Books like Smile
If you liked Smile by Raina Telgemeier, start here: 12 similar summaries, with why each one matches.
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Everything I Know About Love
Because shares tags: memoir, friendship.
Dolly Alderton recalls bad dates flatshares and female friendship in her twenties memoir.
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The Mark of Athena
Because shares tags: middle grade, friendship.
Seven demigods sail for Rome where Annabeth must follow the Mark to the Athena Parthenos alone.
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V for Vendetta
Because shares tag: graphic novel.
A masked rebel stalks fascist London while lost girl Evey finds her nerve, in Alan Moore and David Lloyd's 1988 DC graphic novel.
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Under the Tuscan Sun
Because shares tag: memoir.
Frances Mayes and her husband Ed restore an abandoned villa near Cortona, learning its stone walls, markets, and seasonal cooking one room…
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Truly Madly Guilty
Because shares tag: friendship.
A Sydney barbecue turns when two-year-old Ruby falls in a fountain. Three couples face guilt, marriage strain, and repair.
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This Is Going to Hurt
Because shares tag: memoir.
Adam Kay retells his junior doctor diaries with humour and strain, from labour ward nights to leaving medicine.
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The Rose Code
Because shares tag: friendship.
Three Bletchley Park women reunite in 1947 to expose a wartime traitor in Quinn's codebreaking novel.
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The Lies of Locke Lamora
Because shares tag: friendship.
Locke Lamora leads con artists in Camorr until a rival boss and a deadly coup force a fight for survival.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Because shares tag: memoir.
Malcolm X traces his life from Michigan childhood through Harlem, prison, and the Nation of Islam to Mecca in this 1965 memoir told to Alex…
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Because shares tag: friendship.
Fourteen-year-old Junior leaves his Spokane reservation school for an all-white farm town, drawing cartoons through grief, basketball, and…
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Stargirl
Because shares tag: friendship.
Leo Borlock likes blending in until homeschooled Stargirl Caraway arrives at Mica High with a ukulele, a pet rat, and kindness that tests…
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Shoe Dog
Because shares tag: memoir.
Phil Knight tells how Blue Ribbon Sports grew from a trunk of Japanese running shoes into Nike.
