The Secret to Superhuman Strength
By: Alison Bechdel
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Fun Home, a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exerc…
Want to Read $ 9.99"My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!"-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Most people don't even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
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1. Stitches
By: David Small
3.70
Format: 640 pages, Hardcover
One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transfo… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- nonfiction
2. Tenements, Towers & Trash: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City
By: Julia Wertz
3.06
Format: 220 pages, Hardcover
Here is New York, as you've never seen it before. A perfectly charming, sidesplittingly funny, inte… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
3. Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
By: Roz Chast
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Hardcover
#1 New York TimesBestseller 2014 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
4. Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York
By: Roz Chast
4.15
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From the #1 NYT bestselling author of Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Roz Chast's new… read more
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5. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
6. Monica
By: Daniel Clowes
3.95
Format: 106 pages, Hardcover
Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
- bande dessinée
7. 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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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
8. 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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- biography
- 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
9. The Secret to Superhuman Strength
By: Alison Bechdel
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Fun Home, a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exerc… read more
Want to Read $ 9.99Similar categories in Alison Bechdel's The Secret to Superhuman Strength book and Alison Bechdel's The Secret to Superhuman Strength
- biography
- memoir
- lgbt
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- bande dessinée
- comics
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
- queer
"My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!"-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Most people don't even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
10. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- queer
- lgbt
11. Les Pizzlys
By: Jérémie Moreau
4.25
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Sur fond d'Anthropocène et d'humanité aliénée par ses GPS, Jérémie Moreau fait voyager ses personna… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- bande dessinée
12. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
By: Kristen Radtke
4.01
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This--a timely and moving meditation on isolation… read more
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- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
"Perhaps we see loneliness in others simply to feel less lonely ourselves."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"Or the times I've watched the people I love so unsatisfied, clawing toward connection that surpasses what I'm able to give them."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"To arm ourselves is the most extreme form of separation I can imagine. To move through life without weapons is another way to remain open to the world, and at its mercy."-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
"But loneliness isn’t necessarily tied to whether you have a partner or a best friend or an aspirational active social life in which you’re laughing all the time. It’s a variance that rests in the spa…"-Kristen Radtke, Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
13. Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
By: Julia Wertz
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronic… read more
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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- bande dessinée
- comics
- nonfiction
- biography memoir
"Go fuck yourself, melted spatula!"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"Do the stepwork and don't give me any of your excuses. We both know they're bullshit."-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a come…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"It's the fantasy of a life gone wrong. You've been doing the best you can, but it's hard and you're tired. Then something horrible happens and you get to give up and go be sad somewhere. There's some…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
14. Junk food. Les dessous d'une addiction
By: Émilie Gleason
3.72
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
Encore largement méconnue du grand public, la dépendance aux aliments industriels est une réalité p… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- bande dessinée
15. 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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- biography
- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
16. Stone Fruit
By: Lee Lai
4.06
Format: 231 pages, Hardcover
Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more
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- lgbt
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
- queer
17. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
By: Emil Ferris
4.25
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more
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- lgbt
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- bande dessinée
- comics
- queer
"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)
18. Clémence en colère
By: Mirion Malle
4.72
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Clémence est en colère. Une colère si forte, si envahissante qu'elle l'empêche de vivre. Sentant qu… read more
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- bande dessinée
- comics
- queer
19. Mes quatorze ans: Enquête sur ma découverte de la sexualité
By: Lisa Chetteau
4.03
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Lucie a trente ans quand elle retrouve le journal intime qu'elle a tenu l'année de ses quatorze ans… read more
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- graphic novels
- bande dessinée
20. Perpendiculaire au soleil
By: Valentine Cuny-Le Callet
4.68
Format: 436 pages, Hardcover
En 2016, Valentine Cuny-Le Callet entame une correspondance avec Renaldo McGirth, condamné à mort, … read more
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- graphic novels
- nonfiction
- bande dessinée
21. Breathe: Journeys to Healthy Binding
By: Maia Kobabe
4.47
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
A graphic guide to chest binding with real-life stories and research-backed advice from bestselling… read more
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- graphic novels comics
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- comics
- nonfiction
- queer
