15 Top biography books like Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story by Catherine Pioli

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Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

By: Catherine Pioli

4.36

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

A narrative, in graphic novel format, of the author’s life and experiences as a leukemia patient. …

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1. Imagine Wanting Only This

By: Kristen Radtke

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous graphic memoir about loss, love, and confronting grief When Kristen Radtke was in colleg… read more

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2. Tant pis pour l'amour. Ou comment j'ai survécu à un manipulateur

By: Sophie Lambda

4.35

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

Quand Sophie rencontre Marcus, elle tombe amoureuse en 48h. Elle qui était si cynique en amour, cet… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Lambda's Tant pis pour l'amour. Ou comment j'ai survécu à un manipulateur book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"Quand il est parti, j'ai ressenti un vide immense."

-Sophie Lambda, Tant pis pour l'amour. Ou comment j'ai survécu à un manipulateur

"Son regard faisait du bien, comme un plaid chaud posé sur le coeur."

-Sophie Lambda, Tant pis pour l'amour. Ou comment j'ai survécu à un manipulateur

"Je sais que t'es juste là, mais... Tu me manques... C'est con, hein ?"

-Sophie Lambda, Tant pis pour l'amour. Ou comment j'ai survécu à un manipulateur

"On était des enfants lumineux, les villageois ignorants qui dansent au milieu du champ de bataille des tristes pierres amorphes du quotidien."

-Sophie Lambda, Tant pis pour l'amour. Ou comment j'ai survécu à un manipulateur

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3. Watership Down: The Graphic Novel

By: James Sturm

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and faithful graphic novel adaptation of Richard Adams’s beloved story of a group of ra… read more

Similar categories in James Sturm's Watership Down: The Graphic Novel book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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4. 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 Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
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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 Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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6. Dagen van zand

By: Aimée de Jongh

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Het is 1937 in de Verenigde Staten. De jonge fotograaf John wordt gevraagd de zogenaamde Dust Bowl … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
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7. 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
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8. 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 Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

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

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10. 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

Similar categories in Gene Luen Yang's Lunar New Year Love Story book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • graphic novels
  • comics
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11. 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 Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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12. 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

Similar categories in Roz Chast's I Must Be Dreaming book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night by Marjorie M. Liu

13. The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night

By: Marjorie M. Liu

4.08

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

The first volume in a new graphic novel horror trilogy from Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda—the creati… read more

Similar categories in Marjorie M. Liu's The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
"No creepy dolls!"

-Marjorie M. Liu, The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night

"Not the demon anus!"

-Marjorie M. Liu, The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night

"It’s Sarlaac Satan!"

-Marjorie M. Liu, The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night

"Oh my God. We’re superheroes."

-Marjorie M. Liu, The Night Eaters, Vol. 1: She Eats the Night

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14. 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 Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"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

"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

"...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

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15. 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

Similar categories in Huda Fahmy's Huda F Cares? book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • 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 We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel by Josh Tuininga

16. 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

Similar categories in Josh Tuininga's We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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17. 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 Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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18. Marry Me a Little: A Graphic Memoir

By: Robert Kirby

3.75

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Marriage doesn’t define a relationship. Unless you want it to. In Marry Me a Little, Rob Kirby r… read more

Similar categories in Robert Kirby's Marry Me a Little: A Graphic Memoir book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

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

19. 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 Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1) by Lewis Hancox

20. Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1)

By: Lewis Hancox

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the … read more

Similar categories in Lewis Hancox's Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1) book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Sunshine: A Graphic Novel by Jarrett J. Krosoczka

21. Sunshine: A Graphic Novel

By: Jarrett J. Krosoczka

4.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The extraordinary--and extraordinarily powerful--follow-up to HEY, KIDDO. When Jarrett J. Krosoc… read more

Similar categories in Jarrett J. Krosoczka's Sunshine: A Graphic Novel book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of I Am Stan: A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan Lee by Tom Scioli

22. I Am Stan: A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan Lee

By: Tom Scioli

3.42

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The first graphic novel biography of the legendary Stan Lee, co-creator of many of Marvel's beloved… read more

Similar categories in Tom Scioli's I Am Stan: A Graphic Biography of the Legendary Stan Lee book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

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

23. 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 Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

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

24. 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 Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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25. The Deep Dark

By: Molly Knox Ostertag

4.42

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

From Molly Knox Ostertag, writer-illustrator, comes a darkly beautiful story of identity, family, l… read more

Similar categories in Molly Knox Ostertag's The Deep Dark book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • graphic novels
  • comics
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26. 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 Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

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

27. 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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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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 Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars: A Graphic Memoir by Rick Louis

29. Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars: A Graphic Memoir

By: Rick Louis

4.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

WINNER Outstanding Work of Graphic Medicine (Long Form) 2023 Awards for Excellence in Graphic Medic… read more

Similar categories in Rick Louis's Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars: A Graphic Memoir book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story by Catherine Pioli

30. Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

By: Catherine Pioli

4.36

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

A narrative, in graphic novel format, of the author’s life and experiences as a leukemia patient. … read more

Similar categories in Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story book and Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • health
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Sensory: Life on the Spectrum by Bex Ollerton

31. 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 Catherine Pioli's Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult

16 best-selling adult books like Down to the Bone: A Leukemia Story by Catherine Pioli

Transform Your Habits

Tant pis pour l'amour. Ou comment j'ai survécu à un manipulateur

Sophie Lambda

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Dagen van zand

Aimée de Jongh

4.33

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

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A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

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