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 …
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1. Bloom
By: None
4.25
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Bloomis the electrifying debut collection from one of our best emerging poets. If a studio technici… read more
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2. Moon of the Turning Leaves (Moon, #2)
By: Waubgeshig Rice
4.28
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping sequel to the award-winning post-apocalyptic novel Moon of the Crusted Snow , a br… read more
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3. 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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"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
4. Shubeik Lubeik
By: Deena Mohamed
4.50
Format: 528 pages, ebook
A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more
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5. The Talk
By: Darrin Bell
4.65
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Darrin Bell was six years old when his mother told him he couldn’t have a realistic water gun. She … read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. Acting Class
By: Nick Drnaso
4.19
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant and suspenseful follow-up to the Booker-nominated graphic novel Sabrina."Every single p… read more
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9. 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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10. 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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"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
11. In Limbo
By: Deb J.J. Lee
4.18
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
A debut YA graphic memoir about a Korean-American girl's coming-of-age story—and a coming home stor… read more
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12. Shut Up You're Pretty
By: Téa Mutonji
3.57
Format: 135 pages, Paperback
In Téa Mutonji's disarming debut story collection, a woman contemplates her Congolese traditions du… read more
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"Her sadness was overwhelming. Her sadness was an illusion. She'd pretend to be fine but then wash the same dish for twenty minutes"-Téa Mutonji, Shut Up You're Pretty
13. Greenwood
By: Michael Christie
4.33
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
It's 2034 and Jake Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting u… read more
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"There is nothing more quieting than an ancient tree"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Do you know what becomes of men like us without the armour of wealth...?"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Maybe trees do have souls. Which makes wood a kind of flesh. And perhaps instruments of wooden construction sound so pleasing to our ears for this reason: the choral shimmer of a guitar; the heartbea…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
"Still, Temple has no illusions concerning her library's impact. Her books won't lift anyone from their low station. They won't right wrongs or save wandering souls from perdition or fill grumbling st…"-Michael Christie, Greenwood
14. The Future
By: Catherine Leroux
3.32
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more
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"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."-Catherine Leroux, The Future
15. Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
By: Julia Wertz
4.35
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In her keenly observed graphic memoir, Impossible People, celebrated cartoonist Julia Wertz chronic… read more
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"Go fuck yourself, melted spatula!"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"Do the stepwork and don't give me any of your excuses. We both know they're bullshit."-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"It's the fantasy of a life gone wrong. You've been doing the best you can, but it's hard and you're tired. Then something horrible happens and you get to give up and go be sad somewhere. There's some…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
"...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a come…"-Julia Wertz, Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
16. Hotline
By: Dimitri Nasrallah
4.15
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman’s struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration… read more
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"Here i am on my own, because of him, maybe free from a life that was turning into a prison, but cast away like a bad-luck omen too. Now I must give myself to others to survive. The world has judged t…"-Dimitri Nasrallah, Hotline
17. This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America
By: Navied Mahdavian
3.98
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A gorgeously illustrated and written debut graphic memoir about belonging, identity, and making a h… read more
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18. The Sleeping Car Porter
By: Suzette Mayr
3.46
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more
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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter
19. Bad Cree
By: Jessica Johns
3.92
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
In this gripping debut tinged with supernatural horror, a young Cree woman's dreams lead her on a p… read more
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"On cloudless days I swear the prairies are closer to the sun than anywhere else in the world. Not because of the heat. It's the size of the floating orb when nothing else is around it. Beating like a…"-Jessica Johns, Bad Cree
20. Denison Avenue
By: Christina Wong
4.17
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more
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21. It Won't Always Be Like This
By: Malaka Gharib
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
An intimate graphic memoir about an American girl growing up with her Egyptian father's new family,… read more
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