9 best-selling literary fiction books like The Caregiver by Samuel Park

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The Caregiver

By: Samuel Park

3.76

Format: 288 pages, ebook

From the critically acclaimed author of This Burns My Heart comes gorgeous, emotionally wise tale a…

"I began to wonder if love was just a refined form of compassion, the heart's choice, for whatever reason, to devote itself to another being."

-Samuel Park, The Caregiver

"I began to wonder if love was just a refined form of compassion, the heart's choice, for whatever reason, to devote itself to another being."

-Samuel Park, The Caregiver

If you liked the literary fiction plot in The Caregiver by Samuel Park , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen

1. Miller's Valley

By: Anna Quindlen

3.89

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

For generations the Millers have lived in Miller’s Valley. Mimi Miller tells about her life with in… read more

Similar categories in Anna Quindlen's Miller's Valley book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I was good with being alone, always liked it, but there's something about doing a job alone that you've always done with someone else that just doesn't feel right. Maybe it's like making Christmas co…"

-Anna Quindlen, Miller's Valley

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2. The Hopefuls

By: Jennifer Close

3.91

Format: 736 pages,

When Beth arrives in Washington, D.C., she hates everything about it: the confusing traffic circles… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Close's The Hopefuls book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary

3. The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving

By: Jonathan Evison

3.97

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

Jonathan Evison has crafted a novel of the heart, a novel of unlikely heroes traveling through a gr… read more

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4. Here Comes the Sun

By: Nicole Y. Dennis-Benn

3.94

Format: 256 pages,

Capturing the distinct rhythms of Jamaican life and dialect, Nicole Dennis-Benn pens a tender hymn … read more

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5. Rise and Shine

By: Anna Quindlen

4.15

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A superb novel about two sisters, the true meaning of success, and the qualities in life that matte… read more

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6. 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 Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
Cover of The Road from Belhaven by Margot Livesey

7. The Road from Belhaven

By: Margot Livesey

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young wom… read more

Similar categories in Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • audiobook
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8. House of Cotton

By: Monica Brashears

3.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn’t have much to look forward to… read more

Similar categories in Monica Brashears's House of Cotton book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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9. 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 Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. Meet Me in Monaco

By: Hazel Gaynor

3.89

Format: 384 pages, ebook

Set in the 1950s against the backdrop of Grace Kelly’s whirlwind romance and glamourous wedding to … read more

Similar categories in Hazel Gaynor's Meet Me in Monaco book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. The General and Julia

By: Jon Clinch

3.82

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

Ulysses S. Grant reflects on the crucial moments of his life as a husband, a father, a general, and… read more

Similar categories in Jon Clinch's The General and Julia book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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12. Bear

By: Julia Phillips

3.38

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A mesmerising novel of two sisters on a Pacific Northwest island whose lives are upended by an unex… read more

Similar categories in Julia Phillips's Bear book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"There'd been only three hundred students in the whole school, which made it a tiny, gossipy hellhole, a bucket of crabs snapping at each other and falling over themselves."

-Julia Phillips, Bear

"What was Sam afraid of? Withering away here. Dreaming of chances she'd never be able to take, and shriveling up from that denial, getting poorer and put under more pressure and pushed farther from th…"

-Julia Phillips, Bear

Cover of The Caregiver by Samuel Park

13. The Caregiver

By: Samuel Park

3.76

Format: 288 pages, ebook

From the critically acclaimed author of This Burns My Heart comes gorgeous, emotionally wise tale a… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Park's The Caregiver book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • cultural
  • literary fiction
  • historical
  • brazil
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • historical fiction
  • novels
  • adult
  • audiobook
"I began to wonder if love was just a refined form of compassion, the heart's choice, for whatever reason, to devote itself to another being."

-Samuel Park, The Caregiver

Cover of Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin    Swan

14. Walk the Vanished Earth

By: Erin Swan

3.78

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the tradition of Station Eleven, Severance and The Dog Stars, a beautifully written and emotiona… read more

Similar categories in Erin Swan's Walk the Vanished Earth book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • adult
  • fiction
Cover of Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas

15. Idlewild

By: James Frankie Thomas

4.14

Format: 389 pages, Hardcover

James Frankie Thomas’s Idlewild is a darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense… read more

Similar categories in James Frankie Thomas's Idlewild book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"What we mean to say, but what Ms Spider is not equipped to understand, is that Iago is gay in the way that all the best fictional murderers are gay. Norman Bates, Tom Ripely, The titular Third Man, a…"

-James Frankie Thomas, Idlewild

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16. The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

By: Cherise Wolas

3.84

Format: 521 pages, Kindle Edition

I viewed the consumptive nature of love as a threat to serious women. But the wonderful man I just … read more

Similar categories in Cherise Wolas's The Resurrection of Joan Ashby book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Last words of wisdom. Whoever you were as a child, she's your future."

-Cherise Wolas, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

"In the park, the bright colors of the children's clothing, the timbre of their young voices, lowered and darkened."

-Cherise Wolas, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

"Critical to my understanding of myself was that my parents may have been storytellers, but I was the writer in my family, the only one who wrote his stories down."

-Cherise Wolas, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

"In the stories Joan wrote when she was Daniel’s age, she had murdered her characters, while Daniel had his one character facing down dangers and searching for answers. The genesis of the stories was …"

-Cherise Wolas, The Resurrection of Joan Ashby

Cover of Half of What You Hear by Kristyn Kusek Lewis

17. Half of What You Hear

By: Kristyn Kusek Lewis

3.36

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From well-loved women’s fiction writer Kristyn Kusek Lewis comes a breakout novel about a woman mov… read more

Similar categories in Kristyn Kusek Lewis's Half of What You Hear book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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18. The Professor

By: Lauren Nossett

3.47

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Tana French, The Professor investigates the darkest corners of academic ambition, lies… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Nossett's The Professor book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Because truth, like anything buried in the bottom of a box, is rarely the balm people think it will be."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"It’s not true what they say—the truth will set you free. The truth only means you see the walls of your cage."

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

"There’s a whisper of something at the back of my neck, and I bristle, knowing that for weeks I’ve been leaving my armor at the door, slipping around the warm floors in nothing sturdier than gossamer,…"

-Lauren Nossett, The Professor

Cover of The Long Way Back by Nicole Baart

19. The Long Way Back

By: Nicole Baart

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When an Instagram-famous teenager mysteriously disappears, her mother grapples with the revelation … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Baart's The Long Way Back book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
Cover of The Mother's Fault by Nicole Trope

20. The Mother's Fault

By: Nicole Trope

3.97

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

She’ll do anything to save her son. But what if telling the truth means losing him for ever? On … read more

Similar categories in Nicole Trope's The Mother's Fault book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • contemporary
Cover of The Late Bloomers' Club by Louise  Miller

21. The Late Bloomers' Club

By: Louise Miller

3.78

Format: 325 pages, Hardcover

A delightful novel about two headstrong sisters, a small town’s efforts to do right by the communit… read more

Similar categories in Louise Miller's The Late Bloomers' Club book and Samuel Park's The Caregiver

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"You're on your own, kid."

-Louise Miller, The Late Bloomers' Club

"Everything has a way of cycling back."

-Louise Miller, The Late Bloomers' Club

"The best things are worth waiting for."

-Louise Miller, The Late Bloomers' Club

"Some of the best things in life take time to ripen."

-Louise Miller, The Late Bloomers' Club

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Margot Livesey

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Sue Watson

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Shalini Boland

4.06

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