We Served the People: My Mother's Stories
By: Emei Burell
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A collection of moving stories passed from mother to daughter recounting life during China’s Cultur…
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1. How To Be Happy
By: Eleanor Davis
3.64
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
Eleanor Davis's How to be Happy is the artist's first collection of graphic/literary short stories.… read more
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2. Killing and Dying: Stories
By: Adrian Tomine
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
"One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." --Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning sho… read more
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3. Footnotes in Gaza
By: Joe Sacco
3.85
Format: 132 pages, Hardcover
From the great cartoonist-reporter, a sweeping, original investigation of a forgotten crime in the … read more
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4. Such a Lovely Little War: Saigon, 1961-63
By: David Homel , Marcelino Truong
1.75
Format: 134 pages,
This riveting, beautifully produced graphic memoir tells the story of the early years of the Vietna… read more
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5. Poppies of Iraq
By: Lewis Trondheim , Brigitte Findakly
4.57
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
A personal account of an Iraqi childhood Poppies of Iraqis Brigitte Findakly's nuanced tender chron… read more
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6. Shubeik Lubeik
By: Deena Mohamed
4.50
Format: 528 pages, ebook
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more
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7. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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- nonfiction
8. Run: Book One
By: John Lewis
4.31
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
First you march, then you run. From the #1 bestselling, award–winning team behind March comes the f… read more
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9. How to Be Ace: A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual
By: Rebecca Burgess
4.15
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Brave, witty and empowering, this graphic memoir follows Rebecca as she navigates her asexual ident… read more
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10. Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno
By: Marjorie M. Liu
4.03
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The truth about the death of Maika’s mother has been revealed, and Maika has come undone. As her al… read more
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"Remind me why we are here?!!"-Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno
"Even in Hell…there are no absolutes."-Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno
"May your death be everlasting, halfwolf."-Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno
"Does your mouth hold a blade or a tongue?"-Marjorie M. Liu, Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno
11. The Waiting
By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
4.43
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
The story begins with a mother's confession... sisters permanently separated by a border during the… read more
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- asia
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12. Roaming
By: Jillian Tamaki
3.77
Format: 443 pages, Paperback
Spring break, 2009. High school best friends Zoe and Dani are now freshman college students, meetin… read more
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13. Lunar New Year Love Story
By: Gene Luen Yang
4.41
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Graphic novel superstars Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham join forces in this heartwarming rom-com ab… read more
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14. Woman World
By: Aminder Dhaliwal
4.04
Format: 259 pages, Paperback
When a birth defect wipes out the planet’s entire population of men, Woman World rises out of socie… read more
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15. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
By: Harold Schechter
4.24
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Kill… read more
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- nonfiction
16. We Are Not Strangers: A Graphic Novel
By: Josh Tuininga
4.35
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by a true story, this graphic novel follows a Jewish immigrant’s efforts to help his Japan… read more
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17. My Brilliant Friend: The Graphic Novel
By: Chiara Lagani
3.35
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Elena Ferrante’s New York Times bestselling masterpiece, My Brilliant Friend , book one of her Neap… read more
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18. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
By: Alexis Pauline Gumbs
4.47
Format: 174 pages, Paperback
Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subve… read more
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- nonfiction
"Could we communicate more like manatees, who stay in communication in all kinds of emergencies, place their bodies in a way that protects children, touch each other to remember and know?"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
"I respect you as so much bigger than my own understanding. And me too. I don't have to be available to be eligible for breath. I don't have to be measurable in a market of memes. I don't have to be v…"-Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (Emergent Strategy, 2)
19. The Hard Tomorrow
By: Eleanor Davis
3.64
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
The gorgeous and empathetic story of one couple’s search for hope and a peaceful future Hannah i… read more
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"This is my favorite part of you, your eyelashes when the light hits them like that. This is my favorite part of you, right where your ear meets your jawline. No, this is my favorite part, the little …"-Eleanor Davis, The Hard Tomorrow
20. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
By: Navied Mahdavian
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more
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- memoir
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- nonfiction
21. This Place: 150 Years Retold
By: Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm
4.38
Format: 287 pages, Paperback
In graphic novel format, Indigenous writers explore the untold stories of the past, present, and fu… read more
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22. The Daughters of Ys
By: M.T. Anderson
3.84
Format: 206 pages, Hardcover
An Atlantis-like city from Celtic legend is the setting of this mythical graphic novel fantasy re-i… read more
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23. Brooms
By: Jasmine Walls
4.23
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
YALSA TOP 10 GREAT GRAPHIC NOVELS FOR TEENS BEST OF THE Booklist · Kirkus · Polygon · Chicago Publ… read more
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24. Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
By: Rebecca Hall
4.30
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the story of women… read more
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- memoir
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"You think you are reading an accurate chronicle written at the time, but if we are and what we care about are deemed irrelevant, it won't be in there."-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"History written by the victors always erases the resistance. And those of us who live in the wake/ruins learn that we're inferior and needed to be conquered and enslaved. This is the afterlife of sla…"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
"Quantitative historians who use statistical tools to study big-picture historical trends, created a vast database of research on more than 36,000 slave ship voyages that took place over four hundred …"-Rebecca Hall, Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
25. The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood
By: Brian "Box" Brown
4.04
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Brian "Box" Brown brings history and culture to life through his comics. In his new graphic novel, … read more
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26. Iranian Love Stories
By: Jane Deuxard
4.00
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Gila, 26, was at a party when the police showed up. The men were able to get away with bribes, but … read more
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27. Eating Salad Drunk: Haikus for the Burnout Age by Comedy Greats
By: Gabe Henry
3.59
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
Jokes and haikus have a common goal: to pack the greatest punch in the most succinct way possible. … read more
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28. Snowflake Kisses
By: Jordon Greene
4.12
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
After an eventful fall term, Skylar and Jacob are finally together and getting ready to spend their… read more
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29. We Served the People: My Mother's Stories
By: Emei Burell
3.89
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
A collection of moving stories passed from mother to daughter recounting life during China’s Cultur… read more
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- asia
- comics
- nonfiction
- china
30. Happiness Will Follow
By: Mike Hawthorne
3.80
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Eisner Award-nominated artist Mike Hawthorne presents a true and tragic graphic novel memoir about … read more
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"I don't want to romanticize poverty. I just mean that there was, for me, a kind of grace and joy in it that I can't quite describe. I'd have loved to give us all enough to live better, but... this wa…"-Mike Hawthorne, Happiness Will Follow
"Long before there were digital photos and digital manipulation, there were scissors. A simple pair of scissors could remove history, remove the truth. Sometimes the truth behind a picture doesn't hav…"-Mike Hawthorne, Happiness Will Follow
"I don't think the drug dealer in ghetto culture is really admired just because of the shit he owns. He isn't respected for his money, either. Think about it—there are plenty of people with money who …"-Mike Hawthorne, Happiness Will Follow
31. Sensory: Life on the Spectrum
By: Bex Ollerton
4.27
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A colorful and eclectic comics anthology exploring a wide range of autistic experiences—from diagno… read more
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