6 must-read biography memoir books like Red Rock Baby Candy by Shira Spector

Cover of Red Rock Baby Candy by Shira Spector

Red Rock Baby Candy

By: Shira Spector

3.56

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Shira Spector literally paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful 10 years of her life, encompas…

If you liked the biography memoir plot in Red Rock Baby Candy by Shira Spector , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Property by Rutu Modan, Jessica Cohen

1. The Property

By: Rutu Modan , Jessica Cohen

3.93

Format: 222 pages, Hardcover

After the death of her son, Regina Segal takes her granddaughter Mica to Warsaw, hoping to reclaim … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • jewish
Cover of The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions by Larry   Mitchell, Ned Asta

2. The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

By: Larry Mitchell , Ned Asta

4.50

Format: 114 pages, Paperback

The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a beloved queer utopian text written by Larry … read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"The strong women told the faggots that the more you share, the less you need."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"The women who love women wrote a song for the faggots. It was called, "Anything you do that the men don't like is o.k. by us."

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Ramrod has an empire. They have not had it very long yet already it is shabby and disreputable. Everyday the faggots and their friends can see, hear, and feel Ramrod's empire disintegrating as the me…"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

"Nothing can defeat the spirit of the earth. The fairies know that the earth will not tolerate the men much longer. The earth, scarred and gouged and stripped and bombed, will deny life to the men in …"

-Larry Mitchell, The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Cover of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris

3. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

By: Emil Ferris

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monstersis… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #1) by Colin Meloy, Carson Ellis

4. Wildwood (Wildwood Chronicles, #1)

By: Colin Meloy , Carson Ellis

4.62

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The first book in the epic middle-grade fantasy series full of magic, wonder, and danger--nothing l… read more

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Cover of By Night in Chile by Roberto Bolaño, Chris    Andrews

5. By Night in Chile

By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews

3.89

Format: 118 pages, Paperback

During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more

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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."

-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

6. A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return

By: Edward Gauvin , Zeina Abirached

3.41

Format: None pages, Hardcover

When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a norma… read more

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7. Goodnight Punpun Omnibus (2-in-1 Edition), Vol. 1 (Goodnight Punpun Omnibus, #1)

By: Inio Asano

3.72

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Meet Punpun Punyama. He's an average kid in an average town. He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save… read more

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8. El Deafo

By: Cece Bell , None

4.20

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Starting at a new school is scary, even more so with a giant hearing aid strapped to your chest! At… read more

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9. Are Prisons Obsolete?

By: Angela Y. Davis

4.15

Format: None pages,

With her characteristic brilliance, grace and radical audacity, Angela Y. Davis has put the case fo… read more

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10. El almanaque de mi padre

By: Jirō Taniguchi , Geni Bigas , None

3.83

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Al morir su padre, al que hacia anos que no veia, Youichi asiste a su funeral con cierta sensacion … read more

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11. 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
Cover of It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood

12. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.21

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

Cover of Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed

13. Shubeik Lubeik

By: Deena Mohamed

4.50

Format: 528 pages, ebook

A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures by N.D. Stevenson

14. The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

By: N.D. Stevenson

4.02

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From N.D. Stevenson, the New York Times bestselling author-illustrator of Nimona, comes a captivati… read more

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  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"Ï'm learning to put away the diamond exterior and let people get close again. To be good up close instead of from a distance. I'm letting myself be happy."

-N.D. Stevenson, The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

Cover of Tympeät tytöt – Aikuistumisriittejä by Riina Tanskanen

15. Tympeät tytöt – Aikuistumisriittejä

By: Riina Tanskanen

4.35

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Tympeät tytöt -kirjan värejä, suloisuutta ja vastarintaa pursuavat sarjakuvat iskevät tyttöyden kip… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

16. 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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  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"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 A Guest in the House by Emily Carroll

17. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • lgbt
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

Cover of Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang

18. Lunar New Year Love Story

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.41

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more

Similar categories in Gene Luen Yang's Lunar New Year Love Story book and Shira Spector's Red Rock Baby Candy

  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of In Limbo by Deb J.J. Lee

19. In Limbo

By: Deb J.J. Lee

4.18

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl's coming-of-age story—and a coming home stor… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Circus of Wonders by Elizabeth Macneal

20. Circus of Wonders

By: Elizabeth Macneal

3.64

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

1866. In a coastal village in southern England, Nell picks violets for a living. Set apart by her c… read more

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"Mejor volar y caer que permanecer encerrado."

-Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

"Jasper has turned her life into his own, his pen distorting her truth. She feels like a pulled flower, its roots severed."

-Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

"Circus has always made him believe that anything is possible. But he knows, too, that it is illusion, that life does not share its boldness, its neat stories."

-Elizabeth Macneal, Circus of Wonders

Cover of Everything Is OK by Debbie Tung

21. 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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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian

22. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America

By: Navied Mahdavian

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir by Bishakh Kumar Som

23. Spellbound: A Graphic Memoir

By: Bishakh Kumar Som

3.52

Format: 151 pages, Paperback

This exquisite graphic novel memoir by a transgender artist, explores the concept of identity by in… read more

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  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir by Margaret Kimball

24. And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

By: Margaret Kimball

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In 1988, when Kimball is only four years old, her mother attempts suicide on Mother's Day—and this … read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"All together, someone would always be missing and I could feel the pull of that longing in my chest, in the pit of my stomach."

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

"I settled into the water for some serious reflection. Bathrooms made supreme thinking spaces, a place that defied interruption."

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

"This is how silence works in families: it means questions go unanswered, timelines are unclear, and the details of a child's life are a mystery that will not be resolved."

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

"I once watched a video of a deer being rescued from drowning only to find herself surrounded by humans, and then she ran immediately back into the water. It's what panic looks like. An animal feeling…"

-Margaret Kimball, And Now I Spill the Family Secrets: An Illustrated Memoir

Cover of Let There Be Light by Liana Finck

25. Let There Be Light

By: Liana Finck

4.04

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A bold retelling of the Book of Genesis, starring a female God, from the acclaimed New Yorker carto… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • jewish
Cover of American Cult by Robyn Chapman

26. American Cult

By: Robyn Chapman

3.97

Format: 190 pages, Paperback

A graphic history of religious cults in American from the colonial era to today From its earlies… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir by Liana Finck

27. Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

By: Liana Finck

3.77

Format: 240 pages, None

A visually arresting graphic memoir about a young artist struggling against what’s expected of her … read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"A draw-er doesn't draw because she loves to draw. She doesn't draw because she draws well. She draws because once she lost something. And by drawing--she will find it again."

-Liana Finck, Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

"From a distance, every relationship is similar—an old story with a new face. But if you know how to really look at things—you’ll see that every man is the first man—and every place is Eden."

-Liana Finck, Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

"In her heart, the devil said, "No! No!" But from her mouth came the words "Yes, you may." And from then on, everything the devil said was the opposite of what she meant. And everything she did, she d…"

-Liana Finck, Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

Cover of My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection by Julia   Kaye

28. My Life in Transition: A Super Late Bloomer Collection

By: Julia Kaye

4.10

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The follow-up to the critically acclaimed autobiographical comics collection Super Late Bloomer, do… read more

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  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
Cover of Final Cut by Charles Burns

29. 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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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Creation by Sylvia Nickerson

30. Creation

By: Sylvia Nickerson

3.34

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New life and opportunities arise from the wreckage of a North American city—urban renewal at what c… read more

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  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Red Rock Baby Candy by Shira Spector

31. Red Rock Baby Candy

By: Shira Spector

3.56

Format: 216 pages, Hardcover

Shira Spector literally paints a vivid portrait of the most eventful 10 years of her life, encompas… read more

Similar categories in Shira Spector's Red Rock Baby Candy book and Shira Spector's Red Rock Baby Candy

  • memoir
  • jewish
  • graphic novels comics
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • death
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • queer

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Zoe Thorogood

4.21

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The Fire Never Goes Out: A Memoir in Pictures

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4.02

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Tympeät tytöt – Aikuistumisriittejä

Riina Tanskanen

4.35

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3.69

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