11 must-read fantasy books like The Mysteries by Bill Watterson

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The Mysteries

By: Bill Watterson

3.76

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests…

If you liked the fantasy plot in The Mysteries by Bill Watterson , here is a list of 11 books like this:

Cover of The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale by Jon Klassen

1. The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

By: Jon Klassen

4.26

Format: 105 pages, None

Jon Klassen's retelling of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.In a big abandoned house, on a barren hi… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • picture books
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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2. 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
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Saga, Volume 11 by Brian K. Vaughan

3. Saga, Volume 11

By: Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Format: 153 pages, ebook

While Hazel and her family fight for scraps to survive, the rich and powerful race to forge new all… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • adult
  • fantasy
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4. The Mysteries

By: Bill Watterson

3.76

Format: 72 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly, and Indie Bestseller. From Bill Watterson, bests… read more

Similar categories in Bill Watterson's The Mysteries book and Bill Watterson's The Mysteries

  • art
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • picture books
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • adult
  • fantasy
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5. Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man

By: Jean-Christophe Deveney

3.67

Format: 153 pages, ebook

Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami's novels, es… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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6. 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
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • mystery
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7. 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 comics
  • graphic novels
  • adult
  • fiction
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8. 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
  • fiction
  • horror
  • mystery
  • 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

Cover of I Must Be Dreaming by Roz Chast

9. I Must Be Dreaming

By: Roz Chast

3.65

Format: 118 pages, Hardcover

#1 New York Times bestselling, award-winning New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast's new graphic narrativ… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
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10. Four Gathered on Christmas Eve

By: Eric Powell

3.53

Format: 56 pages, Hardcover

Four of the top creators in comics, Eric Powell, Mike Mignola, Becky Cloonan and James Harren, gath… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus by Stephen Graham Jones

11. Earthdivers, Vol. 1: Kill Columbus

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.66

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Only Good Indians and My Heart Is a Chainsaw makes his… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Bunny & Tree by Balint Zsako

12. Bunny & Tree

By: Balint Zsako

4.38

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeous wordless adventure story about a rabbit and a tree, their surprising friendship, and the… read more

Similar categories in Balint Zsako's Bunny & Tree book and Bill Watterson's The Mysteries

  • art
  • graphic novels
  • picture books
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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13. Three Rocks: The Story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy

By: Bill Griffith

4.43

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From Bill Griffith, the acclaimed creator of Zippy the Pinhead, comes a history of comics as told t… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • art
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of What You Need to Be Warm by Neil Gaiman

14. What You Need to Be Warm

By: Neil Gaiman

4.20

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

During the coldest season, when the world feels scary—what do you remember about being warm? Baked … read more

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  • art
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • picture books
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15. Blood of the Virgin

By: Sammy Harkham

3.70

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

“A story about storytelling...Conjures up the grindhouse movie-making scene in 1970s Los Angeles an… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
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16. In Utero

By: Chris Gooch

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

Akira meets Aliens , and Annihilation meets Evangelion , in this coming-of-age monster tale from aw… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Night Eaters, Vol. 2: Her Little Reapers by Marjorie M. Liu

17. The Night Eaters, Vol. 2: Her Little Reapers

By: Marjorie M. Liu

4.34

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

The second volume in the graphic novel horror trilogy The Night Eaters from Marjorie Liu and Sana T… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of The Werewolf at Dusk: And Other Stories by David Small

18. The Werewolf at Dusk: And Other Stories

By: David Small

3.52

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Confronting “the beast within” us all, Werewolf at Dusk celebrates the singular genius of David Sma… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
  • fantasy
Cover of Tender by Beth Hetland

19. Tender

By: Beth Hetland

3.91

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

A psychological thriller about a woman obsessed with her vision for a picture-perfect, curated life… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • fiction
  • horror
  • adult
Cover of Time Under Tension by M.S. Harkness

20. Time Under Tension

By: M.S. Harkness

3.97

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Time Under Tension is a smart, funny, no bullshit work of autobiography, a story of searching for d… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand by L. Nichols

21. I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understand

By: L. Nichols

4.17

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Some books take the whole of a lifetime to write. I Am Only a Foreigner Because You Do Not Understa… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics

16 Best fiction books like The Mysteries by Bill Watterson

Transform Your Habits

The Skull: A Tyrolean Folktale

Jon Klassen

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Monica

Daniel Clowes

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Saga, Volume 11

Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Transform Your Habits

The Mysteries

Bill Watterson

3.76

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18 Top fiction books like Haruki Murakami Manga Stories 1: Super-Frog Saves Tokyo, Where I'm Likely to Find It, Birthday Girl, The Seventh Man by Jean-Christophe Deveney

Transform Your Habits

Where Monsters Lie

Kyle Starks

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Saga, Volume 11

Brian K. Vaughan

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Monstress, Vol. 8: Inferno

Marjorie M. Liu

4.03

Transform Your Habits

The Mysteries

Bill Watterson

3.76

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