17 Top nonfiction books like But You Have Friends by Emilia McKenzie

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But You Have Friends

By: Emilia McKenzie

3.92

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

When a dear friend dies by suicide, Emilia is left with only memories. Full of humor and poignancy,…

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1. Cenizas

By: Álvaro Ortiz

3.86

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Tres amigos que no se ven desde hace años, discutiendo dentro de un coche, con un montón de kilómet… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics

2. Everything Is Teeth

By: Evie Wyld , Joe Sumner

3.48

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Evie Wyld was a girl obsessed with sharks. Spending summers in the brutal heat of coastal New South… read more

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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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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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4. 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

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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5. 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 Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • adult
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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

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  • 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

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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 Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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8. 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 Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • 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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9. Transitions - Journal d'Anne Marbot

By: Élodie Durand

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

" Vous savez, les genres féminin et masculin sont les deux extrêmes d'un état. Chacun est libre de … read more

Similar categories in Élodie Durand's Transitions - Journal d'Anne Marbot book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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10. The Cliff

By: Manon Debaye

3.65

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A budding friendship between two misfits unravels in the wake of school violence Schoolyard outcas… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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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

Similar categories in Briana Loewinsohn's Ephemera book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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12. My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel

By: Chiara Lagani

3.35

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Elena Ferrante’s New York Times bestselling masterpiece, My Brilliant Friend , book one of her Neap… read more

Similar categories in Chiara Lagani's My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • graphic novels comics
  • womens
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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13. 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

Similar categories in Lonnie Mann's Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

14. 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 Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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15. Mall Goth

By: Kate Leth

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me gets a Y2K twist in this coming-of-age young adult graphic nov… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Oh mall... at least you're always here for me"

-Kate Leth, Mall Goth

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16. 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 Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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17. How to Love: A Guide to Feelings and Relationships for Everyone: A Graphic Novel

By: Alex Norris

4.39

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A guide for to dating, relationships, and identity—from a wildly popular web comic artist. Isn’t… read more

Similar categories in Alex Norris's How to Love: A Guide to Feelings and Relationships for Everyone: A Graphic Novel book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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18. Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image

By: Siobhan Gallagher

4.33

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Author and illustrator Siobhán Gallagher’s humorous and heartfelt graphic memoir details her journe… read more

Similar categories in Siobhan Gallagher's Full of Myself: A Graphic Memoir About Body Image book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

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

19. 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 Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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20. Everything is Fine Volume Two: A WEBTOON Unscrolled Graphic Novel (Everything is Fine, 2)

By: Mike Birchall

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

People are dangerous when they’re out of options. Perfectly normal couple Sam and Maggie live in a… read more

Similar categories in Mike Birchall's Everything is Fine Volume Two: A WEBTOON Unscrolled Graphic Novel (Everything is Fine, 2) book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood by Brian "Box" Brown

21. The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood

By: Brian "Box" Brown

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Brian "Box" Brown brings history and culture to life through his comics. In his new graphic novel, … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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22. Freshman Year

By: Sarah Mai

3.76

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A stylish graphic novel about the unique angst, humor, and self-doubt universal to the experience o… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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23. Nervosa

By: Hayley Gold

3.82

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Unflinchingly honest and darkly humorous, Nervosa is a graphic memoir about disordered eating, chro… read more

Similar categories in Hayley Gold's Nervosa book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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24. 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 Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • adult
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25. Seoul Before Sunrise

By: Samir Dahmani

3.37

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Haunted by a lost friendship, Seong-Ji (re)discovers herself during nocturnal exploration of a drea… read more

Similar categories in Samir Dahmani's Seoul Before Sunrise book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir by Denise Dorrance

26. Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir

By: Denise Dorrance

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

For fans of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? , an unputdownable debut graphic The what… read more

Similar categories in Denise Dorrance's Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of But You Have Friends by Emilia McKenzie

27. But You Have Friends

By: Emilia McKenzie

3.92

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

When a dear friend dies by suicide, Emilia is left with only memories. Full of humor and poignancy,… read more

Similar categories in Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult
Cover of Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass: The Graphic Novel by Mel Valentine Vargas

28. Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass: The Graphic Novel

By: Mel Valentine Vargas

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Newbery Medalist Meg Medina returns to her powerful YA novel about school bullying with a dynamic g… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One by Natalie Norris

29. Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One

By: Natalie Norris

4.09

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

A vivid debut graphic memoir of adolescent resiliency. This debut graphic memoir (the first of two … read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"The solution I settled on was minimization and denial. I didn't understand that when you bury a secret it seeps deeper into your bones. And once embedded it becomes so much harder to untangle from yo…"

-Natalie Norris, Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One

Cover of Sensory: Life on the Spectrum by Bex Ollerton

30. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum

By: Bex Ollerton

4.27

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more

Similar categories in Bex Ollerton's Sensory: Life on the Spectrum book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Decodependence: A Romantic Tragicomic by Lila Ash

31. Decodependence: A Romantic Tragicomic

By: Lila Ash

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Author and New Yorker cartoonist Lila Ash ’ s vulnerable and funny graphic memoir about her attempt… read more

Similar categories in Lila Ash's Decodependence: A Romantic Tragicomic book and Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • adult

17 must-read adult books like But You Have Friends by Emilia McKenzie

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

Transform Your Habits

I Must Be Dreaming

Roz Chast

3.65

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Transform Your Habits

Shubeik Lubeik

Deena Mohamed

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

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Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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4.06

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