12 best-selling biography memoir books like Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

Cover of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

By: Mira Jacob

4.46

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ…

"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

1. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

By: Roz Chast

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York TimesBestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings… read more

Similar categories in Roz Chast's Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

2. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

Similar categories in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

3. The Best We Could Do

By: Thi Bui

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more

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Cover of The Talk by Darrin Bell

4. The Talk

By: Darrin Bell

4.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more

Similar categories in Darrin Bell's The Talk book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Wandering Stars by Tommy Orange

5. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

Similar categories in Tommy Orange's Wandering Stars book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • adult
  • audiobook
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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6. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • audiobook
Cover of Roaming by Jillian Tamaki

7. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's Roaming book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • adult
Cover of Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham

8. 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

Similar categories in Thien Pham's Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang

9. Lunar New Year Love Story

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more

Similar categories in Gene Luen Yang's Lunar New Year Love Story book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

10. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

By: Cathy Park Hong

4.21

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Park Hong's Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

Cover of Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.

11. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

Similar categories in Lamya H.'s Hijab Butch Blues book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

Cover of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

12. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

By: Kristen Radtke

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more

Similar categories in Kristen Radtke's Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

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13. You Could Make This Place Beautiful

By: Maggie Smith

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of… read more

Similar categories in Maggie Smith's You Could Make This Place Beautiful book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"At our wedding, our college creative writing professor read a poem—John Ciardi’s “Most Like an Arch This Marriage."

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

"How I picture it: We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside. We carry the past inside us. We take ourselves–all of our selves–wherever we go. Inside forty-somethin…"

-Maggie Smith, You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Cover of I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib

14. I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir

By: Malaka Gharib

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a t… read more

Similar categories in Malaka Gharib's I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

15. 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

Similar categories in Navied Mahdavian's This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

16. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

By: Mira Jacob

4.46

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ… read more

Similar categories in Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • audiobook
"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

Cover of Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls

17. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

By: Tessa Hulls

4.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Hulls's Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Another Word for Love: A Memoir by Carvell Wallace

18. Another Word for Love: A Memoir

By: Carvell Wallace

4.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A transformative memoir that reimagines the conventions of love and posits a radical vision for hea… read more

Similar categories in Carvell Wallace's Another Word for Love: A Memoir book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • race
  • biography
  • memoir
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Litany for the Long Moment by Mary-Kim Arnold

19. Litany for the Long Moment

By: Mary-Kim Arnold

4.38

Format: None pages, None

Literary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. The orphan at the center of LITANY FOR THE LON… read more

Similar categories in Mary-Kim Arnold's Litany for the Long Moment book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Grave on the Wall by Brandon Shimoda

20. The Grave on the Wall

By: Brandon Shimoda

4.17

Format: 222 pages, Paperback

A memoir and book of mourning, a grandson's attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship wi… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Shimoda's The Grave on the Wall book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
Cover of Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber

21. Dumb: Living Without a Voice

By: Georgia Webber

3.35

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how an urban twentysomething cop… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice book and Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult

11 best-selling adult books like Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

Transform Your Habits

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel

4.08

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Wandering Stars

Tommy Orange

3.89

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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10 Top adult books like The Talk by Darrin Bell

Transform Your Habits

Shubeik Lubeik

Deena Mohamed

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

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