7 must-read biography books like Seen: Rachel Carson by Birdie Willis

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Seen: Rachel Carson

By: Birdie Willis

3.77

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The second original graphic novel in a new series spotlighting the true stories of the real groundb…

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Cover of This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman, Kristyna Litten

1. This Day in June

By: Gayle E. Pitman , Kristyna Litten

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

In a wildly whimsical, validating, and exuberant reflection of the LGBT community, this title welco… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Not Funny Ha-Ha: A Handbook for Something Hard by Leah Hayes

2. Not Funny Ha-Ha: A Handbook for Something Hard

By: Leah Hayes

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Not Funny Ha-Ha is a bold, slightly wry graphic novel illustrating the lives of two young women fro… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction

3. The Skeleton Tree

By: Iain Lawrence

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Less than 48 hours after twelve-year-old Chris casts off on a trip to sail down the Alaskan coast w… read more

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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

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
Cover of Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting by Kindra Neely

5. Numb to This: Memoir of a Mass Shooting

By: Kindra Neely

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

This searing graphic memoir portrays gun violence through a fresh lens, giving it urgency, humanity… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dagen van zand by Aimée de Jongh

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
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham

7. 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
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Over My Dead Body: A Witchy Graphic Novel by Sweeney Boo

8. Over My Dead Body: A Witchy Graphic Novel

By: Sweeney Boo

3.87

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Fans of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina will love diving into the mysterious and witchy world of awa… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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9. Northranger

By: Rey Terciero

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In this swoony and spooky teen summer romance graphic novel set on a Texas ranch, sixteen-year-old … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"You weren't wrong about me being a killer. But the only person I've ever tried to kill is myself."

-Rey Terciero, Northranger

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10. Paying the Land

By: Joe Sacco

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To … read more

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  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Notes from a Sickbed by Tessa Brunton

11. Notes from a Sickbed

By: Tessa Brunton

3.61

Format: 152 pages, Library Binding

In 2009, Tessa Brunton experienced the first symptoms of myalgic encephalomyelitis (also known as c… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid by Ngozi Ukazu

12. Bunt! Striking Out on Financial Aid

By: Ngozi Ukazu

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Molly Bauer's first year of college is not the picture-perfect piece of art she'd always envisioned… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1) by David Alexander Robertson

13. The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)

By: David Alexander Robertson

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Morgan and Eli, two Indigenous children forced away from their families and communities, are brough… read more

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  • middle grade
"Stories always lead people somewhere, To a place, to a memory."

-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)

"Humans...The land provides everything that anybody would need. If you take only what you need, the land renews itself so that it can provide more. Medicines, water, plants, meat. In exchange, because…"

-David Alexander Robertson, The Barren Grounds (The Misewa Saga, #1)

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14. Séance Tea Party

By: Reimena Yee

4.25

Format: 272 pages, None

After watching her circle of friends seemingly fade away, Lora is determined to still have fun on h… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • middle grade
"To childhood, and growing up, and growing old, and magic – whatever age we are."

-Reimena Yee, Séance Tea Party

Cover of Every Day: The Graphic Novel by David Levithan

15. Every Day: The Graphic Novel

By: David Levithan

3.66

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A graphic novel adaptation of the groundbreaking, beloved New York Times-bestselling novel about a … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Cyclopedia Exotica by Aminder Dhaliwal

16. Cyclopedia Exotica

By: Aminder Dhaliwal

4.31

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

"Dhaliwal created a fictitious community facing xenophobia, fetishization, and media misrepresentat… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection by Yao Xiao

17. Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid: A Baopu Collection

By: Yao Xiao

3.71

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Everything Is Beautiful, and I'm Not Afraid perfectly captures the feelings of a young sojourner in… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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Cover of The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel by Salva Rubio

18. The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel

By: Salva Rubio

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this graphic novel tells the in… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
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  • comics
Cover of Mall Goth by Kate Leth

19. Mall Goth

By: Kate Leth

3.89

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me gets a Y2K twist in this coming-of-age young adult graphic nov… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Oh mall... at least you're always here for me"

-Kate Leth, Mall Goth

Cover of Stars in Their Eyes: A Graphic Novel by Jessica  Walton

20. Stars in Their Eyes: A Graphic Novel

By: Jessica Walton

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lighthearted YA romance, Maisie and Ollie discover that nothing beats the feeling of fallin… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • middle grade
Cover of Beetle & the Hollowbones by Aliza Layne

21. Beetle & the Hollowbones

By: Aliza Layne

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An enchanting, riotous, and playfully illustrated debut graphic novel following a young goblin tryi… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • middle grade
Cover of Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei

22. Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

By: Ai Weiwei

3.74

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Swamp Thing: Twin Branches by Maggie Stiefvater

23. Swamp Thing: Twin Branches

By: Maggie Stiefvater

3.44

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

Twins Alec and Walker Holland have a reputation around town. One is quiet and the other is the life… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Four Faces of the Moon by Amanda   Strong

24. Four Faces of the Moon

By: Amanda Strong

3.94

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

On a journey to uncover her family's story, Spotted Fawn travels through time and space to reclaim … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • comics
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25. Coming Back

By: Jessi Zabarsky

3.51

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful graphic novel fantasy romance that follows two young women who have to go on their own … read more

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

26. 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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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding by Maia Kobabe

27. Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding

By: Maia Kobabe

4.47

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

A graphic guide to chest binding with real-life stories and research-backed advice from bestselling… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of We Served the People: My Mother's Stories by Emei Burell

28. We Served the People: My Mother's Stories

By: Emei Burell

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A collection of moving stories passed from mother to daughter recounting life during China’s Cultur… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
  • historical
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Naturalist by Jim Ottaviani

29. Naturalist

By: Jim Ottaviani

3.94

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A vibrant graphic adaptation of the classic science memoir Regarded as one of the world’s preeminen… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Seen: Rachel Carson by Birdie Willis

30. Seen: Rachel Carson

By: Birdie Willis

3.77

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

The second original graphic novel in a new series spotlighting the true stories of the real groundb… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels comics
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  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • nature
  • science
Cover of Ash's Cabin by Jen Wang

31. Ash's Cabin

By: Jen Wang

4.27

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Ash has always felt alone. Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash’s age are more inter… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • middle grade
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  • nature

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4.33

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4.18

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3.94

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3.79

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