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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
Who says Amazon is making anything up? Family Life is a genre I've seen used by more than one religious or inspirational publisher and Saga (sometimes withe another word attached like Family Saga or Historical Saga) isn't an Amazon creation either. There are hundreds of genres or sub-genres out there beyond the few basic well known ones.
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Yup. I remember that sagas were huge (in both sales and page length) in the 1960s and 1970s (and beyond). Many of the bestsellers were classified as family sagas -- some of the Taylor Caldwell books, James Michener novels, John Jakes series, Howard Fast books, Susan Howatch novels, The Thornbirds, etc. Before that, you had The Forsyte Saga, Poldark, the and other series.
While many had romantic elements, they were not romances. They often end miserably for everyone.
And "family life" sounds more like a type of woman's fiction -- which of course is also not romance. When I look at the "Family Life" novels on Amazon, the vast majority are not what I'd consider romances.