5 Top fiction books like A Decent Woman by Eleanor Parker Sapia

Cover of A Decent Woman by Eleanor Parker Sapia

A Decent Woman

By: Eleanor Parker Sapia

4.37

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Ponce, Puerto Rico, at the turn of the century: Ana Belén Opaku, an Afro-Cuban born into slavery, i…

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Cover of The Alice Network by Kate Quinn

1. The Alice Network

By: Kate Quinn

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

1947. In the chaotic aftermath of World War II, American college girl Charlie St. Clair is pregnant… read more

Similar categories in Kate Quinn's The Alice Network book and Eleanor Parker Sapia's A Decent Woman

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson

2. Black Cake

By: Charmaine Wilkerson

4.10

Format: 385 pages, Hardcover

We can’t choose what we inherit. But can we choose who we become? In present-day California, Ele… read more

Similar categories in Charmaine Wilkerson's Black Cake book and Eleanor Parker Sapia's A Decent Woman

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"But trying to undo the worry is like trying to undo his blackness."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"More people’s lives have been shaped by violence than we like to think. And more people’s lives have been shaped by silence than we think."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"Some people think surfing is a relationship with the sea...but surfing is really a relationship between you and yourself. The sea is going to do whatever it wants."

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

"Young people had always wanted to do things their own way, and Bert had been no different. Only nowadays, there seemed to be this compulsion to eat up everything that was available to you and to let …"

-Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake

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3. The Sweetness of Water

By: Nathan Harris

4.15

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, a profound debut about the unlikely … read more

Similar categories in Nathan Harris's The Sweetness of Water book and Eleanor Parker Sapia's A Decent Woman

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"I can carry him, I've carried him my whole life."

-Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

"Don't hide this pain either, I want you to carry what you've done."

-Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

"Clementine looked at Prentiss a final time, not in shame but as if to say, "This is what I will do for you."

-Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

"...it dawned on him [Landry] that there was less to fear than he'd once imagined, which was maybe a truth he'd long wished to believe--that all danger carried the faint trace of comfort, all wrongs t…"

-Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water

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4. City of Girls

By: Elizabeth Gilbert

4.04

Format: 470 pages, Hardcover

In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her l… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Gilbert's City of Girls book and Eleanor Parker Sapia's A Decent Woman

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Let us not become so cautious that we forget to live."

-Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

"Resist change at your own peril, Vivian. When something ends, let it end."

-Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

"Sometimes it's just true that other people have better ideas for your life than you do."

-Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

"When women are gathered together with no men around, they don't have to be anything in particular; they can just be"

-Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

Cover of A Decent Woman by Eleanor Parker Sapia

5. A Decent Woman

By: Eleanor Parker Sapia

4.37

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Ponce, Puerto Rico, at the turn of the century: Ana Belén Opaku, an Afro-Cuban born into slavery, i… read more

Similar categories in Eleanor Parker Sapia's A Decent Woman book and Eleanor Parker Sapia's A Decent Woman

  • fiction
  • historical fiction

5 must-read historical fiction books like A Decent Woman by Eleanor Parker Sapia

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Kristin Hannah

4.64

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Amanda Peters

4.14

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Ariel Lawhon

4.43

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Shelley Read

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