6 must-read memoir books like Stitches by David Small

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Stitches

By: David Small

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transfo…

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Cover of Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell

1. Swallow Me Whole

By: Nate Powell

3.63

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Swallow Me Whole is an award-winning love story carried by rolling fog, terminal illness, hallucina… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • adult
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2. A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

By: Josh Neufeld

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A stunning graphic novel that makes plain the undeniable horrors and humanity triggered by Hurrican… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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3. Stitches

By: David Small

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transfo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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4. Black Hole

By: Charles Burns

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
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5. Ghost World

By: Daniel Clowes

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ghost Worldhas become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
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6. Lighter Than My Shadow

By: Katie Green

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toa… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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7. Blankets

By: Craig Thompson

None

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creati… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • adult
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8. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

9. My Friend Dahmer

By: Derf Backderf

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer -- the most notorious serial killer sin… read more

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10. Asterios Polyp

By: David Mazzucchelli

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

The triumphant return of one of comics' greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man's sea… read more

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11. Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir

By: Tom Hart

4.03

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Rosalie Lightningis Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart's beautiful and touching graphic memoir ab… read more

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12. Cancer Vixen

By: Marisa Acocella Marchetto

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, … read more

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13. 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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14. Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

By: Liz Prince

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

Growing up, Liz Prince wasn't a girly girl, dressing in pink tutus or playing pretty princess like … read more

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15. 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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16. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

By: Steven Lomazow

4.33

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more

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"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

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17. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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18. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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19. 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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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • adult
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20. 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
  • 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 We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel by Josh Tuininga

21. We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel

By: Josh Tuininga

4.35

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Inspired by a true story, this graphic novel follows a Jewish immigrant’s efforts to help his Japan… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels

9 best-selling adult books like Stitches by David Small

Transform Your Habits

Swallow Me Whole

Nate Powell

3.63

Transform Your Habits

A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

Josh Neufeld

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Stitches

David Small

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Blankets

Craig Thompson

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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

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A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

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