Dysfunction Family Books for Your Holiday Entertainment
By Diana Tramontano and Sherri Puzey
This holiday season, we’re highlighting a handful of books centered around characters that have grown entangled in family drama. These novels and memoirs are entertaining yet also emotionally raw and moving. Each of these titles would be a perfect book to read on your holiday vacation as you anticipate gathering with your own family members!
From the actress of iCarly comes a heartbreaking and hilarious memoir of her experience with childhood trauma, complicated relationships, and mental health challenges.
An unputdownable story about two families whose lives are forever intertwined after one romantic encounter.
A darkly funny story about two sisters and the lengths they will go to protect one another.
In a humorous and raw novel, Tropper depicts the nature of love, family, marriage, and divorce.
Full of family dysfunction and drama, All This Could Be Yours explores long internalized family trauma from a power-hungry father.
A twisty story about a woman entangled with a wealthy family who finds pleasure in playing games at the expense (and safety) of others.
An arresting memoir about a complicated mother-daughter relationship and the burden of secrets.
A searing memoir of uncovering family truths after a childhood of deception.
Modern family saga meets Greek mythology in this debut novel about marriage, secrets, and rivalries.
A wild story about a girl who grows up living on the run, wondering for years what her parents’ real names are and from whom they are hiding.
Underneath a tightly wound high-class family lives a dysfunctional group intertwined with secrets and scandals. When the threat of exposing their secrets arises, the family must evaluate just how far they’ll go to uphold their image.
The story of a wealthy yet fractured Brooklyn family whose children are desperate to escape one another despite their mother’s best efforts towards building a perfect family.
A thrilling sequel to Jewell’s New York Times bestselling novel, The Family Upstairs, this is a haunting mystery of tragedy, family, and secrets.
A deeply emotional story of an Upper East Side family whose dark secrets are threatened after the family is thrust into the media following the arrest of one of their children.