai
In Five Years
Rebecca Serle
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell, Maggie O'Farrell
