9 Top adult books like The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff by Emma

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The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff

By: Emma

4.17

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The author of The Mental Load returns with more "visual essays which are transformative agents of c…

"Now, first of all, you're going to start telling yourself that you are not defined by your job. It's there to provide you with a salary, period. These people, they're just turds floating in your vicinity. I'm going to give you three weeks of sick leave, and you're going to flush the toilet."

-Emma, The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff

"Now, first of all, you're going to start telling yourself that you are not defined by your job. It's there to provide you with a salary, period. These people, they're just turds floating in your vicinity. I'm going to give you three weeks of sick leave, and you're going to flush the toilet."

-Emma, The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff

"Now, first of all, you're going to start telling yourself that you are not defined by your job. It's there to provide you with a salary, period. These people, they're just turds floating in your vicinity. I'm going to give you three weeks of sick leave, and you're going to flush the toilet."

-Emma, The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff

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1. Killing and Dying: Stories

By: Adrian Tomine

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning sho… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics

2. Beauté fatale : Les nouveaux visages d'une aliénation féminine

By: Mona Chollet

3.78

Format: 438 pages, Paperback

Soutiens-gorge rembourres pour fillettes, obsession de la minceur, banalisation de la chirurgie est… read more

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3. Hypercapitalism: A Cartoon Critique of the Modern Economy and Its Values

By: Larry Gonick , Tim Kasser

3.29

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universecomes an e… read more

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4. PTSD

By: Guillaume Singelin

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Ancienne tireuse d'élite dans une guerre fictive passée, Jun se retrouve maintenant sans-abri et en… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
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5. Homebody

By: Theo Parish

4.43

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

In their comics debut, Theo Parish masterfully weaves an intimate and defiantly hopeful memoir abou… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Being openly queer can feel intimidating. But every day just by being yourself you inspire the people around you. You don't have to be an influencer to influence!"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"There is no one way to be transgender, just like there is no one way to be cisgender. We are all just trying to find a place to call our own. We are all deserving of comfort and safety, a place to ca…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Living authentically in a world that takes every opportunity to squeeze you uncomfortably into a box of someone else's design...that is the most radical act of self love. Blossoming in an environment…"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

"Words are important. They allow us to communicate how we think and feel. Words help us to understand and to be understood. So, finally grasping the language you've been reaching for, to explain this …"

-Theo Parish, Homebody

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6. The Times I Knew I Was Gay

By: Eleanor Crewes

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Ellie always had questions about who she was and how she fit in. As a girl, she wore black, obsesse… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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7. 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

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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8. Feelings: A Story in Seasons

By: Manjit Thapp

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous visual journey through one young woman's year of emotions--from the saturated highs of e… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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9. Witchlight

By: Jessi Zabarsky

3.52

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Jessi Zabarsky's lushly illustrated shoujo-adventure comic that introduces Lelek the witch as she b… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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10. Kisses for Jet

By: Joris Bas Backer

3.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A striking and emotive graphic novel from trans creator, Joris Bas Backer about coming to terms wit… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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11. 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

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"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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12. Our Little Secret

By: Emily Carrington

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize At 15, Emily is a relatively typical teenage girl… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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13. Accidental Czar: The Life and Lies of Vladimir Putin

By: Andrew S. Weiss

3.89

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This riveting graphic novel biography chronicles Vladimir Putin's rise from a mid-level KGB officer… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Witchy, Volume 1 (Witchy, #1)

By: Ariel Slamet Ries

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

In the witch kingdom Hyalin, the strength of your magic is determined by the length of your hair. T… read more

Similar categories in Ariel Slamet Ries's Witchy, Volume 1 (Witchy, #1) book and Emma's The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff

  • graphic novels
  • comics
"If others pull you from the darkness, it's because they believe your life is worth living. Don't push them away because you don't feel you deserve it."

-Ariel Slamet Ries, Witchy, Volume 1 (Witchy, #1)

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15. 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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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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16. The Roles We Play

By: Sabba Khan

4.35

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

'Where is home, Mum?' From the foothills of the Himalayas in the Kashmiri valleys to bustling Green… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
"How convenient for those in power to have a labour force accustomed to disempowerment and willing to settle for less."

-Sabba Khan, The Roles We Play

"We must remember... ... race is a construct... ... class is a construct... ... gender is a construct. Beneath it all we are quivering flesh. Glistening in the sun. Goose-pimpled in the moon."

-Sabba Khan, The Roles We Play

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17. All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

By: Darcy Lockman

4.16

Format: 355 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do men do so little at home? Why do women do so much? Why don't our egalitarian values match ou… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"It is a truism that motherhood makes many women feminist."

-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

"Men are not socialized to feel guilty for having freedom or for not being there for other people."

-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

"I became my own worst enemy, conflicted about my right to ask, self-conscious about my rising anger, and too often stuck with the choice between fighting or just taking care of it, whatever it was, o…"

-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

"Joan Williams at the Center for WorkLife Law said "My strongest advice to young women: Don't just try to find a man who's supportive of women. That's a threshold. But consider, what is his attitude t…"

-Darcy Lockman, All the Rage: Mothers, Fathers, and the Myth of Equal Partnership

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18. Whoever You Are, Honey

By: Olivia Gatwood

3.74

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This darkly brilliant debut novel explores how women build themselves—beneath the gaze of love, fri… read more

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  • feminism
  • adult
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19. Basquiat: Art Masters Series

By: Julian Voloj

3.13

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Author Julian Voloj and illustrator Søren Mosdal’s graphic biography of the artist Jean-Michel Basq… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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20. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

Similar categories in Prentis Hemphill's What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World book and Emma's The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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21. The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff

By: Emma

4.17

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The author of The Mental Load returns with more "visual essays which are transformative agents of c… read more

Similar categories in Emma's The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff book and Emma's The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff

  • history
  • feminism
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • france
  • essays
  • social justice
  • womens
  • adult
"Now, first of all, you're going to start telling yourself that you are not defined by your job. It's there to provide you with a salary, period. These people, they're just turds floating in your vici…"

-Emma, The Emotional Load: And Other Invisible Stuff

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Eleanor Crewes

3.93

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Malaka Gharib

4.09

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Feelings: A Story in Seasons

Manjit Thapp

4.18

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Fine: A Comic About Gender

Rhea Ewing

4.28

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Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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Jeannette Arroyo

3.53

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Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

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Rey Terciero

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