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Cartoonist Gene Luen Yang follows his Oakland high school's varsity basketball team through a season and finds the national history of the sport inside it.
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March: Book One
Congressman John Lewis's graphic memoir of the civil rights movement, from his Alabama childhood to the march on Selma.
American Born Chinese
Three stories that seem unrelated, about Jin Wang, the only Chinese-American boy at his new school, the Monkey King of Chinese legend, and a white teenager shamed by visits from a cousin who is a walking stereotype, come together in a story about identity.
Feeding Ghosts
An American artist draws three generations of her Chinese-American family through mental illness, the Cultural Revolution, and a long, prickly inheritance.
The Color of Water
A Black writer tells his own story alongside that of his white Jewish mother, who raised twelve children and refused to discuss her past.
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Beaton's memoir of two years working in Alberta's oil sands to pay off her student debt and the violence, boredom, and tenderness that circulated on camp.
Poppies of Iraq
A Mosul-born cartoonist remembers her 1960s and 70s Iraqi childhood, the Baath years, and the distance that emigration opens between a person and a country.
The Arab of the Future
A cartoonist's memoir of growing up between France, Libya, and Syria.
Fun Home
Bechdel diagrams her closeted-gay funeral-director father's life and her own coming-out against his in panels that feel like rooms of a house she can't quite leave.
The Silver Linings Playbook
A man with bipolar disorder channels all his manic energy into one goal: reuniting with his ex-wife, fuelled by football and unearned optimism.
Persepolis
A girl grows up during the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War, drawn in stark black and white that makes the political intimately personal.
On Writing
Stephen King's memoir of the craft: his childhood, his early struggles and drinking, the toolbox of grammar and habit he swears by, and the 1999 accident that nearly ended his life while he was writing the book.
Educated
Tara Westover grew up in a survivalist family in rural Idaho, never sent to school or taken to a doctor, and taught herself enough to get into college, a journey that led to a Cambridge PhD.