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If you loved The Arrival

Books like The Arrival

If you loved The Arrival by Shaun Tan, these are the books its readers love most, closest first: chosen from the ratings and recommendations of the readers who loved it.

No. 1

American Born Chinese

Gene Luen Yang

No. 2

Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

Art Spiegelman

No. 3

The Chronicles of Harris Burdick: 14 Amazing Authors Tell the Tales

Chris Van Allsburg, Lois Lowry, Kate DiCamillo, M.T. Anderson, Louis Sachar, Stephen King, Tabitha King, Jon Scieszka, Sherman Alexie, Gregory Maguire, Cory Doctorow, Jules Feiffer, Linda Sue Park, Walter Dean Myers, Lemony Snicket

No. 4

An Illustrated Life: Drawing Inspiration From The Private Sketchbooks Of Artists, Illustrators And Designers

Danny Gregory

No. 5

Drawing from Memory

Allen Say

No. 6

The Gashlycrumb Tinies (The Vinegar Works, #1)

Edward Gorey

No. 7

Amphigorey (Amphigorey, #1)

Edward Gorey

No. 8

Stitches

David Small

No. 9

Blankets

Craig Thompson

No. 10

Color: A Natural History of the Palette

Victoria Finlay

No. 11

Understanding Comics

Scott Mccloud

No. 12

Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book

Terry Jones, Brian Froud

No. 13

On Photography

Susan Sontag

No. 14

Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

David Bayles, Ted Orland

No. 15

Daytripper

Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, Craig Thompson, Dave Stewart, Sean Konot

No. 16

Diane Arbus: Monograph

Diane Arbus, Stan Grossfeld, Doon Arbus, Marvin Israel

No. 17

The Letters of Vincent van Gogh

Vincent van Gogh, Ronald de Leeuw, Mark Roskill, Arnold J. Pomerans

No. 18

Wall and Piece

Banksy

No. 19

Watchmen

Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, John Higgins

No. 20

The Art Book

Phaidon Press

No. 21

The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait

Frida Kahlo, Carlos Fuentes, Sarah M. Lowe

No. 22

Clara and Mr. Tiffany

Susan Vreeland

No. 23

Good Faeries/Bad Faeries

Brian Froud, Terry Windling

No. 24

Faeries

Brian Froud, Alan Lee