8 Top biography books like Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir by Liana Finck

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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 …

"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

"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

"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

If you liked the biography plot in Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir by Liana Finck , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York

By: Roz Chast

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast's new… read more

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2. The One Hundred Nights of Hero

By: Isabel Greenberg

4.23

Format: 528 pages, ebook

In the tradition of The Arabian Nights, a beautifully illustrated tapestry of folk tales and myths … read more

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3. Pretending is Lying

By: Dominique Goblet , Sophie Yanow

3.69

Format: 121 pages,

The first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet, Pretending is… read more

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4. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me

By: Ellen Forney

3.79

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between "crazy" and "creative" in this graphic me… read more

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5. In.

By: Will McPhail

4.38

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and witty graphic novel by a leading New Yorker cartoonist, following a millennial's jou… read more

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6. 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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7. 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

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8. 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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  • biography
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9. 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

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"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

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10. Woman World

By: Aminder Dhaliwal

4.04

Format: 259 pages, Paperback

When a birth defect wipes out the planet’s entire population of men, Woman World rises out of socie… read more

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11. Transitions - Journal d'Anne Marbot

By: Élodie Durand

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

" Vous savez, les genres féminin et masculin sont les deux extrêmes d'un état. Chacun est libre de … read more

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12. Work-Life Balance

By: Aisha Franz

3.20

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A cutting portrayal of the pursuit of work-life balance from the cartoonist of Shit is Real To a… read more

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13. 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

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  • biography
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  • nonfiction
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14. Men I Trust

By: Tommi Parrish

3.75

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Eliza is a thirtysomething struggling single mother and poet. Sasha, a twentysomething yearning for… read more

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15. Birds of Maine

By: Michael DeForge

4.25

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

Take flight to this post-apocalyptic utopia filled with birds. Birds roam freely around the Moon c… read more

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Cover of Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal

16. Cyclopedia Exotica

By: Aminder Dhaliwal

4.31

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

"Dhaliwal created a fictitious community facing xenophobia, fetishization, and media misrepresentat… read more

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17. 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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"In a lot of ways, sanity is a performance."

-Rachel Lindsay, Rx

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18. 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 Liana Finck's Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • 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

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19. The Naked Tree

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

3.84

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

A delicate, timeless, and breathtaking coming-of-age story.The critically acclaimed and award-winni… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
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Cover of Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood by Mari Andrew

20. Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood

By: Mari Andrew

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Adulting meets Hyperbole and a Half in this witty, starkly honest, and absolutely on-point book of … read more

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"What I love most about living isn't accomplishing things, but experiencing them."

-Mari Andrew, Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood

"Spring is the promise of a solution to a problem (the problem being winter...) I believe we all kind of secretly expect that on March 21 of each year the cold clouds will part like silver drapes, unv…"

-Mari Andrew, Am I There Yet? The Loop-de-Loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood

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21. Come Home, Indio

By: Jim Terry

4.26

Format: 234 pages, Paperback

A Native American cartoonist shares his journey from childhood, through struggles with alcoholism, … read more

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