57 New Family Dramas for Readers Who Love Messy Relationships - Page 2

"When it comes to realistic fiction, we can often group recurring themes into a few broad categories—the coming-of-age novel, say, or the marriage-in-trouble story, or the ancient narrative known as the family drama.

We've collected below 57 new novels that more or less fit into the family drama theme. Some are tragic, some are tragicomic, some are straight-up funny, but what they have in common is an overarching story that centers on family relationships. This particular collection mostly features contemporary family dramas, although you'll also find a few of the multigenerational and "decades-spanning" variety. All of the books listed below were published in the U.S. in 2025."