8 best-selling history books like Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf

Cover of Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf

Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

By: Derf Backderf

4.47

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

From Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the Eisner and ALA/YALSA Alex…

If you liked the history plot in Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Cenizas by Álvaro Ortiz

1. Cenizas

By: Álvaro Ortiz

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Tres amigos que no se ven desde hace años, discutiendo dentro de un coche, con un montón de kilómet… read more

Similar categories in Álvaro Ortiz's Cenizas book and Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Green River Killer by Jonathan Case, Jeff Jensen

2. Green River Killer

By: Jonathan Case , Jeff Jensen

0.00

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

The story of one of America's most notorious killers is revealed in this true-crime comic unlike an… read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Case's Green River Killer book and Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • true crime
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Strange Fruit by J.G. Jones, Mark Waid

3. Strange Fruit

By: J.G. Jones , Mark Waid

3.81

Format: 4 pages, Hardcover

In the small town of Chatterlee, Mississippi, the Great Flood of 1927 was more than just the most c… read more

Similar categories in J.G. Jones's Strange Fruit book and Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Palestine by None, Joe Sacco

4. Palestine

By: None , Joe Sacco

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more

Similar categories in None's Palestine book and Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • politics
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Threads: From the Refugee Crisis by Kate   Evans

5. Threads: From the Refugee Crisis

By: Kate Evans

4.02

Format: 424 pages, Hardcover

In the French port town of Calais, the historic home of the lace industry, a city within a city has… read more

Similar categories in Kate Evans's Threads: From the Refugee Crisis book and Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • history
  • politics
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans by Don  Brown

6. Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

By: Don Brown

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protectiv… read more

Similar categories in Don Brown's Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans book and Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • history
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction

7. Juliette - Les fantômes reviennent au printemps

By: Camille Jourdy

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Apres le succes de la trilogie Rosalie Blum, Camille Jourdy revient avec un nouveau roman graphique… read more

Similar categories in Camille Jourdy's Juliette - Les fantômes reviennent au printemps book and Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of The Talk by Darrin Bell

8. 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

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

9. They Called Us Enemy

By: George Takei

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

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10. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Clowes's Monica book and Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely

11. Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting

By: Kindra Neely

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This searing graphic memoir portrays gun violence through a fresh lens, giving it urgency, humanity… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Roaming by Jillian Tamaki

12. 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 Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • adult
Cover of Kent State by Deborah Wiles

13. Kent State

By: Deborah Wiles

3.96

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

An exploration of one of the darkest moments in our history, when American troops killed four Ameri… read more

Similar categories in Deborah Wiles's Kent State book and Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • historical
  • politics
  • war
"When the State silences freedom of assembly and freedom to dissent, it silences the people it is sworn to protect."

-Deborah Wiles, Kent State

Cover of Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz

14. 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 Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • 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

"...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

Cover of Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Harold Schechter

15. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

By: Harold Schechter

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Kill… read more

Similar categories in Harold Schechter's Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? book and Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • history
  • true crime
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf

16. Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

By: Derf Backderf

4.47

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

From Derf Backderf, the bestselling author of My Friend Dahmer, comes the Eisner and ALA/YALSA Alex… read more

Similar categories in Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio book and Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • history
  • true crime
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • politics
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) by Emil Ferris

17. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

By: Emil Ferris

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

Cover of The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker

18. The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History

By: David F. Walker

4.43

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE EISNER AWARD • A bold and fascinating graphic novel history of the revolutionary Blac… read more

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  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • politics
  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
Cover of Un avion sans elle by Fred Duval

19. Un avion sans elle

By: Fred Duval

4.12

Format: 174 pages, Hardcover

Crédule Grand-Duc veut mourir. L’enquête de sa vie a échoué... Depuis dix-huit ans, il cherche l’id… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk

20. Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison

By: Sarah Mirk

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever   In Janua… read more

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  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • politics
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"We created an entire new legal system for brown men. If these were white men from France or Germany, there is no way Guantanamo would exist. There is no way we would have gotten away with being able …"

-Sarah Mirk, Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison

Cover of Brownstone by Samuel Teer

21. Brownstone

By: Samuel Teer

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An exciting teen coming-of-age epic from author Samuel Teer and debut graphic novel artist Mar Juli… read more

Similar categories in Samuel Teer's Brownstone book and Derf Backderf's Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics

6 Best adult books like Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting

Kindra Neely

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

Julia Wertz

4.35

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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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