11 must-read graphic novels books like Hockney: A Graphic Life (BioGraphics) by Simon Elliott

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Hockney: A Graphic Life (BioGraphics)

By: Simon Elliott

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Follow the journey of David Hockney's exceptional life in a unique graphic novel format. From his …

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1. American Born Chinese

By: Gene Luen Yang

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds tha… read more

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2. The Arrival

By: Shaun Tan

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more

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3. The Incal

By: Brian Michael Bendis , Alejandro Jodorowsky , Mœbius , Justin Kelly , None

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside do… read more

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4. Escape From Warsaw

By: Ian Serraillier , None

3.81

Format: 263 pages,

WARSAW 1942 On a cold, dark night in Warsaw in 1942, the Balicki children watch in horror as Nazi S… read more

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5. L.A. Woman

By: Eve Babitz

4.45

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

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6. The Secret Lives of Color

By: Kassia St. Clair

4.12

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The Secret Lives of Colour tells the unusual stories of the 75 most fascinating shades, dyes and hu… read more

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"Van Gogh's sunflowers, it seems, are wilting, just like their real-life counterparts did."

-Kassia St. Clair, The Secret Lives of Color

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7. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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8. 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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"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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9. In Memoriam

By: Alice Winn

4.53

Format: 382 pages, Hardcover

A haunting, virtuosic debut novel about two young men who fall in love during a time of war. It'… read more

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"It’s intimate."

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Call me Sidney,"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Where’s the rest of it?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

"Do you believe in magic?"

-Alice Winn, In Memoriam

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10. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

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11. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

By: Erika Fatland

4.28

Format: 477 pages, Hardcover

Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the Soviet Union in… read more

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"W gruncie rzeczy nie wyobrażam sobie lepszej ilustracji szczytu melancholii niż pesymista czytający Schopenhauera w Pamirze."

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

"(...) a kiedy się śmiał, czynił to na ten lekko zrezygnowany, ironiczny sposób, który przyswoili sobie obrońcy praw człowieka na całym świecie."

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

"There are very few lazy people in Uzbekistan now" he said. "I describe as lazy those who go to Moscow and sweep its streets and squares." - President of Uzbekistan"

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

"He shook his head and waved me on to his colleague, who was responsible for moral checks. "Do you have any porn with you miss?" The customs officer looked at me with interest."

-Erika Fatland, Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

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12. A First Time for Everything

By: Dan Santat

4.39

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkwa… read more

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13. This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.63

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Other people don’t seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or … read more

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"Every time she cried, "I love you!" the words shattered her heart without mercy."

-Natsuko Imamura, This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

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14. Hijab Butch Blues

By: Lamya H.

4.48

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from storie… read more

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"Sort of?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"Queer indispensability?"

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I feel tired. Or reckless. Or maybe brave."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

"I want to figure her out, this girl, and I want to know everything about her."

-Lamya H., Hijab Butch Blues

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15. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

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"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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16. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

By: James Tynion IV

4.30

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

With Something Is Killing the Children and The Department of Truth, James Tynion IV has changed the… read more

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"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

"Okay, look out at this bar, and this city. This way of people dressing, and the way we talk, and our dumb jobs and our dumb lives. I think this will end. It'll end slowly, though. It'll crack apart, …"

-James Tynion IV, The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 1

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17. A Book of Days

By: Patti Smith

4.26

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winnin… read more

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Cover of The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2 by James Tynion IV

18. The Nice House on the Lake, Vol. 2

By: James Tynion IV

4.15

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

One of the most critically acclaimed and bestselling horror books of 2021 returns for its shocking … read more

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19. Butter

By: Asako Yuzuki

3.60

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist inten… read more

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"Dessert was home-made candied chestnuts, chiffon cake baked with amazake and rice flour, and cups of gingery chai. Biting into the cake, Rika discovered that it was perfectly fluffy, with a pleasing …"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Soon after, Rika heard the sizzle of butter melting in a hot frying pan. It smelt to her like life itself. Maybe because it was animal fat, there was rough, raw depth and fragrance to its smell, whic…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"Milk was originally blood. In that case, was the butter in the Babaji story actually a metaphor for all the carnage that took place under the cover of the jungle? What seemed pure, white and creamy h…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

"The whipped butter had already started melting across the waffles' latticed brown surface, creating a golden trickling waterfall that pooled in their hollows. Rika bit into the dough, savoring how ju…"

-Asako Yuzuki, Butter

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20. Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

By: Mary Oliver

4.58

Format: 456 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this defi… read more

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"All I know is that "thank you" should appear somewhere. So just in case I can't find the perfect place- "Thank you, thank you."

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your nones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it …"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"I know someone who kisses the way a flower opens, but more rapidly. Flowers are sweet. They have short, beatific lives. They offer much pleasure. There is nothing in this world that can be said again…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

"A blue preacher flew toward the swamp, in slow motion. On the leafy banks, an old Chinese poet, hunched in the white gown of his wings, was waiting. The water was the kind of dark silk that has silve…"

-Mary Oliver, Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

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21. My Name Is Why

By: Lemn Sissay

4.29

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in an adopted family followed by six years in care homes… read more

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22. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

By: Natalie Haynes

4.05

Format: 259 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more

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"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"

-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth

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23. Bellies

By: Nicola Dinan

4.07

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

I wore a dress on the night I first met Ming.It begins as your typical boy meets boy. While out wit… read more

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Cover of This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

24. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

By: Navied Mahdavian

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more

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25. Nowhere Girl

By: Magali Le Huche

3.88

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Magali a 11 ans. Elle aime les Beatles, dans la catégorie « passionnément » ou « à la folie ». Ce q… read more

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Cover of The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood by Brian "Box" Brown

26. The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood

By: Brian "Box" Brown

4.04

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Brian "Box" Brown brings history and culture to life through his comics. In his new graphic novel, … read more

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27. Becoming Andy Warhol

By: Nick Bertozzi

2.71

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Celebrated during his lifetime as much for his personality as for his paintings, Andy Warhol (1928–… read more

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28. Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest

By: Isabel Greenberg

4.21

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

New York Times bestselling and award-winning author/illustrator Isabel Greenberg’s Young Hag and th… read more

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29. Hockney: A Graphic Life (BioGraphics)

By: Simon Elliott

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Follow the journey of David Hockney's exceptional life in a unique graphic novel format. From his … read more

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30. The Hotel Avocado

By: Bob Mortimer

4.21

Format: 413 pages, Kindle Edition

Gary Thorn is struggling with a big decision. Should he stay in London, wallowing in the safety of … read more

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Cover of Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4) by Stephen Fry

31. Odyssey (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #4)

By: Stephen Fry

4.42

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The final book in Stephen Fry's acclaimed internationally bestselling Greek myths series telling th… read more

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Satoshi Yagisawa

3.87

Transform Your Habits

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Hisashi Kashiwai

3.70

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3.60

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