17 must-read comics books like Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures by Jason Adam Katzenstein

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Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

By: Jason Adam Katzenstein

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker cartoonist illustrates his lifelong struggle with OCD in cartoon vignettes frank and f…

If you liked the comics plot in Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures by Jason Adam Katzenstein , here is a list of 17 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. 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

Similar categories in Ellen Forney's Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me book and Jason Adam Katzenstein's Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

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3. Hungry Ghost

By: Victoria Ying

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and heart-wrenching young adult graphic novel takes a look at eating disorders, family … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Ying's Hungry Ghost book and Jason Adam Katzenstein's Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

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

4. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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5. 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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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • adult
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6. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

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7. I Must Be Dreaming

By: Roz Chast

3.65

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more

Similar categories in Roz Chast's I Must Be Dreaming book and Jason Adam Katzenstein's Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • psychology
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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8. Huda F Cares?

By: Huda Fahmy

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this laugh-out-loud funny sequel to the graphic novel Huda F Are You?, the Fahmys are off to Dis… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Y'know, you catch more flies with honey..." "I don't know why people say that. You can catch flies with garbage too."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?

"We don't know they're friends. They could be brother and sister." "Impossible. They're smiling." "You're right. They're definitely not related."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?

Cover of Parenthesis by Élodie Durand

9. Parenthesis

By: Élodie Durand

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A triumph of graphic memoir, Parenthesis narrates the author's experience with tumor-related epilep… read more

Similar categories in Élodie Durand's Parenthesis book and Jason Adam Katzenstein's Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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10. Notes from a Sickbed

By: Tessa Brunton

3.61

Format: 152 pages, Library Binding

In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as c… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Brunton's Notes from a Sickbed book and Jason Adam Katzenstein's Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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11. 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
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Every Day: The Graphic Novel by David Levithan

12. Every Day: The Graphic Novel

By: David Levithan

3.66

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A graphic novel adaptation of the groundbreaking, beloved New York Times-bestselling novel about a … read more

Similar categories in David Levithan's Every Day: The Graphic Novel book and Jason Adam Katzenstein's Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Sunshine: A Graphic Novel by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

13. Sunshine: A Graphic Novel

By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

4.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary--and extraordinarily powerful--follow-up to HEY, KIDDO. When Jarrett J. Krosoc… read more

Similar categories in Jarrett J. Krosoczka's Sunshine: A Graphic Novel book and Jason Adam Katzenstein's Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir by Margaret Kimball

14. And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

By: Margaret Kimball

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In 1988, when Kimball is only four years old, her mother attempts suicide on Mother's Day—and this … read more

Similar categories in Margaret Kimball's And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir book and Jason Adam Katzenstein's Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"All together, someone would always be missing and I could feel the pull of that longing in my chest, in the pit of my stomach."

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

"I settled into the water for some serious reflection. Bathrooms made supreme thinking spaces, a place that defied interruption."

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

"This is how silence works in families: it means questions go unanswered, timelines are unclear, and the details of a child's life are a mystery that will not be resolved."

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

"I once watched a video of a deer being rescued from drowning only to find herself surrounded by humans, and then she ran immediately back into the water. It's what panic looks like. An animal feeling…"

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

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15. 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 Jason Adam Katzenstein's Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

  • graphic novels
  • comics
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16. 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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"In a lot of ways, sanity is a performance."

-Rachel Lindsay, Rx

Cover of Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words  Pictures by Jason Adam Katzenstein

17. Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

By: Jason Adam Katzenstein

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker cartoonist illustrates his lifelong struggle with OCD in cartoon vignettes frank and f… read more

Similar categories in Jason Adam Katzenstein's Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures book and Jason Adam Katzenstein's Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Tender by Beth Hetland

18. 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
  • mental health
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Puzzled: A Memoir about Growing Up with OCD by Pan Cooke

19. Puzzled: A Memoir about Growing Up with OCD

By: Pan Cooke

4.09

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Growing up with undiagnosed OCD sure isn’t easy, and here Pan Cooke shares his own experiences with… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life by Ellen Forney

20. Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life

By: Ellen Forney

4.35

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

In the follow up to her acclaimed Marbles , Forney writes and draws a guide for people with mood di… read more

Similar categories in Ellen Forney's Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life book and Jason Adam Katzenstein's Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Stability means figuring out how to prioritize what serves you, not feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly, + just balancing everything as best you can."

-Ellen Forney, Rock Steady: Brilliant Advice From My Bipolar Life

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3.99

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