23 must-read graphic novels books like W the Whore by Katrin de Vries

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W the Whore

By: Katrin de Vries

3.60

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The experiences of womanhood are heightened and transformed in these eerie, fairy tale–like comics …

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Cover of Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

1. Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By: Joan Didion

4.19

Format: 238 pages, Paperback

The first nonfiction work by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era, Joan Didion's S… read more

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"Happiness is,' after all, a consumption ethic."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"There is a common superstition that “self-respect"

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

"The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past."

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Cover of Showa, 1926-1939: A History of Japan by Shigeru Mizuki

2. Showa, 1926-1939: A History of Japan

By: Shigeru Mizuki

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

A fascinating period in Japanese history explored by a master of manga "Showa 1926"-"1939: A Histor… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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3. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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4. Here

By: Richard McGuire

4.10

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Hereis Richard McGuire's unique graphic novel based on the legendary 1989 comic strip of the same n… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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5. Coriolanus

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill

3.30

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Shakespeare's last tragedy explores the career and death of a brilliant and arrogant Roman general.… read more

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6. Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing

By: Ramsey Campbell , Alan Moore , John Totleben , Stephen R. Bissette , Rick Veitch

3.67

Format: 44 pages, Paperback

Before WATCHMEN, Alan Moore made his debut in the U.S. comic book industry with the revitalization … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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7. Skim

By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.77

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Heartbreakingly funny, moving and vibrantly drawn, Skim is an extraordinary book—a smart and sensit… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Being sixteen is officially the worst thing I've ever been."

-Jillian Tamaki, Skim

"I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still."

-Jillian Tamaki, Skim

"This is the thing about school dances. They make like it's supposed to be this other-worldly thing, but really it's just the people you see every day dressed up, standing in the gym in the dark with …"

-Jillian Tamaki, Skim

8. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1 (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, #1)

By: Hayao Miyazaki , Toren Smith , David R. Lewis , Joe Yamazaki , Kaori Inoue

4.12

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societi… read more

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9. Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany

By: Shaun Whiteside , Norman Ohler

4.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this highly original book, a bestseller in Germany, Norman Ohler investigates the murky, chaotic… read more

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10. Through the Woods

By: Emily Carroll

3.94

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

'It came from the woods. Most strange things do.' Five mysterious, spine-tingling stories follow… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... but the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to find you once."

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and you must be lucky to avoid the wolf every time... But the wolf... the wolf only needs enough luck to …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"But the worst kind of monster was the BURROWING KIND. The sort that crawled into you and made a home there. The sort you couldn't name, the sort you couldn't see. The monster that ate you alive from …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

"I married my love in the springtime, but by summer he'd locked me away. He'd murdered me dead by the autumn, & by winter I was naught but decay. It's cold where I am and so lonely, but in loneliness …"

-Emily Carroll, Through the Woods

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11. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

12. Showa, 1939-1944: A History of Japan

By: Shigeru Mizuki , Zack Davisson

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

A master cartoonist and war vet details Japan's involvement in World War II Showa 1939-1944: A Hist… read more

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13. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.21

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

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14. The Nineties

By: Chuck Klosterman

3.87

Format: 370 pages, Hardcover

The Nineties: a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker/grunge irony about th… read more

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"The nineties were a fertile period for the self-indulgent genius."

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

"In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional su…"

-Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties

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15. 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
Cover of The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World by James Tynion IV

16. The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

By: James Tynion IV

4.11

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

COLE TURNER has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn't prepared for what happens wh… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Collective belief shapes the world, so everything is a little bit true, or has the potential to be true."

-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

"The more people believe in something, the more true that thing becomes. The more reality tips in the favor of that belief."

-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

"Barack Obama contradicts the image they have in their head for what a President looks like and sounds like, and it unsettles them on a subconscious level. And then somebody presents an answer to why …"

-James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

Cover of Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki

17. Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

By: Mariko Tamaki

3.86

Format: 289 pages, Hardcover

All Freddy Riley wants is for Laura Dean to stop breaking up with her. The day they got together… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Have faith in yourself to know what's right for you. Whatever answer you need, it's inside you somewhere."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"It's true that giving can be a part of love. But, contrary to popular belief, love should never take from you, Freddy."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"Of course, I know there are LGBTQIA activists out there who fought for centuries for me to have the right to fuck up like this"

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

"Polyamorous or monogamous, your love should be a thing that brings something to you. It’s true that giving can be a part of love, but contrary to popular belief, your love should never take from you."

-Mariko Tamaki, Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me

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18. Where the Body Was

By: Ed Brubaker

4.14

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was is unlike anything Bru… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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19. 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
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20. Night Fever

By: Ed Brubaker

3.87

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind? In Europe o… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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21. The Years

By: Annie Ernaux

4.17

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more

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  • feminism
"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."

-Annie Ernaux, The Years

Cover of That Texas Blood, Vol. 2 by Chris Condon

22. That Texas Blood, Vol. 2

By: Chris Condon

4.19

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

Sheriff Joe Bob Coates travels down the long and winding road of memory to a dark night in 1981 tha… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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23. That Texas Blood, Vol. 3

By: Chris Condon

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a winter storm looms over Ambrose County in January of 1992, a local woman's body is discovered … read more

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  • comics
Cover of Ice Cream Man, Volume 2: Strange Neapolitan by W. Maxwell Prince

24. Ice Cream Man, Volume 2: Strange Neapolitan

By: W. Maxwell Prince

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The critically acclaimed series of not-so-sweet singular stories continues with four more tales of … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Ice Cream Man, Volume 6: Just Desserts by W. Maxwell Prince

25. Ice Cream Man, Volume 6: Just Desserts

By: W. Maxwell Prince

3.87

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Here comes the Ice Cream Man for another helping of bitter sweets: four more cavity-inducing storie… read more

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  • comics
Cover of Ice Cream Man, Volume 4: Tiny Lives by W. Maxwell Prince

26. Ice Cream Man, Volume 4: Tiny Lives

By: W. Maxwell Prince

3.93

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The critically acclaimed horror anthology drives back into town, offering four new stories that zoo… read more

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  • comics
Cover of Ice Cream Man, Volume 3: Hopscotch Melange by W. Maxwell Prince

27. Ice Cream Man, Volume 3: Hopscotch Melange

By: W. Maxwell Prince

3.65

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Ice Cream Man continues with four more strange and sad one-shot stories. Plus: more is revealed … read more

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  • comics
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28. Ice Cream Man, Volume 5: Other Confections

By: W. Maxwell Prince

4.04

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

See here four more strange and sad stories of the critically lauded horror-adjacent anthology serie… read more

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  • comics
Cover of My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies by Ed Brubaker

29. My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies

By: Ed Brubaker

3.60

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

The first original graphic novel from the bestselling creators of CRIMINAL, KILL OR BE KILLED, THE … read more

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  • comics
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30. Cruel Summer

By: Ed Brubaker

4.38

Format: 287 pages, Hardcover

BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS' CRIMINAL epic, collected in a gorgeous hardback edition. In the summer of… read more

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  • comics
Cover of W the Whore by Katrin de Vries

31. W the Whore

By: Katrin de Vries

3.60

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The experiences of womanhood are heightened and transformed in these eerie, fairy tale–like comics … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics

22 Top comics books like W the Whore by Katrin de Vries

Transform Your Habits

Showa, 1926-1939: A History of Japan

Shigeru Mizuki

4.57

Transform Your Habits

Here

Richard McGuire

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Swamp Thing, Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing

Ramsey Campbell , Alan Moore , John Totleben , Stephen R. Bissette , Rick Veitch

3.67

Transform Your Habits

Skim

Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.77

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31 best-selling fiction books like Ice Cream Man, Volume 3: Hopscotch Melange by W. Maxwell Prince

Transform Your Habits

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 2

James Tynion IV

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Something is Killing the Children, Vol. 3

James Tynion IV

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Alley: Junji Ito Story Collection

Junji Ito

4.11

Transform Your Habits

The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

James Tynion IV

4.11

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