30 must-read graphic novels books like Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II by Han Seong-Won

Cover of Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II by Han Seong-Won

Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II

By: Han Seong-Won

4.11

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

**Recommended by the New York Public Library among its list of '50 Best New Comics for Adults' in 2…

If you liked the graphic novels plot in Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II by Han Seong-Won , here is a list of 30 books like this:

Cover of The Talk by Darrin Bell

1. 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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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy by Faith Erin Hicks

2. Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy

By: Faith Erin Hicks

3.96

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestseller Faith Erin Hicks is back with Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy , a young adult… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug

3. Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

By: Nora Krug

4.32

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

„Kaip žinoti, kas esi, jei nesupranti, iš kur ateini?“ – klausia iliustratorė ir rašytoja Nora Krug… read more

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  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Here was the evidence of our collective guilt."

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

"We struggled to understand the meaning of Heimat."

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

"Whenever I traveled abroad as a teenager, my guilt traveled with me."

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

"How do you know who you are, if you don't understand where you come from?"

-Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home

Cover of Roaming by Jillian Tamaki

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

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  • 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

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll

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

Cover of Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang

7. Lunar New Year Love Story

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Huda F Cares? by Huda Fahmy

9. Huda F Cares?

By: Huda Fahmy

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

In this laugh-out-loud funny sequel to the graphic novel Huda F Are You?, the Fahmys are off to Dis… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Y'know, you catch more flies with honey..." "I don't know why people say that. You can catch flies with garbage too."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?

"We don't know they're friends. They could be brother and sister." "Impossible. They're smiling." "You're right. They're definitely not related."

-Huda Fahmy, Huda F Cares?

Cover of Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol

10. Plain Jane and the Mermaid

By: Vera Brosgol

4.38

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

From Eisner Award winner Vera Brosgol comes an instant classic about courage, confidence, and inner… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of La Bibliomule de Cordoue by Wilfrid Lupano

11. La Bibliomule de Cordoue

By: Wilfrid Lupano

4.41

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

Califat d'Al Andalus, Espagne. Année 976 Voilà près de soixante ans que le califat est placé sou… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
Cover of Transitions - Journal d'Anne Marbot by Élodie Durand

12. 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

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Cliff by Manon Debaye

13. 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
Cover of We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel by Josh Tuininga

14. 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
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • comics
Cover of Ephemera by Briana Loewinsohn

15. 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

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

16. 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

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of ¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico by Christine Suggs

17. ¡Ay, Mija!: My Bilingual Summer in Mexico

By: Christine Suggs

4.10

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

"An absolutely heartwarming and vibrant story of belonging, family, and the meaning of home. This b… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Mall Goth by Kate Leth

18. 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

Cover of La skogen leve! by Nora Dåsnes

19. La skogen leve!

By: Nora Dåsnes

4.39

Format: 233 pages, Hardcover

Klima nå - lekser senere! De voksne vil gjøre om skogen utenfor skolen til parkeringsplass, og B… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Good Girls Go to Hell by Tohar Sherman-Friedman

20. Good Girls Go to Hell

By: Tohar Sherman-Friedman

3.38

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

This was the last day I prayed. A coming-of-age graphic memoir set in the West Bank, Good Girls Go… read more

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

21. 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

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair by Lucy Knisley

22. Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair

By: Lucy Knisley

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Library Binding

WOE! SCREAM! MEOW! ...PURR? Join the hilarious and of course dramatic world of Linney the House Cat… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II by Han Seong-Won

23. Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II

By: Han Seong-Won

4.11

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

**Recommended by the New York Public Library among its list of '50 Best New Comics for Adults' in 2… read more

Similar categories in Han Seong-Won's Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II book and Han Seong-Won's Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II

  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • feminism
  • war
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • asian literature
  • adult
Cover of In Perpetuity by Peter Hoey

24. In Perpetuity

By: Peter Hoey

3.35

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

It’s a surreal smuggling operation across the boundaries of life and death in the latest moody myst… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand by L. Nichols

25. I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand

By: L. Nichols

4.17

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Some books take the whole of a lifetime to write. I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understa… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sensory: Life on the Spectrum by Bex Ollerton

26. 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

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Self-Esteem and the End of the World by Luke Healy

27. Self-Esteem and the End of the World

By: Luke Healy

3.73

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

“Who is Luke Healy?” An absurdist dramedy about self-esteem in the wake of a climate destruction L… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Willow the White House Cat by Jill Biden

28. Willow the White House Cat

By: Jill Biden

4.10

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The story of how Willow the White House Cat made her way from a farm in Pennsylvania to her new hom… read more

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Cover of The Boy from Clearwater: Book 1 by Yu Pei-Yun

29. The Boy from Clearwater: Book 1

By: Yu Pei-Yun

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

An incredible true story in graphic novel form that lays bare the tortured and triumphant history o… read more

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  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • asian literature
Cover of Fangirl, Vol. 4: The Manga by Rainbow Rowell

30. Fangirl, Vol. 4: The Manga

By: Rainbow Rowell

4.57

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The heartwarming final volume in the manga adaptation of the beloved novel by Rainbow Rowell! Cath… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Pearl by Sherri L. Smith

31. Pearl

By: Sherri L. Smith

3.94

Format: None pages, None

In a beautifully crafted and captivating graphic novel from award-winning writer Sherri L. Smith an… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • comics

10 Top adult books like Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the "Comfort Women" of World War II by Han Seong-Won

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

Firebugs

Nino Bulling

3.97

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Transform Your Habits

Shubeik Lubeik

Deena Mohamed

4.50

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

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