16 must-read biography books like And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir by Margaret Kimball

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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 …

"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 of blind propulsion that aims at survival but doesn't quite get it right. We are so preoccupied with disaster that we step right into it."

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

If you liked the biography plot in And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir by Margaret Kimball , here is a list of 16 books like this:

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1. Louis Undercover

By: Fanny Britt , Isabelle Arsenault

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

Louis's dad cries -- Louis knows this because he spies on him. His dad misses the happy times when … read more

Similar categories in Fanny Britt's Louis Undercover book and Margaret Kimball's And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • family

2. Take It as a Compliment

By: Maria Stoian

3.51

Format: None pages, ebook

"I was fifteen." "I never saw him again." "They chanted after me, 'Oscar the Grouch, Oscar the Grou… read more

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3. Imagine Wanting Only This

By: Kristen Radtke

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief When Kristen Radtke was in colleg… read more

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4. The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

By: N.D. Stevenson

4.02

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From N.D. Stevenson, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Nimona, comes a captivati… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Ï'm learning to put away the diamond exterior and let people get close again. To be good up close instead of from a distance. I'm letting myself be happy."

-N.D. Stevenson, The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

Cover of Keeping Two by Jordan Crane

5. Keeping Two

By: Jordan Crane

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of In Limbo by Deb J.J. Lee

6. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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7. Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

By: Erin Williams

3.73

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, clever, and ultimately gut-wrenching graphic memoir about the daily decision women mus… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Perspective can be hard to come by, when you spend most of your time licking your own wounds."

-Erin Williams, Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

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

8. 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

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • 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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9. Everything Is OK

By: Debbie Tung

4.31

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Quiet Girl in a Noisy World comes a gently humorous and poignant col… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel by Chiara Lagani

10. My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel

By: Chiara Lagani

3.35

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Elena Ferrante’s New York Times bestselling masterpiece, My Brilliant Friend , book one of her Neap… read more

Similar categories in Chiara Lagani's My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel book and Margaret Kimball's And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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11. 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

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

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
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1) by Lewis Hancox

13. Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1)

By: Lewis Hancox

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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14. Archival Quality

By: Ivy Noelle Weir

3.45

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Everything you need to know is in the archives. The Logan Museum is a mysterious old building pr… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • mental health
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15. Stone Fruit

By: Lee Lai

4.06

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir by Margaret Kimball

16. 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

Similar categories in Margaret Kimball's And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir book and Margaret Kimball's And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
"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

Cover of Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

17. 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

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

-Rhea Ewing, Fine: A Comic About Gender

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18. Welcome to the New World

By: Jake Halpern

4.07

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Now in a full-length book, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic story of a refugee fam… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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19. Rx

By: Rachel Lindsay

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity.   I… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"In a lot of ways, sanity is a performance."

-Rachel Lindsay, Rx

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20. Our Little Secret

By: Emily Carrington

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize At 15, Emily is a relatively typical teenage girl… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir by Maurice Vellekoop

21. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir

By: Maurice Vellekoop

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Vellekoop's I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir book and Margaret Kimball's And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib

22. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of American Cult by Robyn Chapman

23. American Cult

By: Robyn Chapman

3.97

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

A graphic history of religious cults in American from the colonial era to today From its earlies… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words  Pictures by Jason Adam Katzenstein

24. Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

By: Jason Adam Katzenstein

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker cartoonist illustrates his lifelong struggle with OCD in cartoon vignettes frank and f… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of The Roles We Play by Sabba Khan

25. The Roles We Play

By: Sabba Khan

4.35

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

'Where is home, Mum?' From the foothills of the Himalayas in the Kashmiri valleys to bustling Green… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"How convenient for those in power to have a labour force accustomed to disempowerment and willing to settle for less."

-Sabba Khan, The Roles We Play

"We must remember... ... race is a construct... ... class is a construct... ... gender is a construct. Beneath it all we are quivering flesh. Glistening in the sun. Goose-pimpled in the moon."

-Sabba Khan, The Roles We Play

Cover of Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession by Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

26. Murder Book: A Graphic Memoir of a True Crime Obsession

By: Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

3.67

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A humorous graphic investigation of the author's obsession with true crime, the murders that have m… read more

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

27. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of All The Answers by Michael Kupperman

28. All The Answers

By: Michael Kupperman

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this profoundly moving graphic novel memoir, Eisner Award-winning writer and artist Michael Kupp… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Cannonball by Kelsey Wroten

29. Cannonball

By: Kelsey Wroten

3.31

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Kelsey Wroten’s Cannonball fires the reader straight into the messy life of Caroline Bertram: aspir… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Dear Sophie, Love Sophie: A Graphic Memoir in Diaries, Letters, and Lists by Sophie Lucido Johnson

30. Dear Sophie, Love Sophie: A Graphic Memoir in Diaries, Letters, and Lists

By: Sophie Lucido Johnson

4.18

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What would you say to your teenage self if you could? Inspired by the journals she kept growing u… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Qualification: A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps by David Heatley

31. Qualification: A Graphic Memoir in Twelve Steps

By: David Heatley

3.23

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

"Say what you mean, but don't say it mean." --12-Step aphorism From the author of My Brain Is Ha… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult

21 must-read adult books like And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir by Margaret Kimball

Transform Your Habits

The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

N.D. Stevenson

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Keeping Two

Jordan Crane

3.61

Transform Your Habits

Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

Erin Williams

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Kristen Radtke

4.01

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16 Best adult books like Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

Transform Your Habits

In.

Will McPhail

4.38

Transform Your Habits

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

Zoe Thorogood

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Shubeik Lubeik

Deena Mohamed

4.50

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The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

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