19 must-read nonfiction books like Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber

Cover of Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber

Dumb: Living Without a Voice

By: Georgia Webber

3.35

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how an urban twentysomething cop…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of Not Funny Ha-Ha: A Handbook for Something Hard by Leah Hayes

1. Not Funny Ha-Ha: A Handbook for Something Hard

By: Leah Hayes

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Not Funny Ha-Ha is a bold, slightly wry graphic novel illustrating the lives of two young women fro… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

2. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

By: Roz Chast

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York TimesBestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings… read more

Similar categories in Roz Chast's Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? book and Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

3. SuperMutant Magic Academy

By: Jillian Tamaki

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Unrequited love, underage drinking, and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches. T… read more

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4. El Deafo

By: Cece Bell , None

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At… read more

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5. Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me

By: Sarah Leavitt

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

"In this powerful memoir ... Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed her mother, … read more

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6. Giant Days, Vol. 1 (Giant Days, #1)

By: John Allison , None , Lissa Treiman

3.21

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends. Now, away f… read more

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7. Pretending is Lying

By: Dominique Goblet , Sophie Yanow

3.69

Format: 121 pages,

The first book to appear in English by the acclaimed Belgian artist Dominique Goblet, Pretending is… read more

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8. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me

By: Ellen Forney

3.79

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between "crazy" and "creative" in this graphic me… read more

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9. 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 Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"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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10. 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 Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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11. 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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12. The Secret to Superhuman Strength

By: Alison Bechdel

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Fun Home, a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exerc… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been."

-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

"Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties."

-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

"Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!"

-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

"Most people don't even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails."

-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength

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13. 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 Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • adult
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14. Parenthesis

By: Élodie Durand

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A triumph of graphic memoir, Parenthesis narrates the author's experience with tumor-related epilep… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • disability
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15. I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir

By: Malaka Gharib

4.09

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a t… read more

Similar categories in Malaka Gharib's I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir book and Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice

  • memoir
  • 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

Similar categories in Navied Mahdavian's This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America book and Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

17. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

By: Mira Jacob

4.46

Format: 349 pages, Hardcover

Mira Jacob's touching, often humorous, and utterly unique graphic memoir takes readers on her journ… read more

Similar categories in Mira Jacob's Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations book and Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"The trouble began when my 6-year-old son, Z, became obsessed with Michael Jackson."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"There's a particular kind of close you get when you find someone you can trust in a space you don't."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"Sometimes, you don’t know how confused you are about something important until you try explaining it to someone else."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

"We took bets on what would bring him down, which is what you do when you're trying to break your own heart before your country does it for you."

-Mira Jacob, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations

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18. Tótem

By: Laura Pérez

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Diferentes vivencias conectadas entre sí transcurren a lo largo de diferentes viajes, ensoñaciones,… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
"Hay lugares donde lo cotidiano es lo extraordinario."

-Laura Pérez, Tótem

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 Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice

  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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20. Dancing After TEN

By: Vivian Chong

4.29

Format: 162 pages, Hardcover

In late 2004, Vivian Chong’s life was changed forever when a rare skin disease, Toxic Epidermal Nec… read more

Similar categories in Vivian Chong's Dancing After TEN book and Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • disability
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21. Alison

By: Lizzy Stewart

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

This graphic novel chronicles the fictional life story of Alison Porter, whose talent as a painter … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words  Pictures by Jason Adam Katzenstein

22. Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures

By: Jason Adam Katzenstein

4.07

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A New Yorker cartoonist illustrates his lifelong struggle with OCD in cartoon vignettes frank and f… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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23. Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

By: Lucy Knisley

4.38

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you’re smart and talented and “good enough,” you… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"There's plenty of drama and comedy and bodily fluids! And what's a good origin story without all three?"

-Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

"When we write about our lives, it's a form of time travel. We inhabit the body we were back then, and yet we do so from our safe distance in the future."

-Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

"For a large part of human history, people didn't really know how a woman's body worked. This is mainly because for much of human history, a woman's body was either too sacred or too sexual to study."

-Lucy Knisley, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

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24. 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

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives) by Jill Christman

25. If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives)

By: Jill Christman

4.43

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

If This Were Fiction is a love story—for Jill Christman’s long-ago fiancé, who died young in a car … read more

Similar categories in Jill Christman's If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (American Lives) book and Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber

26. Dumb: Living Without a Voice

By: Georgia Webber

3.35

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how an urban twentysomething cop… read more

Similar categories in Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice book and Georgia Webber's Dumb: Living Without a Voice

  • memoir
  • canada
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • autobiography
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • disability
Cover of Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One by Natalie Norris

27. 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

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28. Your Black Friend and Other Strangers

By: Ben Passmore

3.94

Format: 119 pages, Hardcover

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers is a collection of culturally charged comics by cartoonist Be… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Basically we all need to be anarchists already, there I said it."

-Ben Passmore, Your Black Friend and Other Strangers

"Most of this collection is about how to be a funny dangerous failure. And we all fail homies, it's okay. We just have to learn how to fail upward."

-Ben Passmore, Your Black Friend and Other Strangers

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29. Fuck Off Squad

By: Nicole Goux

3.50

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Fuck Off Squad by Nicole Goux (Murders, Jem and the Holograms) and Dave Baker (Action Hospital, Sui… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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

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

16 Best adult books like Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber

Transform Your Habits

Not Funny Ha-Ha: A Handbook for Something Hard

Leah Hayes

3.50

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

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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10 Top adult books like The Talk by Darrin Bell

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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