35 Non-fiction Graphic Novels by BIPOC Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• This Place: 150 Years Retold
• Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei with Elettra Stamboulis & Gianluca Costantini
• Nat Turner by Kyle Baker
• The Talk by Darrin Bell
• The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui
• I’m a Wild Seed by Sharon Lee De la Cruz
• Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American by Laura Gao
• Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America by Joel Christian Gill and Ibram X. Kendi
• Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez
• The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill
• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations by Mira Jacob
• The American Dream? A Journey on Route 66 Discovering Dinosaur Statues, Muffler Man, and the Perfect Breakfast Burrito: a Graphic Memoir by Shing Yin Khor
• Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook, Ryan Estrada, and Ko Hyung-Ju
• In Limbo by Deb J.J. Lee
• This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian
• Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir by Pedro Martín
• Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story by Sarah Myer
• Steady Rollin’: Preacher Kid, Black Punk and Pedaling Papa by Fred Noland
• Citizen 13660 by Mine Okubo
• Your Black Friend and Other Strangers by Ben Passmore
• Kwändǖr by Cole Pauls
• Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez
• Power Born of Dreams: My Story is Palestine by Mohammad Sabaaneh
• A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
• Grandmothers, Our Grandmothers: Remembering the “Comfort Women” of World War II by Han Seong-Won
• Death Threat by Vivek Shraya and Ness Lee
• Palimpsest: Documents From A Korean Adoption by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom
• Big Black: Stand at Attica by Frank “Big Black” Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Améziane
• Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Dawud Anyabwile, and Derrick Barnes
• The High Desert by James Spooner
• They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker
• Feelings by Manjit Thapp
• The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson
• Now Let Me Fly: A Portrait of Eugene Bullard by Ronald Wimberly and Braham Revel