12 must-read novels books like Pete and Alice in Maine by Caitlin Shetterly

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Pete and Alice in Maine

By: Caitlin Shetterly

3.38

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold in New York Cit…

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1. After Annie

By: Anna Quindlen

4.03

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

When Annie Brown dies suddenly, her husband, her four young children and her closest friend are lef… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's After Annie book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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2. Happiness Falls

By: Angie Kim

3.75

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

When a father goes missing, his family's desperate search leads them to question everything they kn… read more

Similar categories in Angie Kim's Happiness Falls book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"I lost a World - the other day! Has Anybody found? - Emily Dickinson, 1896"

-Angie Kim, Happiness Falls

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3. Last House

By: Jessica Shattuck

3.64

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

"An ambitious historical epic that doubles as an intimate family saga. Jessica Shattuck captures an… read more

Similar categories in Jessica Shattuck's Last House book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Leaving

By: Roxana Robinson

3.87

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

What risks would you be willing to take to fall in love again? “I never thought I’d see you her… read more

Similar categories in Roxana Robinson's Leaving book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Being a mother is paying it forward, sending that energy and feeling to someone who needed it at first to survive, but who, the older she becomes, needs you less. The older you become, the more irrel…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

"The justification for leaving a marriage was that you were increasing the sum of happiness in the world. You were ending your own unhappiness, and your spouse’s (if you weren’t happy, your spouse cou…"

-Roxana Robinson, Leaving

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5. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

Similar categories in Michael Cunningham's Day book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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6. Real Americans

By: Rachel Khong

4.04

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of Goodbye, Vitamin: How far would you go to shape your own destiny?… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Khong's Real Americans book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"She wasn't normal and so I wasn't either. I resented that part the most."

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"It was a habit, with my parents: omitting information, not wanting to worry them unnecessarily. Though they’d raised me so American, I could never manage the sorts of American relationships my friend…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

"With each other they spoke loudly: Their voices periodically rose to excited shouts, and they laughed raucously. In English they were milder mannered, polite. My mother had always spoken English to m…"

-Rachel Khong, Real Americans

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7. Family Family

By: Laurie Frankel

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

“Not all stories of adoption are stories of pain and regret. Not even most of them. Why don’t we ev… read more

Similar categories in Laurie Frankel's Family Family book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"When people thought of mothers, they smelled cookies baking and chocolate melting. But actual mothers got shit for giving their kids too much sugar. When people thought of mothers, they thought soft …"

-Laurie Frankel, Family Family

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8. Come and Get It

By: Kiley Reid

3.38

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and provocative story about a residential assistant and her messy entanglement with a profe… read more

Similar categories in Kiley Reid's Come and Get It book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Kennedy hadn't considered it before, that to write something beautiful you just do it regular, and then you pull out a red pen."

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Washing her sheets was another thing she'd failed to do. She washed her clothes—every weekend—but when it came to the bedsheets, she'd get stressed out or she'd forget. And then there was too much ti…"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

"Okay, sometimes—just being honest— Millie can be . . . a little ghetto." On the word little, Tyler held two fingers an inch apart. "Nooo. Don't say that. Ah love Millie." "But I'm not saying it like …"

-Kiley Reid, Come and Get It

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9. Absolution

By: Alice McDermott

3.81

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of women’s lives on the margins of the Vietnam War. In Saigon in 1963, two yo… read more

Similar categories in Alice McDermott's Absolution book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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10. Welcome Home, Stranger

By: Kate Christensen

3.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growin… read more

Similar categories in Kate Christensen's Welcome Home, Stranger book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • audiobook
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11. Within Arm's Reach

By: Ann Napolitano

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A tender and perceptive debut novel about three generations of an Irish American family jarred into… read more

Similar categories in Ann Napolitano's Within Arm's Reach book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • audiobook
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12. Little Monsters

By: Adrienne Brodeur

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the bestselling memoir Wild Game comes a riveting novel about Cape Cod, complica… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Brodeur's Little Monsters book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Our scars are what make us unique. Nothing broken is ever lost."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"Whenever I paint the truth, no matter how strange, people see themselves in it."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

"To stare into the spiral of a shell was to see the swirl of a galaxy, the logarithmic spiral of life itself, the intertwined miracle of art and science."

-Adrienne Brodeur, Little Monsters

Cover of The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1) by Shannon Bowring

13. The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1)

By: Shannon Bowring

4.04

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

From debut author Shannon Bowring comes a novel of small town America that Pulitzer-winner Richard … read more

Similar categories in Shannon Bowring's The Road to Dalton (Dalton, Maine, #1) book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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14. Sandwich

By: Catherine Newman

3.75

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of We All Want Impossible Things, a moving, hilarious story of a family sum… read more

Similar categories in Catherine Newman's Sandwich book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • audiobook
"What does loss look like, in your body? Where is it? It feels like an air bubble stuck in your psyche. It feels like peering down into a deep hole. The vertigo of that. The potential for obliteration…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

"We're just ruined by sex, women---our bodies, our psyches. We're sexually assaulted every five minutes. We're infected with everything. Traumatized by conceiving, by not conceiving. But let's keep at…"

-Catherine Newman, Sandwich

Cover of Pete and Alice in Maine by Caitlin Shetterly

15. Pete and Alice in Maine

By: Caitlin Shetterly

3.38

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Reeling from a painful betrayal in her marriage as the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold in New York Cit… read more

Similar categories in Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • relationships
  • literature
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • audiobook
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16. Hope

By: Andrew Ridker

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The year is 2013 and the Greenspans are the envy of Brookline, Massachusetts, an idyllic (and ideal… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Ridker's Hope book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • literary fiction
  • literature
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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17. Mercury

By: Amy Jo Burns

3.83

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A roofing family’s bonds of loyalty are tested when they uncover a long-hidden secret at the heart … read more

Similar categories in Amy Jo Burns's Mercury book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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18. Same As It Ever Was

By: Claire Lombardo

4.00

Format: 498 pages, Hardcover

Julia Ames, after a youth marked by upheaval and emotional turbulence, has found herself on the pla… read more

Similar categories in Claire Lombardo's Same As It Ever Was book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • marriage
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Parenthood was a persistent cruelty, a constant, simultaneous desire to be together and apart."

-Claire Lombardo, Same As It Ever Was

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19. Reunion

By: Elise Juska

3.39

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved author of the “uniquely poignant” (Entertainment Weekly) novel The Blessings comes… read more

Similar categories in Elise Juska's Reunion book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • audiobook
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. The Cliffs

By: J. Courtney Sullivan

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A novel of family, secrets, ghosts, and homecoming set on the seaside cliffs of Maine, by the New Y… read more

Similar categories in J. Courtney Sullivan's The Cliffs book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • adult fiction
  • literary fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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21. The God of the Woods

By: Liz Moore

4.27

Format: 490 pages, Kindle Edition

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide Early morning, Augu… read more

Similar categories in Liz Moore's The God of the Woods book and Caitlin Shetterly's Pete and Alice in Maine

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • audiobook

21 Top fiction books like Pete and Alice in Maine by Caitlin Shetterly

Transform Your Habits

After Annie

Anna Quindlen

4.03

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Happiness Falls

Angie Kim

3.75

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Last House

Jessica Shattuck

3.64

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Leaving

Roxana Robinson

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ann Patchett

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