• The best books on Family History - Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg
  • The best books on Family History - The Lying Life of Adults: A Novel by Elena Ferrante
  • The best books on Family History - The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard
  • The best books on Family History - In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, by Sasha Dugdale
  • The best books on Family History - Free: Coming of Age at the End of History by Lea Ypi

The best books on Family History, recommended by Thea Lenarduzzi

The story of a family never ends, says Thea Lenarduzzi—the literary critic and author of the prize-winning family memoir Dandelions: “It’s always evolving, rewriting itself, long after the protagonists are dead.” Here, she recommends five books on family history that illustrate the shapeshifting nature of this hard-to-pin-down subject, in which memories rarely tally with the written record.