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Books like The Last Straw
Loved The Last Straw by Jeff Kinney? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from graphic novels, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.
10 books · ranked
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Persepolis
A girl grows up during and after the Iranian revolution; a witty, moving graphic memoir.
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Watchmen
Flawed, ageing superheroes in an alternate Cold War; the graphic novel that proved comics could be literature.
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3
The X-Files
A novel based on the Emmy Award-winning television series created by Chris Carter.When a disease-ravaged body is found in the smoldering ruins of the federally funded DyMar genetic research lab, Agent
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Servant of the Bones
Azriel, Servant of the Bones, is a ghost, a demon, an angel who finds himself in present-day New York witnessing the murder of a young girl- He finds himself obsessed by the desire to avenge her death
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GTO
Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old ex-biker, decides that he is going to become the best teacher in the world but his class is full of bullies, blackmailers, and sadists.
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Skipping Christmas
Luther and Nora Krank decide that, just this once, they'll skip Christmas altogether. Theirs will be the only house on the street without a rooftop Frosty the snowman; they won't be hosting their annu
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Small Gods
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him
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The City of Ember (The First Book of Ember)
A modern-day classic. This highly acclaimed adventure series about two friends desperate to save their doomed city has captivated kids and teachers alike for almost fifteen years and has sold over 3.5
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The Eye of the World
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age
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The Sandman
The Lord of Dreams across myth, history and the modern world; the comic that expanded what the medium could do.