Books like The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui

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.

In a blustery Wisconsin winter, two brothers navigate sibling rivalry and a budding romance as they grow up in an isolated rural setting.

Three interlocking stories follow young Chinese Americans as they navigate the challenges of fitting into popular culture, all told in a vibrant graphic novel format.

A heartfelt graphic novel set on a New York‑state beach, following two teenage girls as they confront family turmoil, friendship, and secrets during a summer that threatens to change their lives forever.

David Small’s graphic memoir chronicles his battle with throat cancer, the loss of his voice, and his escape toward an artistic future.

A young woman wrestles with the legacy of her brother’s childhood brain tumor while navigating a 20‑year arc of family tension, isolation and the strict Catholic culture of a rural Irish farming community.

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 memoir in graphic novel format about the author's experiences as the son of Vietnamese immigrants who fled to America during the fall of Saigon describes how he learned his tragic ancestral history and the impact of the Vietnam War on his family while visiting their homeland years later.