10 best-selling biography books like A Fire Story by Brian Fies

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A Fire Story

By: Brian Fies

4.19

Format: 154 pages, Hardcover

Early in the morning on Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resu…

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Cover of The Imitation Game by Jim Ottaviani, Leland Purvis

1. The Imitation Game

By: Jim Ottaviani , Leland Purvis

3.61

Format: 197 pages, ebook

Today, Alan Turing is considered the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intellig… read more

Similar categories in Jim Ottaviani's The Imitation Game book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • history
  • biography
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge by Josh Neufeld

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

Similar categories in Josh Neufeld's A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • history
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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3. Displacement: A Travelogue

By: Lucy Knisley

3.92

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all … read more

Similar categories in Lucy Knisley's Displacement: A Travelogue book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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4. Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

By: Don Brown

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protectiv… read more

Similar categories in Don Brown's Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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5. 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

Similar categories in Katie Green's Lighter Than My Shadow book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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6. Devotion: A Rat Story

By: Maile Meloy

3.68

Format: None pages,

Hailed by "The New Yorker" as "a wise and astonishing conjurer of convincing realities," Maile Melo… read more

Similar categories in Maile Meloy's Devotion: A Rat Story book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • adult

7. Peanut

By: Ayun Halliday , Paul Hoppe

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

"A smart, affecting graphic young adult novel," declares the New York Times. Before you write me of… read more

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8. 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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9. 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

Similar categories in Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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10. The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.12

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months. Within a fortn… read more

Similar categories in Zoe Thorogood's The Impending Blindness of Billie Scott book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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11. 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

Similar categories in Kindra Neely's Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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12. A Gift for a Ghost

By: Borja González

3.27

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

An untalented punk band and a parallel dimension—what could go wrong?   In Borja González’s stunni… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"And the path is shorter if you know the destination."

-Borja González, A Gift for a Ghost

"If you were an artist, wouldn't you want to have your studio in the Louvre?"

-Borja González, A Gift for a Ghost

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13. 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

Similar categories in Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"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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14. 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 Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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15. 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

Similar categories in Rachel Lindsay's Rx book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"In a lot of ways, sanity is a performance."

-Rachel Lindsay, Rx

Cover of It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib

16. It Won't Always Be Like This

By: Malaka Gharib

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family,… read more

Similar categories in Malaka Gharib's It Won't Always Be Like This book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology by Kendra Boileau

17. COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology

By: Kendra Boileau

3.65

Format: 279 pages, Paperback

In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the world to its knees. When we weren't sheltering in place,… read more

Similar categories in Kendra Boileau's COVID Chronicles: A Comics Anthology book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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18. A Fire Story

By: Brian Fies

4.19

Format: 154 pages, Hardcover

Early in the morning on Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resu… read more

Similar categories in Brian Fies's A Fire Story book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • family
  • adult
Cover of Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk

19. Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison

By: Sarah Mirk

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever   In Janua… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Mirk's Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison book and Brian Fies's A Fire Story

  • history
  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"We created an entire new legal system for brown men. If these were white men from France or Germany, there is no way Guantanamo would exist. There is no way we would have gotten away with being able …"

-Sarah Mirk, Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison

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20. Old Souls

By: Brian McDonald

3.63

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From Brian McDonald and Les McClaine comes Old Souls, a supernatural graphic novel about addiction,… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • family
  • adult
Cover of The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien by John  Hendrix

21. The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien

By: John Hendrix

4.56

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling, award-winning creator John Hendrix comes The Mythmakers, a graphic… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction

11 must-read adult books like A Fire Story by Brian Fies

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The Imitation Game

Jim Ottaviani , Leland Purvis

3.61

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A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge

Josh Neufeld

3.70

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Displacement: A Travelogue

Lucy Knisley

3.92

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Devotion: A Rat Story

Maile Meloy

3.68

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13 Top adult books like It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib

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Shubeik Lubeik

Deena Mohamed

4.50

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The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

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Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

4.41

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Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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