Marathon

10 best books like Marathon (Boaz Yakin): Stargazing, Gender Queer, NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society, Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China, Boxers, Saints, Houdini: The Handcuff King, Scarlet, Book 1, The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir, A Fire Story

Stargazing
AuthorJen Wang
Moon is everything Christine isn’t. She’s confident, impulsive, artistic . . . and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known.

When Moon’s family moves in next door to Christine’s, Moon goes from unlikely...
Gender Queer
AuthorMaia Kobabe
ISBN1549304003
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography...
NERDS: National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society
AuthorMichael Buckley
ISBN0810943247
A group of unpopular students are part of a spy network inside their school. With the help of cutting-edge science, their nerdy qualities are enhanced and transformed into incredible abilities. They battle the Hyena, a former junior beauty pageant contestant turned assassin, and an array of James...
Shenzhen: A Travelogue from China
AuthorGuy Delisle
ISBN0224079913
Shenzhen is entertainingly compact with Guy Delisle's observations of life in urban southern China, sealed off from the rest of the country by electric fences and armed guards. With a dry wit and a clean line, Delisle makes the most of his time spent in Asia overseeing outsourced production for a French...
AuthorGene Luen Yang
ISBN1596433590
China, 1898. Bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing Chinese peasants.

Little Bao has had enough. Harnessing the powers of ancient Chinese gods, he recruits an army of Boxers--commoners trained in kung fu--who fight to free China from "foreign...
AuthorGene Luen Yang
ISBN1596436891
China, 1898. An unwanted and unwelcome fourth daughter, Four-Girl isn't even given a proper name by her family when she's born. She finds friendship--and a name, Vibiana--in the most unlikely of places: Christianity.

But China is a dangerous place for Christians. The Boxer Rebellion is...
Houdini: The Handcuff King
AuthorJason Lutes
ISBN0786839023

Harry Houdini mesmerized a generation of Americans when he was alive, and continues to do so 80 years after his death. This is a snapshot of Houdini's life, centering on one of his most famous jumps. As Houdini prepares for a death-defying leap into the icy Charles River in Boston, biographer Jason...
Scarlet, Book 1
AuthorBrian Michael Bendis
ISBN0785152512
THE AWARD WINNING, BEST SELLING POWERHOUSE CREATIVE TEAM BEHIND DAREDEVIL, HALO, AND THE AVENGERS UNLEASH THEIR BOLDEST PROJECT YET! SCARLET!

This is the comic experience of the year! The first creator-owned series by one of the most successful teams in all of modern comics.

Scarlet...
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir
AuthorRiad Sattouf
ISBN1627793445
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...
A Fire Story
AuthorBrian Fies
ISBN1419735853
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...
AuthorStephen Manes
ISBN0440227909
I made sure this was fiction before checking it out from my library when I was a kid. Even then I was wary of self-help books making specious claims. :)

This is about a kid named Milo who is intrigued by the title of a book called Be A Perfect Person in Just Three Days. He's got a lot of problems at home...
AuthorMatthew Loux
ISBN1596438495
The internship program at the Time Museum is a little unusual. For one thing, kids as young as twelve get to apply for these prestigious summer jobs. And as for the applicant pool . . . well, these kids come from all over history.

When Delia finds herself working at the Time Museum, the last thing...
Shattered Warrior
AuthorSharon Shinn
ISBN1626720894
It's been eight years since Colleen Cavenaugh's home world was conquered by the Derichets. These aliens are bent on harvesting the planet's resources to fuel their warships, no matter the cost to its human natives. Any defiance of the Derichets' rule--the smallest step out of line--can get you beaten,...
Battle Angel Alita Deluxe Edition Volume 1
AuthorYukito Kishiro
ISBN1632365987
After more than a decade out of print, the original cyberpunk action classic returns in glorious 400-page hardcover deluxe editions, featuring an all-new translation, color pages, and new cover designs!


In a dump in the lawless settlement of Scrapyard, far beneath the mysterious space...
M.F.K.: Book One
AuthorNilah Magruder
ISBN1683830040
A fantastic adventure following the story of Abbie, a deaf girl with a mysterious power, who is traveling across a vast desert to scatter her mother's ashes.

In a world of sleeping gods, a broken government, and a fragile peace held in the hands of the corrupt, one youth must find the strength...
Archival Quality
AuthorIvy Noelle Weir
ISBN1620104709
Everything you need to know is in the archives.

The Logan Museum is a mysterious old building practically covered in skulls, and also the new workplace of Celeste "Cel" Walden, a librarian who was let go from her previous job after a mental breakdown. But Cel is desperate to feel useful, and Abayomi...
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