9 must-read history books like The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life by David F. Walker

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The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

By: David F. Walker

4.47

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed…

"Not all who read learn. Not all who learn understand. Not all who understand care."

-David F. Walker, The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

"Not all who read learn. Not all who learn understand. Not all who understand care."

-David F. Walker, The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

"Not all who read learn. Not all who learn understand. Not all who understand care."

-David F. Walker, The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

If you liked the history plot in The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life by David F. Walker , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of March: Book Three (March, #3) by Nate Powell, John             Lewis, Andrew Aydin

1. March: Book Three (March, #3)

By: Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.65

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman… read more

Similar categories in Nate Powell's March: Book Three (March, #3) book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps by Dave Isay

2. All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps

By: Dave Isay

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

In ALL THERE IS, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay shares stories of love and marriage from the revoluti… read more

Similar categories in Dave Isay's All There Is: Love Stories from StoryCorps book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • adult
  • nonfiction
Cover of March: Book One (March, #1) by Nate Powell, John             Lewis, Andrew Aydin

3. March: Book One (March, #1)

By: Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.00

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movem… read more

Similar categories in Nate Powell's March: Book One (March, #1) book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

4. Ghost Boys

By: Jewell Parker Rhodes

4.34

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

Twelve-year-old Jerome is shot by a police officer who mistakes his toy gun for a real threat. As a… read more

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"Bear witness. My tale is told Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don’t let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again"

-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

"Bear witness. My tale is told. Wake. Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better. Don't let me (Or anyone else) Tell this tale again."

-Jewell Parker Rhodes, Ghost Boys

5. Pashmina

By: Nidhi Chanani

3.70

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Priyanka Das has so many unanswered questions: Why did her mother abandon her home in India years a… read more

Similar categories in Nidhi Chanani's Pashmina book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

6. March: Book Two (March, #2)

By: Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling series continues! Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and on… read more

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7. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

By: Octavia E. Butler , John Jennings , Damian Duffy

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Instant #1New York TimesBestseller Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterp… read more

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8. Nothing Else But Miracles

By: Kate Albus

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the author of A Place to Hang the Moon comes a hopeful World War II story about three scrappy … read more

Similar categories in Kate Albus's Nothing Else But Miracles book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • historical
Cover of The Talk by Darrin Bell

9. 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

Similar categories in Darrin Bell's The Talk book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Run: Book One by John             Lewis

10. Run: Book One

By: John Lewis

4.31

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

First you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award–winning team behind March comes the f… read more

Similar categories in John Lewis's Run: Book One book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • biography
  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Saga, Volume 11 by Brian K. Vaughan

11. Saga, Volume 11

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Format: 153 pages, ebook

While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new all… read more

Similar categories in Brian K. Vaughan's Saga, Volume 11 book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America by Steve Inskeep

12. Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

By: Steve Inskeep

4.02

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From journalist and historian Steve Inskeep, a compelling and nuanced exploration of the political … read more

Similar categories in Steve Inskeep's Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
"Writing history is a relay, which is also true of history itself. We build, if we can, on the legacies that are left us."

-Steve Inskeep, Differ We Must: How Lincoln Succeeded in a Divided America

Cover of Bubble by Jordan  Morris

13. Bubble

By: Jordan Morris

4.01

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Based on the smash-hit audio serial, Bubble is a hilarious high-energy graphic novel with a satiric… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Morris's Bubble book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of In Utero by Chris Gooch

14. In Utero

By: Chris Gooch

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Akira meets Aliens , and Annihilation meets Evangelion , in this coming-of-age monster tale from aw… read more

Similar categories in Chris Gooch's In Utero book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank "Big Black" Smith

15. Big Black: Stand at Attica

By: Frank "Big Black" Smith

4.23

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A graphic novel memoir from Frank “Big Black” Smith, a prisoner at Attica State Prison in 1971, who… read more

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  • biography
  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • african american
Cover of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca    Hall

16. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

By: Rebecca Hall

4.30

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Hall's Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."

-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"

-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"

-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Cover of The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life by David F. Walker

17. The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

By: David F. Walker

4.47

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A graphic novel biography of the escaped slave, abolitionist, public speaker, and most photographed… read more

Similar categories in David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • biography
  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • adult
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • african american
"Not all who read learn. Not all who learn understand. Not all who understand care."

-David F. Walker, The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

Cover of America: The Farewell Tour by Chris Hedges

18. America: The Farewell Tour

By: Chris Hedges

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provoca… read more

Similar categories in Chris Hedges's America: The Farewell Tour book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of 49 Days by Agnes   Lee

19. 49 Days

By: Agnes Lee

4.22

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Day 1 Gotta get up. Gotta keep moving. This map – it says I have to cross over here. Wait, what’… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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20. Frogcatchers

By: Jeff Lemire

3.77

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Experience a surreal descent into one man’s psychosis in this haunting and chilling graphic novel f… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century by Peniel E. Joseph

21. The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century

By: Peniel E. Joseph

4.16

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

One of our preeminent historians of race and democracy argues that the period since 2008 has marked… read more

Similar categories in Peniel E. Joseph's The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century book and David F. Walker's The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life

  • nonfiction
  • history

7 best-selling adult books like The Life of Frederick Douglass: A Graphic Narrative of an Extraordinary Life by David F. Walker

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Dave Isay

4.00

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4.65

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Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

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Jordan Morris

4.01

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Deena Mohamed

4.50

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4.65

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Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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Emily Carroll

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