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A surreal, bittersweet road trip to reclaim the painful but necessary pieces of a shattered soul. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Heart in a box.
- bittersweet
- quirky
- emotionally raw
- 01
Heart On Fire
Charlotte Lamb · 2007
A fast-paced, visually expressive dance of workplace friction and undeniable attraction.
- 02
Death
Neil Gaiman
A gentle, bittersweet stroll through the margins of a city that reminds you to find magic in the simple act of breathing.
- 03
Sex Criminals
Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
A laugh-out-loud, neon-drenched romp that uses a wildly explicit premise as a Trojan horse for a tender story about intimacy and mental health.
- 04
Pretty Deadly Volume 1 TP
Kelly Sue DeConnick
A brutal, beautiful western fairy tale where death is a woman with a sword and the desert bleeds magic.
- 05
I Am Not Okay With This
Charles Forsman
A stark, deadpan exploration of teenage alienation where repressed trauma manifests as uncontrollable, destructive power.
- 06
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
Zoe Thorogood
A brutally honest, visually explosive plunge into the mind of an artist trying to draw her way out of the dark.
- 07
Die, Vol. 1
Kieron Gillen
A pitch-black, gothic descent into the terrifying consequences of childhood escapism.
- 08
Seconds
Bryan Lee O'Malley
A frantic, magical-realist spiral into the chaotic consequences of trying to edit your own life into perfection.
- 09
The heart and the bottle
Oliver Jeffers
A tender, metaphorical exploration of how protecting ourselves from pain can accidentally close us off from the world.
- 10
Skim
Mariko Tamaki
A moody, beautifully illustrated dive into the messy, cynical, and deeply vulnerable heart of 90s teenage angst.
- 11
The refrigerator monologues
Catherynne M. Valente
A subversive, darkly humorous reclamation of the superhero genre's most sidelined women, told with the mythic gravity of a modern fairy tale.
- 12
The one hundred nights of hero
Isabel Greenberg
A defiant, feminist reimagining of the Arabian Nights where storytelling is both a weapon against the patriarchy and a profound act of love.
