In honor of this year's Summer Reading theme -- All Together Now -- the Georgia Room has put together a booklist for all ages focusing on genealogy and family history. We hope you enjoy reading and learning about different types of families and communities!

Children's Picture Books

Alma and How She Got Her Name by Juana Martinex-Neal (family heritage)

Aunt Flossie’s Hats (and Crab Cakes Later) by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard (older relatives)

Between Us and Abuela by Mitali Perkins (Latinx, separated families)

The Book Rescuer by Sue Macy (Jewish heritage / Yiddish)

Eyes That Kiss in the Corners by Joanna Ho (Asian features)

Forever Cousins by Laurel Goodluck (Native American)

The Frank Show by David Mackintosh (grandparents)

Going Down Home With Daddy by Kelly Starling Lyons (African American)

The Granddaughter Necklace by Sharon Dennis Wyeth (family heritage)

Grandma’s Purse by Vanessa Brantley-Newton (grandparents)

Grandpa Green by Daniel Bernstrom (grandparents, dementia)

Homeplace by Anne Shelby (family heirlooms & heritage)

Islandborn by Junot Diaz (Caribbean heritage)

Love Makes A Family by Sophie Beer (all families represented)

Love and the Rocking Chair by Leo Dillon (mixed race)

The Matchbox Diary by Paul Fleischman (immigrant grandparent memories)

My Family, Your Family by Lisa Bullard

Remixed: A Blended Family by Arree Chung

Stella Brings the Family by Miriam Schiffer (LGBT)

Thanking the Moon by Grace Lin (Asian)

This is the Rope by Jacqueline Woodson

Children and Preteen Chapter Books

Effie Starr Zook Has One More Question by Martha Freeman

The Lotterys Plus One by Emma Donoghue (adoption, grandparents)

The Marvelous Magic of Miss Mabel by Natasha Lowe (adoption)

The Other Half of Happy by Rebecca Balcárcel (Anglo / Guatemalan)

Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson (African American)

When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller (Korean)

Teen and Young Adult Fiction

The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X.R. Pan (mixed race - Asian/White)

A Constellation of Roses by Miranda Asebedo (Connection to family heritage)

Everything Within and In Between by Nikki Barthelmess (Mexican heritage / Assimilation)

Lulu and Milagro’s Search for Clarity by Angela Veleze (Latinx / sisters)

Meet Me In Mumbai by Sabina Khan (LGBTQ adoptive parents, meeting birth mother)

The Noh Family by Grace K. Shim (Korean, family secrets)

The Rest of the Story by Sarah Dessen (making family connections)

The Summer of Lost Letters by Hannah Reynolds (Holocaust survivor)

The Truth Project by Dante Medema (DNA test)

You Have A Match by Emma Lord (DNA test, sibling discovered)

 

Adult Fiction

Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell

The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

Death on the Family Tree by Patricia Sprinkle

The Dutch House by Ann Patchett

The Enchanted Hacienda by J.C. Cervantes

Esme Cahill Fails Spectacularly by Marie Bostwick

The Fortunes of Jaded Women by Carolyn Huynh

Homecoming by Kate Morton

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Alende

The House on Tradd Street by Karen White

Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy by Jamie Ford

People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

A Place For Us by Fatima Farheen Mirza

Slightly South of Simple by Kristy Woodson Harvey

These Ghosts Are Family by Maisy Card

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Adult Nonfiction

Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton

Benjamin Banneker and Us by Rachel Jamison Webster

Common People: In Pursuit of My Ancestors by Alison Light

Crying in H-Mart by Michelle Zauner

Inheritance by Dani Shapiro

It’s All Relative by A.J. Jacobs

Jell-O Girls: A Family History by Allie Rowbottom

Kinfolks: Falling Off the Family Tree by Lisa Alther

The Lost Family by Libby Copeland

My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-first Century Freedwoman Confronts Her Roots by Thulani Davis

Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball