27 must-read graphic novels books like Blankets by Craig Thompson

Cover of Blankets by Craig Thompson

Blankets

By: Craig Thompson

None

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creati…

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Cover of The Collected Essex County by Jeff Lemire

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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  • comic book
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Watchmen by Alan             Moore, John    Higgins, Dave Gibbons

2. Watchmen

By: Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

4.38

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

This Hugo Award-winning graphic novel chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes pla… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • fiction
  • comic book
"Never despair. Never surrender."

-Alan Moore, Watchmen

"I did it thirty-five minutes ago."

-Alan Moore, Watchmen

"It doesn’t matter how “successful"

-Alan Moore, Watchmen

"The superman exists and he's American."

-Alan Moore, Watchmen

Cover of Saga, Volume 1 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fiona Staples

3. Saga, Volume 1

By: Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples

4.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The sweeping tale of one young family fighting to find their place in the worlds. When two soldiers… read more

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  • romance
  • comic book
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
"Have you ever been shot by one? Because I have and it hurt like the day my dog died..."

-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

"Forgive me if I don't take relationship advice from a dead teenager missing her vagina."

-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

"If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born."

-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

"I thought so. Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do"

-Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Volume 1

Cover of The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

4. The Complete Maus

By: Art Spiegelman

4.57

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive ed… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Ingen är normal."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"Es bueno ser simpatico si quieres vivir."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"He’s more attached to things than people."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"If you want to live, it's good to be friendly."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

Cover of Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) by Art Spiegelman

5. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

By: Art Spiegelman

4.38

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …"

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

"Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

Cover of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) by Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa

6. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa

4.26

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"To each his own way of calming down."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

Cover of Seconds by Bryan Lee O'Malley, Nathan Fairbairn

7. Seconds

By: Bryan Lee O'Malley , Nathan Fairbairn

4.07

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Katie’s got it pretty good. She’s a talented young chef, she runs a successful restaurant, and she … read more

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  • comic book
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol

8. Anya's Ghost

By: Vera Brosgol

3.91

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Anya could really use a friend. But her new BFF isn't kidding about the "Forever" part. Of all t… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
"You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside."

-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost

"Impressing a bunch of snooty teenagers is a pretty lame life goal to have."

-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost

"I could lose myself forever in that dark hair and those sweet love handles."

-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost

"Oh, Anya! Let's have an intense spiritual relationship for no believable reason!"

-Vera Brosgol, Anya's Ghost

Cover of Daytripper by None, Fábio Moon, Gabriel Bá, Craig Thompson, Sean Konot

9. Daytripper

By: None , Fábio Moon , Gabriel Bá , Craig Thompson , Sean Konot

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

What are the most important days of your life? Meet Brás de Oliva Domingos. The miracle child of… read more

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  • comic book
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
"And sometimes we die to prove that we lived."

-None, Daytripper

"It's strange being famous. People think they know you."

-None, Daytripper

"He feels safer just knowing that even if he's away there is a home waiting for him to return."

-None, Daytripper

"She was the most beautiful creature on Earth - her hair said so in that language only hair can speak."

-None, Daytripper

Cover of This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki

10. This One Summer

By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.69

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, th… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • coming of age
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"Don't worry about any of this stuff, okay? It's all just adult junk that doesn't mean anything."

-Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer

Cover of Stitches by David Small

11. Stitches

By: David Small

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transfo… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • adult
Cover of Black Hole by Charles Burns

12. Black Hole

By: Charles Burns

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

13. Ghost World

By: Daniel Clowes

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ghost Worldhas become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire… read more

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  • comic book
  • graphic novels comics
  • coming of age
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Paper Girls, Vol. 1 (Paper Girls, #1) by Matthew Wilson, Brian K. Vaughan, Cliff Chiang

14. Paper Girls, Vol. 1 (Paper Girls, #1)

By: Matthew Wilson , Brian K. Vaughan , Cliff Chiang

3.98

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

In the early hours after Halloween of 1988, four 12-year-old newspaper delivery girls uncover the m… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh, Mattias Ripa, Blake Ferris

15. The Complete Persepolis

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh , Mattias Ripa , Blake Ferris

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of Here by Richard McGuire

16. 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
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
Cover of Nimona by None

17. Nimona

By: None

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically accl… read more

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  • fiction
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • young adult
Cover of Persepolis, Volume 1 by Marjane Satrapi

18. Persepolis, Volume 1

By: Marjane Satrapi

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Persepolises la historia autobiografica de la irani Marjane Satrapi, la historia de como crecio en … read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang

19. American Born Chinese

By: Gene Luen Yang

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

All Jin Wang wants is to fit in. When his family moves to a new neighborhood, he suddenly finds tha… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Blankets by Craig Thompson

20. Blankets

By: Craig Thompson

None

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creati… read more

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  • romance
  • comic book
  • graphic novels comics
  • coming of age
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
Cover of A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories by Will Eisner

21. A Contract With God and Other Tenement Stories

By: Will Eisner

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Go back to where graphic novels all started, on the Bronx street of Dropsie Avenue and A Life Force… read more

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  • comic book
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction

22. The Arrival

By: Shaun Tan

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more

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23. 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
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
"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

Cover of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

24. 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
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
"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

25. Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth

By: Chris Ware

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Paperback

Jimmy Corriganhas rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won th… read more

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26. Asterios Polyp

By: David Mazzucchelli

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

The triumphant return of one of comics' greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man's sea… read more

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27. The Sculptor

By: Scott McCloud

3.64

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

David Smith is giving his life for his art--literally. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculp… read more

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Cover of It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth by Zoe Thorogood

28. 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
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
"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

Cover of Monica by Daniel Clowes

29. 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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  • comic book
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
Cover of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton

30. 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
  • adult
Cover of Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me by Mariko Tamaki

31. 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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  • romance
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • young adult
  • comics
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"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

18 must-read fiction books like Blankets by Craig Thompson

Transform Your Habits

The Collected Essex County

Jeff Lemire

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Watchmen

Alan Moore , John Higgins , Dave Gibbons

4.38

Transform Your Habits

Saga, Volume 1

Brian K. Vaughan , Fiona Staples

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Seconds

Bryan Lee O'Malley , Nathan Fairbairn

4.07

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Gods' Man: A Novel in Woodcuts

Lynd Ward

4.19

Transform Your Habits

Unterzakhn (Pantheon Graphic Library)

Leela Corman

3.78

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The Underwater Welder

Jeff Lemire , Steve Wands

4.09

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Blacksad (Blacksad, #1-3)

Juanjo Guarnido , Juan Díaz Canales , Anthya Flores , None

3.41

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