Everything is an Emergency: an OCD story in words and pictures by Jason Adam Katzenstein. Harper Perennial, 2020, 243 Pages.

Something New by Lucy Knisley. First Second, NY, 2016, 291

Welcome to Saint Hell; my trans teen adventure by Lewis Hancox, Graphix, 2022, 314 pages.

They Called Us Enemy by George Takei. Top Shelf, 2019, 204 pages.

 

Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder. Dial Books, 2020, 201 pages.

 

Hey Kiddo: how I lost my mother, found my father, and dealt with family addiction, by Jarrett J Krosoczka. Graphix, 2018, 320 pages. .

Fun Home: a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel. Houghton Mifflin, 2006, 232 pages.

Real Friends by Shannon Hale. First Second, 2017, 210 pages.

The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. Abrahms Comic Arts, 2017, 336 pages

Stitches: a memoir by David Smalls. H. W. Norton & Co., 2009, 325 pages.

embroideries by marjane satrapi. Pantheon Books, NY. 2005

Last Things: a graphic memoir of loss and love by Marissa Moss. Conari Press, 2017.175 pages.

Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast. Bloomsbury USA, 2016, 228 pages.

Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution by Julia Alekseyeva. Microcosm Publishing, 2017, 181 pages.

Drawing From Memory by Allen Say. Scholastic Press, 2011, 63 pages

Picture Book/Graphic-y memoir of Children's book illustrator and author, Allen Say. Full of personal drawings and family photos, Say details his early life in Japan, especially his apprenticeship to Japanese cartoonist Noro Shinpei-- whom Say lovingly refers to as Sensei. A rich and fabulous memoir detailing the young artists life in Tokyo in the years just after the end of the war. I love a graphic-y memoir.

To Dance: a ballerina's graphic novel by Siena Cherson Siegal. Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2006.

I love a graphic memoir. Read this a long time ago and still try to sell it to girls. Memoir of a real little girl who eats and breathes ballet-- it takes all her time and effort. No parties or school clubs or sleep overs for her. Only American Ballet Theatre. I especially love the scene where we understand she battles anorexia-- all told without words. Seems like the essence of the graphic's ability to tell the story in few, if any, words.

El Deafo by Cece Bell. Amulet Books, 2014. 233 pages

I love a graphic memoir. How many times can I say it but it is so true. When a childhood illness leaves future author and illustrator Cece Bell deaf, her whole life changes. She navigates elementary school issues like best friends and liking boys and wanting to look cute and fit in-- all universal-- as a deaf person in a hearing world. Honest and funny-- think Smile or Sisters or To Dance or Relish. Loved it immediately.

Relish; my life in the kitchen by Lucy Knisley. First Second, 2013

I love a graphic memoir and i love foodies too.  i found this on a list of great graphics for teens, but i do not see it as a teen book per se. Knisley tells the story of growing up with 2 foodie parents and how she became a foodie too. comes with recipes!!
 I loved it-- well written. will especially appeal to those of us who cannot get enough of all those cooking and reality tv chef shows.

Sisters by Raina Telgemeier. Graphix/Scholastic, 2014. 197 pages.

I love a graphic memoir and I always love Raina. Not as spectacular as Smile, but wonderful just the same.

Drama by Raina Telgemeier. Graphix/Scholastic, 2012, 231.

Not exactly so, but feels like a sequel to Smile, this graphic memoir-ish fiction has all the charm of Telegmeier's first. The story plays out over the course of one middle school play-- Drama -- as in the play and drama-- as in the lives of 7th and 8th graders-- who's gay, who thinks they are gay, bi or whatever, who falls in love with every nice guy she meets, who are the prima donnas-- on and off the stage, etc. Telegmeier's drawings are warm and familiar and the dialogue is spot on. Telegmeier remembers what it is like to be a middle school Drama-Geek. Loved it.