15 best-selling nonfiction books like The Art of the Graphic Memoir: Tell Your Story, Change Your Life by Tom Hart

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The Art of the Graphic Memoir: Tell Your Story, Change Your Life

By: Tom Hart

4.14

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart has written a poignan…

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1. The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

By: J. Drew Lanham

4.23

Format: 217 pages, Hardcover

"In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. Al… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"In driving creatures to extinction and decimating habitats without so much as a backward glance or lingering regret, human hands create disharmony. That, to me, is evil."

-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

"To save wildlife and wild places the traction has to come not from the regurgitation of bad-news data but from the poets, prophets, preachers, professors, and presidents who have always dared to insp…"

-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

"But on far too many Sundays I was pulled from the roaming rhythm and natural worship that truly fulfilled me. A church Sunday meant that God was suddenly confined to something that seemed much less m…"

-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

"I am a man in love with nature. I am an eco-addict, consuming everything that the outdoors offers its all-you-can-sense, seasonal buffet. I am a wildling, born of forests and fields and more comforta…"

-J. Drew Lanham, The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

Cover of Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Kōji Suzuki, Adrian Tomine, Yoshihiro Tatsumi

2. Abandon the Old in Tokyo

By: Kōji Suzuki , Adrian Tomine , Yoshihiro Tatsumi

4.35

Format: 26 pages,

"These stories get under your skin and invite rereading."-BookForum Abandon the Old in Tokyo is the… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of The Push Man and Other Stories by Adrian Tomine, Yuji Oniki, Yoshihiro Tatsumi

3. The Push Man and Other Stories

By: Adrian Tomine , Yuji Oniki , Yoshihiro Tatsumi

4.35

Format: 26 pages,

A collection of short stories from the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics. Legendary carto… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki

4. This One Summer

By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.69

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, th… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Don't worry about any of this stuff, okay? It's all just adult junk that doesn't mean anything."

-Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer

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5. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

By: Emil Ferris

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monstersis… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice by Ivan Brunetti

6. Cartooning: Philosophy and Practice

By: Ivan Brunetti

3.71

Format: 101 pages, Paperback

The best cartooning is efficient visual storytelling--it is as much a matter of writing as it is of… read more

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  • art
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • how to
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7. American Born Chinese

By: Gene Luen Yang

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds tha… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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8. One Hundred Demons

By: Lynda Barry

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this graphic novel that's part memoir and part creativity primer, Lynda Barry serves up comics t… read more

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  • art
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction

9. The Arrival

By: Shaun Tan

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more

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10. Binti (Binti, #1)

By: Nnedi Okorafor

3.95

Format: 145 pages, ebook

Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza Uni… read more

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11. Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

By: Scott McCloud

4.75

Format: 2112 pages, Paperback

The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication "You must read this … read more

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12. Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

By: Scott McCloud

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published." -- Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools Scott McCloud tore… read more

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13. The Best We Could Do

By: Thi Bui

4.58

Format: None pages, Hardcover

An intimate and poignant graphic novel portraying one family's journey from war-torn Vietnam from d… read more

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14. You Can Do a Graphic Novel

By: Tom DeFalco , Barbara Slate

3.91

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

Get that story out of your head and onto paper! A guide to creating graphic novels- presented in t… read more

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15. 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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16. The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)

By: Kay O'Neill

4.41

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real drag… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"We won't stay away so long this time. I forgot how good home tastes."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)

"Aedhan: My name is Aedhan, of the Shining Wing Clan. Erik: I'm Erik, of the mountain vegetable picker clan!"

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)

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17. Salt Magic

By: Hope Larson

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

When a jealous witch curses her family's well, it's up to Vonceil to set things right in an epic jo… read more

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  • graphic novels
"...some wounds aren't easy to see."

-Hope Larson, Salt Magic

"Papa always says, you can fix soil, and you can build houses, but there's no point if the land don't have water."

-Hope Larson, Salt Magic

"I know you feel too big for this place. But when you get out of here, you'll see how small you are in the world."

-Hope Larson, Salt Magic

"No one stays young forever. And me? I lost my youth in the battlefield. If I have my way, I'll never leave this country again. Hell, I'll never leave the county. And if you think I'm the kind of man …"

-Hope Larson, Salt Magic

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18. 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

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  • biography
  • 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

Cover of The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures by N.D. Stevenson

19. The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

By: N.D. Stevenson

4.02

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From N.D. Stevenson, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Nimona, comes a captivati… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
"Ï'm learning to put away the diamond exterior and let people get close again. To be good up close instead of from a distance. I'm letting myself be happy."

-N.D. Stevenson, The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

Cover of Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham

20. 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

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

21. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

By: Kristen Radtke

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

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22. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

By: Harold Schechter

4.24

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Kill… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of La Nouvelle(s) (Elles, #1) by Kid Toussaint

23. La Nouvelle(s) (Elles, #1)

By: Kid Toussaint

4.12

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Elle, c'est une fille un peu comme tout le monde mais pas tout à fait comme les autres. Jeune fille… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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24. Making Comics

By: Lynda Barry

4.47

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

The bestselling, idiosyncratic curriculum from a 2019 MacArthur Fellow will teach you how to draw a… read more

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  • art
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • how to
"How old do you have to be to make a bad drawing?"

-Lynda Barry, Making Comics

Cover of Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob

25. 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

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

Cover of And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir by Margaret Kimball

26. And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

By: Margaret Kimball

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In 1988, when Kimball is only four years old, her mother attempts suicide on Mother's Day—and this … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"All together, someone would always be missing and I could feel the pull of that longing in my chest, in the pit of my stomach."

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

"I settled into the water for some serious reflection. Bathrooms made supreme thinking spaces, a place that defied interruption."

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

"This is how silence works in families: it means questions go unanswered, timelines are unclear, and the details of a child's life are a mystery that will not be resolved."

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

"I once watched a video of a deer being rescued from drowning only to find herself surrounded by humans, and then she ran immediately back into the water. It's what panic looks like. An animal feeling…"

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

Cover of Alone in Space: A Collection by Tillie Walden

27. Alone in Space: A Collection

By: Tillie Walden

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alone In Space compiles award-winning cartoonist Tillie Walden’s short comics into a stunning and c… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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28. The Art of the Graphic Memoir: Tell Your Story, Change Your Life

By: Tom Hart

4.14

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Eisner-nominated cartoonist Tom Hart has written a poignan… read more

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  • art
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • writing
  • reference
  • how to
Cover of Shame Pudding by Danny Noble

29. Shame Pudding

By: Danny Noble

3.98

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

This memoir, told in graphic novel format, is a personal celebration of the author's charming and e… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Brittle Joints by Maria Sweeney

30. Brittle Joints

By: Maria Sweeney

4.54

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

An evocative and heartfelt graphic memoir about the challenges of living with a progressive disabil… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. Excuse Me

By: Liana Finck

3.82

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

A razor-sharp collection from the acclaimed New Yorker cartoonist and Instagram sensation, Liana Fi… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
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8 must-read biography books like The Art of the Graphic Memoir: Tell Your Story, Change Your Life by Tom Hart

Transform Your Habits

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature

J. Drew Lanham

4.23

Transform Your Habits

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

Zoe Thorogood

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

N.D. Stevenson

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam

Thien Pham

4.29

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Transform Your Habits

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

Steve Martin

3.72

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Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Revenge of the Librarians

Tom Gauld

3.94

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I Must Be Dreaming

Roz Chast

3.65

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