8 best-selling crafts books like Knitstrips: The World’s First Comic-Strip Knitting Book by Alice Ormsbee Beltran

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Knitstrips: The World’s First Comic-Strip Knitting Book

By: Alice Ormsbee Beltran

3.98

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The world’s first comic-strip knitting book, Knitstrips presents 22 original patterns, boundless hu…

If you liked the crafts plot in Knitstrips: The World’s First Comic-Strip Knitting Book by Alice Ormsbee Beltran , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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1. Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World

By: Clara Parkes

3.83

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Knitting aficionado and notable artisan Clara Parkes delves into her storied travels with this insp… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • knitting
"Knitting has a profound connective power. The culture and people and rituals around it, the values, they all contribute to an immediate and profound trust in one another. It's home. You belong and ar…"

-Clara Parkes, Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World

"A funny thing happens when more than one knitter gathers in a public place. A solo knitter, presuming she is a woman, quickly fades into the backdrop like a potted palm or a quietly nursing mother. .…"

-Clara Parkes, Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World

2. Three Bags Full

By: Anthea Bell , Leonie Swann

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

A witty philosophical murder mystery with a charming twist: the crack detectives are sheep determin… read more

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3. Yarn Harlot: The Secret Life of a Knitter

By: Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

3.79

Format: 223 pages, Paperback

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee's deepest wish is that everyone understand that knitting is at least as fun … read more

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4. Hansel and Gretel

By: Neil Gaiman , Lorenzo Mattotti

3.69

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

This all happened a long time ago, in your grandmother's time, or in her grandfather's. A long time… read more

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5. Knight Owl (The Knight Owl Series, 1)

By: Christopher Denise

4.51

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A Caldecott Honor Winner and  New York Times  Bestseller!  A determined Owl builds strength and … read more

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Cover of I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf by Grant Snider

6. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

By: Grant Snider

3.74

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"A book closed is just a block of paper."

-Grant Snider, I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

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7. Hungry Ghost

By: Victoria Ying

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and heart-wrenching young adult graphic novel takes a look at eating disorders, family … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
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8. The Backyard Bird Chronicles

By: Amy Tan

4.14

Format: 320 pages, Flexibound

A gorgeous, witty account of birding, nature, and the beauty around us that hides in plain sight. … read more

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  • nonfiction
"If there is anything I have learned these past six years, it is this: Each bird is surprising and thrilling in its own way. But the most special is the bird that pauses when it is eating, looks and a…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"The (Anna's Hummingbird) males are deadbeat dads that contribute nothing to making the nest, or to feeding either the female or the nestlings. They are off to find other females they can impress with…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"During daylight hours, they (Anna's Hummingbirds) feed every 15 minutes, be it tiny insects or nectar from flowers or feeders. If they don't consume food often enough, they can die during the day. If…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

"I asked Bernd Heinrich if he knew why feeder birds, like finches, discard so many seeds. It turns out he and other scientiests did research on this back in the 1990s - of course, he did -measuring di…"

-Amy Tan, The Backyard Bird Chronicles

Cover of Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain by Andrew McCarthy

9. Walking with Sam: A Father, a Son, and Five Hundred Miles Across Spain

By: Andrew McCarthy

4.03

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, funny, and poignant travel memoir following  New York Times  bestselling author and ac… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. 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 Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman

11. Snow, Glass, Apples

By: Neil Gaiman

4.07

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and C… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"I will not scream. I will not give them that satisfaction. They will have my body, but my soul and my story are my own, and will die with me."

-Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples

"Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life."

-Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples

Cover of The Girls on the Shore (Two Rivers, #2.5) by Ann Cleeves

12. The Girls on the Shore (Two Rivers, #2.5)

By: Ann Cleeves

3.40

Format: 36 pages, Kindle Edition

Ann Cleeves returns with a darkly delicious short story, "The Girls on the Shore", featuring DI Mat… read more

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Cover of Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer by Rax King

13. Tacky: Love Letters to the Worst Culture We Have to Offer

By: Rax King

3.47

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

An irreverent and charming collection of deeply personal essays about the joys of low pop culture a… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater by Peggy Orenstein

14. Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

By: Peggy Orenstein

3.89

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In this lively, funny memoir, Peggy Orenstein sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, sp… read more

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  • crafts
  • nonfiction
  • knitting
"The beauty was just mind-boggling for this English girl...It was like being in your own national park, but without the signs telling you what you're supposed to think."

-Peggy Orenstein, Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater

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15. The Cemetery of Untold Stories

By: Julia Alvarez

3.68

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

Literary icon Julia Alvarez returns with an inventive and emotional novel about storytelling itself… read more

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16. And Yet: Poems

By: Kate Baer

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Let your life rest on what is already good."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."

-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems

Cover of Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann

17. Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

By: Judith Heumann

4.48

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of f… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When other people see you as a third-class citizen, the first thing you need is a belief in yourself and the knowledge that you have rights. The next thing you need is a group of friends to fight bac…"

-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

"When someone ignores you, it's an intentional display of power. They're essentially acting like you don't exist, and they do it because they can. They believe that nothing will happen to them. Ignori…"

-Judith Heumann, Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist

Cover of Mosaics and Magic (Vampire Knitting Club, #14) by Nancy Warren

18. Mosaics and Magic (Vampire Knitting Club, #14)

By: Nancy Warren

4.34

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

Beware the crystal ball... When Lucy and Rafe are given a crystal ball as a wedding present, she… read more

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19. The Sleeping and the Dead

By: Ann Cleeves

3.91

Format: 393 pages, Kindle Edition

The Sleeping and the Dead is a tense psychological crime thriller from CWA Gold Dagger award-winnin… read more

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20. The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

3.90

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

A loving husband lost to devastating summer floods. A teenage girl injured during a robbery. Two se… read more

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Cover of Why Are You Like This?: An ArtbyMoga Comic Collection by Meg  Adams

21. Why Are You Like This?: An ArtbyMoga Comic Collection

By: Meg Adams

4.22

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

A collection of comics with a millennial take on marriage, adulthood, pet ownership, self-love, and… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep by Jane        Cooper

22. The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep

By: Jane Cooper

4.05

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

The Lost Flock is the story of the remarkable and rare little horned sheep, known as Orkney Boreray… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • knitting
Cover of Patty Lyons' Knitting Bag of Tricks: Over 70 sanity saving hacks for better knitting by Patty Lyons

23. Patty Lyons' Knitting Bag of Tricks: Over 70 sanity saving hacks for better knitting

By: Patty Lyons

4.61

Format: 207 pages, Paperback

Do you wish your knitting was better and that you had an expert knitter by your side to help you wh… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • knitting
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24. Red River Road

By: Anna Downes

3.94

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

Anna Downes's extraordinary next thriller Red River Road follows a woman desperate to discover what… read more

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25. Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair

By: Lucy Knisley

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Library Binding

WOE! SCREAM! MEOW! ...PURR? Join the hilarious and of course dramatic world of Linney the House Cat… read more

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Cover of Faerie Knitting: 14 Tales of Love and Magic by Alice Hoffman

26. Faerie Knitting: 14 Tales of Love and Magic

By: Alice Hoffman

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling author Alice Hoffman and master knitter Lisa Hoffman comes Faerie K… read more

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  • knitting
Cover of KnitOvation Stitch Dictionary: 150+ Modern Colorwork Knitting Motifs by Andrea  Rangel

27. KnitOvation Stitch Dictionary: 150+ Modern Colorwork Knitting Motifs

By: Andrea Rangel

4.39

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

A brand new stitch dictionary from the author of the wildly popular, AlterKnit Stitch Dictionary . … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • knitting
Cover of The Carnivale of Curiosities by Amiee Gibbs

28. The Carnivale of Curiosities

By: Amiee Gibbs

3.59

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling gothic tale of Faustian bargains, jealousy, and murder set in a spectacular circus, wher… read more

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Cover of Knit Fold Pleat Repeat: Simple Knits, Gorgeous Garments by Norah Gaughan

29. Knit Fold Pleat Repeat: Simple Knits, Gorgeous Garments

By: Norah Gaughan

4.04

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Knitting guru Norah Gaughan shows you how to make rectangles, squares, and simple shapes—then fold,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • knitting
Cover of The Vampire Knitting Club: Cornwall (Vampire Knitting Club: Cornwall, #1) by Nancy Warren

30. The Vampire Knitting Club: Cornwall (Vampire Knitting Club: Cornwall, #1)

By: Nancy Warren

4.36

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

A knitting shop in Cornwall—what could be more peaceful? Turns out, just about anything! When B… read more

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Cover of Knitstrips: The World’s First Comic-Strip Knitting Book by Alice Ormsbee Beltran

31. Knitstrips: The World’s First Comic-Strip Knitting Book

By: Alice Ormsbee Beltran

3.98

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The world’s first comic-strip knitting book, Knitstrips presents 22 original patterns, boundless hu… read more

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3.74

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4.14

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