13 Top nonfiction books like Clutter by Ariel Bordeaux

Cover of Clutter by Ariel Bordeaux

Clutter

By: Ariel Bordeaux

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Clutter: A Scatterbrained Sexual Assault Memoir is an 80-page comic by alternative comics legend Ar…

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Cover of Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

1. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

By: Roz Chast

4.29

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York TimesBestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine

2. Shortcomings

By: Adrian Tomine

3.20

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

FROM THE PREEMINENT CARTOONIST OF HIS GENERATION, THE MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2007 Shortc… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

3. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

4. My Friend Dahmer

By: Derf Backderf

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer -- the most notorious serial killer sin… read more

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5. SuperMutant Magic Academy

By: Jillian Tamaki

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Unrequited love, underage drinking, and teen angst rule at a high school for mutants and witches. T… read more

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6. Thunderstruck & Other Stories

By: Elizabeth McCracken

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the beloved novel The Giant's House--finalist for the National Book Award--comes… read more

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7. Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me

By: Ellen Forney

3.79

Format: 1 pages, Paperback

Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between "crazy" and "creative" in this graphic me… read more

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8. 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
Cover of All Fours by Miranda July

9. All Fours

By: Miranda July

3.81

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times–bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tende… read more

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"But maybe the road split between: a life spent longing vs. a life that was continually surprising"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"Maybe we shouldn't do that," Jordi said. "Flatten ourselves like that. Erratic doesn't have to mean crazy or irresponsible. Shouldn't we be normalizing change?"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"I guess any calling, no mater what it is, is a kind of unresolved ache," I said, giving in to knowing more than him. "It's a problem that you can't fix, but there is some relief in knowing you will c…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

"For me lying created just the right amount of problems and what you saw was just one of my four or five faces- each real, each with different needs. The only dangerous lie was one that asked me to co…"

-Miranda July, All Fours

Cover of Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki

10. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

By: Mariko Tamaki

3.86

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Have faith in yourself to know what's right for you. Whatever answer you need, it's inside you somewhere."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"It's true that giving can be a part of love. But, contrary to popular belief, love should never take from you, Freddy."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"Of course, I know there are LGBTQIA activists out there who fought for centuries for me to have the right to fuck up like this"

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"Polyamorous or monogamous, your love should be a thing that brings something to you. It’s true that giving can be a part of love, but contrary to popular belief, your love should never take from you."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

Cover of Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere by Maria Bamford

11. Sure, I'll Join Your Cult: A Memoir of Mental Illness and the Quest to Belong Anywhere

By: Maria Bamford

3.77

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

A brutally honest and hilariously frenetic memoir about show business, mental health, and the comfo… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

12. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

Cover of Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky

13. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Biography of X by Catherine Lacey

14. Biography of X

By: Catherine Lacey

3.85

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From one of our fiercest stylists, a roaring epic chronicling the life, times, and secrets of a not… read more

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"One of the armed guards smiled and said, “God bless,"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"Who can say who I are, how many I are, which I is the most I of my I’s?"

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She could not hurt me. I had no more space, at the time, to hold any new hurts."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

"She kept losing track of the people she loved, and losing track of herself along with them."

-Catherine Lacey, Biography of X

Cover of Mimosa: A Graphic Novel by Archie Bongiovanni

15. Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

By: Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/T… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke

16. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

By: Kristen Radtke

4.01

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"

-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness

Cover of Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz

17. Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

By: Julia Wertz

4.35

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronic… read more

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  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Go fuck yourself, melted spatula!"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"Do the stepwork and don't give me any of your excuses. We both know they're bullshit."

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a come…"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"It's the fantasy of a life gone wrong. You've been doing the best you can, but it's hard and you're tired. Then something horrible happens and you get to give up and go be sad somewhere. There's some…"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

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18. Big Swiss

By: Jen Beagin

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house is … read more

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"¿Habla más de un idioma?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"You bullied other bullies,"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"she’d always been less of a shit-talker and more of a shit-thinker"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

"At least I know where the hell I am and what’s happening. Which way is north?"

-Jen Beagin, Big Swiss

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19. Either/Or

By: Elif Batuman

4.01

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Sel… read more

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"I'm going to become whatever I was going to become."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"Fiona Apple's album made me more immediately depressed than any other music I remembered hearing."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"That had probably been written by a professor. I recognized the professor's characteristic delight at not imparting information."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

"I was going to remember, or discover, where everything came from. I was going to do the subtle, monstrous thing where you figured out what you were doing, and why."

-Elif Batuman, Either/Or

Cover of Rave by Jessica   Campbell

20. Rave

By: Jessica Campbell

3.65

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

A queer coming-of-age story, complete with secret cigarettes, gross gym teachers, and a lot of chur… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Couplets by Maggie Millner

21. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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22. Our Little Secret

By: Emily Carrington

4.18

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2023 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize At 15, Emily is a relatively typical teenage girl… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir by Maureen Burdock

23. Queen of Snails: A Graphic Memoir

By: Maureen Burdock

3.94

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Explores the author’s family history in graphic novel format, examining the emotional baggage of vi… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine by Erin   Williams

24. What's Wrong?: Personal Histories of Chronic Pain and Bad Medicine

By: Erin Williams

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

“A humane and gripping work that illuminates how (and why) our treatments of chronic illness fail, … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Dumb: Living Without a Voice by Georgia Webber

25. Dumb: Living Without a Voice

By: Georgia Webber

3.35

Format: 196 pages, Hardcover

Part memoir, part medical cautionary tale, Dumb tells the story of how an urban twentysomething cop… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Spiral and Other Stories by Aidan Koch

26. Spiral and Other Stories

By: Aidan Koch

3.79

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A delicate, dreamlike, and lushly detailed comics collection by a contemporary artist whose work ex… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One by Natalie Norris

27. Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One

By: Natalie Norris

4.09

Format: 218 pages, Hardcover

A vivid debut graphic memoir of adolescent resiliency. This debut graphic memoir (the first of two … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"The solution I settled on was minimization and denial. I didn't understand that when you bury a secret it seeps deeper into your bones. And once embedded it becomes so much harder to untangle from yo…"

-Natalie Norris, Dear Mini: A Graphic Memoir, Book One

Cover of Banal Nightmare by Halle Butler

28. Banal Nightmare

By: Halle Butler

3.64

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A ferocious novel by one of the boldest voices in American fiction and the author of The New Me, th… read more

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Cover of Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity by Arup Chakraborty

29. Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity

By: Arup Chakraborty

4.24

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

How viruses emerge to cause pandemics, how our immune system combats them, and how diagnostic tests… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Clutter by Ariel Bordeaux

30. Clutter

By: Ariel Bordeaux

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Clutter: A Scatterbrained Sexual Assault Memoir is an 80-page comic by alternative comics legend Ar… read more

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Cover of Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It by Tara Booth

31. Processing: 100 Comics That Got Me Through It

By: Tara Booth

4.55

Format: 396 pages, Paperback

Riotous bodies abound in these deeply honest comics that will get you through it (or at least help)… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics

19 best-selling graphic novels books like Clutter by Ariel Bordeaux

Transform Your Habits

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

Roz Chast

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Shortcomings

Adrian Tomine

3.20

Transform Your Habits

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Monica

Daniel Clowes

3.95

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Play It As It Lays

Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Bliss Montage

Ling Ma

3.91

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Elaine Hsieh Chou

3.84

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