29 must-read graphic novels books like Save It for Later: Promises, Protest, and Parenthood by Nate Powell

Cover of Save It for Later: Promises, Protest, and Parenthood by Nate Powell

Save It for Later: Promises, Protest, and Parenthood

By: Nate Powell

4.01

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From Nate Powell, the National Book Award–winning artist of March, a collection of graphic nonficti…

If you liked the graphic novels plot in Save It for Later: Promises, Protest, and Parenthood by Nate Powell , here is a list of 29 books like this:

1. Imagine Wanting Only This

By: Kristen Radtke

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief When Kristen Radtke was in colleg… read more

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2. Follow Me Down (Reckless, #5)

By: Ed Brubaker

4.43

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The FIFTH BOOK in the best-selling Reckless series is here! Bestselling crime noir masters Ed Br… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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3. 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
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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4. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • politics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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5. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham

6. 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
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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7. 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
  • comics
"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

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8. No One Else

By: R. Kikuo Johnson

3.65

Format: 99 pages, Paperback

In this graphic novel, Charlene is a divorced mom, has a young son named Brandon, and works full-ti… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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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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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"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

"...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

"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

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10. Out of Left Field

By: Jonah Newman

3.78

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A nerdy gay teenager jumps headfirst into the bro-y world of high school baseball in this semi-auto… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"I'm gay"

-Jonah Newman, Out of Left Field

Cover of We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel by Josh Tuininga

11. 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
  • comics
Cover of Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood by Lonnie Mann

12. Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood

By: Lonnie Mann

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A coming-of-age graphic novel memoir about a young man who, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish commun… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir by Malaka Gharib

13. I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir

By: Malaka Gharib

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a t… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator by Darryl Cunningham

14. Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator

By: Darryl Cunningham

3.98

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

From schoolyard thug to Russian president: Vladimir Putin’s rise to power comes under the microscop… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • politics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Hide: The Graphic Novel by Kiersten White

15. Hide: The Graphic Novel

By: Kiersten White

3.75

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A high-stakes hide-and-seek competition in an abandoned amusement park comes to life in this graphi… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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16. Mazebook

By: Jeff Lemire

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A lonely building inspector still grieving the loss of his puzzle-loving daughter receives a myster… read more

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

17. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) by Emil Ferris

18. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

By: Emil Ferris

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

Cover of Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis

19. Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith

By: Grace Ellis

4.12

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing … read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Night Eaters, Vol. 2: Her Little Reapers by Marjorie M. Liu

20. The Night Eaters, Vol. 2: Her Little Reapers

By: Marjorie M. Liu

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The second volume in the graphic novel horror trilogy The Night Eaters from Marjorie Liu and Sana T… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib

21. 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

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

22. 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

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  • history
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"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 Danger and Other Unknown Risks by Ryan North

23. Danger and Other Unknown Risks

By: Ryan North

3.90

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

A twisty, spellbinding adventure about a girl and her dog who want to save the world, Danger and Ot… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Save It for Later: Promises, Protest, and Parenthood by Nate Powell

24. Save It for Later: Promises, Protest, and Parenthood

By: Nate Powell

4.01

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From Nate Powell, the National Book Award–winning artist of March, a collection of graphic nonficti… read more

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  • history
  • parenting
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • politics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation by James W. Loewen

25. Lies My Teacher Told Me: A Graphic Adaptation

By: James W. Loewen

4.33

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

At last! The long-awaited graphic version of the multi-million copy bestselling corrective to Ameri… read more

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  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Deluxe Edition 1 by Hayao Miyazaki

26. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Deluxe Edition 1

By: Hayao Miyazaki

4.61

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

[ Box Set | Book 1 | Book 2 ] Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is an epic fantasy tale written… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison by Sarah Mirk

27. 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

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  • history
  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • politics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s by John Ganz

28. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s

By: John Ganz

4.23

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of After the Rain: A Graphic Novel by Nnedi Okorafor

29. After the Rain: A Graphic Novel

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.65

Format: 128 pages, Kindle Edition

Nnedi Okorafor’s story of Chioma, a young Nigerian-American woman whose destiny is revealed during … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Time Under Tension by M.S. Harkness

30. Time Under Tension

By: M.S. Harkness

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Time Under Tension is a smart, funny, no bullshit work of autobiography, a story of searching for d… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Brownstone by Samuel Teer

31. Brownstone

By: Samuel Teer

4.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An exciting teen coming-of-age epic from author Samuel Teer and debut graphic novel artist Mar Juli… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics

7 Top history books like Save It for Later: Promises, Protest, and Parenthood by Nate Powell

Transform Your Habits

Run: Book One

John Lewis

4.31

Transform Your Habits

Putin's Russia: The Rise of a Dictator

Darryl Cunningham

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts

Rebecca Hall

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Save It for Later: Promises, Protest, and Parenthood

Nate Powell

4.01

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Transform Your Habits

Shubeik Lubeik

Deena Mohamed

4.50

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The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

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Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

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