Duty Free
10 best books like Duty Free (Moni Mohsin): Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me, Hero, Embroideries, Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha, Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Drinking at the Movies, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, The Forest of Enchantments, Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta, Queer: A Graphic History
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
| Author | Ellen Forney |
| ISBN | 1592407323 |
Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers.
Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly...
| Author | Perry Moore |
| ISBN | 1423101952 |
The last thing in the world Thom Creed wants is to add to his father's pain, so he keeps secrets. Like that he has special powers. And that he's been asked to join the League - the very organization of superheroes that spurned his dad. But the most painful secret of all is one Thom can barely face himself: he's...
| Author | Marjane Satrapi |
| ISBN | 0375714677 |
From the best–selling author of Persepolis comes this gloriously entertaining and enlightening look into the sex lives of Iranian women. Embroideries gathers together Marjane’s tough–talking grandmother, stoic mother, glamorous and eccentric aunt and their friends and neighbors for...
| Author | Roddy Doyle |
| ISBN | 2264022442 |
I hate to be facetious about this, but it’s true. I love to read good books as much as I love to discover which ones are actual impostors—that is, which ones are overrated past the norm, books like “On the Road,” “Catcher in the Rye,” or anything by Ayn Rand. Yuck. Well, this one won the Booker,...
| Author | Sophie Kinsella |
| ISBN | 0440241898 |
Life has been good for Becky Bloomwood: She’s become the best personal shopper at Barneys, she and her successful entrepreneurial boyfriend, Luke, are living happily in Manhattan’s West Village, and her new next-door neighbor is a fashion designer! But with her best friend, Suze, engaged, how...
| Author | Julia Wertz |
| ISBN | 0307591832 |
In her first full-length graphic memoir, Julia Wertz (creator of the cult-hit comic The Fart Party) documents the year she left San Francisco for the unfamiliar streets of New York. Don’t worry—this isn’t the typical redemptive coming-of-age tale of a young woman and her glorious triumph over...
Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense,...
The Forest of Enchantments
| Author | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| ISBN | 9353025982 |
The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant retelling, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the centre of the novel: this is Sita’s version.
The Forest of Enchantments is also a very human story of some of the other women in the epic,...
Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta
WITHOUT THE DARKNESS, LIGHT HAS NO PURPOSE.
WITHOUT THE VILLAIN, WHAT WOULD THE GODS DO?
INDIA, 3400 BCE.
A land in tumult, poverty and chaos. Most people suffer quietly. A few rebel. Some fight for a better world. Some for themselves. Some don’t give a damn. Raavan. Fathered...
| Author | Meg-John Barker |
| ISBN | 1785780719 |
Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Julia Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel.
From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender...
