6 must-read comics books like The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life by Andrew Blauner

Cover of The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life by Andrew Blauner

The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life

By: Andrew Blauner

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip--and the life lessons it can teach us…

If you liked the comics plot in The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life by Andrew Blauner , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1) by Edward Abbey

1. The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

By: Edward Abbey

4.08

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Ed Abbey called The Monkey Wrench Gang, his 1975 novel, a "comic extravaganza." Some readers have r… read more

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  • humor
"The night. The stars. The river."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

"I piss on you from a considerable height."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

"Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

"There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep."

-Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (Monkey Wrench Gang, #1)

Cover of My Neighbor Totoro 1 by Hayao Miyazaki

2. My Neighbor Totoro 1

By: Hayao Miyazaki

4.44

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Film comics from "My Neighbor Totoro", directed by Hayao Miyazaki and released by Studio Ghibli read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

3. Motherless Brooklyn

By: Jonathan Lethem

3.87

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

Lionel Essrog is Brooklyn's very own self-appointed Human Freakshow, an orphan whose Tourettic impu… read more

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4. Ordinary People

By: Judith Guest

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary novel about an "ordinary" family divided by pain, yet bound by their struggle to h… read more

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5. My Neighbor Totoro 3

By: Hayao Miyazaki

4.18

Format: 407 pages, Paperback

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World by Mark Miodownik

6. Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World

By: Mark Miodownik

3.92

Format: 98 pages, Hardcover

A New York TimesBestseller An eye-opening adventure deep inside the everyday materials that surroun… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history

7. The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi

By: Madeleine L'Engle , Francis of Assisi , Evelyn Underhill , John F. Thornton , Ugolino Di Monte Santa Maria , William Heywood

4.46

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

With a new Preface by the noted writer Madeleine L'Engle, author of nearly fifty books of fiction a… read more

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8. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

By: Clifford Stoll

4.15

Format: 200 pages,

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9. I'll Scream Later

By: Marlee Matlin , None

3.96

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

Critically acclaimed and award-winning actress Marlee Matlin reveals the illuminating, moving, and … read more

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10. Planet of the Apes

By: Pierre Boulle , Xan Fielding

3.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Em pouco tempo, os desbravadores do espaco descobrem a terrivel verdade: nesse mundo, seus pares hu… read more

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Cover of The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952 by Charles M. Schulz, Garrison Keillor, David Michaelis

11. The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952

By: Charles M. Schulz , Garrison Keillor , David Michaelis

4.40

Format: 343 pages, Hardcover

This first volume, covering the first two and a quarter years of the strip, will be of particular f… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comics
"Whenever the sun is shining, I feel obligated to play outside!"

-Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952

"Patty: I'll be the good guy. Shermy: I'll be the bad guy. Patty: What are you going to be, Charlie Brown? Charlie Brown: I'll be sort of in-between; I'll be a hypocrite!"

-Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952

"Shermy: Men are better than women! Patty: They are not!! Shermy: Washington was a man! Jefferson was a man! Lincoln was a man! Patty: Your mother is a woman!! Shermy: You got me!"

-Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952

"Charlie Brown: A penny! Rats! Why couldn't I have found a nickel? What good is a penny these days? Why do things like that always happen to me?! *walks off frustrated* Lucy: Gee, he found a penny! Wh…"

-Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts, Vol. 1: 1950-1952

Cover of Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker by Barry Sonnenfeld

12. Barry Sonnenfeld, Call Your Mother: Memoirs of a Neurotic Filmmaker

By: Barry Sonnenfeld

4.00

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Film and television director Barry Sonnenfeld's outrageous and hilarious memoir traces his idiosync… read more

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  • humor
  • nonfiction
Cover of All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me by Patrick Bringley

13. All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

By: Patrick Bringley

4.07

Format: 240 pages, ebook

A fascinating, revelatory portrait of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its treasures by a former … read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
"Much of the greatest art, I find, seeks to remind us of the obvious."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"Nobody has ever been so much themselves over a span of three thousand years as the ancient Egyptians,"

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

"It feels like the more I explore, the more I will see, the more I’ll understand how very little I’ve seen."

-Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

Cover of Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

14. Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

By: Christian Cooper

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Central Park birder Christian Cooper takes us beyond the viral video th… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Nor did I know back then that McCartney had written the song as an ode to Black women ("bird" being British slang for a pretty girl) at the pivotal moment of the civil rights struggle. That would onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Writing a memoir is akin to taking off one's clothes in public, and as I learned years ago in the amateur strip contest as Darren and the go-go boys cheered me on, success at such an endeavor can onl…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"Beginning around 1910, The Great Migration saw some 6 million black people surge Northward, out of the states of the former Confederacy, spurred by the same thing that lies behind the yearly migratio…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

"What makes birding such a phenomenon? Why not "mammaling" or insecting? Certainly those pursuits have their adherents, as the thousands who visit Africa on safari or who catalog butterflies can attes…"

-Christian Cooper, Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

Cover of Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael        Schulman

15. Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

By: Michael Schulman

4.09

Format: 589 pages, Hardcover

The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively histor… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back by Bruce Schneier

16. A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

By: Bruce Schneier

3.73

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

It’s not just computers―hacking is everywhere. Legendary cybersecurity expert and New York Times… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told by Douglas Wolk

17. All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told

By: Douglas Wolk

4.01

Format: 367 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever full reckoning with Marvel Comics' interconnected, half-million-page story, a revela… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"If he does find himself back in the mountain of Marvels, or if he never leaves it, I hope he finds its glorious imaginary world changing all the time, keeping pace with the real one in which he lives…"

-Douglas Wolk, All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told

"As you explore the Marvel story, it becomes another world you can call your own, one that's constantly expanding and full of unfinished wonders. You can no more exhaust its possibilities than the rea…"

-Douglas Wolk, All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told

Cover of The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life by A.J. Jacobs

18. The Puzzler: One Man's Quest to Solve the Most Baffling Puzzles Ever, from Crosswords to Jigsaws to the Meaning of Life

By: A.J. Jacobs

3.94

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically goes on a rollicking journey… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • history
Cover of All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia by Simon Garfield

19. All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia

By: Simon Garfield

3.65

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

The encyclopaedia once shaped our understanding of the world. Created by thousands of scholars a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of The Man Without Talent by Yoshiharu Tsuge

20. The Man Without Talent

By: Yoshiharu Tsuge

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A Japanese manga legend’s autobiographical graphic novel about a struggling artist and the first fu… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life by Andrew Blauner

21. The Peanuts Papers: Charlie Brown, Snoopy & the Gang, and the Meaning of Life

By: Andrew Blauner

3.71

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A one-of-a-kind celebration of America's greatest comic strip--and the life lessons it can teach us… read more

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3.92

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4.07

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4.09

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4.01

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