7 Best contemporary books like Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection by Yao Xiao

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Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

By: Yao Xiao

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid perfectly captures the feelings of a young sojourner in…

If you liked the contemporary plot in Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection by Yao Xiao , here is a list of 7 books like this:

1. The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

By: Jane Hirshfield , Izumi Shikibu , Mariko Aratani , Ono no Komachi

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

These translated poems were written by two ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and… read more

Similar categories in Jane Hirshfield's The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

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2. The Magic Fish

By: Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more

Similar categories in Trung Le Nguyen's The Magic Fish book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • contemporary
  • queer
"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

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3. 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 Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
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4. 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

Similar categories in Erin Williams's Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • 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 Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel by Gabby Rivera

5. Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel

By: Gabby Rivera

4.07

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL ADAPTATION OF THE BESTSELLING BOOK! Juliet Milagros Palante is leaving the Bron… read more

Similar categories in Gabby Rivera's Juliet Takes a Breath: The Graphic Novel book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu

6. Carmilla: The First Vampire

By: Amy Chu

3.40

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Before Dracula, before Nosferatu, there was...CARMILLA. At the height of the Lunar New Year in 1… read more

Similar categories in Amy Chu's Carmilla: The First Vampire book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • queer
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7. Us

By: Sara Soler

4.37

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

¿Qué pasa cuando la vida que tenías asumida da un giro de 180 grados? Nada... Y también todo. Us es… read more

Similar categories in Sara Soler's Us book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist, Vol. 1 by Poppy Pesuyama

8. Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist, Vol. 1

By: Poppy Pesuyama

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Nonbinary manga artist Poppy Pesuyama is excited when forms offer the option to choose “neither” fo… read more

Similar categories in Poppy Pesuyama's Until I Love Myself: The Journey of a Nonbinary Manga Artist, Vol. 1 book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection by Yao Xiao

9. Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

By: Yao Xiao

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid perfectly captures the feelings of a young sojourner in… read more

Similar categories in Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of Brooms by Jasmine Walls

10. 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 Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis

11. Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

By: Grace Ellis

4.12

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing … read more

Similar categories in Grace Ellis's Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

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

12. 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 Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression by Teresa Wong

13. Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression

By: Teresa Wong

4.32

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

In this intimate and moving graphic memoir, Teresa Wong writes and illustrates the story of her str… read more

Similar categories in Teresa Wong's Dear Scarlet: The Story of My Postpartum Depression book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Girotondo by Sergio Rossi

14. Girotondo

By: Sergio Rossi

3.37

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Un girotondo di amori, amicizia, innamoramenti, cotte, tradimenti nella Bologna contemporanea. La v… read more

Similar categories in Sergio Rossi's Girotondo book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • contemporary
  • queer
Cover of That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story by Huda Fahmy

15. That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story

By: Huda Fahmy

4.21

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Chaperones, suitors, and arranged marriages aren't only reserved for the heroines of a Jane Austen … read more

Similar categories in Huda Fahmy's That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
"Her cat hotel did very well. LOL"

-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story

"Her daughter got married in pants. Lol"

-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story

"I find you. . . r citizenship very attractive. Lol"

-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story

"Yeah, I've been there. It had a funky smell and reminded me of a graveyard."

-Huda Fahmy, That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story

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16. Kimiko Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir

By: Kimiko Tobimatsu

4.04

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history of… read more

Similar categories in Kimiko Tobimatsu's Kimiko Does Cancer: A Graphic Memoir book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
Cover of But You Have Friends by Emilia McKenzie

17. But You Have Friends

By: Emilia McKenzie

3.92

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

When a dear friend dies by suicide, Emilia is left with only memories. Full of humor and poignancy,… read more

Similar categories in Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of After the Rain: A Graphic Novel by Nnedi Okorafor

18. After the Rain: A Graphic Novel

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.65

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Nnedi Okorafor’s story of Chioma, a young Nigerian-American woman whose destiny is revealed during … read more

Similar categories in Nnedi Okorafor's After the Rain: A Graphic Novel book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Sensory: Life on the Spectrum by Bex Ollerton

19. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

By: Bex Ollerton

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more

Similar categories in Bex Ollerton's Sensory: Life on the Spectrum book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of The Paradox of Getting Better by Raven Lyn Clemens

20. The Paradox of Getting Better

By: Raven Lyn Clemens

3.58

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In three vignettes, a young adult deals with different stages of their life, trauma, and mental ill… read more

Similar categories in Raven Lyn Clemens's The Paradox of Getting Better book and Yao Xiao's Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of Lettera a una ragazza del futuro by Concita De Gregorio

21. Lettera a una ragazza del futuro

By: Concita De Gregorio

3.97

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Concita sa che i consigli, di solito, restano inascoltati e che si impara solo dall'esperienza, cos… read more

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14 best-selling adult books like Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection by Yao Xiao

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Commute: An Illustrated Memoir of Female Shame

Erin Williams

3.73

Transform Your Habits

Carmilla: The First Vampire

Amy Chu

3.40

Transform Your Habits

Us

Sara Soler

4.37

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10 must-read contemporary books like Girotondo by Sergio Rossi

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Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy

Faith Erin Hicks

3.96

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If You'll Have Me

Eunnie

4.44

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Just Say Yes

Goldy Moldavsky

3.72

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Paper Planes

Jennie Wood

3.66

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