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Modern Storytelling: Comedy, YouTube, TED Talks, & podcasts

7/15/2020

We Should All Be Feminists, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 305.42 ADI *ª
Telling Your Story, Jerry Apps, 808.06692 APP
Thank You For My Service, Mat Best, 956.7044 BES ª
The Bill Murray Stories, DVD 791.43 BIL
The Gifts of Imperfection, Brené Brown, 158 BRO *
Riding the Elephant, Craig Ferguson 791.45 FER ª
Welcome to Night Vale, Fink & Cranor, F FIN *ª

Dad Is Fat, Jim Gaffigan 814 GAF *ª
Vacationland, John Hodgman, 817 HOD *ª
Wow, No Thank You, Samantha Irby, 814 IRB *ª
Thanks a Thousand, A.J. Jacobs, 179.9 JAC
Why Not Me? Mindy Kaling, 921 KALING *ª
Life In a Day, DVD 920 LIF
Waiting for the Punch, Marc Maron, 920.02 MAR *
The Greatest Love Story Ever Told, Megan Mullally & Nick Offerman, 791.45 MUL *ª

Binge, Tyler Oakley, YA 818.602 OAK *
Broken Places and Outer Spaces, Nnedi Okorafor 155.22 OKO
Yes Please, Amy Poehler, 921 POEHLER *ª
Well, That Escalated Quickly, Franchesca Ramsey, 791.45 RAM
Mobituaries, Mo Rocca, 920 ROC *ª
Brave, Not Perfect, Reshma Saujani, 155.33 SAU ª
Whose Story Is This?, Rebecca Solnit 814 SOL
Stories We Tell, DVD 306.85 STO
Self-Inflicted Wounds, Aisha Tyler, 921 TYLER

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Graphic Memoirs

7/15/2020

The Voyeurs, Gabrielle Bell, GN BEL
The Best We Could Do, Thi Bui, GN BUI *
Girl on Film, Cecil Castellucci, GN CAS
Dancing at the Pity Party, Tyler Feder, YA GN FED
A Fire Story, Brian Fies, GN FIE
I Was Their American Dream, Malaka Gharib, GN GHA
Fights, Joel Christian Gill, YA GN GIL
How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, Sarah Glidden, GN GLI

Rosalie Lightning, Tom Hart, GN HAR
We Ate Wonder Bread, Nicole Hollander, GN HOL
Good Talk, Mira Jacob, GN JAC ª
Gender Queer, Maia Kobabe, GN KOB *
Belonging, Nora Krug, GN KRU ª
Last Things, Marissa Moss, GN MOS
Roots, Tara O’Connor, GN OCO
Tomboy, Liz Prince, YA GN PRI
Imagine Wanting Only This, Kristen Radtke, GN RAD

The Impostor’s Daughter, Laurie Sandell, GN SAN
Big Black: Stand at Attica, Frank “Big Black” Smith, GN SMI
The Fire Never Goes Out, Noelle Stevenson, GN STE
They Called Us Enemy, George Takei, GN TAK *
Honor Girl, Maggie Thrash, YA GN THR
Such a Lovely Little War, Marcelino Truong, GN TRU
Spinning, Tillie Walden, YA GN WAL
Commute, Erin Williams, GN WIL
Dear Scarlet, Teresa Wong, GN WON

A note from Laura: Graphic Memoirs are like graphic novels—illustrated stories—but tell a story from the author and/or illustrator's life. Comics are inherently a collaborative art, as different people may write, draw, color, and letter the story. Many graphic memoirs are written by those who do it all, but others tell someone's true story with assistance from other creative people. In our library, Graphic Memoirs are shelved with Graphic Novels. I have left off this list some of the "bigger names" or "classics" in Graphic Memoir, such as Alison Bechdel, Roz Chast, Lucy Knisley, John Lewis' March, Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, and David Small's Stitches. I hope this list helps you discover new voices!

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Books in Translation

7/15/2020

The Linden Tree, César Aira, F AIR
Britt-Marie Was Here, Fredrik Backman, F BAC *ª
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, Katarina Bivald, F BIV *ª
A User’s Guide to Neglectful Parenting, Guy Delisle, GN DEL 1
Sovietistan, Erika Fatland, 951.804 FAT
Eva’s Eye, Karin Fossum, M FOS SEJ-1 *ª
A Horse Walks Into a Bar, David Grossman F GRO *ª
Waking Lions, Ayelet Gundar-Goshen, F GUN
A River in Darkness, Masaji Ishikawa 951.93 ISH

The Plotters, Un-su Kim, F KIM
The Dinner, Herman Koch, F KOC *ª
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo 648 KON *ª
Tell Me How It Ends, Valeria Luiselli 305.23 LUI *
The Beekeeper, Dunya Mikhail, 956.7 MIK
Kitaro, Shigeru Mizuki, YA GN MIZ
The Strange Library, Haruki Murakami, F MUR *ª
Tram 83, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, F MWA
Make Your Own Ideabook, Arne & Carlos, 745.59 NER
The Son, Jo Nesbø, M NES *ª

The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa, F OGA *ª
The Red-Haired Woman, Orhan Pamuk, F PAM *
The House I Loved, Tatiana De Rosnay F ROS ª
To Die in Spring, Ralf Rothmann, F ROT
Two Sisters, Asne Seierstad, 956.9104 SEI
The Legacy, Yrsa Sigurdardottir, M SIG CHI-1
The Neighborhood, Mario Vargas Llosa, F VAR *
Reputations, Juan Gabriel Vasquez, F VAS
Vinland Saga, vol 1, Makoto Yukimura, GN YUK 1

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Booklists and reading suggestions from the team at Monroe Public Library.

After each title, you'll find links to reserve these items on LINKcat and Wisconsin's Digital Library. In many cases, you can choose from print, large print, audio CD, and Playaway, or ebooks and eaudiobooks.

(LINKcat links from 2021 through 4/2022 may be broken. We'll fix them ASAP!)

For lists before 2021:
Titles with an asterisk * are available as ebooks and titles with an ª are available as digital audiobooks on Wisconsin's Digital Library.

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