8 best-selling science fiction books like Chronin, Vol. 1: The Knife at Your Back (Chronin, #1) by Benjamin A. Wilgus

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Chronin, Vol. 1: The Knife at Your Back (Chronin, #1)

By: Benjamin A. Wilgus

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Samurai Jack meets Back to the Future in Alison Wilgus’s full-length debut Chronin Vol. 1, first in…

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1. The Collected Essex County

By: Jeff Lemire

4.32

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Where does a young boy turn when his whole world suddenly disappears? What turns two brothers from … read more

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Cover of Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2) by Marjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh

2. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh

4.22

Format: 187 pages, Paperback

In Persepolis, heralded by the Los Angeles Times as "one of the freshest and most original memoirs … read more

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"Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"Is religion defending our physical integrity or is it just opposed to fashion?"

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"Prosperity consists of two things: tea after a meal, and a cigarette after tea."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

"In any case, it's the cowardice of people like you who give dictators the chance to install themselves!"

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return (Persepolis, #2)

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3. Ninja-Rella: A Graphic Novel

By: Jaymes Reed , Joey Comeau , Omar Lozano

4.25

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Cinderella's stepmother and two stepsisters treat her like dirt. Each and every day, they force her… read more

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4. Gyo

By: Junji Ito

3.67

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Something is rotten in Okinawa... The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A … read more

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  • science fiction
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  • fiction

5. My Friend Dahmer

By: Derf Backderf

4.14

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

You only think you know this story. In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer -- the most notorious serial killer sin… read more

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6. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)

By: None

4.50

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space--and one adventurous young explorer who d… read more

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7. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin

By: Kevin Eastman

4.41

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Who is the Last Ronin? In a future, battle-ravaged New York City, a lone surviving Turtle embarks o… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
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8. Hungry Ghost

By: Victoria Ying

4.01

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful and heart-wrenching young adult graphic novel takes a look at eating disorders, family … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • fiction
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9. Little Monarchs

By: Jonathan Case

4.19

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

This graphic novel adventure tells the story of 10-year-old Elvie and her crucial mission to save h… read more

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  • science fiction
  • graphic novels
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10. 血の轍 1 [Chi no Wadachi 1]

By: Shuzo Oshimi

4.12

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

「惡の華」押見修造 最新作は究極の毒親! 「惡の華」「ハピネス」「ぼくは麻理のなか」「志乃ちゃんは自分の名前が言えない」など、傑作を次々と世に送り出してきた鬼才・押見修造氏が、ついに辿り着い… read more

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  • graphic novels
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11. To Be Taught, If Fortunate

By: Becky Chambers

4.20

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In her new novella, Sunday Times best-selling author Becky Chambers imagines a future in which, ins… read more

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  • fantasy
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"Hope isn't about predicting the future; it's about how you approach it."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"Even if nothing ever does go wrong, I have to prepare as though it might."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"We were alive on that world. We were kings without enemies, children removed from time."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

"When the world you know is out of reach, nothing is more welcome than a measurable reminder that it still exists."

-Becky Chambers, To Be Taught, If Fortunate

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12. Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 4

By: James Tynion IV

4.45

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The origin of Erica Slaughter, monster hunter, is revealed in this volume of the Eisner Award-nomin… read more

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13. ExtraOrdinary (Villains, #1.5)

By: Victoria Schwab

3.74

Format: 112 pages, Hardcover

Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E. Schwab, Extraordinary expands deeper into the … read more

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14. Do a Powerbomb!

By: Daniel Warren Johnson

4.52

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

From the creator of MURDER-FALCON and WONDER WOMAN: DEAD EARTH comes the wrestling adventure of the… read more

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15. Doughnuts and Doom

By: Balazs Lorinczi

3.69

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Being a teenage witch—or rock star—is tougher than it looks! But maybe enemies can become friends…o… read more

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  • lgbt
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16. Harleen

By: Stjepan Šejić

4.53

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Dr. Harleen Quinzel has a theory: mental illness is a survival mechanism. As she seeks to help the … read more

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"Dr. Quinn.. No joke. I'd love to see you smile one day."

-Stjepan Šejić, Harleen

"And that was it. He needed me. This scarred, broken man needed me... And I wanted to be there for him. I wanted to smile for him... I needed to."

-Stjepan Šejić, Harleen

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17. The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

By: Ram V.

4.30

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Humanity is on the verge of discovering immortality, which means the avatar of Death is out of a jo… read more

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"Perhaps it is enough to remember at story's end the miracle that it was simply to have lived."

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

"If life's an exercise in making memories...no one really goes away as long as they are remembered."

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

"It’s what happens when things die. They go away, but you don’t realize all the parts of you that they were holding up until after."

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

"And in the days that follow, the possibilities of what could've been begin to fall away. Leaving you with less, each time-- more precious, to be savored. Like a cigarette. The point of life, my frien…"

-Ram V., The Many Deaths of Laila Starr

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18. Flamefall (The Aurelian Cycle, #2)

By: Rosaria Munda

4.27

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Revolutionary flames ignite around Annie, Lee, and a brand new POV character in the second book of … read more

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  • fantasy
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"We are all of us Revolutionaries."

-Rosaria Munda, Flamefall (The Aurelian Cycle, #2)

"The best parts of myself, I found with Annie."

-Rosaria Munda, Flamefall (The Aurelian Cycle, #2)

"Revenge doesn't need to begin with a knife. It can begin with a well-delivered speech."

-Rosaria Munda, Flamefall (The Aurelian Cycle, #2)

"What greater proof could there be that my Guardians are the best of them all, than that they want to reform the very system that gave them power."

-Rosaria Munda, Flamefall (The Aurelian Cycle, #2)

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19. Himawari House

By: Harmony Becker

4.37

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

Bilingual Edition in English and Japanese Living in a new country is no walk in the park. Whe… read more

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Cover of Berserk Deluxe Edition, Volume 3 by Kentaro Miura

20. Berserk Deluxe Edition, Volume 3

By: Kentaro Miura

4.80

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed adult fantasy manga now in 7x10 deluxe hardcover editions! The hundred-year war be… read more

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21. Sugar, Baby

By: Celine Saintclare

3.49

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

In the vein of Luster and Queenie , an unflinching portrayal of high-paid sex work in the age of th… read more

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"It's so deeply entrenched in me, the Fear of God, so much more strongly than the belief."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"The thought of having a relationship with my kids like the one I have with my mum, a scam on both sides, makes me want to vomit."

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"It is all beginning to make sense; the gifts he gives like offerings, the golden temple of a Miami house. Oracles, orgies, lusty Greek and Roman gods, apples and pomegranates. Ceremonial robes as des…"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

"You're young and that counts for a lot,' she says. 'And you're pretty. It's like currency, like...a bunch of casino chips in the game of life. You can keep them locked up in the back of a drawer and …"

-Celine Saintclare, Sugar, Baby

Cover of Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1 by Kentaro Miura

22. Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1

By: Kentaro Miura

4.60

Format: 689 pages, Hardcover

Have you got the Guts? Kentaro Miura's Berserk has outraged, horrified, and delighted manga and ani… read more

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"It's your life. Do what you want with it."

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1

"Ambition comes with a price attached. Of course, that price comes too high if you die for nothing. The reward for ambition too great... is self-destruction!"

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 1

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23. Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 2

By: Kentaro Miura

4.73

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

The reigning king of adult fantasy manga now in deluxe 7x10 hardcover editions! Born in tragedy, ra… read more

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"Why is it that men enjoy little more than shedding blood?"

-Kentaro Miura, Berserk Deluxe Edition, Vol. 2

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24. Berserk Deluxe Edition, Volume 4

By: Kentaro Miura

4.84

Format: 704 pages, Hardcover

The acclaimed adult fantasy/horror manga now in 7x10 deluxe hardcover editions! Guts, the feared… read more

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  • graphic novels
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25. Anger Bang

By: Avery Flynn

3.72

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Sometimes the only answer is to just bang it out. Like today, for example. I’m in actual hell at my… read more

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  • fiction
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26. Bury Your Gays

By: Chuck Tingle

4.29

Format: 295 pages, Hardcover

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart-pounding st… read more

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  • science fiction
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"The studio might be a ruthless capitalist machine," he opines, "but we're not evil."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"Your stories aren't worth your life." My stories are my life, I think, but I don't say this."

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"I'm honestly kind of surprised. You've got a flair for drama, Misha. I thought you might get hard over some final sacrifice for love, or whatever. I mean, you're the writer, not me, but that's got Em…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

"The path I've been led down is one of senseless catastrophe, a classic Hollywood tale of the man who plummets to rock bottom just moments before he would have crested the peak. [...] I'm living out t…"

-Chuck Tingle, Bury Your Gays

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27. The Comeback

By: Lily Chu

3.75

Format: 12 pages, Audible Audio

12 hours, 14 minutes Who is Ariadne Hui? • Laser-focused lawyer diligently climbing the corp… read more

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  • fiction
"It's hard to cope when simultaneously drunk and hungover."

-Lily Chu, The Comeback

"Celebrities are the glitter of humanity: pretty to look at, useless except at parties, and an utter pain to clean up after."

-Lily Chu, The Comeback

"People sometimes have trouble when your face doesn't match your culture. They come to me with ideas of how I should be, what I should eat and like and think. If my grandparents were from France, no o…"

-Lily Chu, The Comeback

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28. Poukahangatus: Poems

By: Tayi Tibble

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

The American debut of an acclaimed young poet as she explores her identity as a twenty-first-centur… read more

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  • lgbt
Cover of Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. Gross

29. Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

By: Rachel E. Gross

4.42

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

A scientific journey to the center of the new female body. The Latin term for the female genital… read more

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"Medicine is supposed to be unbiased," she says. "But when we look at the bigger picture of it, we can see that it is far from that."

-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

"Darwin's attitudes toward women were a direct outgrowth of his ideas about other animals—or, rather, each reinforced the other. Throughout his career, he insisted that female animals were less capabl…"

-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

"Your vagina is another planet. If you could shrink down to the size of a grain of sand and go between your own legs, you'd find a wondrous realm of humid jungles, cool caves, and viscous pits of mucu…"

-Rachel E. Gross, Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage

Cover of Lobizona (Wolves of No World, #1) by Romina Garber

30. Lobizona (Wolves of No World, #1)

By: Romina Garber

4.12

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Some people ARE illegal. Lobizonas do NOT exist.Both of these statements are false. Manuela A… read more

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  • fantasy
  • fiction
"Manuela de La Mancha,"

-Romina Garber, Lobizona (Wolves of No World, #1)

"Now go forth and shatter every convention."

-Romina Garber, Lobizona (Wolves of No World, #1)

"I think I was born wanting to see the stars."

-Romina Garber, Lobizona (Wolves of No World, #1)

"Man-made borders shouldn't matter more than people."

-Romina Garber, Lobizona (Wolves of No World, #1)

Cover of Chronin, Vol. 1: The Knife at Your Back (Chronin, #1) by Benjamin A. Wilgus

31. Chronin, Vol. 1: The Knife at Your Back (Chronin, #1)

By: Benjamin A. Wilgus

3.58

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Samurai Jack meets Back to the Future in Alison Wilgus’s full-length debut Chronin Vol. 1, first in… read more

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