From Lone Mountain
By: John Porcellino
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A view of America--as seen in small towns, rural roads, and its overlooked in-between places Joh…
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1. What We See When We Read
By: Peter Mendelsund
3.70
Format: 425 pages, Paperback
A gorgeously unique, fully illustrated exploration into the phenomenology of reading-how we visuali… read more
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- nonfiction
"The animated cartoon has a lot to teach the writer, above all how to define characters and objects with a few strokes."-Peter Mendelsund, What We See When We Read
"Audition requires different neurological processes than vision, or smell. And I would suggest that we hear more than we see while we are reading."-Peter Mendelsund, What We See When We Read
2. The Best American Comics 2011 (The Best American Series ®)
By: Alison Bechdel , Jessica Abel , Matt Madden , David Lasky
3.71
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“If you have spent a long time resisting the status quo—whether it’s in art, society, or the politi… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
3. Juliette - Les fantômes reviennent au printemps
By: Camille Jourdy
3.57
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Apres le succes de la trilogie Rosalie Blum, Camille Jourdy revient avec un nouveau roman graphique… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
4. Los surcos del azar
By: Paco Roca
3.77
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
A traves de los recuerdos de Miguel Ruiz, republicano espanol exiliado en Francia, Paco Roca recons… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
5. Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip, Vol. 1
By: Tove Jansson
3.42
Format: None pages,
Moomin Book One is the first volume of Drawn & Quarterly's publishing plan to reprint the entire st… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
6. This is Not My Hat
By: Jon Klassen
3.91
Format: 631 pages, Hardcover
When a tiny fish shoots into view wearing a round blue topper (which happens to fit him perfectly),… read more
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7. The Infinite Wait and Other Stories
By: Julia Wertz
4.23
Format: 528 pages,
The Infinite Wait and Other Stories is the latest book from Julia Wertz, the critically acclaimed a… read more
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8. Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare, Vol. 1
By: Yuhki Kamatani
4.29
Format: 178 pages, Paperback
A beautiful tale of coming-out and coming-of-age. Not only is high schooler Tasuku Kaname the ne… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
9. 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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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
10. Every Man for Himself and God Against All: A Memoir
By: Werner Herzog
4.25
Format: 367 pages, Kindle Edition
Legendary filmmaker and celebrated author Werner Herzog tells in his inimitable voice the story of … read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
11. The Secret to Superhuman Strength
By: Alison Bechdel
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Fun Home, a profound graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exerc… read more
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- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
"My transformation, thanks in part to Adrienne Rich, was easier than hers had been."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Life many gay people of my generation, I would not behave like a teenager until I was in my twenties."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Why have I spent so many hours of my life--very possibly as many as are actually recommended-- exercising ?!"-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
"Most people don't even try to get what they want because of the painful reckoning with their parents it entails."-Alison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
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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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
13. Family Style: Memories of an American from Vietnam
By: Thien Pham
4.29
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A moving young adult graphic memoir about a Vietnamese immigrant boy's search for belonging in Amer… read more
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- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
14. How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
By: Alexander Chee
4.39
Format: 277 pages, Paperback
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel is the author’s manifesto on the entangling of life, literat… read more
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- biography memoir
- nonfiction
- memoir
"Destroying art is practice for destroying people."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"A novel, should it survive, protects what a missile can't."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"...books were still to me as they had been when I found them: the only magic."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
"My first novel was not the first one I started. It was the first one I finished."-Alexander Chee, How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
15. Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
By: Julia Wertz
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronic… read more
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- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
"Go fuck yourself, melted spatula!"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"Do the stepwork and don't give me any of your excuses. We both know they're bullshit."-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a come…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"It's the fantasy of a life gone wrong. You've been doing the best you can, but it's hard and you're tired. Then something horrible happens and you get to give up and go be sad somewhere. There's some…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
16. Delicates (Sheets, #2)
By: Brenna Thummler
4.19
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Following the events of the bestselling graphic novel Sheets, Delicates brings Brenna Thummler’s be… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
"Everyone has ghosts. I think we all need to learn that there's no shame in letting them out."-Brenna Thummler, Delicates (Sheets, #2)
"Humans are delicate too. The teensiest mistake can ruin them, even if you do everything else right. Just because mistakes seem small and insignificant doesn’t mean they are."-Brenna Thummler, Delicates (Sheets, #2)
17. Soichi
By: Junji Ito
3.92
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
“I’LL GET YOU FOR THIS… I’LL SHOW YOU TRUE HORROR!” Soichi, the unhinged second son of the Tsuji… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
18. Boys Run the Riot, Vol. 1
By: Keito Gaku
4.34
Format: 243 pages, Paperback
A transgender teen finds an escape from the expectations and anxieties of his daily life in the wor… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
19. Archival Quality
By: Ivy Noelle Weir
3.45
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Everything you need to know is in the archives. The Logan Museum is a mysterious old building pr… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
20. The High Desert
By: James Spooner
4.42
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Winner of a 2022 ALA Alex Award Winner of the 2023 Cartoonist Studio Prize for Print Comics One of … read more
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- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
21. BTTM FDRS
By: Ezra Claytan Daniels
3.86
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An Afrofuturist horror-comedy about gentrification, hip hop, and cultural appropriation. Once a thr… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
22. 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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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
23. Belle of the Ball
By: Mari Costa
4.14
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A young adult graphic novel about high school wallflower Belle Hawkins, who ends up in a love trian… read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
24. A frog in the fall (and later on)
By: Linnea Sterte
4.59
Format: 338 pages, ebook
A young frog (hatched this spring) encounters two toads, who have captured the ghost of a Shungiku … read more
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- graphic novels
- comics
25. Please Don't Step On My JNCO Jeans
By: Noah Van Sciver
3.71
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
From 2017 to 2019, cartoonist Noah Van Sciver was creating short stories and illustrations for loca… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
26. Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison
By: Sarah Mirk
4.52
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever In Janua… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
"We created an entire new legal system for brown men. If these were white men from France or Germany, there is no way Guantanamo would exist. There is no way we would have gotten away with being able …"-Sarah Mirk, Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison
27. Catboy
By: Benji Nate
3.93
Format: 138 pages, Paperback
The adventures of young-adult Olive and her best friend Henry, turned from cat into a real human ca… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
28. From Lone Mountain
By: John Porcellino
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
A view of America--as seen in small towns, rural roads, and its overlooked in-between places Joh… read more
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- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- biography memoir
- comics
- nonfiction
29. Self-Esteem and the End of the World
By: Luke Healy
3.73
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
“Who is Luke Healy?” An absurdist dramedy about self-esteem in the wake of a climate destruction L… read more
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- memoir
- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
- nonfiction
30. The Paradox of Getting Better
By: Raven Lyn Clemens
3.58
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
In three vignettes, a young adult deals with different stages of their life, trauma, and mental ill… read more
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- graphic novels comics
- graphic novels
- comics
31. Ash's Cabin
By: Jen Wang
4.27
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Ash has always felt alone. Adults ignore the climate crisis. Other kids Ash’s age are more inter… read more
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