15 Top contemporary books like The Neapolitan Sisters by Margo Candela

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The Neapolitan Sisters

By: Margo Candela

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Three sisters. Three vastly different lives. A maelstrom of family secrets. For fans of María Ampar…

If you liked the contemporary plot in The Neapolitan Sisters by Margo Candela , here is a list of 15 books like this:

1. My Latest Grievance

By: Elinor Lipman

4.04

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

My Latest Grievance stars the beguiling teenager Frederica Hatch, the "Eloise of Dewing College." B… read more

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2. Big Chicas Don't Cry

By: Annette Chavez Macias

4.22

Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition

Four cousins navigate love, loss, and the meaning of family over the course of one memorable year i… read more

Similar categories in Annette Chavez Macias's Big Chicas Don't Cry book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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3. The Enchanted Hacienda

By: J.C. Cervantes

3.65

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

When Harlow Estrada is abruptly fired from her dream job and her boyfriend proves to be a jerk, her… read more

Similar categories in J.C. Cervantes's The Enchanted Hacienda book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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4. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

By: Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more

Similar categories in Melania Luisa Marte's Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

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5. Too Soon for Adiós

By: Annette Chavez Macias

4.26

Format: 297 pages, Kindle Edition

From author Annette Chavez Macias comes a heartfelt novel about a woman who embarks on an emotional… read more

Similar categories in Annette Chavez Macias's Too Soon for Adiós book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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6. Family Lore

By: Elizabeth Acevedo

3.53

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling, National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for ad… read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Acevedo's Family Lore book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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7. You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

By: Julissa Arce

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Nationally bestselling author Julissa Arce beautifully interweaves her own experiences with cultura… read more

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  • audiobook
"White supremacy is persistent, but so are we."

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"We cannot make ourselves or allow others to make us small so we can fit in the minds and hearts of white people. America might never love us back, so we must love ourselves."

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"I learned the language, at the expense of my Spanish, only to find that in English I didn't exist. I read the American history textbooks in school that erased any trace of the deep Mexican roots in t…"

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

"We learn that the United States is the pinnacle of democracy in the world, but how can freedom be made perfect when it was built upon the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of Black peopl…"

-Julissa Arce, You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation

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8. Crying in the Bathroom

By: Erika L. Sánchez

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, an utterly or… read more

Similar categories in Erika L. Sánchez's Crying in the Bathroom book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • audiobook
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9. The God of Good Looks

By: Breanne Mc Ivor

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This entertaining, transportive, and luminous debut novel follows a young Trinidadian woman finding… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo by Sandra Cisneros

10. Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo

By: Sandra Cisneros

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A long-forgotten letter sets off a charged encounter with the past in this poignant and gorgeously … read more

Similar categories in Sandra Cisneros's Martita, I Remember You/Martita, te recuerdo book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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11. Signal to Noise

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

A beautiful new edition of Moreno-Garcia's stunning debut, featuring an illustrated cover by legend… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Signal to Noise book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • fiction
  • contemporary
"In Mexico City everything returns. The rains and the past and everything in between."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise

"You don’t get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did."

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise

"When you looked at Meche the first impression was that she was going to punch you in the face; she was made of such strong angles. However, if you looked long enough there was a delicate softness ben…"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise

"He sat back, his head against the door of the building. Meche, in turn, rested her head against his shoulder. For others, it might have been an intimate gesture. Maybe it was, but not in the way most…"

-Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Signal to Noise

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12. Vanessa Jared's Got a Man

By: LaQuette

3.66

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

LaQuette's debut sexy romantic comedy Vanessa Jared's Got a Man tells the story of a woman getting … read more

Similar categories in LaQuette's Vanessa Jared's Got a Man book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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13. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

By: Claire Jiménez

3.53

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A deeply powerful, raw debut novel of a Puerto Rican family in Staten Island who discovers their lo… read more

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  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Irene was my mom's 60 year old church friend who blew her hair out like Whitney Houston from the Bodyguard days and still rocked her rum raisin lipstick like it was 1992."

-Claire Jiménez, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez

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14. When We Make It

By: Elisabet Velasquez

4.38

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An unforgettable, torrential, and hopeful debut young adult novel-in-verse that redefines what it … read more

Similar categories in Elisabet Velasquez's When We Make It book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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15. A Ballad of Love and Glory

By: Reyna Grande

3.81

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters’s Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Fiction A Long Petal o… read more

Similar categories in Reyna Grande's A Ballad of Love and Glory book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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16. For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color

By: Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez

4.48

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The founder of Latina Rebels’ “electrifying debut” ( LA Times ) arms women of color with the tools … read more

Similar categories in Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez's For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • audiobook
"The white people I met were well-meaning, well-read liberal folks who happened to know all the ins and outs of racism and colonialism, but somehow positioned these problems outside of themselves rath…"

-Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez, For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color

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17. West Side Love Story (Queens of Mariachi #1)

By: Priscilla Oliveras

3.76

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

A heart-stirring romance of star-crossed love, feuding familias, and the bonds of sisterhood by USA… read more

Similar categories in Priscilla Oliveras's West Side Love Story (Queens of Mariachi #1) book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. The Sons of El Rey

By: Alex Espinoza

3.90

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

From the American Book Award­–winning author comes a multi-generational epic spanning 1960s Mexico … read more

Similar categories in Alex Espinoza's The Sons of El Rey book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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19. Malas

By: Marcela Fuentes

3.96

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

A story full of passion and revenge, following one family living on the Texas Mexico border and a c… read more

Similar categories in Marcela Fuentes's Malas book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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20. That Dangerous Energy

By: Aya de León

3.49

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Marrying a billionaire will fulfill this struggling artist's dreams—and enable her to make a differ… read more

Similar categories in Aya de León's That Dangerous Energy book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook
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21. The Neapolitan Sisters

By: Margo Candela

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

Three sisters. Three vastly different lives. A maelstrom of family secrets. For fans of María Ampar… read more

Similar categories in Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters book and Margo Candela's The Neapolitan Sisters

  • contemporary
  • fiction
  • audiobook

16 Best fiction books like The Neapolitan Sisters by Margo Candela

Transform Your Habits

Big Chicas Don't Cry

Annette Chavez Macias

4.22

Transform Your Habits

The Enchanted Hacienda

J.C. Cervantes

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Too Soon for Adiós

Annette Chavez Macias

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Family Lore

Elizabeth Acevedo

3.53

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17 Best fiction books like Signal to Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Transform Your Habits

Vampires of El Norte

Isabel Cañas

3.90

Transform Your Habits

Signal to Noise

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The Night Guest

Hildur Knútsdóttir

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Devils Kill Devils

Johnny Compton

3.46

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