6 Top lgbt books like The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces by Courtney Cook

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The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

By: Courtney Cook

3.87

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the 2022 Lammy Award for Bisexual & the 2022 Heartland Booksellers Award A Book Riot …

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces by Courtney Cook , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

By: Rachel Reiland

3.95

Format: 436 pages, Paperback

With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals what mental illness looks and fe… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Reiland's Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
"            Tempting as it may be to draw one conclusion or another from my story and universalize it to apply to another's experience, it is not my intention for my book to be seen as some sort of c…"

-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

"I couldn’t trust my own emotions. Which emotional reactions were justified, if any? And which ones were tainted by the mental illness of BPD? I found myself fiercely guarding and limiting my emotiona…"

-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

"You survived by seizing every tiny drop of love you could find anywhere, and milking it, relishing it, for all it was worth. And as you grew up, you sought love, anywhere you could find it, whether i…"

-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

"(...) istnieje pewna ciekawa teoria grzechu pierworodnego, o której chciałem ci opowiedzieć (...) – niektórzy teologowie uważają, że w przypadku Adama i Ewy nie chodziło o zjedzenie zakazanego jabłka…"

-Rachel Reiland, Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder

2. Girl in Need of a Tourniquet: Memoir of a Borderline Personality

By: Merri Lisa Johnson

3.04

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

An honest and compelling memoir, Girl in Need of a Tourniquet is Merri Lisa Johnson's account of he… read more

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3. I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality

By: Jerold J. Kreisman , Hal Straus

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

"AM I LOSING MY MIND?" People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frig… read more

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4. The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

By: N.D. Stevenson

4.02

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From N.D. Stevenson, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Nimona, comes a captivati… read more

Similar categories in N.D. Stevenson's The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
"Ï'm learning to put away the diamond exterior and let people get close again. To be good up close instead of from a distance. I'm letting myself be happy."

-N.D. Stevenson, The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

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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 Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

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

By: Deb J.J. Lee

4.18

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl's coming-of-age story—and a coming home stor… read more

Similar categories in Deb J.J. Lee's In Limbo book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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7. Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

By: Marsha M. Linehan

4.11

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Marsha Linehan tells the story of her journey from suicidal teenager to world-renowned developer of… read more

Similar categories in Marsha M. Linehan's Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • biography
  • memoir
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
"Somehow I lost all ability to regulate not only my emotions but my behavior as well.... It was an alarmingly rapid and complete descent into hell."

-Marsha M. Linehan, Building a Life Worth Living: A Memoir

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8. Escape From St. Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up (St. Hell, #2)

By: Lewis Hancox

4.48

Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition

In this sequel to the Indie bestseller WELCOME TO ST. HELL, Lewis Hancox tells the hilarious, inspi… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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9. Passport

By: Sophia Glock

3.33

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

An unforgettable graphic memoir by debut talent Sophia Glock reveals her discovery as a teenager th… read more

Similar categories in Sophia Glock's Passport book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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10. Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story

By: Sarah Myer

4.40

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Eisner Award Nomination: Best Publication for Teens "A beautiful, courageous book.” Gene Luen Y… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Myer's Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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11. Firebird

By: Sunmi

3.69

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Sunmi's gorgeous two-color teen graphic novel debut examines the power of resilience and reinventio… read more

Similar categories in Sunmi's Firebird book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • lgbt
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12. Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

By: Liana Finck

3.77

Format: 240 pages, None

A visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against what’s expected of her … read more

Similar categories in Liana Finck's Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"A draw-er doesn't draw because she loves to draw. She doesn't draw because she draws well. She draws because once she lost something. And by drawing--she will find it again."

-Liana Finck, Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

"From a distance, every relationship is similar—an old story with a new face. But if you know how to really look at things—you’ll see that every man is the first man—and every place is Eden."

-Liana Finck, Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

"In her heart, the devil said, "No! No!" But from her mouth came the words "Yes, you may." And from then on, everything the devil said was the opposite of what she meant. And everything she did, she d…"

-Liana Finck, Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

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13. Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

By: Roy Richard Grinker

4.03

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining… read more

Similar categories in Roy Richard Grinker's Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • mental illness
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
". . . symptoms of mental illnesses are inevitably local."

-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

"The value of any diagnosis is what it has to offer the sufferer."

-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

". . . illnesses that derive from the stresses of war come in many different forms. Every war has its own syndromes."

-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

". . . mental illness categories are just temporary names or frameworks to help us understand patterns of behavior that cause suffering."

-Roy Richard Grinker, Nobody's Normal: How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

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14. What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt

By: Tessa Miller

4.28

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

What Doesn’t Kill You is the riveting account of a young journalist’s awakening to chronic illness,… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Miller's What Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • mental health
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15. And Then? And Then? What Else?

By: Daniel Handler

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold, candid, vulnerable, and entertaining memoir of the literary life of Daniel Handler, the wri… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Handler's And Then? And Then? What Else? book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"A universally loved rebel, an immensely popular loner, the imaginary writer is everyone's favorite, if only because you don't have to read anything to appreciate their work, although I must say I pre…"

-Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?

"Surely all artistic output stems from something a little nobler than boredom. It’s why I like to dress it up and say ennui instead, to mean another kind of boredom, a French kind, more glamorous, bet…"

-Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?

"There is, in fact, a whole planet of literary appreciation that is only distantly orbiting the actual texts. People declare themselves in favor of Jeffersonian democracy, or label a situation Kafkaes…"

-Daniel Handler, And Then? And Then? What Else?

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16. Ink Girls

By: Marieke Nijkamp

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Every secret is a story waiting to happen. From New York Times bestselling author Marieke Nijka… read more

Similar categories in Marieke Nijkamp's Ink Girls book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession by Piper Weiss

17. You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession

By: Piper Weiss

3.27

Format: 368 pages, ebook

A highly unsettling blend of true crime and coming-of-age memoir— The Stranger Beside Me meets Prep… read more

Similar categories in Piper Weiss's You All Grow Up and Leave Me: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
  • mental health
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18. The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

By: Courtney Cook

3.87

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

Finalist for the 2022 Lammy Award for Bisexual & the 2022 Heartland Booksellers Award A Book Riot … read more

Similar categories in Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • mental illness
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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19. 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 Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Maid and the Crocodile by Jordan Ifueko

20. The Maid and the Crocodile

By: Jordan Ifueko

4.51

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The smallest spark can bind two hearts . . . or start a revolution. In the magic-soaked capital … read more

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21. How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego

By: Kyle Prue

4.28

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

BE NO MAN'S PEACE. Have you ever been badgered by an annoying pick-up artist at the bar? Ever fe… read more

Similar categories in Kyle Prue's How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego book and Courtney Cook's The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces

  • nonfiction
"One thing at a time, guys. I’m not a miracle worker; I’m a collection of thirty rats operating a person suit via tiny levers and pulleys."

-Kyle Prue, How to Piss Off Men: 106 Things to Say to Shatter the Male Ego

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4.29

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4.18

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