8 Top comics books like World According to Sempé by Jean-Jacques Sempé

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World According to Sempé

By: Jean-Jacques Sempé

4.40

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

This series centers around the experiences of a child and a child's interpretation of the world.

If you liked the comics plot in World According to Sempé by Jean-Jacques Sempé , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China by Guy Delisle

1. Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China

By: Guy Delisle

2.67

Format: 166 pages,

Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in urban southern China,… read more

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  • bande dessinée
  • comics
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2. This One Summer

By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.69

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, th… read more

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  • comics
"Don't worry about any of this stuff, okay? It's all just adult junk that doesn't mean anything."

-Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer

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3. The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

By: Carson McCullers

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers'… read more

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4. Burma Chronicles

By: Guy Delisle

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

'Burma Chronicles' presents a personal and distinctively humorous glimpse into a political hotspot,… read more

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  • bande dessinée
  • comics

5. 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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6. Eu Hei-de Amar uma Pedra

By: António Lobo Antunes

3.56

Format: 259 pages,

Durante anos, as quartas-feiras, numa pensao de Lisboa, uma homem e uma mulher encontram-se para vi… read more

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7. L'Arabe du futur 3 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1985-1987)

By: Riad Sattouf

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Broche

read more

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8. 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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9. Les Vacances du Petit Nicolas

By: René Goscinny , Jean-Jacques Sempé

3.77

Format: None pages, Paperback

D'abord, il y a eu l'hotel Beau-Rivage, a Bains-les-Mers, et les nouveaux copains: Blaise, Fructueu… read more

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10. Marie (Magasin général, #1)

By: Régis Loisel , Jean-Louis Tripp

4.19

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

- Ben voyons, Marie, tout le monde profite de toi, et puis on dirait que tu le vois pas... - Faut b… read more

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11. A Cidade de Ulisses

By: Teolinda Gersão

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Um homem e uma mulher encontram-se e amam-se em Lisboa. A sua historia, que e tambem uma historia d… read more

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12. 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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13. Simple Passion

By: Annie Ernaux

3.93

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

In her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensn… read more

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"I experienced pleasure like a future pain."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"I do not wish to explain my passion—that would imply that it was a mistake or some disorder I need to justify—I just want to describe it."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"A partir du mois de septembre l'année dernière, je n'ai plus rien fait d'autre qu'attendre un homme : qu'il me téléphone et qu'il vienne chez moi."

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

"Yet it is that surreal, almost non-existent last visit that gives my passion its true meaning, which is precisely to be meaningless, and to have been for two years the most violent and unaccountable …"

-Annie Ernaux, Simple Passion

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14. L'Arabe du futur 6 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1994–2011

By: Riad Sattouf

4.61

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

L'Arabe du futur, une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient est une série de bande dessinée en six tomes, écrite… read more

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  • bande dessinée
  • humor
  • comics
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15. Torto Arado

By: Itamar Vieira Junior

4.49

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Vencedor dos prémios LeYa (2018) e Jabuti, finalista do Oceanos (2020). Um livro comovente que traz… read more

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"Olha, dona"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Durante algum tempo, pensei que pudesse haver uma ruptura entre nossas famílias, mas o perdão aflorava da bênção que poderia ser o retorno de alguém de qual somos parte."

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

"Você incutiu naquelas vidas um respeito grande por suas próprias histórias. Mas agora nem você conseguia mais se iluminar com a esperança de que a mudança fosse possível, muito menos acreditava que a…"

-Itamar Vieira Junior, Torto Arado

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16. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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17. Mañana y tarde

By: Jon Fosse

3.88

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more

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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"

-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde

"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"

-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde

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18. 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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  • comics
"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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19. Adèle

By: Leïla Slimani

3.39

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beau… read more

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"People who are never satisfied destroy everything around them."

-Leïla Slimani, Adèle

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20. Ne m'oublie pas

By: Alix Garin

4.40

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

La grand-mère de Clémence souffre de la maladie d'Alzheimer. Face à son désespoir, elle prend la dé… read more

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  • bande dessinée
  • comics
"Too late" arrives sooner than we think."

-Alix Garin, Ne m'oublie pas

"Trop tard" arrive plus vite qu'on le croit."

-Alix Garin, Ne m'oublie pas

Cover of Sinopse de Amor e Guerra (Geografias, #2) by Afonso Cruz

21. Sinopse de Amor e Guerra (Geografias, #2)

By: Afonso Cruz

4.25

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

Theobald Thomas e Bluma Janek estão fadados a ficar juntos desde que vêm ao mundo. Os livros são o… read more

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22. Empty Wardrobes

By: Maria Judite de Carvalho

3.75

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

For ten years Dora has ritualistically mourned her husband's death, a pointless ritual that forced … read more

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23. The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel

By: Fred Fordham

3.75

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously illustrated, first-ever graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved Amer… read more

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  • comics
Cover of Coisas de Loucos: O Que Eles Deixaram no Manicómio by Catarina  Gomes

24. Coisas de Loucos: O Que Eles Deixaram no Manicómio

By: Catarina Gomes

4.54

Format: 327 pages, Paperback

Uma caixa de objectos abandonados no Hospital Psiquiátrico Miguel Bombarda contém as pistas para re… read more

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25. War

By: José Jorge Letria

4.32

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

Nasce como doença sussurrada e cresce a partir do ódio, da ambição e do medo. Não ouve, não vê, tão… read more

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26. Aberto Todos os Dias

By: João Luís Barreto Guimarães

4.18

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

A poesia de João Luís Barreto Guimarães oscila, sempre, entre a contemplação da História, a ironia … read more

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27. Looking at Pictures

By: Susan Woodford

3.90

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Beautifully illustrated with some of the world’s greatest pictures, from cave paintings and Roman m… read more

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28. Sombras da Raia

By: Nuno Franco Pires

4.46

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

1936: No lado espanhol da Raia a guerra rebenta e, em Badajoz, centenas são massacrados. Juan foge … read more

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29. World According to Sempé

By: Jean-Jacques Sempé

4.40

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

This series centers around the experiences of a child and a child's interpretation of the world. read more

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  • bande dessinée
  • humor
  • comics
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30. Malditos Amigos

By: André Diniz

4.15

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Malditos Amigos traz o leitor a conhecer Ramsés, tatuador quarentão do centro velho de São Paulo, u… read more

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  • bande dessinée
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31. Sopa de pedra

By: Paula Rego

3.38

Format: None pages, None

O pai disse-lhe: - Não adianta, as minhas pernas estão fracas e já não consigo pescar. O poço e… read more

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