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Books like Persepolis

Readers who finished Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Women and Biography & Autobiography.

Women Biography & Autobiography

Top related books to Persepolis

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Persepolis.

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Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

Thrumpton Hall A Memoir of Life in My Father’s House

Miranda Seymour

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

A Border Passage From Cairo to America– a Woman’s Journey

Leila Ahmed

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

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Issaka Galadima

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

At Home on St. Simons An Autobiography

Eugenia Price

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

Florence Nightingale The Woman and Her Legend

Mark Bostridge

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

Paris: A Love Story

Kati Marton

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

Originals! Black Women Breaking Barriers

Jessie Carney Smith Smith

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

The Sisters of Auschwitz The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

Roxane van Iperen

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#10

Maya Angelou My First Maya Angelou [BOARD BOOK]

Lisbeth Kaiser

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#11

Casa Nostra A Home in Sicily

Caroline Seller Manzo

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#12

Theodora Actress, Empress, Saint

David Potter

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#13

The Girl who Smiled Beads A Story of War and what Comes After

Clemantine Wamariya

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#14

The Deaths of Sybil Bolton Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation

Dennis McAuliffe

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#15

Mark and Livy The Love Story of Mark Twain and the Woman who Almost Tamed Him

Resa Willis

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#16

Paula

Isabel Allende

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#17

Rebel Cinderella From Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes

Adam Hochschild

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#18

A Coastline is an Immeasurable Thing A Memoir Across Three Continents

Mary-Alice Daniel

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#19

Fame Big Time Rush

C. W. Cooke

Themes: Biography & Autobiography

#20

The Good Fight

Shirley Chisholm

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#21

Harvesting Hope The Story of Cesar Chavez

Kathleen Krull

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#22

Court Lady and Country Wife Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Century England

Lita-Rose Betcherman

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#23

A Stranger at Home A True Story

Christy Jordan-Fenton

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

#24

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-century China

Jung Chang

Themes: Women • Biography & Autobiography

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Women, Biography & Autobiography — the same threads that run through Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi. Among the authors featured: Barbara Ransby, Miranda Seymour, Leila Ahmed, Issaka Galadima, and others.