8 Top nonfiction books like Undocumented: The Architecture Of Migrant Detention by Tings Chak

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Undocumented: The Architecture Of Migrant Detention

By: Tings Chak

4.33

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention details the banality and violence of the archit…

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Cover of Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) by Art Spiegelman

1. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

By: Art Spiegelman

4.38

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …"

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

"Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

Cover of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Clarence Brown

2. We

By: Yevgeny Zamyatin , Clarence Brown

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The exhilarating dystopian novel that inspired George Orwell's 1984 and foreshadowed the worst exce… read more

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"Her smile was a bite, and I was its target."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"There is no final one; revolutions are infinite."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

"You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul."

-Yevgeny Zamyatin, We

3. The Descendants

By: Kaui Hart Hemmings

3.62

Format: 171 pages, Hardcover

Narrated in a bold, fearless, unforgettable voice and set against the lush, panoramic backdrop of H… read more

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4. Six Days in Cincinnati: A Graphic Account of the Riots That Shook the Nation a Decade Before Black Lives Matter

By: None

4.23

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is the graphic history of the 2001 Cincinnati riots, told for the first time from the perspect… read more

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5. Watercress

By: Andrea Wang

4.53

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Gathering watercress by the side of the road brings a girl closer to her family's Chinese Heritage.… read more

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6. Pet (Pet, #1)

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.16

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A thought-provoking and haunting novel about a creature that escapes from an artist's canvas, whose… read more

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"Monsters don't look like anything, That's the whole point. That's the whole problem."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)

"It's hard to build a new world without making people angry. You try your best, you move with compassion, you think about the big structures. No revolution is perfect."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)

" What does a monster look like? Jam asked. Her mother focused on her, cupping her cheek in a chalky hand. "Monsters don't look like anything, doux-doux. That's the whole point. That's the whole probl…"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)

"Bitter knew her name was heavy but she hadn't minded because it was honest. That was something she'd taught Jam - that a lot of things were manageable as long as they were honest. You could see thing…"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Pet (Pet, #1)

Cover of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

7. 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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  • canada
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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8. “You Just Need to Lose Weight”: And 19 Other Myths About Fat People

By: Aubrey Gordon

4.33

Format: 205 pages, Paperback

The co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast and creator of Your Fat Friend equips you with the fac… read more

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  • nonfiction
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9. Dewdrop

By: Katie O'Neill

4.21

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

The tale of an axolotl who cheers on his underwater friends as they each bring their talents to the… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh

10. The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

By: Amitav Ghosh

4.22

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origi… read more

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  • nonfiction
"This is the great burden that now rests upon writers, artists, filmmakers, and everyone else who is involved in the telling of stories: to us falls the task of imaginatively restoring agency and voic…"

-Amitav Ghosh, The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis

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11. What Strange Paradise

By: Omar El Akkad

4.05

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled, ill-equipped, dilap… read more

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  • canada
"Today you are the only boy in the world and tomorrow it will be as though you never existed."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"And what do you think the prerequisite for kindness is? Have you ever tried to be kind to someone better off than you?"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Farther out, the water sheds its sandy complexion and turns a turquoise of such clarity that the tourists’ sailboats seem to float atop their own shadows."

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

"Because that's how we take the future from them," Walid said, animated now. "Look at Stockholm, look at Munich, look at New York-- who's picking up the garbage, cleaning the toilets? Who's doing the …"

-Omar El Akkad, What Strange Paradise

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

12. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017

By: Rashid Khalidi

4.50

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. Nayra and the Djinn

By: Iasmin Omar Ata

3.53

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this coming-of-age graphic novel with a fantastical twist, Nayra Mansour, a Muslim American girl… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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14. Parenthesis

By: Élodie Durand

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A triumph of graphic memoir, Parenthesis narrates the author's experience with tumor-related epilep… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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15. Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

By: Akwaeke Emezi

4.12

Format: 272 pages, ebook

Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus o… read more

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"Miss Virtue looked amused. "How do you know your way is the right way?" "I don't. But we moving with love, and I figure that can't be wrong."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

"The foster parents had said that she would end up nowhere, then you could make up wherever you wanted to be, you could make it real. You could, for example, paint it into existence."

-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

"Bitter had no interest in the revolution. She was seventeen and she thought it was ridiculous that adults wanted young people to be the ones saving the world, as if her generation was the one that ha…"

-Akwaeke Emezi, Bitter (Pet, #0.5)

Cover of Wynd, Book One: The Flight of the Prince by James Tynion IV

16. Wynd, Book One: The Flight of the Prince

By: James Tynion IV

4.16

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The team of award-winning superstars James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas present the first graphic… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
Cover of Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine by Hannah Moushabeck

17. Homeland: My Father Dreams of Palestine

By: Hannah Moushabeck

4.56

Format: 40 pages, Kindle Edition

As bedtime approaches, three young girls eagerly await the return of their father who tells them st… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • nonfiction
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18. Undocumented: The Architecture Of Migrant Detention

By: Tings Chak

4.33

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Undocumented: The Architecture of Migrant Detention details the banality and violence of the archit… read more

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  • architecture
  • art
  • race
  • canada
  • graphic novels comics
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  • comics
  • nonfiction

8 Best graphic novels books like Undocumented: The Architecture Of Migrant Detention by Tings Chak

Transform Your Habits

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

Art Spiegelman

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

4.41

Transform Your Habits

Dewdrop

Katie O'Neill

4.21

Transform Your Habits

Nayra and the Djinn

Iasmin Omar Ata

3.53

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Transform Your Habits

On Palestine

Noam Chomsky , Ilan Pappé

4.25

Transform Your Habits

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution

Vincent Bevins

4.28

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire

Jehad Abusalim

4.70

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