6 best-selling contemporary books like Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey by Adam Bessie

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Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

By: Adam Bessie

3.77

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A searingly honest graphic memoir dispatch from a community college professor who cares deeply for …

If you liked the contemporary plot in Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey by Adam Bessie , here is a list of 6 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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • contemporary

2. Drinking at the Movies

By: Julia Wertz

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

In her first full-length graphic memoir, Julia Wertz (creator of the cult-hit comic The Fart Party)… read more

Similar categories in Julia Wertz's Drinking at the Movies book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

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3. Hungry Ghost

By: Victoria Ying

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and heart-wrenching young adult graphic novel takes a look at eating disorders, family … read more

Similar categories in Victoria Ying's Hungry Ghost book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • contemporary
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4. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.21

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more

Similar categories in Zoe Thorogood's It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

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5. 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

Similar categories in Darrin Bell's The Talk book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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6. 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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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7. Do a Powerbomb!

By: Daniel Warren Johnson

4.52

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From the creator of MURDER-FALCON and WONDER WOMAN: DEAD EARTH comes the wrestling adventure of the… read more

Similar categories in Daniel Warren Johnson's Do a Powerbomb! book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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8. 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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • contemporary
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9. 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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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10. 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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • 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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11. Night Fever

By: Ed Brubaker

3.87

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind? In Europe o… read more

Similar categories in Ed Brubaker's Night Fever book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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12. 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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • 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

Cover of Transitions - Journal d'Anne Marbot by Élodie Durand

13. 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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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14. Diana: My Graphic Obsession

By: Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A unique perspective on the life of Diana, Princess of Wales, the beloved icon of many people in th… read more

Similar categories in Sivan Piatigorsky-Roth's Diana: My Graphic Obsession book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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15. 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

Similar categories in Manon Debaye's The Cliff book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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16. 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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

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

17. 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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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18. Darkly She Goes

By: Hubert

3.74

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time there was a fallen knight, who believed that saving a princess would allow him to … read more

Similar categories in Hubert's Darkly She Goes book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness by Peter Kuper

19. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness

By: Peter Kuper

3.52

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed cartoonist Peter Kuper delivers a powerful interpretation of this controversial classic. … read more

Similar categories in Peter Kuper's Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer

20. 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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

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

21. 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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

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

22. 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

Similar categories in Brian "Box" Brown's The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times by Taylor Byas

24. I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times

By: Taylor Byas

4.37

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times takes its inspiration and concept from the cult classic film Th… read more

Similar categories in Taylor Byas's I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • nonfiction
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25. 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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • contemporary
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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • contemporary
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 Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings by Will Betke-Brunswick

28. A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings

By: Will Betke-Brunswick

4.00

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

During Will Betke-Brunswick’s sophomore year of college, their beloved mother, Elizabeth, is diagno… read more

Similar categories in Will Betke-Brunswick's A Pros and Cons List for Strong Feelings book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey by Adam Bessie

29. Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

By: Adam Bessie

3.77

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A searingly honest graphic memoir dispatch from a community college professor who cares deeply for … read more

Similar categories in Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

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

30. 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

Similar categories in Natalie Norris's Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • 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 Silence, Full Stop: A Memoir by Karina Shor

31. Silence, Full Stop: A Memoir

By: Karina Shor

3.75

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A breathtaking and gut-wrenchingly real graphic memoir of the struggles of an adolescent girl proce… read more

Similar categories in Karina Shor's Silence, Full Stop: A Memoir book and Adam Bessie's Going Remote: A Teacher's Journey

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

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Transform Your Habits

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

Zoe Thorogood

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam

Thien Pham

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

Julia Wertz

4.35

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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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