Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home
10 best books like Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home (Nicole J. Georges): Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos, Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, Lighter Than My Shadow, Displacement: A Travelogue, You & a Bike & a Road, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, Spinning, The Customer is Always Wrong, Everything is Flammable, Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you’re smart and talented and “good enough,” you can do anything.
Except get pregnant.
Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything...
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
A bold, wry, and intimate graphic memoir about American identity, interracial families, and the realities that divide us, from the acclaimed author of The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing.
“By turns hilarious and heart-rending, it’s exactly the book America needs at this moment.”—Celeste...
| Author | Katie Green |
| ISBN | 0224090984 |
Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she'd have to eat it for breakfast.
But in any life a set of circumstance can collide, and normal behavior might soon shade into something sinister,...
Displacement: A Travelogue
| Author | Lucy Knisley |
| ISBN | 1606998102 |
In her graphic memoirs, New York Times-best selling cartoonist Lucy Knisley paints a warts-and-all portrait of contemporary, twentysomething womanhood, like writer Lena Dunham (Girls). In the next installment of her graphic travelogue series, Displacement, Knisley volunteers to watch over...
| Author | Eleanor Davis |
| ISBN | 1927668409 |
In 2016, acclaimed cartoonist and illustrator Eleanor Davis documented her cross-country bike tour as it happened. The immediacy of Davis’ comics journal makes for an incredible chronicle of human experience on the most efficient and humane form of human transportation.
Eleanor Davis...
I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir
| Author | Malaka Gharib |
| ISBN | 0525575111 |
One part Mari Andrew, one part Marjane Satrapi, I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir is a triumphant tale of self-discovery, a celebration of a family's rich heritage, and a love letter to American immigrant freedom. Malaka Gharib's illustrations come alive with teenage antics and earnest...
| Author | Tillie Walden |
| ISBN | 1626727724 |
Poignant and captivating, Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir, Spinning, captures what it's like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know.
It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink...
The Customer is Always Wrong
| Author | Mimi Pond |
| ISBN | 1770462821 |
A young woman's art career begins to lift off as those around her succumb to addiction and alcoholism
The Customer is Always Wrong is the saga of a young naive artist named Madge working in a restaurant of charming drunks, junkies, thieves, and creeps. Oakland in the late seventies is a cheap...
| Author | Gabrielle Bell |
| ISBN | 1941250181 |
"Gabrielle Bell's pen becomes a kind of laser, first illuminating the surface distractions of the world, then scorching them away to reveal a deeper reality that is almost too painful and too beautiful to bear." —Alison Bechdel, Fun Home and Are You My Mother
In Gabrielle Bell’s much anticipated...
Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics
Comics for Choice is anthology of comics about abortion. As this fundamental reproductive right continues to be stigmatized and jeopardized, over sixty artists and writers have created comics that boldly share their own experiences, and educate readers on the history of abortion, current political...
Ink in Water: An Illustrated Memoir (Or, How I Kicked Anorexia’s Ass and Embraced Body Positivity)
| Author | Lacy J. Davis |
| ISBN | 1626258317 |
At once punk rock and poignant, Ink in Water is the visceral and groundbreaking graphic memoir of a young woman’s devastating struggle with negative body image and eating disorders, and how she rose above her own destructive behaviors and feelings of inadequacy to live a life of strength and empowerment.
As...
| Author | MariNaomi |
| ISBN | 1937541169 |
MariNaomi’s newest graphic novel tours the mid-90’s US and Japanese illegal hostess bar scene and her own personal cultural awakening.
In 1995, twenty-two-year-old Mari had just exited a long-term relationship, moving from Mill Valley to San Jose, California. Soon enough, she falls...
Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
| Author | Sarah Leavitt |
| ISBN | 1551111179 |
"In this powerful memoir ... Sarah Leavitt reveals how Alzheimer's disease transformed her mother, Midge, and her family forever. In spare black-and-white drawings and clear, candid prose, Sarah shares her family's journey through a harrowing range of emotions: shock, denial, hope, anger, frustration...
Melanie Gillman's unique webcomic turned paperback about a queer (but I only learned this for sure from the cover, because it wasn’t obvious throughout) black (though her Dad appears to be white) teenager on a backpacking trip with what appears to be an all-white, cis-gendered Christian feminist...
| Author | Brian Fies |
| ISBN | 1419735853 |
Early morning on Monday, October 9, 2017, wildfires burned through Northern California, resulting in 44 fatalities. In addition, 6,200 homes and 8,900 structures and were destroyed. Author Brian Fies’s firsthand account of this tragic event is an honest, unflinching depiction of his personal...
Not Funny Ha-Ha: A Handbook for Something Hard
| Author | Leah Hayes |
| ISBN | 1606998390 |
Not Funny Ha-Ha is a bold, slightly wry graphic novel illustrating the lives of two young women from different cultural, family, and financial backgrounds who go through two different abortions (medical and surgical). It follows them through the process of choosing a clinic, reaching out to friends,...
| Author | Jillian Tamaki |
| ISBN | 1770462872 |
Jenny, post-breakup, becomes obsessed with the mirror Facebook of herself seeing a life that could be hers. An anonymous music file surfaces on the internet and a cult springs up in its wake. A group of city animals briefly open their minds to us. Helen finds her clothes growing baggy, her shoes looser,...
| Author | Rachel Lindsay |
| ISBN | 1455598542 |
A graphic memoir about the treatment of mental illness, treating mental illness as a commodity, and the often unavoidable choice between sanity and happiness.
In her early twenties in New York City, diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Rachel Lindsay takes a job in advertising in order to secure...
