Family Bucket List

Three generations of a Taipei family, told over one year and three hours.

A goldfish princess wants to become human, and the sea rises with her.

A boy hides an alien in his bedroom closet in suburban California.

Four-inch borrowers live under the floorboards of a house in the suburbs.

Three cousins lost in a valley of dragons and rat creatures; a Disney-drawn Lord of the Rings.

A six-year-old and his tiger, ten years of strips and Spaceman Spiff.

Charlie Brown, Snoopy and fifty years of small despair; start with the 1950s.

Alison Bechdel's father, a closeted funeral director, and her own coming out; the comic that became a musical.

A spider saves a pig with words in her web; E. B. White's barnyard.

Four sisters in Osaka before the war and the search for a husband for the third; Tanizaki's masterpiece.

Four generations of the Trueba family and a coup; Allende's debut.

The decline of an aristocratic Qing family through a boy and his cousins; the greatest Chinese novel.

Four generations of a Korean family in Japan from 1910; Min Jin Lee's epic.

A writer raised by a nurse who wanted no husband; Irving's comedy of accidents.

The Lambert family assembles for one last Christmas in St Jude; Franzen's breakthrough.

A tiny boy with a wrecked voice who believes he is God's instrument; a foul ball kills his best friend's mother.

The four March sisters through the Civil War years; Jo the writer.

Sculpt something in clay and let the others guess it, slowly, with questions.

Pull ingredients from a bag and stop before your cauldron explodes.

Expansion 11 puts historic wonders on the map, each one with a rule of its own.

Seat the guests so the nationalities work out; a tile game about a crowded bar.

Manhattan in taxis, fifteen minutes and a board the size of a place mat.

Move stones up five tracks, each of which you can only ever go one way along.

A cycling race with dice, drafting and a peloton that behaves like one.

Plan a route through a fantasy map using transport cards others also need.

Five detectives hunt Mister X across a London map; he surfaces every five turns.

Expansion 2 adds wine, cloth and wheat to collect off finished cities, the builder who buys you a second tile, and the pig who fattens a field.

Paddle steamers race downriver, picking up passengers and running out of coal.

Bid, steal and exhibit antiques; simultaneous card selection with a lot of bluffing.

Place settlements on the terrain your card allows and chase the scoring goals.