13 must-read graphic novels comics books like The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade by Viken Berberian

Cover of The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade by Viken Berberian

The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade

By: Viken Berberian

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this visually groundbreaking graphic novel, a young man’s lofty ambitions collide with the chaos…

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Cover of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters by Emil Ferris

1. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

By: Emil Ferris

4.56

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monstersis… read more

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2. The Power of Myth

By: Joseph Campbell , Bill Moyers

4.26

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work.… read more

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"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Follow your bliss and doors will open where there were no doors before."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Lo que el creativo saca a la luz es algo que estaba esperando ser extraído en todos."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

"Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss."

-Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

3. The Conquest of Bread

By: Pyotr Kropotkin

4.67

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

The fourth in AK Press' Working Classics series, The Conquest of Breadis Peter Kropotkin's most ext… read more

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4. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

By: Rem Koolhaas

4.16

Format: None pages,

In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Archi… read more

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5. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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  • graphic novels
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6. Monica

By: Daniel Clowes

3.95

Format: 106 pages, Hardcover

Monica is a series of interconnected narratives that collectively tell the life story — actually, s… read more

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7. A Guest in the House

By: Emily Carroll

4.06

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In this graphic novel by Emily Carroll, a young woman marries a kind dentist only to discover a dar… read more

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  • adult
"I don’t sleep for days after seeing her. And when I finally do, my dreams are tangled, dripping things."

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"I used to dream of dragons. I would find them, panting, pacing. Sung inside damp caverns. When I lived through them they would release their riches in a stinking swell of gore and glittering jewels…a…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"At night, every noise could be her. I know she’s here now, right now, even though she won’t show herself to me. (I tried to find her the other night, down by the front door like before, but nothing c…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

"David tells me the first week they lived here, Crystal had nightmares about the attic, about things dripping down from it at night. She would stop crying until he put a lock on it. There’d been anima…"

-Emily Carroll, A Guest in the House

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8. Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

By: Warren Zanes

4.42

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The fascinating story behind the making of Bruce Springsteen’s most surprising album, Nebraska, rev… read more

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"Nineteen eighty-two is as good a year as any to mark the threshold of a future we're still negotiating. It's been called the information age, the digital age, the new media age. It was the beginning …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Nebraska made it almost impossible for critics to miss Springsteen's willingness to take a chance in the name of his art. If Springsteen was driven simply by fame and mainstream success, there would …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

"Guitar Town was out, and it was doing okay," [Steve] Earle recalled. "But the label didn't want it to happen. Jimmy [Bowen] certainly didn't. He didn't like the record. He didn't like me. But it was …"

-Warren Zanes, Deliver Me from Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska

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9. Parenthesis

By: Élodie Durand

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

A triumph of graphic memoir, Parenthesis narrates the author's experience with tumor-related epilep… read more

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  • bande dessinée
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10. The Man in the McIntosh Suit

By: Rina Ayuyang

3.27

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

A Filipino-American take on Depression-era noir featuring mistaken identities, speakeasies, and los… read more

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Cover of My Annihilation by Fuminori Nakamura

11. My Annihilation

By: Fuminori Nakamura

3.34

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this … read more

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  • adult
  • fiction
"Aristotle, the scholar from ancient times, supposedly said "Even gods cannot change the past." In which case, the gods are useless."

-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

"Take a look around the internet. The ditches into which all evil is eventually swept. People hide their faces and type away without a care, no self-awareness for how their words will be picked up by …"

-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

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12. Venus in the Blind Spot

By: Junji Ito

4.13

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

This striking collection presents the most remarkable short works of Junji Ito’s career, featuring … read more

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"A fiendish love... an unearthly love... those who feel such a love are numbed to their very souls by this mysterious pleasure while they struggle with endless frustration, censured by the pangs of co…"

-Junji Ito, Venus in the Blind Spot

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13. Cyclopedia Exotica

By: Aminder Dhaliwal

4.31

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

"Dhaliwal created a fictitious community facing xenophobia, fetishization, and media misrepresentat… read more

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  • humor
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Cover of The Lie And How We Told It by Tommi Parrish

14. The Lie And How We Told It

By: Tommi Parrish

3.67

Format: 123 pages, Hardcover

Parrish’s emotionally loaded, painted graphic novel is is a visual tour de force, always in the ser… read more

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15. Blood of the Virgin

By: Sammy Harkham

3.70

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

“A story about storytelling...Conjures up the grindhouse movie-making scene in 1970s Los Angeles an… read more

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Cover of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2) by Emil Ferris

16. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

By: Emil Ferris

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most ins… read more

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"Courage isn't about not being scared... It's about carrying your fear into battle."

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"No, I do not want any kind of censorship. Anka always said, "The minute they tell you that you should not see something, that is the minute you should make it your business to see or read it or whate…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

"All my life I have seen pictures that show women as being what you call 'sexy' when they are being hurt. That sends send me a message and I think that the message is, women are at their best when the…"

-Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 2 (My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, #2)

Cover of Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories by Megan Kelso

17. Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories

By: Megan Kelso

3.44

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

A suite of five brilliant comics stories united by themes of motherhood, family, and love. The Guar… read more

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18. Bad Friends

By: Ancco

3.60

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Starred review from Publishers Weekly: Told with arresting honesty and strength, this graphic no… read more

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Cover of The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade by Viken Berberian

19. The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade

By: Viken Berberian

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In this visually groundbreaking graphic novel, a young man’s lofty ambitions collide with the chaos… read more

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  • architecture
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  • politics
  • humor
  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
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20. The Age of Skin

By: Dubravka Ugrešić

4.18

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

These essays are written on the skin of the times. Dubravka Ugresic, winner of the Neustadt Interna… read more

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21. Alay-Oop

By: William Gropper

3.82

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

William Gropper was one of the great American cartoonists and illustrators of the twentieth century… read more

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15 Top fiction books like The Structure Is Rotten, Comrade by Viken Berberian

Transform Your Habits

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

Emil Ferris

4.56

Transform Your Habits

The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

Jon Klassen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Monica

Daniel Clowes

3.95

Transform Your Habits

A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

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18 Top fiction books like Blood of the Virgin by Sammy Harkham

Transform Your Habits

Monica

Daniel Clowes

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Acting Class

Nick Drnaso

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Where the Body Was

Ed Brubaker

4.14

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Roaming

Jillian Tamaki

3.77

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