5 must-read biography memoir books like Penny: A Graphic Memoir by Karl Stevens

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Penny: A Graphic Memoir

By: Karl Stevens

3.86

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

"Penny is a major literary figure--right up there with Madame Bovary." -- David Sedaris This col…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Penny: A Graphic Memoir by Karl Stevens , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. 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 Karl Stevens's Penny: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction

2. Hot Dog Taste Test

By: Lisa Hanawalt

2.96

Format: None pages,

The new book from the James Beard Award-winning cartoonist and designer/producer of Netflix's Bojac… read more

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3. No Cats in the Library

By: Lauren Emmons

4.46

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

A stray cat follows her love of books all the way to a new library home in this charming debut pict… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Emmons's No Cats in the Library book and Karl Stevens's Penny: A Graphic Memoir

  • animals
  • fiction
  • cats
Cover of Monica by Daniel Clowes

4. 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

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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5. 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 Karl Stevens's Penny: A Graphic Memoir

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

6. 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

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • biography memoir
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7. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

Cover of This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

8. 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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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy by Bill Griffith

9. Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy

By: Bill Griffith

4.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Bill Griffith, the acclaimed creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes a history of comics as told t… read more

Similar categories in Bill Griffith's Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy book and Karl Stevens's Penny: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comics
Cover of Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls

10. 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

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
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11. The Chromatic Fantasy

By: H.A .

4.40

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously drawn graphic novel reminiscent of stained glass and illuminated manuscripts, telling … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
"[Jules] No!! No! No! No! I want to be happy!! I want to love and be loved!! I want to feel safe!! I want to be someone who doesn't deserve it!! I want my life and my body and my soul!!"

-H.A ., The Chromatic Fantasy

"[guard] 'Before we torture you, please sign the release.' [legal form] 'I shall not say "ah, my back really needed that!" when being drawn over the rack. (we've all heard it before. you're not origin…"

-H.A ., The Chromatic Fantasy

Cover of Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham

12. Blood of the Virgin

By: Sammy Harkham

3.70

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

“A story about storytelling...Conjures up the grindhouse movie-making scene in 1970s Los Angeles an… read more

Similar categories in Sammy Harkham's Blood of the Virgin book and Karl Stevens's Penny: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Penny: A Graphic Memoir by Karl Stevens

13. Penny: A Graphic Memoir

By: Karl Stevens

3.86

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

"Penny is a major literary figure--right up there with Madame Bovary." -- David Sedaris This col… read more

Similar categories in Karl Stevens's Penny: A Graphic Memoir book and Karl Stevens's Penny: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • animals
  • cats
  • philosophy
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir by Maurice Vellekoop

14. 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 Karl Stevens's Penny: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • biography memoir
  • adult
Cover of Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical by Brian Rea

15. Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical

By: Brian Rea

4.08

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

Even Death cares about his work-life balance...Death never takes a day off. Until he gets a letter … read more

Similar categories in Brian Rea's Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical book and Karl Stevens's Penny: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
"As I get older and I crest the top of that imaginary slope of life, I am more aware of how finite life is—that there are fewer days left than those I’ve already explored."

-Brian Rea, Death Wins a Goldfish: Reflections from a Grim Reaper's Yearlong Sabbatical

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16. Tender

By: Beth Hetland

3.91

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

A psychological thriller about a woman obsessed with her vision for a picture-perfect, curated life… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories by Megan Kelso

17. Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories

By: Megan Kelso

3.44

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

A suite of five brilliant comics stories united by themes of motherhood, family, and love. The Guar… read more

Similar categories in Megan Kelso's Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories book and Karl Stevens's Penny: A Graphic Memoir

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of The Racc Pack by Stephanie  Cooke

18. The Racc Pack

By: Stephanie Cooke

4.05

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

Live life in the trash lane with this first entry in a hilarious middle grade graphic novel series … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • animals
Cover of Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair by Lucy Knisley

19. Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair

By: Lucy Knisley

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Library Binding

WOE! SCREAM! MEOW! ...PURR? Join the hilarious and of course dramatic world of Linney the House Cat… read more

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

20. 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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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of My Begging Chart by Keiler Roberts

21. My Begging Chart

By: Keiler Roberts

3.78

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Keiler Roberts mines the passing moments of family life to deliver an affecting and funny account o… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comics

11 Best fiction books like Penny: A Graphic Memoir by Karl Stevens

Juliette - Les fantômes reviennent au printemps

Camille Jourdy

3.57

Transform Your Habits

No Cats in the Library

Lauren Emmons

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Monica

Daniel Clowes

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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18 Top fiction books like Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham

Transform Your Habits

Monica

Daniel Clowes

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Acting Class

Nick Drnaso

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Where the Body Was

Ed Brubaker

4.14

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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