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10 best books like The Modern Jewish Girl's Guide to Guilt (Ruth Andrew Ellenson): Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories, The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Gingerbread, Saga: Book One, The Night Masquerade, Nothing to See Here, How To Be Happy, The Sleeper and the Spindle, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays, A Study in Emerald

Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories

Author	Vandana Singh
ISBN	1618731432

I recently had something of a revelation about myself that's going to sound silly, but which has reframed the way I think about books and other media I consume: I don't actually care that much about plot.

I care about ideas. I care about characters. I care about theme and atmosphere. I care about...

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays

Author	Esmé Weijun Wang
ISBN	1555978274

An intimate, moving book written with the immediacy and directness of one who still struggles with the effects of mental and chronic illness, The Collected Schizophrenias cuts right to the core. Schizophrenia is not a single unifying diagnosis, and Esmé Weijun Wang writes not just to her fellow members...

Gingerbread

Author	Helen Oyeyemi
ISBN	1984882899

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy, Snow, Bird and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a bewitching and inventive novel.

Influenced by the mysterious place gingerbread holds in classic children's stories--equal parts wholesome and uncanny, from the tantalizing witch's...

Saga: Book One

Author	Brian K. Vaughan
ISBN	1632150786

At long last, a deluxe hardcover of the Eisner and Hugo Award-winning SAGA is finally here!

"It's easy to run out of accolades for this superb series... The dialogue is smart, arch and always rings true, and the visuals, rendered digitally, are alluring and inventive. The Stalk, an eight-eyed,...

The Night Masquerade

Author	Nnedi Okorafor
ISBN	0765393131

The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning BINTI.

Binti has returned to her home planet, believing that the violence of the Meduse has been left behind. Unfortunately, although her people are peaceful...

Nothing to See Here

Author	Kevin Wilson
ISBN	0062913484

Kevin Wilson’s best book yet—a moving and uproarious novel about a woman who finds meaning in her life when she begins caring for two children with remarkable and disturbing abilities

Lillian and Madison were unlikely roommates and yet inseparable friends at their elite boarding school....

How To Be Happy

Author	Eleanor Davis
ISBN	1606997408

Eleanor Davis's How to be Happy is the artist's first collection of graphic/literary short stories. Davis is one of the finest cartoonists of her generation, and has been producing comics since the mid-2000s. Happy represents the best stories she's drawn for such curatorial venues as Mome and No-Brow,...

The Sleeper and the Spindle

Author	Neil Gaiman
ISBN	1408859645

A thrillingly reimagined fairy tale from the truly magical combination of author Neil Gaiman and illustrator Chris Riddell – weaving together a sort-of Snow White and an almost Sleeping Beauty with a thread of dark magic, which will hold readers spellbound from start to finish.

On the eve...

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays

Author	Alexander Chee
ISBN	1328764524

From the author of The Queen of the Night, an essay collection exploring his education as a man, writer, and activist—and how we form our identities in life and in art.

As a novelist, Alexander Chee has been described as “masterful” by Roxane Gay, “incendiary” by the New York Times,...

A Study in Emerald

Author	Neil Gaiman
ISBN	1506703933

This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder.

The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to...

The Last Guardian

Author	Eoin Colfer
ISBN	1423161610

It's Armageddon Time for Artemis Fowl

Opal Koboi, power-crazed pixie, is plotting to exterminate mankind and become fairy queen.

If she succeeds, the spirits of long-dead fairy warriors will rise from the earth, inhabit the nearest available bodies and wreak mass destruction....

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale

Author

Belle Yang

Celebrated artist and writer Belle Yang makes a stunning debut as a graphic memoirist with this story of crisis and survival.

When Belle Yang was forced to take refuge in her parents’ home after an abusive boyfriend began stalking her, her father entertained her with stories of old China....

(Not) Getting Paid to Do What You Love: Gender, Social Media, and Aspirational Work

Author	Brooke Erin Duffy
ISBN	0300218176

An illuminating investigation into a class of enterprising women aspiring to “make it” in the social media economy but often finding only unpaid work

Profound transformations in our digital society have brought many enterprising women to social media platforms—from blogs to YouTube...

Neurocomic

Author	Hana Ros
ISBN	1907704701

Do you know what your brain is made of? How does memory function? What is a neuron and how does it work? For that matter what’s a comic? And in the words of Lewis Carroll’s famous caterpillar: “Who are you?”

Neurocomic is a journey through the human brain: a place of neuron forests, memory...

Moomin on the Riviera

Author	Tove Jansson
ISBN	1770461698

A rerelease of the classic comic in honor of the centenary of Tove Jansson's birth

As springtime dawns in Moominvalley and the first northern crocus opens, Moominpappa and Snorkmaiden, glamorized by the prospects of movie stars and gambling, insist the whole family take a trip down to the...

Saga: Book Two

Author	Brian K. Vaughan
ISBN	1632159031

At long last, it’s finally time for the second hardcover collection of Saga, the New York Times best-selling series praised by everyone from Alan Moore to Lin-Manuel Miranda!

Created by the multiple Eisner Award-winning team of artist Fiona Staples (Mystery Society, North 40, Archie...

Monstress Book One

Author	Marjorie M. Liu
ISBN	1534312323

2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Writer
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Painter/Multimedia Artist
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Continuing Series
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Publication for Teens
2018 Eisner Award winner, Best Cover Artist
2018 Harvey Award winner, Book...

Girl with Curious Hair

Author

David Foster Wallace

Remarkable, hilarious and unsettling re-imaginations of reality by "a dynamic writer of extraordinary talent " (Jenifer Levin, New York Times Book Review).

Girl with Curious Hair is replete with David Foster Wallace's remarkable and unsettling reimaginations of reality. From the eerily...