The most popular dysfunctional families books of 2022

These books are about families that do not work. Cruel or absent parents, favoritism, addiction and long silences leave their mark on the children, who spend years trying to understand or escape. Some of these stories are painfully funny and some are simply painful. All of them ring true. This list shows the ones first published in 2022.

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The Lodger
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The Lodger

Valerie Keogh

Published 2022

324 pages

All of This
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All of This

Rebecca Woolf

Published 2022

256 pages

Blood Pact
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Blood Pact

Heather Atkinson

Published 2022

376 pages

Lifer
Cover of Lifer

Lifer

Ross Greenwood

Published 2022

350 pages