6 must-read history books like The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh, Mattias Ripa, Blake Ferris

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The Complete Persepolis

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh , Mattias Ripa , Blake Ferris

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

If you liked the history plot in The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh, Mattias Ripa, Blake Ferris , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Watchmen

By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

4.38

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes pla… read more

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  • graphic novels
"Never despair. Never surrender."

-Alan Moore, Watchmen

"I did it thirty-five minutes ago."

-Alan Moore, Watchmen

"It doesn’t matter how “successful"

-Alan Moore, Watchmen

"The superman exists and he's American."

-Alan Moore, Watchmen

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2. Saga, Volume 1

By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples

4.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. When two soldiers… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Have you ever been shot by one? Because I have and it hurt like the day my dog died..."

-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

"Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina."

-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

"If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born."

-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

"I thought so. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do"

-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

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3. Watchmen #1: At Midnight, All The Agents… (Watchmen, #1)

By: Alan Moore , Len Wein , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

4.33

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Watchmen Chapter 1 of 12: At Midnight, All The Agents... read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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4. The Complete Maus

By: Art Spiegelman

4.57

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive ed… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
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  • nonfiction
"Ingen är normal."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"Es bueno ser simpatico si quieres vivir."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"He’s more attached to things than people."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"If you want to live, it's good to be friendly."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

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5. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

By: Art Spiegelman

4.42

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"But here God didn't come. We were all on our own."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"Samuel Beckett já disse: "Toda palavra é uma mancha desnecessária no silêncio e no vazio". Por outro lado, ele DISSE isso."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

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6. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

By: Art Spiegelman

4.38

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting … read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …"

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

"Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

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7. Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1: Unmanned

By: Brian K. Vaughan , José Marzán Jr. , Pia Guerra

4.08

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"Y" is none other than unemployed escape artist Yorick Brown (his father was a Shakespeare buff), a… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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8. Palestine

By: None , Joe Sacco

4.16

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Prior to Safe Area Gorazde: The War In Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995--Joe Sacco's breakthrough novel of … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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9. Black Hole

By: Charles Burns

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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10. 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
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11. The Complete Persepolis

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh , Mattias Ripa , Blake Ferris

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • memoir
  • feminism
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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12. V for Vendetta

By: Alan Moore , David Lloyd

3.50

Format: 92 pages, Hardcover

"Remember, remember the fifth of November..." A frightening and powerful tale of the loss of freedo… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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13. 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

14. Habibi

By: Craig Thompson

4.06

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the internationally acclaimed author of Blankets ("A triumph for the genre."--Library Journal)… read more

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15. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (The Dark Knight Saga, #1)

By: Frank Miller , Klaus Janson , Lynn Varley

4.32

Format: 650 pages, Hardcover

This masterpiece of modern comics storytelling brings to vivid life a dark world and an even darker… read more

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16. 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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  • memoir
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"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

17. 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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18. The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir

By: Riad Sattouf

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's … read more

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19. The Waiting

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.43

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The story begins with a mother's confession... sisters permanently separated by a border during the… read more

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  • comics
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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
  • memoir
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"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 L'Uomo Ragno: Identità segreta (I Classici del Fumetto di Repubblica - Serie Oro, #01) by Brian Michael Bendis

21. L'Uomo Ragno: Identità segreta (I Classici del Fumetto di Repubblica - Serie Oro, #01)

By: Brian Michael Bendis

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Contiene Ultimate Spider-Man (Marvel Italia) #1-7 Traduzione di Ultimate Spider-Man (2001-2014) #1… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics

7 Top nonfiction books like The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh, Mattias Ripa, Blake Ferris

Transform Your Habits

The Complete Maus

Art Spiegelman

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

Art Spiegelman

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

Art Spiegelman

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Palestine

None , Joe Sacco

4.16

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5 Top nonfiction books like Grass by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

Transform Your Habits

Los surcos del azar

Paco Roca

3.77

Transform Your Habits

Grass

Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.52

Transform Your Habits

El abismo del olvido

Paco Roca

4.81

Transform Your Habits

La compañera

Agustina Guerrero

4.53

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