10 must-read biography books like La guerre d'Alan, #2 by Emmanuel Guibert

Cover of La guerre d'Alan, #2 by Emmanuel Guibert

La guerre d'Alan, #2

By: Emmanuel Guibert

3.97

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

"Quand j'ai eu dix-huit ans, Uncle Sam m'a dit qu'il aimerait bien mettre un uniforme sur mon dos p…

If you liked the biography plot in La guerre d'Alan, #2 by Emmanuel Guibert , here is a list of 10 books like this:

Cover of Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard

1. Les Fleurs du Mal

By: Charles Baudelaire , Richard Howard

4.20

Format: 365 pages, Paperback

Charles Baudelaire's 1857 masterwork was scandalous in its day for its portrayals of sex, same-sex … read more

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  • france
"L'orage rajeunit les fleurs"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"I am the vampire at my own veins."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"Beauty, you walk on corpses, mocking them;"

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

"My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it."

-Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

Cover of Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China by Guy Delisle

2. 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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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • bande dessinée
  • nonfiction
Cover of Monsieur Ibrahim and The Flowers of the Qur'an by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Patricia Benecke, Patrick Driver

3. Monsieur Ibrahim and The Flowers of the Qur'an

By: Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt , Patricia Benecke , Patrick Driver

4.83

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Internationally acclaimed play of cross-cultural friendship Paris in the 1960s. Thirteen-year-old M… read more

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  • france
Cover of Catherine Certitude by Jean-Jacques Sempé, Patrick Modiano

4. Catherine Certitude

By: Jean-Jacques Sempé , Patrick Modiano

3.88

Format: None pages,

Comme son papa, Catherine Certitude porte des lunettes. Et une paire de lunettes, cela complique pa… read more

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  • france
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5. Ghost World

By: Daniel Clowes

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ghost Worldhas become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Chicken with Plums by Marjane Satrapi

6. Chicken with Plums

By: Marjane Satrapi

3.95

Format: 161 pages,

In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Blue Pills:  A Positive Love Story by Frederik Peeters

7. Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story

By: Frederik Peeters

4.02

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From one of Europe’s most celebrated young comics artists, a deeply personal story that will resona… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... it's probably that cities generate strangers continuously ..."

-Frederik Peeters, Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story

8. Deep Dark Fears

By: Fran Krause

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A charmingly creepy collection of 100 illustrated comics based on idiosyncratic and universal "deep… read more

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9. 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
  • biography
  • 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

10. Footnotes in Gaza

By: Joe Sacco

3.85

Format: 132 pages, Hardcover

From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the … read more

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11. Divoši

By: Lucie Lomová , None

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

Kresleny biograficky roman vychazejici ze skutecnych udalosti, jak je ve svych zapiscich zachytil m… read more

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12. 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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13. Les ignorants. Récit d'une initiation croisée

By: Étienne Davodeau

3.87

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Etienne Davodeau est auteur de bande dessinee, il ne sait pas grand-chose du monde du vin. Richard … read more

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14. Ce n'est pas toi que j'attendais

By: Fabien Toulmé

4.34

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

Dans la vie d'un couple, la naissance d'un enfant handicape est un ouragan, une tempete. Quand sa p… read more

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15. Chroniques de Jérusalem

By: Guy Delisle

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Guy Delisle et sa famille s'installent pour une annee a Jerusalem. Pas evident de se reperer dans c… read more

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16. A Man's Place

By: Annie Ernaux

3.88

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE A New York Times Notable Book Annie Ernaux's fat… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • biography
"J'écris peut-être parce qu'on n'avait plus rien à se dire."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Sous le bonheur, la crispation de l'aisance gagnée à l'arraché."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"Có lẽ niềm tự hào lớn nhất đối với ông, hay thậm chí là lời biện minh cho cuộc đời ông: là tôi đang thuộc về thế giới từng khinh miệt ông."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

"It was in other people that I searched for the figure of my father, in the way they would call their children, sit down and looked bored in waiting rooms and wave goodbye on station platforms."

-Annie Ernaux, A Man's Place

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17. Triste tigre

By: Neige Sinno

4.23

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

J'ai voulu y croire, j'ai voulu rêver que le royaume de la littérature m'accueillerait comme n'impo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
  • biography
"C'est vrai qu'aucun [...] n'avait vu ce que nous pouvions voir nous, les enfants et ma mère, au sein du foyer, où il se comportait comme un tyran. Et c'est quand même ça qui ressort avant tout de cet…"

-Neige Sinno, Triste tigre

Cover of Giù nella valle by Paolo Cognetti

18. Giù nella valle

By: Paolo Cognetti

3.58

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Un padre ha piantato due alberi davanti alla sua casa, uno per ogni figlio. Il primo, un larice, … read more

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Cover of L'Arabe du futur 5 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1992-1994 by Riad Sattouf

19. L'Arabe du futur 5 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1992-1994

By: Riad Sattouf

4.44

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Riad a 14 ans, ses cheveux blonds ont disparu, et il a un physique difficile. À la fin du tome préc… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • france
  • nonfiction
Cover of Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

20. 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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  • biography
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • comics
  • 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

Cover of Changer : méthode by Édouard Louis

21. Changer : méthode

By: Édouard Louis

4.31

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

« Une question s’est imposée au centre de ma vie, elle a concentré toutes mes réflexions, occupé to… read more

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  • france
Cover of Exteriors by Annie Ernaux

22. Exteriors

By: Annie Ernaux

3.57

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • france
Cover of In Waves by A.J. Dungo

23. In Waves

By: A.J. Dungo

4.37

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel, surfer and illustrator AJ Dungo remembers his late partner and the shared lo… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Everything Is OK by Debbie Tung

24. Everything Is OK

By: Debbie Tung

4.31

Format: 189 pages, Paperback

From the bestselling author of Quiet Girl in a Noisy World comes a gently humorous and poignant col… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Paying the Land by Joe Sacco

25. Paying the Land

By: Joe Sacco

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • bande dessinée
  • nonfiction
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26. Thieves

By: Lucie Bryon

4.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ella can’t seem to remember a single thing from the party the night before at a mysterious stranger… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • bande dessinée
"I'm not just your friend when everything is going well. I'm your friend through the crappy times too."

-Lucie Bryon, Thieves

Cover of La Petite Lumière by Grégory Panaccione

27. La Petite Lumière

By: Grégory Panaccione

4.14

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

« Je suis venu ici pour disparaître, dans ce hameau abandonné et désert dont je suis le seul habita… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
Cover of Knock Out!: Die Geschichte von E. Griffith by Reinhard Kleist

28. Knock Out!: Die Geschichte von E. Griffith

By: Reinhard Kleist

3.98

Format: None pages, Hardcover

„Wie seltsam das ist… Ich töte einen Mann, und die meisten Leute verstehen das und verzeihen mir. H… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of Já to měl první! by Barbora Brůnová

29. Já to měl první!

By: Barbora Brůnová

4.49

Format: 90 pages, Hardcover

None read more

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  • comics
Cover of Macanudo 10 (Macanudo, #10) by Liniers

30. Macanudo 10 (Macanudo, #10)

By: Liniers

4.42

Format: 191 pages, Paperback

Macanudo 10 cuenta las andanzas de personajes como Enriqueta y su osito Madariaga, la aceituna Oliv… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of La guerre d'Alan, #2 by Emmanuel Guibert

31. La guerre d'Alan, #2

By: Emmanuel Guibert

3.97

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

"Quand j'ai eu dix-huit ans, Uncle Sam m'a dit qu'il aimerait bien mettre un uniforme sur mon dos p… read more

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  • biography
  • graphic novels
  • war
  • world war ii
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • france
  • nonfiction

14 must-read nonfiction books like La guerre d'Alan, #2 by Emmanuel Guibert

Transform Your Habits

Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China

Guy Delisle

2.67

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Chicken with Plums

Marjane Satrapi

3.95

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Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story

Frederik Peeters

4.02

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel

4.08

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Los surcos del azar

Paco Roca

3.77

Transform Your Habits

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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.52

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4.81

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Agustina Guerrero

4.53

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