31 Top fiction books like The Shore by Katie Runde

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The Shore

By: Katie Runde

3.51

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A mother and her two daughters spend a summer grappling with heartbreak, young love, and the weight…

If you liked the fiction plot in The Shore by Katie Runde , here is a list of 31 books like this:

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1. The Five-Star Weekend

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.04

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

After tragedy strikes, Hollis Shaw gathers four friends from different stages in her life to spend … read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's The Five-Star Weekend book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"She weighs the decision for a moment, then butters the baguette and pops it in her mouth. It's so delicious that she doesn't care if they have to roll her off the island in a wheelbarrow."

-Elin Hilderbrand, The Five-Star Weekend

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2. 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 Katie Runde's The Shore

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. Summers at the Saint

By: Mary Kay Andrews

4.14

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Welcome to the St. Cecelia, a landmark hotel on the coast of Georgia, where traditions run deep and… read more

Similar categories in Mary Kay Andrews's Summers at the Saint book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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4. 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 Katie Runde's The Shore

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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5. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

By: Alison Espach

3.80

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The summer before Sally Holt starts the eighth grade begins as a gloriously uneventful one. It's fu… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"But I didn't remind you of this, because that was the fun of being sisters. Sometimes, you got to be younger than you were, and I got to be older."

-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

"We laughed a lot, but I don't remember about what. I just remember laughing. And wasn't that the most important thing? Wasn't that all a person wanted to remember?"

-Alison Espach, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

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6. 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 Katie Runde's The Shore

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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7. Swan Song (Nantucket, #4)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.14

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In the grand finale of "queen of the beach read" Elin Hilderbrand's beloved Nantucket novels, there… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's Swan Song (Nantucket, #4) book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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8. It All Comes Down to This

By: Therese Anne Fowler

3.37

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Meet the Geller sisters: Beck, Claire, and Sophie, a trio of strong-minded women whose pragmatic mo… read more

Similar categories in Therese Anne Fowler's It All Comes Down to This book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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9. The Breakaway

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.77

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new no… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's The Breakaway book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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10. The Half Moon

By: Mary Beth Keane

3.40

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes, a masterful novel about a couple in a small town who… read more

Similar categories in Mary Beth Keane's The Half Moon book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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11. What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

By: Elin Hilderbrand

4.03

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Spend your winter on sunlit shores in the New York Times bestselling follow-up to Winter in Paradis… read more

Similar categories in Elin Hilderbrand's What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2) book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Lust is great in the bedroom, but like is better at breakfast, lunch and dinner."

-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

"She is not a baton to be handed back and forth between them, nor a prize to be won. She is her own person."

-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

"Ava adores carols that evoke London streets during a new snowfall, the Yule log, brightly lit windows on a square of stately brick homes."

-Elin Hilderbrand, What Happens in Paradise (Paradise, #2)

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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 Katie Runde's The Shore

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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

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13. Vacationland

By: Meg Mitchell Moore

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Louisa has come to her parents' house in Maine this summer with all three of her kids, a barely wri… read more

Similar categories in Meg Mitchell Moore's Vacationland book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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 Katie Runde's The Shore

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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

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15. Summer Love

By: Nancy Thayer

3.64

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Old secrets come to light when four friends gather on Nantucket for a life-changing reunion in this… read more

Similar categories in Nancy Thayer's Summer Love book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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16. Any Other Family

By: Eleanor Brown

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Brown's Any Other Family book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Whether it was fate that made them family or the dumb luck of the universe, they are here now, and they are going to go forward together."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"It's an amazing thing, she thinks, that we marry a person because we claim to love them so much, and then punish them by making them tolerate all our worst qualities."

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"There is a strange trick to adoptive motherhood, she has found, a necessary blindness to the bifurcation of your child's life. if you spend all your time thinking about the life your child might have…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

"Now Tabitha is forced to truly consider the mechanics of things, to look at events as chance rather than luck, as coincidence rather than fate. Because there are so many families who would love to ad…"

-Eleanor Brown, Any Other Family

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17. A Quiet Life

By: Ethan Joella

4.06

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Little Hope —a Read with Jenna Bonus Pick—comes another “heartwarming, charact… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Joella's A Quiet Life book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Maybe that is love. Maybe loving someone so deeply means accepting the fact that they occupy a specific, clear place in you. You accept that there will be a hole if you lose them- the same way a pain…"

-Ethan Joella, A Quiet Life

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18. The Lifeguards

By: Amanda Eyre Ward

3.38

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The bonds between three picture-perfect--but viciously protective--mothers and their close-knit son… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Eyre Ward's The Lifeguards book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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19. Marrying the Ketchups

By: Jennifer Close

3.61

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the de… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Close's Marrying the Ketchups book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A reminder of how many people there were in the world. A reminder that sometimes the right person shows up just when you need him to."

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Gretchen walked by and saw Kendall and another waitress dipping fries in Armando's garlic aioli and shoveling them into their mouths. This was the number-one hangover food for the staff at Sullivan's…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Mistakes were made all over the place, all around her, all the time, and she couldn't live her whole life with the sole purpose of not messing up. She didn't know if it would be a mistake or not, she…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

"Along with the regular brunch selections of eggs Benedict and Belgian waffles, they planned to serve individual portions of Poof in custard dishes. They also had a whole section for different kinds o…"

-Jennifer Close, Marrying the Ketchups

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20. The Summer Pact

By: Emily Giffin

3.40

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In the wake of tragedy, a group of friends make a pact that will cause them to reunite a decade lat… read more

Similar categories in Emily Giffin's The Summer Pact book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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21. Summer Stage

By: Meg Mitchell Moore

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A spirited summer page-turner following a family of actors grappling with fame, scandal, and ambiti… read more

Similar categories in Meg Mitchell Moore's Summer Stage book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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22. This Time Tomorrow

By: Emma Straub

3.80

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

What if you could take a vacation to your past? With her celebrated humor, insight, and heart, belo… read more

Similar categories in Emma Straub's This Time Tomorrow book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"This time tomorrow, where will we be?"

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"Forward, that was the idea. Until the future, whatever it was going to be."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"It's not about the time. It's about how you spend it. Where you put your energy."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

"Happy endings were too much for some people, false and cheap, but hope - hope was honest. Hope was good."

-Emma Straub, This Time Tomorrow

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23. The Connellys of County Down

By: Tracey Lange

3.83

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When Tara Connelly is released from prison after serving eighteen months on a drug charge, she know… read more

Similar categories in Tracey Lange's The Connellys of County Down book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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24. The Summer Place

By: Jennifer Weiner

3.56

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of That Summer comes another heartfelt and unputdowna… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Weiner's The Summer Place book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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25. 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 Katie Runde's The Shore

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • 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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26. The Shore

By: Katie Runde

3.51

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

A mother and her two daughters spend a summer grappling with heartbreak, young love, and the weight… read more

Similar categories in Katie Runde's The Shore book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • lgbt
  • coming of age
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
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27. Welcome Home, Caroline Kline

By: Courtney Preiss

3.36

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A debut novel sparkling with wit and insight about a young woman whose reluctant return to her Jers… read more

Similar categories in Courtney Preiss's Welcome Home, Caroline Kline book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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28. 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 Katie Runde's The Shore

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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29. The Wedding People

By: Alison Espach

4.25

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people… read more

Similar categories in Alison Espach's The Wedding People book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Phoebe feels powerless to help. She imagines this what mothers often feel."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To be stuck inside her house was to be stuck inside herself and all the choices she made over the years."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"Phoebe was the only person waiting in the dark to condemn herself for every single thing when the day was over."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

"To collect is to care more than most. But it is also to hoard. to Take things out of the world and make them only yours."

-Alison Espach, The Wedding People

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30. The Same Bright Stars

By: Ethan Joella

3.87

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

Three generations of Schmidts have run their family’s beachfront restaurant, and Jack has been at t… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Joella's The Same Bright Stars book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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31. Come to the Window

By: Howard Norman

3.71

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A drama of murder, love, and redemption set in Nova Scotia in the final year of World War I. It’s … read more

Similar categories in Howard Norman's Come to the Window book and Katie Runde's The Shore

  • fiction

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