5 Top mental health books like Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz

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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…

"Go fuck yourself, melted spatula!"

-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

"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

"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

If you liked the mental health plot in Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz , here is a list of 5 books like this:

1. Juliette - Les fantômes reviennent au printemps

By: Camille Jourdy

3.57

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Apres le succes de la trilogie Rosalie Blum, Camille Jourdy revient avec un nouveau roman graphique… read more

Similar categories in Camille Jourdy's Juliette - Les fantômes reviennent au printemps book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • bande dessinée
Cover of The Talk by Darrin Bell

2. 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

Similar categories in Darrin Bell's The Talk book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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3. 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

Similar categories in Daniel Clowes's Monica book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • bande dessinée
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4. 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

Similar categories in Jillian Tamaki's Roaming book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • adult
Cover of Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam by Thien Pham

5. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam

By: Thien Pham

4.29

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more

Similar categories in Thien Pham's Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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6. I Must Be Dreaming

By: Roz Chast

3.65

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more

Similar categories in Roz Chast's I Must Be Dreaming book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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7. Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

By: Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Archie Bongiovanni, the comics artist behind the award-winning hit A Quick and Easy Guide to They/T… read more

Similar categories in Archie Bongiovanni's Mimosa: A Graphic Novel book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz

8. 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

Similar categories in Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • biography memoir
  • adult
"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

"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

"...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

Cover of Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez

9. Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey

By: Edel Rodriguez

4.53

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From “America’s illustrator in chief” ( Fast Company ), a graphic memoir of a childhood in Cuba, co… read more

Similar categories in Edel Rodriguez's Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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10. Ephemera

By: Briana Loewinsohn

4.00

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

A debut graphic novel that poignantly blends memoir, magic realism, and graphic medicine. Ephem… read more

Similar categories in Briana Loewinsohn's Ephemera book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood by Lonnie Mann

11. Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood

By: Lonnie Mann

4.12

Format: 260 pages, Paperback

A coming-of-age graphic novel memoir about a young man who, growing up in an Orthodox Jewish commun… read more

Similar categories in Lonnie Mann's Gaytheist: Coming Out of My Orthodox Childhood book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

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

12. 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

Similar categories in Navied Mahdavian's This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls

13. Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

By: Tessa Hulls

4.52

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring lo… read more

Similar categories in Tessa Hulls's Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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14. Blood of the Virgin

By: Sammy Harkham

3.70

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

“A story about storytelling...Conjures up the grindhouse movie-making scene in 1970s Los Angeles an… read more

Similar categories in Sammy Harkham's Blood of the Virgin book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) by Emil Ferris

15. 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

Similar categories in Emil Ferris's My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • bande dessinée
"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)

Cover of I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir by Maurice Vellekoop

16. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir

By: Maurice Vellekoop

4.17

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Meet little Maurice Vellekoop, the youngest of four children raised by Dutch immigrants in the 1970… read more

Similar categories in Maurice Vellekoop's I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together: A Memoir book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir by Denise Dorrance

17. Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir

By: Denise Dorrance

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

For fans of Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? , an unputdownable debut graphic The what… read more

Similar categories in Denise Dorrance's Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of But You Have Friends by Emilia McKenzie

18. But You Have Friends

By: Emilia McKenzie

3.92

Format: 116 pages, Paperback

When a dear friend dies by suicide, Emilia is left with only memories. Full of humor and poignancy,… read more

Similar categories in Emilia McKenzie's But You Have Friends book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • mental health
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil

19. Artificial: A Love Story

By: Amy Kurzweil

3.62

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A visionary story of three generations of artists whose search for meaning and connection transcend… read more

Similar categories in Amy Kurzweil's Artificial: A Love Story book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Time Under Tension by M.S. Harkness

20. Time Under Tension

By: M.S. Harkness

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Time Under Tension is a smart, funny, no bullshit work of autobiography, a story of searching for d… read more

Similar categories in M.S. Harkness's Time Under Tension book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Self-Esteem and the End of the World by Luke Healy

21. Self-Esteem and the End of the World

By: Luke Healy

3.73

Format: 324 pages, Paperback

“Who is Luke Healy?” An absurdist dramedy about self-esteem in the wake of a climate destruction L… read more

Similar categories in Luke Healy's Self-Esteem and the End of the World book and Julia Wertz's Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story

  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction

13 must-read adult books like Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

I Must Be Dreaming

Roz Chast

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Mimosa: A Graphic Novel

Archie Bongiovanni

3.73

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10 Top adult books like The Talk by Darrin Bell

Transform Your Habits

Shubeik Lubeik

Deena Mohamed

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Talk

Darrin Bell

4.65

Transform Your Habits

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

Transform Your Habits

A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

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