12 Best memoir books like One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry

Cover of One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry

One Hundred Demons

By: Lynda Barry

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this graphic novel that's part memoir and part creativity primer, Lynda Barry serves up comics t…

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Cover of The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth (Guatemala) by Dianna Ortiz, Sister Dianna Ortiz

1. The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth (Guatemala)

By: Dianna Ortiz , Sister Dianna Ortiz

3.96

Format: 484 pages, Hardcover

Sister Dianna Ortiz, an American Ursuline nun working in Guatemala, was abducted and tortured by go… read more

Similar categories in Dianna Ortiz's The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth (Guatemala) book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me by Amanda  Green

2. My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me

By: Amanda Green

3.94

Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition

If I told you I'd been to 24 countries (21 by the time I was 22), that I'd worked in Japan for nine… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Green's My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of David Boring by Daniel Clowes

3. David Boring

By: Daniel Clowes

3.82

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence."

-Daniel Clowes, David Boring

Cover of Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature) by Mine Okubo, Christine Hong

4. Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature)

By: Mine Okubo , Christine Hong

4.03

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Miné Okubo was one of more than a hundred thousand people of Japanese descent - nearly two-thirds o… read more

Similar categories in Mine Okubo's Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature) book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood by Jennifer Traig

5. Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood

By: Jennifer Traig

3.87

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

DEVIL IN THE DETAILS announces Jennifer Traig as one of the most hilarious writers to emerge in rec… read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Traig's Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent

6. Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife

By: Peggy Vincent

3.70

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

An inspiring collection of birth stories by a charming midwife. Each time she knelt to "catch" anot… read more

Similar categories in Peggy Vincent's Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War by Gioconda Belli, Kristina Cordero

7. The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War

By: Gioconda Belli , Kristina Cordero

4.00

Format: 256 pages,

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Similar categories in Gioconda Belli's The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of My Hero, My Ding by Lisa A. Tortorello

8. My Hero, My Ding

By: Lisa A. Tortorello

4.05

Format: 128 pages, Perfect Paperback

'I awoke in the darkness listening to the sound of a jack hammer. After a few moments, I realized i… read more

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"It’s often said when a baby is born so is a grandparent; well, for me it turned out that when I was born it was also the birth of a Ding Dong."

-Lisa A. Tortorello, My Hero, My Ding

Cover of In Search Of My Sexy Old Self: Re-discovering sex after sixty and beyond by Cathy   Thomas

9. In Search Of My Sexy Old Self: Re-discovering sex after sixty and beyond

By: Cathy Thomas

4.10

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Why has sex just stopped? That's the question Cathy asks herself when sexual intimacy dwindles and … read more

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10. Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

By: Jean Rhys , Diana Athill

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

Jean Rhys' unfinished posthumous autobiography. From the early days on Dominica to the bleak time i… read more

Similar categories in Jean Rhys's Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry

11. One Hundred Demons

By: Lynda Barry

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

In this graphic novel that's part memoir and part creativity primer, Lynda Barry serves up comics t… read more

Similar categories in Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • art
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • humor
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910 by L.M. Montgomery, Mary Henley Rubio, Elizabeth Hillman Waterston

12. The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910

By: L.M. Montgomery , Mary Henley Rubio , Elizabeth Hillman Waterston

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874- 1942)-whose Anne of Green Gablesand many other novels are loved by read… read more

Similar categories in L.M. Montgomery's The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Vol. 1: 1889-1910 book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
Cover of Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002] by Karl Wiggins, Harpie

13. Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002]

By: Karl Wiggins , Harpie

4.11

Format: 176 pages,

A book of Raw Emotion! In Harpie's wacky, psycho, screwball, demented book she bares her soul, reve… read more

Similar categories in Karl Wiggins's Goodnight, and Thanks for the Vodka [2002] book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

14. Swanson on Swanson

By: Gloria Swanson

4.75

Format: None pages,

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15. Becoming Alice: A Memoir

By: Alice Rene

3.80

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Six-year-old IIse watches Nazi soldiers march down her street in Vienna. She does not understand th… read more

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16. Welcome to My Country

By: Lauren Slater

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Lauren Slater, a brilliant writer who is a young therapist, takes us on a mesmerizing personal and … read more

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17. Appetites: Why Women Want

By: Caroline Knapp

4.41

Format: None pages,

"Where are the lines between satisfaction and excess, between restraint and indulgence, between ple… read more

Similar categories in Caroline Knapp's Appetites: Why Women Want book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

18. An Age of License: A Travelogue

By: Lucy Knisley

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

Midnight picnics at the Eiffel Tower; wine tastings paired with blowgun lessons; and romance in caf… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Knisley's An Age of License: A Travelogue book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

19. Loveyoubye: Holding Fast, Letting Go, And Then There's The Dog

By: Rossandra White

3.43

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

When Rossandra White walks into her Laguna Beach home one day to find that her husband of twenty-fi… read more

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20. Karen

By: Marie Killilea

4.24

Format: None pages,

"A wonderful story of human courage, patience, and triumph. But you'll want to read it most for Kar… read more

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21. The Times We Had: Life with William Randolph Hearst

By: Marion Davies

4.32

Format: 480 pages,

The was the unofficial empress of Hollywood and she spent a lifetime as the mistress of one of Amer… read more

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Cover of Cutted Chicken in Shanghai by Sharon Winters

22. Cutted Chicken in Shanghai

By: Sharon Winters

4.01

Format: 243 pages, Paperback

An American woman takes a cultural fling into China and finds humorous and engaging adventures as h… read more

Similar categories in Sharon Winters's Cutted Chicken in Shanghai book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction

23. Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood - My Zany Years Spent Working in Tinsel Town

By: Lisa Jey Davis

3.46

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Ms. Cheevious in Hollywood by Lisa Jey Davis Enjoying Every Moment When Lisa Jey Davis (aka Ms. Che… read more

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Cover of But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous by Jancee Dunn

24. But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous

By: Jancee Dunn

3.79

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

New Jersey in the 1980s had everything Jancee Dunn wanted: trips down the shore, Bruce Springsteen… read more

Similar categories in Jancee Dunn's But Enough About Me: A Jersey Girl's Unlikely Adventures Among the Absurdly Famous book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • humor
  • nonfiction
  • memoir

25. The Cost of Hope: A Memoir

By: Amanda Bennett

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From Pulitzer Prize winner Amanda Bennett comes a moving, eye-opening, and beautifully written memo… read more

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Cover of Autistic blessings and Bipolar me.: A Frank and Brutally Honest Diary of a Mother with Bipolar and Her Two Autistic Boys by E.J. Plows

26. Autistic blessings and Bipolar me.: A Frank and Brutally Honest Diary of a Mother with Bipolar and Her Two Autistic Boys

By: E.J. Plows

4.18

Format: 115 pages, Kindle Edition

In February 2007 I was diagnosed with Bipolar type one after a long battle with post natal depressi… read more

Similar categories in E.J. Plows's Autistic blessings and Bipolar me.: A Frank and Brutally Honest Diary of a Mother with Bipolar and Her Two Autistic Boys book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction
  • memoir

27. Black Market Baby: An Adopted Woman's Journey

By: None

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

 Half the U.S. population (140 million Americans) have an adoption in their immediate family. Ther… read more

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Cover of Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind by Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

28. Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind

By: Darnyelle Jervey Harmon

4.29

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Ready to break through the six-figure plateau? Discover an actionable strategy to cross over the mi… read more

Similar categories in Darnyelle Jervey Harmon's Move to Millions: The Proven Framework to Become a Million Dollar CEO with Grace & Ease Instead of Hustle & Grind book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction
Cover of Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives by Anne  Michaud

29. Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

By: Anne Michaud

4.29

Format: 199 pages, Kindle Edition

Why do good women stay with bad men? What if political wives are just as calculating as their in… read more

Similar categories in Anne Michaud's Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction
"The political wife came forward and publicly vouched for her straying man. If she could continue to trust and believe in him, the public could too – or so the script went."

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"For each of these women, the fear of the unknown — of leaving a marriage and casting off alone — may have bound them to a marriage where there is insensitivity, neglect, or even outright abuse. Peopl…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"What we witness playing out in the relationships of our public figures we risk finding acceptable in our private lives. Feminists have connected women’s sexual subordination to their unequal status i…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

"To leave the marriage behind is to step out of the spotlight. It means fading into normalcy, returning to ordinary life, perhaps an impossible admission for women who have built their egos on being o…"

-Anne Michaud, Why They Stay: Sex Scandals, Deals, and Hidden Agendas of Eight Political Wives

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

30. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

Similar categories in Aimee Cabo Nikolov's Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction
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-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

Cover of A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community by Natalia Molina

31. A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community

By: Natalia Molina

4.15

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

Natalia Molina unveils the hidden history of the Nayarit, a restaurant in Los Angeles that nourishe… read more

Similar categories in Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community book and Lynda Barry's One Hundred Demons

  • nonfiction

17 Best nonfiction books like One Hundred Demons by Lynda Barry

Transform Your Habits

The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth (Guatemala)

Dianna Ortiz , Sister Dianna Ortiz

3.96

Transform Your Habits

My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me

Amanda Green

3.94

Transform Your Habits

Citizen 13660 (Classics of Asian American Literature)

Mine Okubo , Christine Hong

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Devil in the Details: Scenes from an Obsessive Girlhood

Jennifer Traig

3.87

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17 Best nonfiction books like Autistic blessings and Bipolar me.: A Frank and Brutally Honest Diary of a Mother with Bipolar and Her Two Autistic Boys by E.J. Plows

Transform Your Habits

The Journals of Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott , Joel Myerson

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Where You Left Me

Jennifer Gardner Trulson

4.48

Transform Your Habits

A Three Dog Life

Abigail Thomas

3.68

Transform Your Habits

Come to the Edge

Christina Haag

4.17

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