23 Top graphic novels books like The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery by Vannak Anan Prum

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The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery

By: Vannak Anan Prum

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Too poor to pay his pregnant wife's hospital bill, Vannak Anan Prum left his village in Cambodia to…

If you liked the graphic novels plot in The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery by Vannak Anan Prum , here is a list of 23 books like this:

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1. Wendy

By: Walter Scott

3.82

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Wendy is trendy, and has dreams of art stardom--but our young urban protagonist is perpetually dera… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

2. Go Tell It on the Mountain

By: James Baldwin

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more

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3. The Truth About Forever

By: Sarah Dessen

3.00

Format: None pages,

There are alternate cover editions for this ISBN . A long, hot summer... That's what Macy has to l… read more

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4. Are You My Mother?

By: Alison Bechdel

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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5. Wendy's Revenge

By: Walter Scott

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Wendy was at a crossroads, but the next chapter of her adventures sees her leave Montreal and head … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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6. Lighter Than My Shadow

By: Katie Green

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toa… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Agony of Alice (Alice, #1) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Kam Mak

7. The Agony of Alice (Alice, #1)

By: Phyllis Reynolds Naylor , Kam Mak

1.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Life, Alice McKinley feels, is just one big embarrassment. Here she is, about to be a teenager and … read more

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8. Through the Woods

By: Emily Carroll

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he'd locked me away. He'd murdered me dead by the autumn, & by winter I was naught but decay. It's cold where I am and so lonely, but in loneliness …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

9. The Customer Is Always Wrong

By: Mimi Pond

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Hardcover

A young woman's art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholi… read more

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10. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza by Mosab Abu Toha

11. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

By: Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2022 Palestine Book Awards Creative Award Finalist for the National Book Critics Cir… read more

Similar categories in Mosab Abu Toha's Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza book and Vannak Anan Prum's The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery

  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • memoir
"Borders are those invented lines drawn with ash on maps and sewn into the ground by bullets."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"A country that exists only in my mind. Its flag has no room to fly freely, but there is space on the coffins of my countrymen."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"In Gaza, some of us cannot completely die. Every time a bomb falls, every time shrapnel hits our graves, every time the rubble piles up on our heads, we are awakened from our temporary death."

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

"PALESTINE A–Z A An apple that fell from the table on a dark evening when man-made lightning flashed through the kitchen, the streets, and the sky, rattling the cupboards and breaking the dishes. “Am"

-Mosab Abu Toha, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

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12. Keeping Two

By: Jordan Crane

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

20 years in the making, the long-awaited graphic novel masterpiece from acclaimed cartoonist Jordan… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions by Steve Martin

13. Number One Is Walking: My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions

By: Steve Martin

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Number One Is Walking is Steve Martin’s cinematic legacy―an illustrated memoir of his legendary act… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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14. Courage to Dream: Tales of Hope in the Holocaust

By: Neal Shusterman

4.14

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

National Book Award winner Neal Shusterman presents a graphic novel exploring the Holocaust through… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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15. 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

Similar categories in Nora Krug's Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home book and Vannak Anan Prum's The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • 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

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16. 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
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17. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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18. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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19. Stone Fruit

By: Lee Lai

4.06

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab by Huda Fahmy

20. Yes, I'm Hot in This: The Hilarious Truth about Life in a Hijab

By: Huda Fahmy

4.33

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

At some point in our lives, we’ve all felt a little out of place. Huda Fahmy has found it’s a littl… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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21. Blood of the Virgin

By: Sammy Harkham

3.70

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

“A story about storytelling...Conjures up the grindhouse movie-making scene in 1970s Los Angeles an… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing

22. Fine: A Comic About Gender

By: Rhea Ewing

4.28

Format: 319 pages, Paperback

Washington Post • 10 Best Graphic Novels of 2022 A vibrant and informative debut with “great doc… read more

Similar categories in Rhea Ewing's Fine: A Comic About Gender book and Vannak Anan Prum's The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"Gender affects everybody, so whether you're trans or not, gender is fucking you up. -Jac, 2013"

-Rhea Ewing, Fine: A Comic About Gender

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23. Year of the Rabbit

By: Tian Veasna

4.07

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

One family’s quest to survive the devastation of the Khmer RougeYear of the Rabbit tells the true s… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • asia
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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24. 83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary

By: Don Brown

3.98

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A young adult graphic novel that captures the complexities of the war in Ukraine, focusing on the s… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"When...there are explosions, you understand that your life is simply...not worth anything."

-Don Brown, 83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary

Cover of It Won't Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib

25. It Won't Always Be Like This

By: Malaka Gharib

4.03

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family,… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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26. Love Looks Pretty on You

By: Lang Leav

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The much anticipated new book by international bestselling author Lang Leav. A breathtakingly beaut… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Don't stay where you are needed. Go where you are loved."

-Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You

"Loyalty The only ones they can turn against you are those who were never with you."

-Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You

"I have been quiet lately, I know. Not because I don’t have anything to say, but because I have too much."

-Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You

"How many people have we known all our lives, and never once loved. How many people have we loved, and never known."

-Lang Leav, Love Looks Pretty on You

Cover of Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir by Denise Dorrance

27. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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28. Kween

By: Vichet Chum

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing, joyful YA debut about a queer Cambodian American teen’s journey to find her voice and st… read more

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29. My Body Created a Human: A Love Story

By: Emma Ahlqvist

3.60

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

This graphic novel–style memoir about the weirdness and wonder of pregnancy and early motherhood is… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Look Again by Elizabeth A. Trembley

30. Look Again

By: Elizabeth A. Trembley

3.89

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Once, years ago, while walking her dogs in the woods, Elizabeth found a dead body. Trauma can m… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery by Vannak Anan Prum

31. The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery

By: Vannak Anan Prum

4.49

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Too poor to pay his pregnant wife's hospital bill, Vannak Anan Prum left his village in Cambodia to… read more

Similar categories in Vannak Anan Prum's The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery book and Vannak Anan Prum's The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery

  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • school
  • asia
  • politics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • social issues

5 Best history books like The Dead Eye and the Deep Blue Sea: A Graphic Memoir of Modern Slavery by Vannak Anan Prum

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Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha

4.74

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Nora Krug

4.32

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Tian Veasna

4.07

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Don Brown

3.98

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4.00

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Darrin Bell

4.65

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Casey Nowak

3.62

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