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Novels featuring Mothers

Description: Whether positive or negative, these books are about the mother and child relationship.

Rank Title Author Added

1

The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

36,791 members

374 reviews

½ 3.4

6 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, Dilara86, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

by Louisa May Alcott

26,661 members

402 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, Dilara86, ahef1963

3

by Toni Morrison

23,005 members

409 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Brideshead Revisited

by Evelyn Waugh

12,629 members

265 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Stephen King

9,920 members

139 reviews

½ 3.4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

The Prince of Tides

5,836 members

110 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

Rosemary's Baby

4,660 members

139 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

by Agatha Christie

3,867 members

78 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

Parable of the Talents

by Octavia E. Butler

3,604 members

96 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, Dilara86, ManWithAnAgenda

10

Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama

by Alison Bechdel

1,980 members

100 reviews

½ 3.7

3 Members: Dilara86, crookedcat, ManWithAnAgenda

11

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,659 members

342 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Charles Dickens

13,730 members

249 reviews

4.2

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

9,549 members

100 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

14

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

by Anne Brontë

7,612 members

169 reviews

3.9

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

The Robber Bride

by Margaret Atwood

7,404 members

132 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

16

The Light Between Oceans

by M. L. Stedman

7,372 members

509 reviews

3.9

2 Members: dara85, ahef1963

17

by Maggie O'Farrell

4,442 members

234 reviews

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

18

Medea [in Translation]

2,931 members

50 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, thecoroner

19

by Douglas Coupland

2,040 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

20

by Mary Rodgers

1,396 members

15 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

21

11,353 members

170 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

22

by Stephen King

9,967 members

119 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

23

by Gillian Flynn

9,811 members

539 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

24

Little Fires Everywhere

8,979 members

376 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

25

The Dutch House

by Ann Patchett

4,666 members

276 reviews

4.1

Member: sturlington

26

The Chocolate Touch

by Patrick Skene Catling

4,486 members

53 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

27

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

3,848 members

134 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

28

by Jeanine Cummins

3,653 members

183 reviews

4.1

Member: dara85

29

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

by Toshikazu Kawaguchi

3,106 members

112 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

A Pale View of Hills

by Kazuo Ishiguro

3,027 members

90 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

31

All Families are Psychotic

by Douglas Coupland

2,623 members

34 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

32

2,565 members

98 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Dilara86

33

Molly's Pilgrim

by Barbara Cohen

2,476 members

29 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

34

The Fifth Child

by Doris Lessing

2,411 members

77 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

35

Dept. of Speculation

by Jenny Offill

2,061 members

146 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

36

by Ashley Audrain

1,747 members

87 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

37

A Woman Is No Man

1,503 members

66 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

38

1,436 members

59 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

39

1,273 members

128 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

40

1,269 members

32 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: Dilara86

41

1,133 members

61 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

42

The Girl in a Swing

by Richard Adams

840 members

14 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

43

by Shirley Jackson

759 members

20 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

44

A Stranger in Olondria

by Sofia Samatar

745 members

35 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

45

Disappearance at Devil's Rock

by Paul Tremblay

713 members

46 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

46

The Magic Fish: A Graphic Novel

by Trung Le Nguyen

605 members

36 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

47

by Marlys Millhiser

522 members

24 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

Blackberry Winter

517 members

55 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

49

by Catriona Ward

485 members

22 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

50

by Madhuri Vijay

460 members

18 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

51

The End We Start From

by Megan Hunter

433 members

42 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

52

A Woman's Story

by Annie Ernaux

430 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: Dilara86

53

by Brandon Hobson

412 members

22 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas

by Russell Hoban

398 members

6 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

55

Maria or the Wrongs of Woman

by Mary Wollstonecraft

320 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

56

by Kathryn Reiss

288 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

57

241 members

13 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

58

User Unfriendly

by Vivian Vande Velde

231 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

59

The Barefoot Woman

by Scholastique Mukasonga

150 members

9 reviews

4.1

Member: Dilara86

60

Anna Karenina [Norton Critical Edition, 1st ed.]

by L.N. Tolstoy

134 members

2 reviews

4.1

Member: thecoroner

61

The Secret in Miranda's Closet

by Sheila Greenwald

53 members

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

Drowning Practice

by Mike Meginnis

45 members

3 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

Place of the Heart

by Steinunn Sigurdardottir

43 members

1 review

4

Member: Dilara86

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Started: sturlington
September 2013
Type: Unnumbered

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