Books like Marbles by Ellen Forney

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Alison Bechdel revisits her childhood in this graphic memoir, uncovering the layered relationship with her mother—an avid reader, music lover, and concealed gay artist—while exploring psychoanalysis, literary heritage, and the quest for understanding.

xxxv, 338 pages ; 21 cm

Roz Chast turns her sharp humor into a touching memoir about caring for aging parents, using cartoons, family photos, and real moments to explore the challenges and absurdities of adult children stepping into the caregiver role.

A sweet tale of guilt and redemption as Penny tries to return a blue marble she found, but something unexpected happens when she does.

Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland is a graphic memoir that chronicles the city’s history through the eyes of its lifelong resident, blending key moments, local characters, and Pekar's personal ups and downs in a detailed and evocative visual narrative.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

A graphic memoir that captures the death of Nina Bunjevac’s father and traces the impact of fascist and communist Yugoslavia on her family and homeland.

This account of the life stories of three ground-breaking researchers, Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas, students of the great Louis Leakey, explores how each made profound contributions to primatology.

A graphic memoir that chronicles the life and activism of John Lewis, from the civil rights movement to his role in Congress, offering insight into African American history and the struggle for equality.

A heartfelt comic about a young boy who loves his older brother’s comic collection and discovers how play, storytelling, and friendship shape growing up.

230 pages ; 24 cm