10 Top biography memoir books like Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Kumar Som

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Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

By: Bishakh Kumar Som

3.52

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

This exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by in…

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Cover of One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry

1. One Hundred Demons

By: Lynda Barry

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this graphic novel that's part memoir and part creativity primer, Lynda Barry serves up comics t… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

2. Calling Dr. Laura

By: Nicole J. Georges

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When Nicole Georges was two years old, her family told her that her father was dead. When she was t… read more

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3. i love this part

By: Tillie Walden

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Two girls in a small town in the USA kill time together as they try to get through their days at s… read more

Similar categories in Tillie Walden's i love this part book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

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4. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

Similar categories in Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

Cover of Witchy, Volume 2 (Witchy, #2) by Ariel Slamet Ries

5. Witchy, Volume 2 (Witchy, #2)

By: Ariel Slamet Ries

4.08

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

The eagerly awaited second collected volume of Ariel Slamet Ries' hit online comic Witchy.In the wi… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Slamet Ries's Witchy, Volume 2 (Witchy, #2) book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
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6. 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 Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • adult
  • queer
  • lgbt
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7. In Limbo

By: Deb J.J. Lee

4.18

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl's coming-of-age story—and a coming home stor… read more

Similar categories in Deb J.J. Lee's In Limbo book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Mimosa: A Graphic Novel by Archie Bongiovanni

8. Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

By: Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/T… read more

Similar categories in Archie Bongiovanni's Mimosa: A Graphic Novel book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • queer
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9. The Infinity Particle

By: Wendy Xu

4.03

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In this gorgeous graphic novel by Wendy Xu, co-creator of the award-winning Mooncakes, a young inve… read more

Similar categories in Wendy Xu's The Infinity Particle book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
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10. A Gift for a Ghost

By: Borja González

3.27

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An untalented punk band and a parallel dimension—what could go wrong?   In Borja González’s stunni… read more

Similar categories in Borja González's A Gift for a Ghost book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
"And the path is shorter if you know the destination."

-Borja González, A Gift for a Ghost

"If you were an artist, wouldn't you want to have your studio in the Louvre?"

-Borja González, A Gift for a Ghost

Cover of Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione

11. Basil and Oregano

By: Melissa Capriglione

3.86

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Mix two parts The Great British Bake Off with one-part magical boarding school plus a generous dash… read more

Similar categories in Melissa Capriglione's Basil and Oregano book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
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12. 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

Similar categories in Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"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

"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

"...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

Cover of M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel by Talia Dutton

13. M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel

By: Talia Dutton

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frank… read more

Similar categories in Talia Dutton's M Is for Monster: A Graphic Novel book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao

14. Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American

By: Laura Gao

4.24

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

After spending her early years in Wuhan, China, riding water buffalos and devouring stinky tofu, La… read more

Similar categories in Laura Gao's Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees (Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, #1) by Patrick Horvath

15. Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees (Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, #1)

By: Patrick Horvath

4.40

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees #1 (2023) Riley Rossmo Variant / Patrick Horvath Pencils & Stor… read more

Similar categories in Patrick Horvath's Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees (Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees, #1) book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Ephemera by Briana Loewinsohn

16. Ephemera

By: Briana Loewinsohn

4.00

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

A debut graphic novel that poignantly blends memoir, magic realism, and graphic medicine. Ephem… read more

Similar categories in Briana Loewinsohn's Ephemera book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Marry Me a Little: A Graphic Memoir by Robert Kirby

17. Marry Me a Little: A Graphic Memoir

By: Robert Kirby

3.75

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Marriage doesn’t define a relationship. Unless you want it to. In Marry Me a Little, Rob Kirby r… read more

Similar categories in Robert Kirby's Marry Me a Little: A Graphic Memoir book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

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

18. 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 Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Kumar Som

19. Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

By: Bishakh Kumar Som

3.52

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

This exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by in… read more

Similar categories in Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Across a Field of Starlight by Blue Delliquanti

20. Across a Field of Starlight

By: Blue Delliquanti

3.72

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An epic sci-fi graphic novel romance between two non-binary characters as they find one another thr… read more

Similar categories in Blue Delliquanti's Across a Field of Starlight book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman

21. Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales

By: Melanie Gillman

4.04

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time . . . happily ever after turned out differently than expected. In this new, femini… read more

Similar categories in Melanie Gillman's Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Brooms by Jasmine Walls

22. Brooms

By: Jasmine Walls

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

YALSA TOP 10 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS BEST OF THE Booklist · Kirkus · Polygon · Chicago Publ… read more

Similar categories in Jasmine Walls's Brooms book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

23. Fine: A Comic About Gender

By: Rhea Ewing

4.28

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Washington Post • 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2022 A vibrant and informative debut with “great doc… read more

Similar categories in Rhea Ewing's Fine: A Comic About Gender book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • memoir
  • transgender
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"Gender affects everybody, so whether you're trans or not, gender is fucking you up. -Jac, 2013"

-Rhea Ewing, Fine: A Comic About Gender

Cover of Walk Me to the Corner by Anneli Furmark

24. Walk Me to the Corner

By: Anneli Furmark

3.92

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

Stability withers where passion blossoms in this cool-toned meditation on mid-life relationships.A … read more

Similar categories in Anneli Furmark's Walk Me to the Corner book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib

25. 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

Similar categories in Malaka Gharib's It Won't Always Be Like This book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir by Liana Finck

26. Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

By: Liana Finck

3.77

Format: 240 pages, None

A visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against what’s expected of her … read more

Similar categories in Liana Finck's Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"A draw-er doesn't draw because she loves to draw. She doesn't draw because she draws well. She draws because once she lost something. And by drawing--she will find it again."

-Liana Finck, Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

"From a distance, every relationship is similar—an old story with a new face. But if you know how to really look at things—you’ll see that every man is the first man—and every place is Eden."

-Liana Finck, Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

"In her heart, the devil said, "No! No!" But from her mouth came the words "Yes, you may." And from then on, everything the devil said was the opposite of what she meant. And everything she did, she d…"

-Liana Finck, Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

Cover of The Deep Dark by Molly Knox Ostertag

27. The Deep Dark

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Deep Dark book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun by Kate Gavino

28. A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun

By: Kate Gavino

3.92

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A Career in Books is a graphic novel for everyone who's wanted to work with books and had no idea w… read more

Similar categories in Kate Gavino's A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • lgbt
Cover of A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings by Will Betke-Brunswick

29. A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings

By: Will Betke-Brunswick

4.00

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

During Will Betke-Brunswick’s sophomore year of college, their beloved mother, Elizabeth, is diagno… read more

Similar categories in Will Betke-Brunswick's A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus

30. Gay the Pray Away

By: Natalie Naudus

4.46

Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition

Valerie Danners is in a cult. She just doesn't know it yet. When she finds a queer book at the libr… read more

Similar categories in Natalie Naudus's Gay the Pray Away book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore

31. Your Black Friend and Other Strangers

By: Ben Passmore

3.94

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Be… read more

Similar categories in Ben Passmore's Your Black Friend and Other Strangers book and Bishakh Kumar Som's Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Basically we all need to be anarchists already, there I said it."

-Ben Passmore, Your Black Friend and Other Strangers

"Most of this collection is about how to be a funny dangerous failure. And we all fail homies, it's okay. We just have to learn how to fail upward."

-Ben Passmore, Your Black Friend and Other Strangers

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Transform Your Habits

One Hundred Demons

Lynda Barry

3.09

Transform Your Habits

Gender Queer

Maia Kobabe

4.28

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Ariel Slamet Ries

4.08

Transform Your Habits

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Deb J.J. Lee

4.18

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4.08

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Sarah Graley

3.68

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