5 best-selling history books like Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound by Dave Chisholm

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Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound

By: Dave Chisholm

4.55

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound is a synesthesia-inducing graphic novel that follows the m…

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1. Richard Stark’s Parker: The Score

By: Darwyn Cooke , Richard Stark

4.30

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A high-octane trip across America, The Score finds Parker assembling the best caper men he can find… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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2. Stitches

By: David Small

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transfo… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • biography
  • nonfiction

3. Habibi

By: Craig Thompson

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets ("A triumph for the genre."--Library Journal)… read more

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4. Superman: Space Age

By: Mark Russell

4.20

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

Uniting the critically acclaimed writer Mark Russell (One-Star Squadron and The Flintstones) and Ei… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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5. 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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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • biography
  • 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

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6. The Talk

By: Darrin Bell

4.65

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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8. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 5

By: James Tynion IV

4.33

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Erica Slaughter strikes out on her own in the bestselling, award-winning series! After a year si… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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9. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 6

By: James Tynion IV

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

With the last person in her corner gone and a ruthless agent from the Order of St. George closing i… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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10. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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11. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 7

By: James Tynion IV

4.28

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The final chapter of the Tribulation saga and the decisive showdown between Erica Slaughter and Cut… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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12. Roaming

By: Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more

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  • graphic novels
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13. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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14. W0rldtr33 (Worldtree) Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.14

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

In 1999, Gabriel and his friends discovered the Undernet―a secret architecture to the internet. The… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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15. Tokyo These Days, Volume 1

By: Taiyo Matsumoto

3.96

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Matsumoto explores the relationships between a m… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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16. Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees

By: Patrick Horvath

4.21

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Live, laugh, shed blood. Dexter meets Richard Scarry’s Busy, Busy Town in this twisted debut graphi… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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17. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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18. Blood of the Virgin

By: Sammy Harkham

3.70

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

“A story about storytelling...Conjures up the grindhouse movie-making scene in 1970s Los Angeles an… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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19. Brooms

By: Jasmine Walls

4.23

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

YALSA TOP 10 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS BEST OF THE Booklist · Kirkus · Polygon · Chicago Publ… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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20. En la cabeza de Sherlock Holmes

By: Cyril Liéron

4.47

Format: 104 pages, Hardcover

Un viejo amigo del Dr. Watson es rescatado por la policía en extrañas circunstancias. El descubrimi… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Monk!: Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution by Youssef Daoudi

21. Monk!: Thelonious, Pannonica, and the Friendship Behind a Musical Revolution

By: Youssef Daoudi

4.09

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

"Read this invigorating graphic narrative, then—quickly, before the spell breaks!—play one of Monk'… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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22. All Tomorrow's Parties: The Velvet Underground Story

By: Koren Shadmi

4.02

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

An examination of some of rock'n'roll's most iconic figures—The Velvet Underground & Andy Warhol—an… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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23. Petar & Liza

By: Miroslav Sekulić-Struja

3.82

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A l'armée, Petar écrivait les lettres d'amour de ses compagnons de chambrée. Ensuite, c'est la vie … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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24. Hairball

By: Matt Kindt

3.37

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A brand-new supernatural nightmare that’s Junji Ito meets Hayao Miyazaki from the Eisner-nominated … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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25. Time Under Tension

By: M.S. Harkness

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Time Under Tension is a smart, funny, no bullshit work of autobiography, a story of searching for d… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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26. Houses of the Unholy

By: Ed Brubaker

3.73

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

An FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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27. Deep Cuts

By: Kyle Higgins

4.06

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

New Orleans, 1917: a clarinet player meets his hero. Kansas City, 1940: a young girl investigates t… read more

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  • music
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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28. Newburn Vol. 2

By: Chip Zdarsky

4.15

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Past mistakes are catching up with Newburn. As his allies turn on him one by one, Newburn must take… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound by Dave Chisholm

29. Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound

By: Dave Chisholm

4.55

Format: 150 pages, Hardcover

Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound is a synesthesia-inducing graphic novel that follows the m… read more

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  • music
  • history
  • biography
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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30. Woman, Life, Freedom

By: Marjane Satrapi

4.49

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

An urgent, groundbreaking and visually stunning new collection of graphic story-telling about the p… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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31. Singularity

By: Mat Groom

3.55

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

How much loss can one soul endure?  Blue Eyes can’t stop being reborn. He tumbles from life to life… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics

9 Best nonfiction books like Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound by Dave Chisholm

Transform Your Habits

Stitches

David Small

3.70

Transform Your Habits

It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

Zoe Thorogood

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

Daniel de Visé

4.25

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10 Top adult books like The Talk by Darrin Bell

Transform Your Habits

Shubeik Lubeik

Deena Mohamed

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

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