Book Riot's Read Harder Challenge discussion

Share and discuss book ideas for Task 13: Read a nonfiction comic

So many good graphic memoirs for this prompt:
Gender Queer: A Memoir is the first one that came to mind, but since I've already read it, I'm thinking about reading Tomboy: A Graphic Memoir this year.

^Both are really good graphic memoirs! I especially loved Gender Queer, but Tomboy is really good too.

This category is an area I've read extensively in. I absolutely adore graphic nonfiction. I have a huge list of ones I want to get around to, and I often pick up ones that I just come across at the library. My current shortlist consists of Black Coal and Red Bandanas: An Illustrated History of the West Virginia Mine Wars by Raymond Tyler, Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region by Kate Masur and art by Elizabeth Clarke, Sí, Se Puede: The Latino Heroes Who Changed the United States by Julio Anta and art by Yasmin Flores Montanez, The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport by Aubrey Sitterson and Chris Moreno, What Remains: Colombia from home and a distance by Camilo Aguirre, Nuking Alaska: Notes of an Atomic Fugitive by Peter Dunlap-ShohlSuffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S. by Caitlin Cass, Guantánamo Kid: The True Story of Mohammed El-Gharani by Jérôme Tubiana and art by Alexandre Franc, Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943 by Rachel Marie-Crane Williams, Movements and Moments by Sonja Eismann, Surrounded: America’s First School for Black Girls, 1832 by Wilfrid Lupano, Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio by Derf Backderf, and Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen by Kate Evans. This is my actual shortlist saved in my notes app, but now that I've typed it all out at once I'm realising this list is not actually short. lmao oops.

I posted a list of graphic nonfiction recommendations in Task 5: Read a nonfiction book about resistance. I'm going to add a list here of suggestions that don't typically appear on a lot of lists but are worth the read.

Disability memoirs: Brittle Joints by Maria Sweeney and Dancing After TEN by Vivian Chong, art by Georgia Webber

True crime memoir: The Murder Next Door: A Graphic Memoir by Hugh D'Andrade

Black Panther history: The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker, art by Marcus Kwame Anderson

Silent film history: Lon Chaney Speaks by Pat Dorian and Mary Pickford, Queen of the Silent Film Era: A Life in Stills by George A Walker

Political graphic essays: Lebanon Is Burning and Other Dispatches by Yazan Al-Saadi, various artists

Palestinian memoir: Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh

Biography: Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg by Kate Evans

Anthologies: Comics for Choice: Illustrated Abortion Stories, History and Politics edited by Hazel Newlevant, Whit Taylor, and Ø.K. Fox, Drawing Power: Women's Stories of Sexual Violence, Harassment, and Survival edited by Diane Noomin, and Nova Graphica: A Comic Anthology of Nova Scotia History edited by Laura Ķeniņš

I plan to read - Relish: My Life in the Kitchen Lucy Knisley - it’s well reviewed.