13 Top fantasy books like Beowulf: The Graphic Novel by Stephen L. Stern

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Beowulf: The Graphic Novel

By: Stephen L. Stern

3.28

Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition

Before Lord of the Rings, before Conan—there was BEOWULF! The Viking warrior must defeat the ogre G…

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1. Marvel 1602

By: Peter Sanderson , Neil Gaiman , Andy Kubert , Richard Isanove

3.95

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

In Marvel 1602, award-winning writer Neil Gaiman presents a unique vision of the Marvel Universe se… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • historical fiction
  • fantasy
"But hope, like heroes, can prove hard to kill."

-Peter Sanderson, Marvel 1602

"Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis. Todo cambia, y nosotros cambiamos con ello"

-Peter Sanderson, Marvel 1602

"What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope."

-Peter Sanderson, Marvel 1602

"It's a weapon, I understand?" "In the wrong hands, all tools are weapons. In the right hands, everything is a weapon, or nothing is."

-Peter Sanderson, Marvel 1602

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2. Congo

By: Michael Crichton

3.62

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition o… read more

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"No one escapes from life alive."

-Michael Crichton, Congo

"It's hard to decide who's truly brilliant; it's easier to see who's driven, which in the long run may be more important."

-Michael Crichton, Congo

"His management philosophy, tempered in his rain-dancing days, was always to give the project to whoever had the most to gain from success--or the most to lose from failure."

-Michael Crichton, Congo

"The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch wi…"

-Michael Crichton, Congo

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3. The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories

By: Henry James , None

3.65

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children ab… read more

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  • classics
  • school
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4. Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous

By: Joss Whedon , John Cassaday

4.19

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

A tragic death at the Xavier Institute reveals a powerful enemy living among the X-Men that they co… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fantasy
"That all you got...Bub?"

-Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous

"Okay. So...serious wedgie..."

-Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous

"It is good to know, no matter how long I am gone...you do not grow up too much."

-Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous

"The news isn't there to tell you what happened. It's there to tell you what it wants you to hear or what it thinks you want to hear."

-Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous

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5. Welcome to Dead House (Goosebumps, #1)

By: R.L. Stine

4.50

Format: 122 pages,

Amanda and Josh think the old house they have just moved into is weird. Spooky. Possibly haunted. A… read more

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  • fantasy
Cover of Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes by Scott Cawthon, Kira Breed-Wrisley

6. Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes

By: Scott Cawthon , Kira Breed-Wrisley

3.47

Format: 156 pages,

Based on the bestselling horror video game series, Five Nights at Freddy's follows a young woman na… read more

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  • fantasy
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7. Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • historical fiction
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8. Murder Most Unladylike (Murder Most Unladylike Mysteries, #1)

By: Robin Stevens

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Deepdean School for Girls, 1934. When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secre… read more

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  • historical fiction
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9. Astonishing X-Men, Volume 3: Torn

By: Joss Whedon , John Cassaday

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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10. Stuart Little

By: E.B. White , Garth Williams

3.90

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

E.B. White's classic novel about one small mouse on a very big adventure! Stuart Little is no o… read more

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  • classics
  • fantasy
"Well,"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

"Very fine law,"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

"(Not every doctor can look into a mouse's ear without laughing)"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

"A shaft of sunlight at the end of a dark afternoon, a note of music, and the way the back of a baby’s neck smells if it’s mother keeps it tidy,"

-E.B. White, Stuart Little

11. Monster Blood (Goosebumps, #3)

By: R.L. Stine

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Blood, Blood, Everywhere... While staying with his weird great-aunt Kathryn, Evan visits a funky ol… read more

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12. The Crow

By: James O'Barr

4.01

Format: 217 pages, Paperback

Eric has returned from the dead, driven only by hate and the need to wreak revenge on those who kil… read more

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13. Frankenstein The Graphic Novel: Original Text

By: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley , Joe Sutliff Sanders , Jason Cobley

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Conceived as part of a literary game among friends in 1816, Mary Shelley's Frankensteinis today reg… read more

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14. Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation

By: Octavia E. Butler , John Jennings , Damian Duffy

3.75

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Instant #1New York TimesBestseller Octavia E. Butler's bestselling literary science-fiction masterp… read more

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15. 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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16. Beowulf

By: Gareth Hinds , None

4.33

Format: None pages,

This exhilarating graphic novel edition of an ancient classic honors the spirit of the original as … read more

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17. Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

By: Neil Price

4.18

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

The Viking Age - between 750 and 1050 - saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples.… read more

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"The Viking mind is far away from us today, but occasionally just about tangible."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"Free will existed, but exercising it inevitably led to becoming the person you always, really, had been."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"History is nothing if not a suppositional discipline, sometimes akin to a sort of speculative fiction of the past."

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

"There is a sense in which this viewpoint is looking through the wrong end of the historical telescope, defining (and often judging) a people solely by the consequences of their actions rather than th…"

-Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings

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18. Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

By: Kwame Alexander

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

From NPR correspondent and New York Times bestselling author, Kwame Alexander, comes a powerful and… read more

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  • adult
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19. The Closet

By: James Tynion IV

3.56

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Collects a tale of existential horror by James Tynion IV (The Department of Truth, Razorblades) and… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • fantasy
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20. Snow, Glass, Apples

By: Neil Gaiman

4.07

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and C… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • fantasy
"I will not scream. I will not give them that satisfaction. They will have my body, but my soul and my story are my own, and will die with me."

-Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples

"Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life."

-Neil Gaiman, Snow, Glass, Apples

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21. 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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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • fantasy
"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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22. 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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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fantasy
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23. Boys Weekend

By: Mattie Lubchansky

4.03

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning cartoonist and editor at The Nib, a hilarious trans-"final girl" horror grap… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel by Odyr

24. Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel

By: Odyr

4.26

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A beautiful graphic adaptation of George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel. "All a… read more

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  • classics
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • fantasy
"Um dia conseguiremos distinguir a diferença entre porcos e homens."

-Odyr, Animal Farm: The Graphic Novel

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25. New from Here

By: Kelly Yang

4.30

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

An Asian American boy fights to keep his family together and stand up to racism during the initial … read more

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  • historical fiction
"We're all connected to each other. We all breathe the same air into our lungs. None of us are immune to each other's problems, that's why we have to care about each other."

-Kelly Yang, New from Here

Cover of The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror by Tori Bovalino

26. The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

By: Tori Bovalino

3.58

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath… read more

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  • fantasy
"It seemed to me that a soul that preferred a cold grave to the white light of Heaven was suspect."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"She could weave between peace and poison fluid as a silver fish, and both of them were true. There wasn't a fake bone in her body, but that almost made it worse."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"me standing there- just standing there- looking around and thinking, God, I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to be somewhere else, this is wrong, this is *wrong*."

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

"I don't like the way he say you. Like I different. Like I didn't just see one-of-me-like-me beat until she fall. [...] But my boy doesn't see. He can't see. Can't hear, either. He never tried to mimi…"

-Tori Bovalino, The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror

Cover of Speak: The Graphic Novel by Laurie Halse Anderson

27. Speak: The Graphic Novel

By: Laurie Halse Anderson

4.39

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

The modern classic Speak is now a graphic novel. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what yo… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Art without emotion is like chocolate cake without sugar. It makes you gag."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak: The Graphic Novel

"Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity. If you're tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become an adult. I hope it's worth it."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak: The Graphic Novel

"The school board banned one of Maya Angelou's books, so the librarian had to take down her poster. I fished it out of the trash. She must be a great writer if the school board is scared of her."

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak: The Graphic Novel

"You'd be shocked at how many adults are already dead inside, walking around with no clue, waiting for a heart attack or cancer to finish the job. When people don't express themselves, they die one pi…"

-Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak: The Graphic Novel

Cover of Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1) by Lewis Hancox

28. Welcome to St. Hell: My Trans Teen Misadventure (St. Hell, #1)

By: Lewis Hancox

4.28

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking memoir about being a trans teen, in the vein of FUN HOME and FLAMER... and at the … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill

29. The Ogress and the Orphans

By: Kelly Barnhill

4.28

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

A fantasy about the power of generosity and love, and how a community suffers when they disappear. … read more

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  • fantasy
"The antidote to anger is tenderness, and the antidote to discord is reconciliation."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Life is long, after all. And over time, the paths we take tend to intertwine and overlap."

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"Books are funny things. The ideas and knowledge contained inside their pages have mass and velocity and gravity. They bend both space and time. They have minds of their own. There is a power in a boo…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

"So maybe the Reading Room is magic because books really are magic. I read once that books bend both space and time, and the more books you have in one place, the more space and time will bend and twi…"

-Kelly Barnhill, The Ogress and the Orphans

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30. The Frindle Files

By: Andrew Clements

4.55

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One last gift to teachers and readers from Andrew Clements: A sequel to his most beloved, landmark … read more

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  • school
Cover of Beowulf: The Graphic Novel by Stephen L. Stern

31. Beowulf: The Graphic Novel

By: Stephen L. Stern

3.28

Format: 66 pages, Kindle Edition

Before Lord of the Rings, before Conan—there was BEOWULF! The Viking warrior must defeat the ogre G… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
  • mythology

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Transform Your Habits

Light For The World To See: A Thousand Words on Race and Hope

Kwame Alexander

4.31

Transform Your Habits

The Closet

James Tynion IV

3.56

Transform Your Habits

Snow, Glass, Apples

Neil Gaiman

4.07

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A Guest in the House

Emily Carroll

4.06

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Wolverine: Origin

Andy Kubert , Paul Jenkins , Richard Isanove , Joe Quesada , Bill Jemas

3.97

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Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous

Joss Whedon , John Cassaday

4.19

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The Invincible Iron Man: Extremis

Warren Ellis , Adi Granov

4.13

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4.05

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