When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
By: Ken Krimstein
4.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Fall "Best R…
Want to Read $ 9.99"I decided to write down everything, to tell everything, because with my friends I can't talk about it at all. And because I believe that something should come out of so much suffering, I've written this."-Ken Krimstein, When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
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1. We Are On Our Own
By: Miriam Katin
3.86
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
A stunning memoir of a mother and her daughter's survival in WWII and their subsequent lifelong str… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
- holocaust
2. A Bintel Brief: Love and Longing in Old New York
By: Liana Finck
3.92
Format: 290 pages, Paperback
In an illustrative style that is a thrilling mash-up of Art Spiegelman's deft emotionality, Roz Cha… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- jewish
3. Timid
By: Jonathan Todd
3.57
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
A semiautobiographical middle-grade graphic novel about frenemies, fitting in, and finding your voi… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
4. Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man
By: Jean-Christophe Deveney
3.67
Format: 153 pages, ebook
Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami's novels, es… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
5. Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
By: Nora Krug
4.32
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
„Kaip žinoti, kas esi, jei nesupranti, iš kur ateini?“ – klausia iliustratorė ir rašytoja Nora Krug… read more
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- history
- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
"Here was the evidence of our collective guilt."-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
"We struggled to understand the meaning of Heimat."-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
"Whenever I traveled abroad as a teenager, my guilt traveled with me."-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
"How do you know who you are, if you don't understand where you come from?"-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
6. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
By: Thien Pham
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
7. I Must Be Dreaming
By: Roz Chast
3.65
Format: 118 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
8. Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
By: Julia Wertz
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronic… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
"Go fuck yourself, melted spatula!"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"Do the stepwork and don't give me any of your excuses. We both know they're bullshit."-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a come…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"It's the fantasy of a life gone wrong. You've been doing the best you can, but it's hard and you're tired. Then something horrible happens and you get to give up and go be sad somewhere. There's some…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
9. We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel
By: Josh Tuininga
4.35
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, this graphic novel follows a Jewish immigrant’s efforts to help his Japan… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- jewish
10. Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator
By: Darryl Cunningham
3.98
Format: 164 pages, Paperback
From schoolyard thug to Russian president: Vladimir Putin’s rise to power comes under the microscop… read more
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- history
- biography
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
11. When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
By: Ken Krimstein
4.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
An NPR Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Book of the Year A Chicago Tribune Fall "Best R… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Ken Krimstein's When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers book and Ken Krimstein's When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
- history
- biography
- memoir
- jewish
- graphic novels
- judaism
- religion
- nonfiction
- comics
- holocaust
"I decided to write down everything, to tell everything, because with my friends I can't talk about it at all. And because I believe that something should come out of so much suffering, I've written t…"-Ken Krimstein, When I Grow Up: The Lost Autobiographies of Six Yiddish Teenagers
12. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
By: Navied Mahdavian
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
13. The High Desert
By: James Spooner
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a 2022 ALA Alex Award Winner of the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Print Comics One of … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
14. And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir
By: Margaret Kimball
3.66
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In 1988, when Kimball is only four years old, her mother attempts suicide on Mother's Day—and this … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
"All together, someone would always be missing and I could feel the pull of that longing in my chest, in the pit of my stomach."-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir
"I settled into the water for some serious reflection. Bathrooms made supreme thinking spaces, a place that defied interruption."-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir
"This is how silence works in families: it means questions go unanswered, timelines are unclear, and the details of a child's life are a mystery that will not be resolved."-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir
"I once watched a video of a deer being rescued from drowning only to find herself surrounded by humans, and then she ran immediately back into the water. It's what panic looks like. An animal feeling…"-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir
15. Two Tribes
By: Emily Bowen Cohen
3.87
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In her poignant debut graphic novel inspired by her own life, Emily Bowen Cohen embraces the comple… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- jewish
16. It Won't Always Be Like This
By: Malaka Gharib
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family,… read more
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- memoir
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
17. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By: Rebecca Hall
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more
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- history
- memoir
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
18. Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
By: Olivia A. Cole
4.30
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse a… read more
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"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)
19. American Murderer
By: Gail Jarrow
4.08
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
What made workers in the American South so tired and feeble during the 19th and early 20th centurie… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
20. Tokyo Rose - Zero Hour (A Graphic Novel): A Japanese American Woman's Persecution and Ultimate Redemption after World War II
By: Andre R. Frattino
3.68
Format: 137 pages, Kindle Edition
**2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Silver Award Winner in Graphic Novels & Comics Category** **Rec… read more
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- history
- biography
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
21. Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator
By: Sofia Warren
4.14
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
You won the election…now what? Activist organizing meets government gridlock as a millennial New Yo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
