Aya: Life in Yop City
10 best books like Aya: Life in Yop City (Marguerite Abouet): Kingdom of Souls, Carnet de Voyage, The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir, A Quick & Easy Guide to They/Them Pronouns, Daddy's Girl, Escape from Syria, Algeria Is Beautiful Like America, Girl Town, Die sanfte Gleichgültigkeit der Welt, Zahra's Paradise
| Author | Rena Barron |
| ISBN | 0008302235 |
Magic has a price—if you’re willing to pay.
Born into a family of powerful witchdoctors, Arrah yearns for magic of her own. But each year she fails to call forth her ancestral powers, while her ambitious mother watches with growing disapproval.
There’s only one thing Arrah...
| Author | Craig Thompson |
| ISBN | 1891830600 |
This is one of those ratings that I fully admit may not be equally applicable to everyone picking up this book. Yes, it's very, very good, but what makes it a five star for me may not hold true for everyone else. But oh. For me? For me, this is the book I never knew I wanted to read until I held it in my hands, and...
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 1627793445 |
The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's childhood, spent in the shadows of 3 dictators—Muammar Gaddafi, Hafez al-Assad, and his father
In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the...
| Author | Archie Bongiovanni |
| ISBN | 1620104997 |
Archie, a snarky genderqueer artist, is tired of people not understanding gender neutral pronouns. Tristan, a cisgender dude, is looking for an easy way to introduce gender neutral pronouns to his increasingly diverse workplace. The longtime best friends team up in this short and fun comic guide...
Daddy's Girl is a powerful book that uses a childlike graphic style to explore the adolescence of a young girl, Lily, whose life is being destroyed by sexual abuse. Drechsler pulls no punches in her depiction of incest, and many scenes are hard to read, but this book shows that comics can be a vehicle for...
| Author | Samya Kullab |
| ISBN | 1770859829 |
A graphic story of intense current events.
From the pen of former Lebanon Star reporter Samya Kullab comes a breathtaking and hard-hitting story of one family's struggle to survive in the face of war, displacement, poverty and relocation.
Escape from Syria is a fictionalized account...
| Author | Olivia Burton |
| ISBN | 1941302564 |
Olivia had always heard stories about Algeria from her maternal grandmother, a Black Foot (a “Pied-Noir,” the French term for Christian and Jewish settlers of French Algeria who emigrated to France after the Algerian War of Independence). After her grandmother’s death, Olivia found some...
| Author | Carolyn Nowak |
| ISBN | 1603094385 |
Multi-award-winning cartoonist Carolyn Nowak (Lumberjanes) finds powerful truths in fantasy worlds. Her stunning solo debut collection celebrates the ascent of a rising star in comics.
Diana got hurt—a lot—and she's decided to deal with this fact by purchasing a life-sized robot...
Die sanfte Gleichgültigkeit der Welt
| Author | Peter Stamm |
| ISBN | 3103972598 |
Das eigene Leben noch einmal erleben. Soll man sich das wünschen?
Christoph verabredet sich in Stockholm mit der viel jüngeren Lena. Er erzählt ihr, dass er vor zwanzig Jahren eine Frau geliebt habe, die ihr ähnlich, ja, die ihr gleich war. Er kennt das Leben, das sie führt, und weiß,...
Set in the aftermath of Iran’s fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra’s Paradise is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone. What’s keeping his memory from being obliterated is not the law. It is the grit and guts of his...
My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 2
| Author | Kabi Nagata |
| ISBN | 1626929998 |
So, I read the first book by Nagata, My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness, about the clinically shy/introvert/lonely Nagata trying to make human connections, trying to come out, going to an escort service. But from the first I thought this wasn't primarily a story about LGBTQ issues, as her social...
| Author | Nate Powell |
| ISBN | 1603090339 |
Swallow Me Whole is a love story carried by rolling fog, terminal illness, hallucination, apophenia, insect armies, secrets held, unshakeable faith, and the search for a master pattern to make sense of one's unraveling. Two adolescent stepsiblings hold together amidst schizophrenia, obsessive...
L'Arabe du futur 2 : Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient, 1984-1985
| Author | Riad Sattouf |
| ISBN | 2370730544 |
Né d’un père syrien et d’une mère bretonne, Riad Sattouf raconte dans L’Arabe du futur sa jeunesse au Moyen-Orient.
Dans le premier tome (1978-1984), le petit Riad était ballotté entre la Libye, la Bretagne et la Syrie.
Dans ce second tome, qui couvre la première année...
