14 Best adult books like I'd Give Anything by Marisa de los Santos

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I'd Give Anything

By: Marisa de los Santos

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and …

"What if grief isn't only missing people and being sad? That's how we usually think about it. But what if it's just -- reckoning with their being gone and with knowing they're never coming back?"

-Marisa de los Santos, I'd Give Anything

If you liked the adult plot in I'd Give Anything by Marisa de los Santos , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. Alice & Oliver

By: Charles Bock

3.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A heart-breaking, page-turning, life-affirming novel about love, marriage, family, and fighting for… read more

Similar categories in Charles Bock's Alice & Oliver book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook

2. We Own the Sky

By: Luke Allnutt

2.77

Format: 130 pages, Hardcover

"With literary chops and dramatic intensity, this heartbreaking story of a father's love that defie… read more

Similar categories in Luke Allnutt's We Own the Sky book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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3. 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 Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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4. Earth's the Right Place for Love

By: Elizabeth Berg

4.11

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

This beautiful new novel by the beloved author of Open House and Talk Before Sleep tells the story … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Berg's Earth's the Right Place for Love book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Your girlfriend won't stay pretty for long. I myself was a hot tomato, but look at me now. 'Pretty' goes away, but what can come in its place is 'beautiful.' And that's better. Do you know what I mea…"

-Elizabeth Berg, Earth's the Right Place for Love

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5. Pelican Point (Hope Harbor, #4)

By: Irene Hannon

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

A crumbling lighthouse is not part of the inheritance Army doctor Ben Garrison expects to claim whe… read more

Similar categories in Irene Hannon's Pelican Point (Hope Harbor, #4) book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Go with the flow--because you can't fight a tide God sets in motion."

-Irene Hannon, Pelican Point (Hope Harbor, #4)

"Skip had loved that lighthouse—and all it symbolized. Light in the darkness. Guidance through turbulent waters. Salvation for the floundering. Hope for lost souls."

-Irene Hannon, Pelican Point (Hope Harbor, #4)

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6. 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 Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • 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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7. No Two Persons

By: Erica Bauermeister

4.09

Format: 314 pages, Hardcover

One book. Nine readers. Ten changed lives. New York Times bestselling author Erica Bauermeister’s N… read more

Similar categories in Erica Bauermeister's No Two Persons book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"All that matters is that we try. pg. 79"

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Guilt is easier to drown in than any sorrow. pg. 245"

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Always start with words. Words last. Tell me a secret from your day."

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

"Did you know that otters sleep holding hands? All night long, so they don't lose each other."

-Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

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8. The Rom-Commers

By: Katherine Center

4.15

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

She’s rewriting his love story. But can she rewrite her own? Emma Wheeler desperately longs to … read more

Similar categories in Katherine Center's The Rom-Commers book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • audiobook
"We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"If my life were a screenplay, I'd end the story right there and roll credits - and then maybe rewind and watch it again."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"But, it was okay. We don't get to know the whole story all at once. And where we're headed matters so much less than how we get there."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

"Humanity at its worst is an easy story to tell - but it's not the only story. Because the more we can imagine our better selves, the more we can become them."

-Katherine Center, The Rom-Commers

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9. 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 Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • chick lit
  • 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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10. How to Read a Book

By: Monica Wood

4.29

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A charming, deeply moving novel about second chances, unlikely friendships, and the life-changing p… read more

Similar categories in Monica Wood's How to Read a Book book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"Perhaps it's an oddity of human nature to judge women more harshly, or maybe we expect so little of men their transgressions don't register the same."

-Monica Wood, How to Read a Book

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11. 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 Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • 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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12. I'd Give Anything

By: Marisa de los Santos

3.77

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me comes a profound and … read more

Similar categories in Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • chick lit
  • family
  • adult
  • mystery
  • audiobook
"What if grief isn't only missing people and being sad? That's how we usually think about it. But what if it's just -- reckoning with their being gone and with knowing they're never coming back?"

-Marisa de los Santos, I'd Give Anything

Cover of The Moon in the Mango Tree by Pamela Binnings Ewen

13. The Moon in the Mango Tree

By: Pamela Binnings Ewen

3.74

Format: 490 pages, Paperback

Can she have it all--or does she have to choose? And when you choose between two things you love, m… read more

Similar categories in Pamela Binnings Ewen's The Moon in the Mango Tree book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • romance
  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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14. The Gardins of Edin

By: Rosey Lee

3.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When the bonds in their family begin to fray, four Black women fight to preserve their legacy, heal… read more

Similar categories in Rosey Lee's The Gardins of Edin book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • family
  • contemporary
"I pray for Your guidance, and I ask that the small morsel of courage I feel right now grows and remains greater than any fear that may arise."

-Rosey Lee, The Gardins of Edin

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15. Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters

By: Anita Kushwaha

3.98

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

For readers of Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s "Secret Daughter" and Nancy Richler’s "The Imposter Bride", a … read more

Similar categories in Anita Kushwaha's Secret Lives of Mothers & Daughters book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
Cover of The Wicked Hour (Natalie Lockhart, #2) by Alice Blanchard

16. The Wicked Hour (Natalie Lockhart, #2)

By: Alice Blanchard

3.73

Format: 290 pages, Hardcover

The day after Burning Lake’s notorious, debauched Halloween celebration, Detective Natalie Lockhart… read more

Similar categories in Alice Blanchard's The Wicked Hour (Natalie Lockhart, #2) book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • adult fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • mystery
  • audiobook
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17. My Kind of People

By: Lisa Duffy

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the author of The Salt House and This Is Home comes a profound novel about the power of commun… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Duffy's My Kind of People book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • adult fiction
  • family
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
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18. The Fortunate Ones

By: Ed Tarkington

3.83

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The perfect read for fans of The White Lotus or Succession “As a novelist, Tarkington is the real … read more

Similar categories in Ed Tarkington's The Fortunate Ones book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • audiobook
  • adult
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"We were perched on the precipice of manhood, drunk on our own importance, our futures promising, the present full of opportunity for seemingly endless firsts and lasts--first drink, first kiss, first…"

-Ed Tarkington, The Fortunate Ones

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19. The Summer Club

By: Hannah McKinnon

3.42

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Hannah McKinnon, the acclaimed author of the “charming and warm-hearted” ( PopSugar) The Summer Hou… read more

Similar categories in Hannah McKinnon's The Summer Club book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • adult fiction
  • womens fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Tear

By: Erica McKeen

3.90

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A reclamation of female rage and a horrifyingly deformed Bildungsroman. Frances is quiet and rec… read more

Similar categories in Erica McKeen's Tear book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

  • adult fiction
  • adult
  • fiction
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21. Forever Twenty-One-Maddison's Story

By: Jennifer Ann Holleman

4.47

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A Mother's account of the days, months and years leading up to, during and after the trafficking an… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Ann Holleman's Forever Twenty-One-Maddison's Story book and Marisa de los Santos's I'd Give Anything

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