5 Best history books like Vietnamese Memories Vol.1: Leaving Saigon (1) by Clément Baloup

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Vietnamese Memories Vol.1: Leaving Saigon (1)

By: Clément Baloup

3.83

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Colonialism and war disrupted the lives of millions of Vietnamese people during the 20th century. T…

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1. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

4.07

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

'The color is hideous enough, and unreliable enough, and infuriating enough, but the pattern is tor… read more

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"I am a doctor, dear, and I know. You are gaining flesh and color, your appetite is better. I feel really much easier about you." "I don't weigh a bit more," said I, "nor as much; and my appetite may …"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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2. I Remember Beirut

By: Edward Gauvin , Zeina Abirached

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powe… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Smallville Season 11 Vol. 8: Chaos

By: Bryan Q. Miller

3.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

Superman and Lois Lane are marooned in another dimension after Lex Luthor commandeers the productio… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
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4. Le bleu est une couleur chaude

By: Jul Maroh

4.24

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

La vie de Clementine bascule le jour ou elle rencontre Emma, une jeune fille aux cheveux bleus, qui… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
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5. Aya (Aya #1)

By: Clément Oubrerie , Helge Dascher , Marguerite Abouet , Tom Devlin , None

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

"That's what I wanted to show in Aya: an Africa without the ... war and famine, an Africa that endu… read more

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6. La Bar-Mitsva

By: Joann Sfar , Brigitte Findakly

3.95

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Sfar, qui est ne lui-meme dans une famille juive, met en scene une communaute juive du debut du XXe… read more

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7. Smallville Season 11 Vol. 6: Alien

By: Bryan Q. Miller , Cat Staggs , None

2.65

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Superman's secret is out. The world now knows that their greatest hero is not of this Earth. What t… read more

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8. Road to America

By: Baru

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed series from Drawn & Quarterly is finally a graphic novel. An alumnus of Art Spiegelma… read more

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9. 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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10. Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea

By: Guy Delisle

3.50

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Famously referred to as one of the "Axis of Evil" countries, North Korea remains one of the most se… read more

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11. Saigon Calling: London 1963-75

By: David Homel , Marcelino Truong

3.96

Format: 433 pages, Paperback

A sequel to the acclaimed Such a Lovely Little War: growing up Vietnamese in swinging London as the… read more

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12. Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon, 1961-63

By: David Homel , Marcelino Truong

1.75

Format: 134 pages,

This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietna… read more

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13. The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir

By: Riad Sattouf

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's … read more

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14. The Magic Fish

By: Trung Le Nguyen

4.51

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Tiến loves his family and his friends…but Tiến has a secret he's been keeping from them, and it mig… read more

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  • graphic novels
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"To me, language is a map to help you figure out where you are. If you can't read the map, you're lost"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

"The space between two shores is the ocean and being caught in between feels like drowning. And, really, what is the point of tears among so much salt water?"

-Trung Le Nguyen, The Magic Fish

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15. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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16. Almost American Girl

By: Robin Ha

4.22

Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition

A teen graphic novel memoir about a Korean-born, non-English-speaking girl who is abruptly transpla… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"But now that I am finally leaving, I see everything through rose-colored glasses"

-Robin Ha, Almost American Girl

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17. 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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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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18. Shuna's Journey

By: Hayao Miyazaki

4.34

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

From legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki comes a new manga classic about a prince on a quest for a go… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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19. Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

3.13

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

Treacle Walker is a stunning fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time… read more

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20. The Waiting

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.43

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The story begins with a mother's confession... sisters permanently separated by a border during the… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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21. Chlorine

By: Jade Song

3.72

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of The Pisces and The Vegetarian, Chlorine is a debut novel that blurs the line between… read more

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"Nearly every human memory is corrupted by the fact that it is a memory of being human"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Would a mermaid who stays at home, much-loved, with two beautiful parents and loving sisters who share everything, be worth memorializing? No."

-Jade Song, Chlorine

"Humans break so easily. They break their bones, their bodies, their hearts. I, too, as a girl, once broke. My head. And when this happened, I, like many other humans, did not allow myself the time an…"

-Jade Song, Chlorine

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22. Grass

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.52

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s live… read more

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  • history
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
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  • nonfiction
"Frágiles ramas que tiemblan en las postrimerías del largo invierno. Dentro albergan la energía de una vida nueva que pronto brotará y abrirá grietas en la corteza La tierra despertará de su hibernaci…"

-Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Grass

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23. Whereabouts

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.77

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her theme… read more

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"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

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24. Tunnels

By: Rutu Modan

3.75

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A race for the Ark of the Covenant finds an exploration into the ethics and world of the internatio… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"In this confusing state of affairs when each fact is immediately contrasted with a counter-fact and everyone is branded a liar, when the word truth can be used only in apology and within quotation ma…"

-Rutu Modan, Tunnels

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25. The Reluctant Fundamentalist

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.73

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more

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"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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26. Banned Book Club

By: Kim Hyun Sook

3.97

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"In times like this, no act is apolitical."

-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

"Everyone has a right to the truth. But I don't owe you mine."

-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

"But you can learn a lot about history by figuring out what people wanted to hide."

-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

"But if they're going to keep calling us communists, we might as well learn what that means!"

-Kim Hyun Sook, Banned Book Club

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27. De la Syrie à la Turquie (L'Odyssée d'Hakim, #1)

By: Fabien Toulmé

4.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

L’histoire vraie d’un homme qui a dû tout quitter : sa famille, ses amis, sa propre entreprise... p… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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28. Luisa: Now and Then

By: Carole Maurel

3.86

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

At 32, Luisa encounters her 15-year-old self in this sensitive, bold story about self-acceptance an… read more

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29. Yolk

By: Mary H.K. Choi

3.96

Format: 400 pages, None

From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two e… read more

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"Marriages are the original tiny cult."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

"It's crazy how lonely it is to be in a family."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

"People aren't abandoning you just because they go."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

"It's easier to watch myself be sad than actually FEEL SAD."

-Mary H.K. Choi, Yolk

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30. Vietnamese Memories Vol.1: Leaving Saigon (1)

By: Clément Baloup

3.83

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Colonialism and war disrupted the lives of millions of Vietnamese people during the 20th century. T… read more

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  • history
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  • nonfiction
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31. Smallville Season 11, Volume 9: Continuity

By: Bryan Q. Miller

4.09

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The stunning final chapter in the continuing stories from beloved TV series Smallville is here in S… read more

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7 Top nonfiction books like Vietnamese Memories Vol.1: Leaving Saigon (1) by Clément Baloup

Transform Your Habits

I Remember Beirut

Edward Gauvin , Zeina Abirached

3.63

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Robin Ha

4.22

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Kate Beaton

4.41

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4.52

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3.77

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4.52

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4.81

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Agustina Guerrero

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