11 Best fiction books like Tangier by Stephen Holgate

Cover of Tangier by Stephen Holgate

Tangier

By: Stephen Holgate

3.96

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

A LETTER FROM THE PAST FORCES A DISGRACED BUREAUCRAT TO CONFRONT HIS FUTURE TANGIER tells two paral…

If you liked the fiction plot in Tangier by Stephen Holgate , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1) by Colm Tóibín

1. Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.72

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

Hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking, Colm Tóibín's sixth novel, Brooklyn, is set in Brooklyn and… read more

Similar categories in Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1) book and Stephen Holgate's Tangier

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Some people are nice and if you talk to them properly, they can be even nicer."

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

"And she wondered then if she herself were the problem reading malice into motives when there was none intended"

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

"It struck her that he might have told no one, not even his brothers, how he felt, and she thought how lonely that might have been for him."

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

"She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make her think for a while that is must be the prospect of home."

-Colm Tóibín, Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)

Cover of Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel, Carol Christensen, Thomas  Christensen

2. Like Water for Chocolate

By: Laura Esquivel , Carol Christensen , Thomas Christensen

3.95

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico becam… read more

Similar categories in Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate book and Stephen Holgate's Tangier

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Porque no quiero."

-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

"Dicen que el sordo no oye, pero compone"

-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

"ما إن عانقها حتى اختلج جسدها كما الهلام"

-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

"Solo las ollas saben los hervores de su caldo."

-Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate

Cover of My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout

3. My Name Is Lucy Barton

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

The profound mother-daughter bond is explored through a mother's hospital visit to her estranged da… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's My Name Is Lucy Barton book and Stephen Holgate's Tangier

  • fiction
Cover of Paris by Edward Rutherfurd

4. Paris

By: Edward Rutherfurd

3.63

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps th… read more

Similar categories in Edward Rutherfurd's Paris book and Stephen Holgate's Tangier

  • fiction
  • historical fiction

5. Truth and Beauty

By: Ann Patchett

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ann Patchett and the late Lucy Grealy met in college in 1981, and, after enrolling in the Iowa Writ… read more

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6. Commonwealth

By: Ann Patchett

4.64

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed, bestselling author - winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Orange Prize - tells t… read more

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7. The Personal Librarian

By: Marie Benedict

4.06

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780593101537.The remarkable, little-known story of … read more

Similar categories in Marie Benedict's The Personal Librarian book and Stephen Holgate's Tangier

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"They have no idea the fierceness that lurks within your petite frame."

-Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

"I am searching for one thing—a connection, however fleeting, to anchor me."

-Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

"And being a woman, I know that I must do my job twice as well as any man to be thought half as good."

-Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

"I feel him, too. I suppose he was always larger than life, so we shouldn’t expect death to eradicate him from our existence."

-Marie Benedict, The Personal Librarian

Cover of Sparks Like Stars by Nadia Hashimi

8. Sparks Like Stars

By: Nadia Hashimi

4.29

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanist… read more

Similar categories in Nadia Hashimi's Sparks Like Stars book and Stephen Holgate's Tangier

  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"Grief starts before anyone has gone missing."

-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

"If faith was a life raft, mine was riddled with holes."

-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

"Let people serve you information, but never let them serve you your opinion."

-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

"You need no one to confirm you. You are everything you believe yourself to be."

-Nadia Hashimi, Sparks Like Stars

Cover of The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1) by Elly Griffiths

9. The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

By: Elly Griffiths

3.88

Format: 338 pages, Hardcover

Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic wr… read more

Similar categories in Elly Griffiths's The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1) book and Stephen Holgate's Tangier

  • mystery
  • fiction
"Why are Georgette Heyer's covers so naff? When you think of all the exciting things that happen - abductions, false identities, wild horseback chases - the front of the book nearly always shows a wom…"

-Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries (Harbinder Kaur, #1)

Cover of The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear by Kate  Moore

10. The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

By: Kate Moore

4.30

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and moth… read more

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"Insane asylum - a place where insanity is made."

-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

"In the end, this is a book about power. Who wields it. Who owns it. And the methods they use. And above all, it's about fighting back."

-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

"As Elizabeth put it, “I have neglected no duties, have injured no one, have always tried to do unto others as I would wish to be done by; and yet, here in America, I am imprisoned because I could not…"

-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

"It's a book that is set over 160 year ago. A lot has changed. A lot hasn't. We are only just beginning to appreciate exactly how a person's powerlessness may lead to struggles with their mental healt…"

-Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

Cover of Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Gabriel Allon, #22) by Daniel Silva

11. Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Gabriel Allon, #22)

By: Daniel Silva

4.24

Format: 496 pages, Kindle Edition

In a spellbinding new masterpiece by #1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Silva, Gabriel All… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Silva's Portrait of an Unknown Woman (Gabriel Allon, #22) book and Stephen Holgate's Tangier

  • mystery
  • fiction
Cover of The Sweetness of Water by Nathan  Harris

12. 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 Stephen Holgate's Tangier

  • 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

Cover of The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17) by Louise Penny

13. The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

By: Louise Penny

4.19

Format: 436 pages, Hardcover

You’re a coward. Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Arma… read more

Similar categories in Louise Penny's The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17) book and Stephen Holgate's Tangier

  • mystery
  • fiction
"As a diversion, few things were as effective as chocolate cake."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"Armand knew the terror of that first step. He also knew that the key to a full life was taking it. The trick wasn't necessarily having less fear, it was finding more courage."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"Isabelle [Lacoste] sat quietly for a moment, looking into the naked woods. Only in the winter was it possible to see both the forest and the trees. Homicide, she thought, was a perpetual winter."

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

"[Daniel and Annie] offered to stay on, but both Reine-Marie and Armand had said that it would probably be best if they returned when there wasn't a murderer among them. Which, in Three Pines, might p…"

-Louise Penny, The Madness of Crowds (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #17)

Cover of The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin

14. The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing

By: Lara Love Hardin

4.46

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

No one expects the police to knock on the million-dollar, two-story home of the perfect cul-de-sac … read more

Similar categories in Lara Love Hardin's The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing book and Stephen Holgate's Tangier

Cover of The Princess Spy by Larry Loftis

15. The Princess Spy

By: Larry Loftis

3.72

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When Aline Griffith was born in a quiet suburban New York hamlet, no one had any idea that she woul… read more

Similar categories in Larry Loftis's The Princess Spy book and Stephen Holgate's Tangier

  • world war ii
Cover of Tangier by Stephen Holgate

16. Tangier

By: Stephen Holgate

3.96

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

A LETTER FROM THE PAST FORCES A DISGRACED BUREAUCRAT TO CONFRONT HIS FUTURE TANGIER tells two paral… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Holgate's Tangier book and Stephen Holgate's Tangier

  • morocco
  • africa
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • mystery

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3.63

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4.64

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4.14

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