Books like Secret diary by Julien Neel

A personal, illustrated memoir of Marjane Satrapi’s childhood in Tehran, her coming‑of‑age during the Islamic Revolution, teenage years in Vienna and eventual exile from Iran.

Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir, *Fun Home*, chronicles her complex relationship with her father, a funeral-home director, and her own coming-of-age as a lesbian, using intimate drawings and witty narrative.

A candid, single‑volume autobiographical manga that traces a young woman’s journey through sexuality, mental health and growing up, rendered in expressive, humorous art.

Annie on My Mind follows the deep friendship and emerging love between two teenage girls, set against the backdrop of a private school, as they navigate homophobia and the challenges of coming out.

A coming‑of‑age graphic novel where junior high student Clementine discovers love and identity after meeting the bold Emma in a New York lesbian bar.

Miki Yoshida navigates a high‑school romance while uncovering Hiro Sakurai’s hidden mission, forcing her to balance trust, secrecy, and teenage love.

Bethany Farmer, a soccer‑obsessed high‑schooler, meets transfer student Allein, who hints at a faerie kingdom. Caught between the mortal field and an immortal realm, she must decide where her heart truly belongs.

A ghost girl falls in love with Nora as their house is renovated.

A teenage romance story centered on a summer vacation where Lou, her friends, and her mother experience unexpected love and adventure at a posh beach house, while the mother attends a book tour for her new science fiction novel.

When Serena moves to a small Texas town during her junior year, she confronts new friendships and love interests while finding unexpected parallels between her class’s study of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the two men in her life.

Seventeen‑year‑old Felicity struggles to live up to her mother’s expectations after her sister vanishes. A chance meeting with band member Alec Williams at a charity ball sparks a search for happiness and a surprising family secret that propels her on a road trip to find her sister.

In the bustling city of Monstropolis, Mike and Sulley work for Monsters, Inc. When a human girl slips in, they must escort her home before the workers notice – and before their jobs are in jeopardy.

Twelve‑year‑old Lou attempts to play matchmaker for her mother and a new love interest, but her plans are disrupted by a visit from her grandmother, revealing family traditions, surprising food and new romantic intentions.

Hee‑So, a high‑school girl with a string of boyfriends, falls for the thirteenth—Won‑Jun—on national TV. When he abruptly ends the romance, she vows to win him back and reunite with her destined love.

At sixteen, Dora travels to London to seek Sherlock Holmes—whom she suspects is her father—in hopes he can help her cousin escape blackmail over stolen letters. When Holmes dies en route, a new detective steps in to aid her.

Jacqueline Wilson shares authentic excerpts from her teenage diaries, offering a vivid look at her family dynamics, first love, school challenges, and cultural moments of 1950s‑60s Britain.

Seventeen‑year‑old Trevor Loomis finds his high school life hellish, literally, when he dies choking on a Cheesy Crisp and is sent to Satan’s Prep— a school in Hell where he must endure nine classes based on the Circles of Hell.

In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos' characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.