9 must-read nonfiction books like My Picture Diary by Maki Fujiwara

Cover of My Picture Diary by Maki Fujiwara

My Picture Diary

By: Maki Fujiwara

4.04

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

The wife of Japan’s most lauded manga-ka documents a year in their lives with her own artistry. …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in My Picture Diary by Maki Fujiwara , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. Juliette - Les fantômes reviennent au printemps

By: Camille Jourdy

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Apres le succes de la trilogie Rosalie Blum, Camille Jourdy revient avec un nouveau roman graphique… read more

Similar categories in Camille Jourdy's Juliette - Les fantômes reviennent au printemps book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Le grand vide by Léa Murawiec

2. Le grand vide

By: Léa Murawiec

3.97

Format: 204 pages, Hardcover

"Mais… Manel Naher, c'est moi !" Qui est donc cette autre Manel Naher, qui fait la Une des journaux… read more

Similar categories in Léa Murawiec's Le grand vide book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Monica by Daniel Clowes

3. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Clowes's Monica book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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4. 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

Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's Roaming book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

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

5. 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

Similar categories in Thien Pham's Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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6. 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

Similar categories in Emily Carroll's A Guest in the House book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • 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 I Must Be Dreaming by Roz Chast

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 Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Firebugs by Nino Bulling

8. Firebugs

By: Nino Bulling

3.97

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Actually, everything is perfectly okay. Ingken is together with Lily, who seems to be content with … read more

Similar categories in Nino Bulling's Firebugs book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz

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

Similar categories in Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • 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

"...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. Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey

By: Edel Rodriguez

4.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “America’s illustrator in chief” ( Fast Company ), a graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, co… read more

Similar categories in Edel Rodriguez's Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • history
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Talk to My Back by Yamada Murasaki

11. Talk to My Back

By: Yamada Murasaki

4.06

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

An unearthed masterwork from one of the "three daughters of Garo," shimmering with realism and vuln… read more

Similar categories in Yamada Murasaki's Talk to My Back book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • manga
  • adult
"Men live in a dream. They always want to be treated like children. When they're strong, we indulge them in this fantasy simply because they're men. Women, on the other hand, have reality shoved into …"

-Yamada Murasaki, Talk to My Back

Cover of This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

12. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

By: Navied Mahdavian

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more

Similar categories in Navied Mahdavian's This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Nejishiki by Yoshiharu Tsuge

13. Nejishiki

By: Yoshiharu Tsuge

3.63

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Un ragazzo approda sulla spiaggia di un piccolo villaggio di pescatori con l'arteria del braccio re… read more

Similar categories in Yoshiharu Tsuge's Nejishiki book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • graphic novels comics
  • manga
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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14. Okinawa

By: Susumu Higa

4.08

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Okinawa brings together two collections of intertwined stories by the island’s pre-eminent mangaka,… read more

Similar categories in Susumu Higa's Okinawa book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • japanese literature
  • manga
Cover of Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls

15. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

By: Tessa Hulls

4.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Hulls's Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • history
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham

16. Blood of the Virgin

By: Sammy Harkham

3.70

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

“A story about storytelling...Conjures up the grindhouse movie-making scene in 1970s Los Angeles an… read more

Similar categories in Sammy Harkham's Blood of the Virgin book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir by Maurice Vellekoop

17. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir

By: Maurice Vellekoop

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Vellekoop's I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of The Naked Tree by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

18. The Naked Tree

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

3.84

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

A delicate, timeless, and breathtaking coming-of-age story.The critically acclaimed and award-winni… read more

Similar categories in Keum Suk Gendry-Kim's The Naked Tree book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • graphic novels comics
  • manga
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Tender by Beth Hetland

19. 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

Similar categories in Beth Hetland's Tender book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of My Picture Diary by Maki Fujiwara

20. My Picture Diary

By: Maki Fujiwara

4.04

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

The wife of Japan’s most lauded manga-ka documents a year in their lives with her own artistry. … read more

Similar categories in Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • history
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • japanese literature
  • manga
  • adult
Cover of Tokyo These Days, Volume 2 by Taiyo Matsumoto

21. Tokyo These Days, Volume 2

By: Taiyo Matsumoto

4.15

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Matsumoto explores the relationships between a m… read more

Similar categories in Taiyo Matsumoto's Tokyo These Days, Volume 2 book and Maki Fujiwara's My Picture Diary

  • manga
  • comics
  • graphic novels

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Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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Emily Carroll

4.06

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3.65

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10 Top adult books like Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez

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4.50

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Darrin Bell

4.65

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