10 Top bande dessinée books like The Town That Didn't Exist by Enki Bilal, Pierre Christin

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The Town That Didn't Exist

By: Enki Bilal , Pierre Christin

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The town of Jadencourt has fallen on hard times. The people are poor, the workers at the factory ar…

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1. A Thousand Acres

By: Jane Smiley

3.82

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Aging Larry Cook announces his intention to turn over his 1,000-acre farm—one of the largest in Zeb… read more

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"Seeing him somewhere was always a pleasure, like taking a drink of water."

-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

"Had I faced all the facts It seemed like I had but actually you never know just by remembering how many there were to have faced."

-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

"At sixty miles per hour, you could pass our farm in a minute, on County Road 686, which ran due north into the T intersection at Cabot Street Road."

-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

"I had a burden lift off me that I hadn't even felt the heaviness of until then, and it was the burden of having to wait and see what was going to happen."

-Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres

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2. When the Wind Blows

By: Raymond Briggs

4.27

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Raymond Briggs' now famous bestselling comic cartoon book depicts the effects of a nuclear attack o… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Le Photographe - Tome 1 by Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, Fréderic Lemercier

3. Le Photographe - Tome 1

By: Emmanuel Guibert , Didier Lefèvre , Fréderic Lemercier

3.00

Format: 508 pages, Hardcover

O Fotografo e uma das principais provas de que o jornalismo em quadrinhos associado a obra de Joe S… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • france
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4. La Fille sous la dunette

By: François Bourgeon

3.88

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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  • graphic novels
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5. Chicken with Plums

By: Marjane Satrapi

3.95

Format: 161 pages,

In November 1955, Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most celebrated tar players, is in search of a new… read more

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6. The Town That Didn't Exist

By: Enki Bilal , Pierre Christin

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

The town of Jadencourt has fallen on hard times. The people are poor, the workers at the factory ar… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • sequential art
  • bande dessinée
  • comics
  • france
  • fiction

7. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

By: Apostolos Doxiadis , Christos H. Papadimitriou , Annie Di Donna , Alecos Papadatos

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

An innovative, dramatic graphic novel about the treacherous pursuit of the foundations of mathemati… read more

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8. The Incal

By: Brian Michael Bendis , Alejandro Jodorowsky , Mœbius , Justin Kelly , None

3.52

Format: 257 pages, Hardcover

John Difool, a low-class detective in a degenerate dystopian world, finds his life turned upside do… read more

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9. Boxers (Boxers & Saints, #1)

By: Gene Luen Yang

4.32

Format: 650 pages, Paperback

China, 1898. Bands of foreign missionaries and soldiers roam the countryside, bullying and robbing … read more

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10. Of Ants and Dinosaurs

By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm

3.87

Format: 55 pages, Kindle Edition

A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body… read more

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"If the entire history of the Earth were condensed into a single day, one hour would equate to 200 million years, one minute to 3.3 million years and one second to 55,000 years. Life would appear as e…"

-Liu Cixin, Of Ants and Dinosaurs

11. The Wandering Earth

By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None

3.73

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more

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12. La foire aux immortels (Nikopol #1)

By: Enki Bilal

4.04

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

It's the year 2023 and Alcide Nikopol has been revived from a state of suspended animation after 30… read more

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13. 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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14. Mockingbird

By: Walter Tevis

4.40

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Mockingbird is a powerful novel of a future world where humans are dying. Those that survive spend … read more

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15. Madwoman of the Sacred Heart

By: Alejandro Jodorowsky , Mœbius , Jean-Marc Lofficier , Randy Lofficier

4.39

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a world of fifty-second soundbites, multinational corporations, and drug cartels, how would we d… read more

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16. Ficciones

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Anthony Bonner , Anthony Kerrigan

3.53

Format: 320 pages,

The seventeen pieces in Ficcionesdemonstrate the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precis… read more

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17. Arzach

By: Mœbius

4.33

Format: None pages, Board book

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18. Le Ponton

By: François Bourgeon

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

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19. American Pastoral

By: Philip Roth

3.94

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize Winner (1998) In American Pastoral, Philip Roth gives us a novel of unqualified g… read more

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  • fiction
"Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"Exhibitionismul inerent unei marturisiri nu face decat sa agraveze suferinta."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

"[...] ero una biografia in moto perpetuo, memoria sino al midollo delle ossa."

-Philip Roth, American Pastoral

20. La Perdida

By: Jessica Abel

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

Carla, una norteamericana distanciada de su padre mexicano, decide ir a la capital del pais azteca … read more

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21. Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography

By: Chester Brown

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

"It has the thoroughness of a history book yet reads with the personalized vision of a novel." -Tim… read more

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22. The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984: A Graphic Memoir

By: Riad Sattouf

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

The Arab of the Future, the #1 French best-seller, tells the unforgettable story of Riad Sattouf's … read more

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23. Julia & Roem

By: Enki Bilal

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Apres le <>environnemental dont Animal'zrelatait l'impact tragique et devastateur, la planete s'apa… read more

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Cover of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

24. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

25. The Waiting

By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

4.43

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

The story begins with a mother's confession... sisters permanently separated by a border during the… read more

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Cover of Anéantir by Michel Houellebecq

26. Anéantir

By: Michel Houellebecq

3.84

Format: 734 pages, Hardcover

Ce roman de Michel Houellebecq nous projette à la fin du second mandat du président à travers un ré… read more

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  • fiction
"La prise de vues donnait une étrange impression de neutralité."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Les chrétiens ont du mal en général, avec l’absurde, ça n’entre pas vraiment dans leurs catégories."

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

"Certains lundis de la toute fin novembre, ou du début de décembre, surtout lorsqu'on est célibataire, on a la sensation d'être dans le couloir de la mort. Les vacances d'été sont depuis longtemps oub…"

-Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

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27. Revenge of the Librarians

By: Tom Gauld

3.94

Format: 180 pages, Hardcover

Confront the spectre of failure, the wraith of social media, and other supernatural enemies of the … read more

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  • comics
  • bande dessinée
  • fiction
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28. Mazebook

By: Jeff Lemire

4.08

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A lonely building inspector still grieving the loss of his puzzle-loving daughter receives a myster… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
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  • fiction
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29. Bleekwater

By: Joris Mertens

4.20

Format: 141 pages, Hardcover

François rijdt dagelijks leveringen van een droogkuisfirma rond. Met een busje, in een afgeleefde g… read more

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Cover of The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel by Salva Rubio

30. The Librarian of Auschwitz: The Graphic Novel

By: Salva Rubio

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Based on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this graphic novel tells the in… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
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31. Bug (#2)

By: Enki Bilal

3.60

Format: 77 pages, Kindle Edition

Dans un avenir proche, en une fraction de seconde, le monde numérique disparaît, comme aspiré par u… read more

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3.00

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3.88

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3.54

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3.69

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4.26

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