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Graphic Memoirs by Women

Description: Memoirs by women told through the medium of comics.

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The Complete Persepolis

by Marjane Satrapi

8,331 members

283 reviews

½ 4.3

5 Members: alexa_d, cej1027, WomensSeqArtLibrary, ManWithAnAgenda, arwa-fm

2

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

9,321 members

392 reviews

4.2

3 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Relish: My Life in the Kitchen

by Lucy Knisley

1,059 members

95 reviews

4.1

3 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

4

Green Almonds: Letters from Palestine

by Anaële Hermans

39 members

7 reviews

3.2

3 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

5

The Principles of Uncertainty

by Maira Kalman

941 members

34 reviews

4.2

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

6

To Dance: A Ballerina's Graphic Novel

by Siena Cherson Siegel

614 members

69 reviews

3.9

Member: merrystar

7

1,088 members

29 reviews

4.2

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

8

Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama

by Alison Bechdel

2,284 members

109 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, ManWithAnAgenda

9

362 members

9 reviews

3.8

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

10

Honor Girl: A Graphic Memoir

by Maggie Thrash

564 members

33 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Lighter Than My Shadow

328 members

25 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

12

We Are On Our Own: A Memoir

by Miriam Katin

252 members

9 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

13

Becoming Unbecoming

by Una

225 members

12 reviews

4.1

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

14

Special Exits: A Graphic Memoir

by Joyce Farmer

183 members

12 reviews

4.2

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

15

by Raina Telgemeier

6,106 members

336 reviews

4.2

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

16

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened

5,914 members

309 reviews

½ 4.3

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

17

My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness

892 members

22 reviews

4

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

18

by Lucy Knisley

710 members

72 reviews

½ 3.3

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

19

The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures

by Phoebe Gloeckner

549 members

16 reviews

4

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

20

430 members

20 reviews

3.9

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

21

Something New: Tales from a Makeshift Bride

by Lucy Knisley

360 members

37 reviews

4

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

22

My New York Diary

by Julie Doucet

306 members

1 review

3.8

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

23

240 members

12 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

24

Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life

238 members

10 reviews

3.8

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

25

by Ariel Schrag

222 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

26

Poppies of Iraq

by Brigitte Findakly

168 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

27

Awkward and Definition: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag (High School Chronicles of Ariel Schrag)

by Ariel Schrag

153 members

5 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

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Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag (High School Chronicles of Ariel Schrag)

by Ariel Schrag

119 members

4 reviews

3.1

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

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by Miriam Katin

86 members

2 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

30

But I Really Wanted to Be an Anthropologist

by Margaux Motin

74 members

8 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

31

Good Riddance: An Illustrated Memoir of Divorce

by Cynthia Copeland

42 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

32

by Jennifer Hayden

38 members

1 review

½ 3.7

2 Members: alexa_d, WomensSeqArtLibrary

33

Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics

by Miriam Engelberg

152 members

7 reviews

3.9

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

34

Dragonslippers : this is what an abusive relationship looks like

by Rosalind B. Penfold

121 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

35

Make Me a Woman

by Vanessa Davis

104 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

36

Ink in Water: An Illustrated Memoir (Or, How I Kicked Anorexia’s Ass and Embraced Body Positivity)

by Lacy J. Davis

57 members

8 reviews

4.2

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

37

Prison Island: A Graphic Memoir

by Colleen Frakes

68 members

6 reviews

3.1

2 Members: WomensSeqArtLibrary, arwa-fm

38

by Tillie Walden

725 members

27 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

39

The Secret To Superhuman Strength

by Alison Bechdel

765 members

31 reviews

4.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Hazel Newlevant

94 members

14 reviews

3.1

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

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by Raina Telgemeier

4,778 members

104 reviews

4.1

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

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3,675 members

406 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

43

by Marjane Satrapi

2,122 members

85 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

44

Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? A Memoir

1,878 members

132 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

45

Adulthood is a Myth

by Sarah Andersen

1,684 members

120 reviews

4.2

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

46

The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir

1,522 members

76 reviews

4.2

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

47

Big Mushy Happy Lump

by Sarah Andersen

940 members

68 reviews

4.2

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

48

Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir

by Ellen Forney

870 members

68 reviews

4

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

49

by Sarah Andersen

805 members

73 reviews

4.2

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

50

Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir

615 members

38 reviews

3.9

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

51

How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less

by Sarah Glidden

441 members

23 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

52

by Michelle Tea

429 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

53

Calling Dr. Laura: A Graphic Memoir

by Nicole Georges

389 members

21 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

54

A Game for Swallows: To Die, To Leave, To Return

by Zeina Abirached

372 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

55

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos

by Lucy Knisley

347 members

34 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

56

by Lucy Knisley

327 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

57

An Age of License

by Lucy Knisley

325 members

25 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

58

Cancer Vixen: A True Story

by Marisa Acocella Marchetto

322 members

16 reviews

3.9

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

59

Our Cancer Year

by Harvey Pekar

322 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary
Explanations: WomensSeqArtLibrary: co-written by Joyce Brabner

60

Little White Duck: A Childhood in China

312 members

31 reviews

3.8

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

61

My Solo Exchange Diary Vol. 1: The Sequel to My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness

305 members

8 reviews

3.9

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

62

Imagine Wanting Only This

by Kristen Radtke

297 members

16 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

63

Drinking at the Movies

291 members

11 reviews

3.8

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

64

The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir

by Laurie Sandell

279 members

36 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

65

Dotter of her Father's Eyes

by Mary M. Talbot

257 members

26 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

66

The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam

by Ann Marie Fleming

249 members

12 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

67

Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq

by Sarah Glidden

241 members

13 reviews

4

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

68

Dare to Disappoint: Growing Up in Turkey

by Özge Samancı

227 members

12 reviews

4.1

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

69

I Remember Beirut

by Zeinia Abirached

196 members

6 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

70

Everything Is Teeth

195 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

71

Am I There Yet?: The Loop-de-loop, Zigzagging Journey to Adulthood

194 members

7 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

72

by Alissa Torres

190 members

17 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

73

by Gabrielle Bell

176 members

7 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

74

Tangles: A story about Alzheimer's, my mother, and me

by Sarah Leavitt

174 members

8 reviews

4

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

75

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale

170 members

21 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

76

by Gabrielle Bell

170 members

5 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

77

You & a Bike & a Road

by Eleanor Davis

166 members

7 reviews

4.1

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

78

by Marzena Sowa

166 members

8 reviews

3.8

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

79

How I Made It to Eighteen: A Mostly True Story

161 members

14 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

80

Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir

159 members

8 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

81

I Was a Child of Holocaust Survivors

by Bernice Eisenstein

154 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

82

Need More Love: A Graphic Memoir

by Aline Kominsky Crumb

148 members

5 reviews

3.8

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

83

Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag

by A. K. Summers

147 members

8 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

84

The Story of My Tits

by Jennifer Hayden

146 members

12 reviews

4.1

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

85

Fatherland: A Family History

by Nina Bunjevac

136 members

5 reviews

4

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

86

Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home

by Nicole Georges

136 members

6 reviews

3.9

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

87

The Infinite Wait and Other Stories

133 members

5 reviews

4.2

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

88

Inside Out: Portrait of an Eating Disorder

by Nadia Shivack

132 members

8 reviews

3.1

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

89

Pretending Is Lying

by Dominique Goblet

130 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

90

We Can Fix It: A Time Travel Memoir

128 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

91

Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran

by Parsua Bashi

115 members

17 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

92

by Rachel Lindsay

111 members

3 reviews

3.9

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

93

Cuba: My Revolution

by Inverna Lockpez

110 members

5 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

94

Diary of a Tokyo Teen: A Japanese-American Girl Travels to the Land of Trendy Fashion, High-Tech Toilets and Maid Cafes

by Christine Mari

109 members

13 reviews

3.8

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

95

Alone Forever: The Singles Collection

109 members

3 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

96

The Customer is Always Wrong

108 members

8 reviews

4.1

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

97

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White

by Lila Quintero Weaver

104 members

10 reviews

4.1

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

98

Flying Couch: A Graphic Memoir

by Amy Kurzweil

104 members

10 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

99

Everything is Flammable

by Gabrielle Bell

102 members

2 reviews

3.9

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

100

100 members

8 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: WomensSeqArtLibrary

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