Charlie Brown, Snoopy and fifty years of small despair; start with the 1950s.
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.
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.
The decline of an aristocratic Qing family through a boy and his cousins; the greatest Chinese novel.
Four generations of the Trueba family and a coup; Allende's debut.
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.
A tiny boy with a wrecked voice who believes he is God's instrument; a foul ball kills his best friend's mother.
The Lambert family assembles for one last Christmas in St Jude; Franzen's breakthrough.
The four March sisters through the Civil War years; Jo the writer.
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