The Year of the Comet

10 best books like The Year of the Comet (Sergei Lebedev): Becoming Unbecoming, Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos, Metaphysical Dog, Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride, With My Dog Eyes, Deep Dark Fears, Ostatni świadkowie. Utwory solowe na głos dziecięcy, Cristallisation Secrète, If My Dogs Were a Pair of Middle-Aged Men, Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants

Becoming Unbecoming

Author	Una
ISBN	1908434694

A devastating personal account of gender violence told in comic book form, set against the backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper man-hunt

It’s 1977 and Una is 12. Other kids are into punk or ska, but Una is learning to play "Mull of Kintyre" by Wings on the guitar, and she thinks it’s a really...

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

Author

Lucy Knisley

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...

Metaphysical Dog

Author	Frank Bidart
ISBN	0374173613

A vital, searching new collection from one of finest American poets at work today

In “Those Nights,” Frank Bidart writes: “We who could get / somewhere through / words through / sex could not.” Words and sex, art and flesh: In Metaphysical Dog, Bidart explores their nexus. The...

Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride

Author	Lucy Knisley
ISBN	1626722498

My reviews of Lucy Knisley’s previous works have revealed some ambivalence on my part: She’s great when writing about travel or food, but at a certain point a little more emotional investment is required, by both the writer/artist and the reader. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t need to know every...

With My Dog Eyes

Author	Hilda Hilst
ISBN	1612193455

A short, stunning book by a Brazilian master of the avant-garde.

Something has changed in Amos Keres, a university mathematics professor—his sentences trail off in class, he is disgusted by the sight of his wife and son, and he longs to flee the comfortable bourgeois life he finds himself...

Deep Dark Fears

Author	Fran Krause
ISBN	1607748150

A charmingly creepy collection of 100 illustrated comics based on idiosyncratic and universal "deep dark fears."

We all have weird fears, from getting sliced to ribbons in subway station revolving gate to getting turned around by the wind while swimming and going too far out to sea. Based...

Ostatni świadkowie. Utwory solowe na głos dziecięcy

Author	Svetlana Alexievich
ISBN	8375365149

W czasie wielkiej wojny ojczyźnianej zginęły miliony radzieckich dzieci. Rosyjskich, białoruskich, ukraińskich, żydowskich, tatarskich, łotewskich, cygańskich, kozackich, uzbeckich, ormiańskich, tadżyckich. Te, które przeżyły, wojny nie zapomniały nigdy. Dla nich to...

Cristallisation Secrète

Author	Yōko Ogawa
ISBN	2742788298

L’île où se déroule cette histoire est depuis toujours soumise à un étrange phénomène : les choses et les êtres semblent promis à une sorte d’effacement diaboliquement orchestré. Quand un matin les oiseaux disparaissent à jamais, la jeune narratrice de ce livre ne s’épanche pas...

If My Dogs Were a Pair of Middle-Aged Men

Author	Matthew Inman
ISBN	1449433529

From the Eisner Award-winning creator of The Oatmeal and #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You comes this charmingly absurd gift book about man’s best friend.

In If My Dogs Were a Pair of Middle-Aged Men, Matthew Inman imagines, to hilarious...

Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants

Author	Matthew Inman
ISBN	1449427707

Why Grizzly Bears Should Wear Underpants is the second variety comic collection and fourth book from the comedic mastermind behind TheOatmeal.com, Matthew Inman. Classics from the website, including “Dear Sriracha Rooster Sauce,” “What It Means When You Say Literally,” and “What We...