4.21 avg rating — 6,280 ratings

"This profound and heartfelt testament to a difficult father by a brilliant son should be mandatory reading for all fathers and all children."

3.75 avg rating — 17,494 ratings

"Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood."

3.45 avg rating — 157 ratings

"By CBS reporter Jim Axelrod, this is a book about a dead father’s challenge to a son."

4.07 avg rating — 203,220 ratings

"An extraordinary, highly literary, graphic narrative which celebrates a father in all his obsessions and repressions."

3.57 avg rating — 208 ratings

"John Darnton's search to discover the father he never knew reads like a Dickension narrative."

3.86 avg rating — 308 ratings

"This funny yet moving childhood memoir from one of Britain's best-loved writers shows how extraordinary even an ordinary father can be."

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

"This is a thoughtful and empowering account of Freadman's struggles to flourish beyond his father's shadow."

3.76 avg rating — 41 ratings

"Imagine growing up with the author of Lord of the Flies as your father!"

3.75 avg rating — 1,116 ratings

"This seminal father memoir "is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciences and almost two epochs."

4.18 avg rating — 624 ratings

"Beautifully written book about father, class and football. A must for all football fans."

3.89 avg rating — 399 ratings

"A highly poetic yet rigorous exploration of an immigrant father by his wonder struck son."

3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings

"In these essays by women about their fathers, there are lessons for every daughter and for every father of a daughter."

3.92 avg rating — 1,047 ratings

"A tough minded, yet tender, often humorous, exploration of the relationship between a son and his complex father.
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liked it 3.00 avg rating — 3 ratings

"Eighteen powerful father books are examined to investigate the ethical dilemma's faced by children writing about their father's lives."

4.19 avg rating — 2,007 ratings

"This is loving, affirmative triumph of imagination, Miriam Toews enters into her Mennonite father's mind to tell the story of his life long struggle with manic depression."

3.92 avg rating — 479 ratings

"Trilling's affectionate memories of a stubborn father shine with love, humour and common sense."

3.72 avg rating — 46 ratings

"Like James Baldwin before him, Wideman looks at how race and racism shape and often distorts the relationships between a father and his children."

3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings

"My book. Besides that, I use the introduction to this book to define the father genre or, as I call it, the patremoir. The book contains amazing personal patremoir essays by the likes of Margaret Atwood, Alison Bechdel, Alan Bennett, Angela Carter,
Bruce Chatwin, Winston Churchill, Franz Kafka, Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, Sylvia Plath, Philip Roth, and Virginia Woolf."