13 best-selling graphic novels books like Literary Life Revisited by Posy Simmonds

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Literary Life Revisited

By: Posy Simmonds

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

First published in 2003, Literary Life became an instant classic as readers (and writers) delighted…

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Cover of I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron

1. I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

By: Nora Ephron

3.80

Format: 137 pages, Hardcover

Here is the beloved, bestselling author of I Feel Bad About My Neck at her funniest, wisest, and be… read more

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"My religion is Get Over It."

-Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

"I was a journalist and I liked to watch. I was in awe."

-Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

"Here's the thing about dessert--you want it to last. You want to savor it."

-Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

"If this is one of the last days of my life, am I doing exactly what I want to be doing?"

-Nora Ephron, I Remember Nothing: and Other Reflections

Cover of Amorostasia (Amorostasia, #1) by Cyril Bonin

2. Amorostasia (Amorostasia, #1)

By: Cyril Bonin

4.39

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Tomber amoureux nuit gravement a la sante ! Les relations amoureuses sont souvent compliquees... et… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics

3. In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas

By: Larry McMurtry

3.79

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Writing with characteristic grace and wit, Larry McMurtry tackles the full spectrum of his favorite… read more

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4. To-morrow

By: Joseph Conrad

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

'It was as if the sea, breaking down the wall protecting all the homes of the town, had sent a wave… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Are You My Mother?

By: Alison Bechdel

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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6. Blankets

By: Craig Thompson

None

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creati… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
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7. A Month in the Country

By: J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Format: None pages,

In J. L. Carr's deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken ma… read more

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  • fiction

8. The Honorary Consul

By: Graham Greene , Nicholas Shakespeare

4.48

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

The Honorary Consul is a British thriller novel by Graham Greene, published in 1973. It was one of … read more

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9. Private Life

By: Jane Smiley

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A riveting new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winner that traverses the intimate landscape of one wo… read more

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10. A God in Ruins

By: Kate Atkinson

1.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In Life After LifeUrsula Todd lived through the turbulent events of the last century again and agai… read more

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11. Mothering Sunday

By: Graham Swift

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more

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12. The Intuitionist

By: Colson Whitehead

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Verticality, architectural and social, is the lofty idea at the heart of Colson Whitehead's first n… read more

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13. A Girl's Story

By: Annie Ernaux

3.89

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernau… read more

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"Un été immense comme ils le sont tous jusqu'à vingt-cinq ans"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Everywhere on earth, with every day that dawns, a woman stands surrounded by men ready to throw stones at her."

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"At this very moment, out in the streets, the open spaces, on the metro, in lecture halls, and inside millions of heads, millions of novels are being written chapter by chapter, erased and revised, an…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

"Aucun autre projet d’écriture ne me paraît, non pas lumineux, ni nouveau, encore moins heureux, mais vital, capable de me faire vivre au-dessus du temps. Juste « profiter de la vie » est une perspect…"

-Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

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14. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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  • fiction
"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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15. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

16. I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

By: Lorrie Moore

3.31

Format: 193 pages, Hardcover

Lorrie Moore's first novel since A Gate at the Stairs--a daring, meditative exploration of love and… read more

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  • fiction
"I've become. An object of dismay. I guess."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

"Do I jar you?" he asks with his sly charm. "No," I say. “I am braced at every turn for disenchantment."

-Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

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17. The Shards

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.00

Format: 595 pages, Hardcover

A sensational new novel from the best-selling author of Less Than Zero and Imperial Bedrooms that t… read more

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  • fiction
"Non investivo nel mondo reale – perché avrei dovuto? Non era fatto per me o per i miei bisogni o desideri."

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"Eravamo adolescenti, bambini superficialmente sofisticati, che non sapevano davvero nulla di come funzionava il mondo - lo stavamo sperimentando, immagino, ma senza averne cognizione. Almeno fino a q…"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

"And I just stood there in the fading afternoon light, realizing at seventeen that I was already staring into my past — that the past had a meaning that would always define you. I remember this being …"

-Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards

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18. House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries

By: Alan Bennett

3.81

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution aga… read more

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19. Brooklyn Crime Novel

By: Jonathan Lethem

3.52

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping story of community, crime, and gentrification, tracing over fifty years of life in one B… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

20. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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  • fiction
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

Cover of The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna  Cannon

21. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By: Joanna Cannon

3.65

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more

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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

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22. Le petit astronaute

By: Jean-Paul Eid

4.80

Format: 156 pages, Hardcover

Tous les ans, Juliette fait son pèlerinage en vélo dans le quartier de son enfance. Mais cette anné… read more

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  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Kisses for Jet by Joris Bas Backer

23. Kisses for Jet

By: Joris Bas Backer

3.50

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A striking and emotive graphic novel from trans creator, Joris Bas Backer about coming to terms wit… read more

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  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Je geld of je leven by Barbara Stok

24. Je geld of je leven

By: Barbara Stok

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Je geld of je leven is het autobiografische stripverhaal van Barbara Stok over de fulltime baan die… read more

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  • comics
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25. Berlin

By: Jason Lutes

4.45

Format: 580 pages, Hardcover

"If there was ever any doubt of a graphic novel’s ability to achieve a high level of storytelling, … read more

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  • comics
Cover of Brave New World: A Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham

26. Brave New World: A Graphic Novel

By: Fred Fordham

3.65

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Available in graphic novel form for the first time, Aldous Huxley's classic novel of authoritariani… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Tell Me the Truth About Love: 13 Tales from the Therapist’s Couch by Susanna Abse

27. Tell Me the Truth About Love: 13 Tales from the Therapist’s Couch

By: Susanna Abse

4.05

Format: 208 pages, ebook

Love is what gives life meaning, but relationships also present us with the greatest emotional chal… read more

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28. Le chemisier

By: Bastien Vivès

2.77

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Étudiante en Lettres classiques à la Sorbonne, Séverine n'est ni belle, ni laide, ni brillante, ni … read more

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  • comics
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29. The Summer of Her Life

By: Thomas von Steinaecker

3.87

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

A contemplative and compelling tale about growing old and what it means to be happy   Gerda stands … read more

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  • comics
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30. Final Cut

By: Charles Burns

3.88

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

The beloved and award-winning author of BLACK HOLE's haunting and visually arresting story of an ar… read more

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  • comics
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31. Literary Life Revisited

By: Posy Simmonds

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

First published in 2003, Literary Life became an instant classic as readers (and writers) delighted… read more

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15 Top fiction books like Literary Life Revisited by Posy Simmonds

Transform Your Habits

To-morrow

Joseph Conrad

5.00

Transform Your Habits

Blankets

Craig Thompson

None

Transform Your Habits

A Month in the Country

J.L. Carr , Michael Holroyd

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Baumgartner

Paul Auster

3.78

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Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Blackwater

Jeannette Arroyo

3.53

Transform Your Habits

Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

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Northranger

Rey Terciero

4.06

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