2025 Round Up: Favourite Graphics Books

Sequential art + a cohesive storyline = a great graphic novel!

Updated January 9, 2026
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Spent : a comic novel
Bechdel, Alison
Paper Book
The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction. "Truthful, rueful and delightful."--LA Times In Alison Bechdel's hilariously skewering and gloriously...
Holy lacrimony
DeForge, Michael
Paper Book
The post-alien abduction trauma memoir we've all been waiting for "Ah, there's that famous lip quiver!" says Jackie's abductor and student. Jackie has been determined to be the "saddest living person in the entire world" by a mysterious team of alien abductors. His earthly...
Muybridge
Delisle, Guy
Paper Book
How do you capture a changing world in the blink of an eye? Sacramento, California, 1870. Pioneer photographer Eadweard Muybridge becomesentangled in railroad robber baron Leland Stanford's delusions of grandeur. Tasked withproving Stanford's belief that a horse's hooves do...
Checked Out
Fricas, Katie
Paper Book
In which a queer library worker searches for love, artistic validation in New YorkCity, and the perfect book An aspiring cartoonist and book lovin' lesbian, Louise works a dead-end day job at a shoe store, where she spends most of her time brooding over a coworker who will...
World Within the World: Collected Short Works 2010-2022
Gfrorer, Julia.
Paper Book
Julia Gfrorer is quietly one of the most influential cartoonists of her generation. Emerging from the Portland scene at the height of the Obama era, her comics augured the dark times to come, using graphic sex, pitch-black horror, a hunger for exploring the past, and a line cruel as a whip to create...
The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers
Gillen, Kieron
Paper Book
2025 NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST NEW COMICS FOR ADULTS "A rich and rewarding story about existential questions when super-powered gods walk amongst us." --AIPT It's 1999. Six indescribably powerful people each have the destructive capability of...
Helen of Wyndhorn
King, Tom
Paper Book
Following the tragic death of her late father C.K. Cole, the esteemed pulp writer and creator of the popular warrior character Othan, Helen Cole is called back to her Grandfather's enormous and illustrious estate, Wyndhorn House. Scarred by Cole's untimely passing and lost in a new, strange world,...
Insectopolis : a natural history
Kuper, Peter
Paper Book
This visually immersive work of graphic nonfiction dives into a world where ants, cicadas, bees, and butterflies visit a library exhibition that displays their stories and humanity's connection to them throughout the ages. Kuper's thrilling visual feast layers history and science, color and...
Cannon
Lai, Lee
Paper Book
A LAMBDA Award winner and breakout fiction sensation returns with a darkly funny slice of friendship strife We arrive to wreckage--a restaurant smashed to rubble, with tables and chairs upended riotously. Under the swampy nighttime cover of a Montreal heat-wave, this is...
Minor Arcana Vol. 1
Lemire, Jeff
Paper Book
Theresa's mother has fallen ill, and as a young bitter misanthrope, returning to her hometown to take care of her phony psychic of a mom is the last thing on Theresa s bucket list. But when Theresa finds out these abilities might be real after all, it will up to her to reconcile with her ailing...
Land of Mirrors
Medem, Maria
Paper Book
Seeped in flamenco rhythms, a hero's journey of love and hope Antonia is the sole inhabitant of a deserted town, with only a roaming pack of dogs and her own worn out memories to keep her company. Nothing is new in this world, the ponds are so still they are dead, and her...
Tongues. Book 1
Nilsen, Anders
Paper Book
From the three-time Igantz award-winning artist and author of Big Questions comes a fascinating graphic novel retelling of the Greek myth of Prometheus "An extraordinary reinvention of some of our oldest stories. NilsenĀ brings these old gods to an electrifying new life,...
Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me
Pond, Mimi
Paper Book
Mimi Pond crafts a gorgeous, dazzling biography of the Mitford Sisters Born with pedigrees but without the pocketbooks to match, The Mitfords were certainly no strangers to lies, intrigue, or scandal. Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, and Deborah. All six sisters were...
The Once and Future Riot
Sacco, Joe.
Paper Book
From the ground-breaking graphics journalist and author of Palestine, a revelatory investigation of the deadly sectarian riots in 2013 Uttar Pradesh, India, and their urgent global significance today Compared to other episodes of lethal Indian communal violence, the...
Miss Ruki
Takano, Fumiko
Paper Book
Chosen by the Washngton Post as one of the Best Comics of 2025 A young woman rejects the fast-paced consumer culture of 1980s Japan in favor of a slower, more carefree lifestyle in this tenderhearted, sweetly funny classic of slice-of-life manga. A classic of...
The Solitary Gourmet
Taniguchi, Jiro
Paper Book
This is the book in which nothing happens but everything is consumed! Like 'The Walking Man' at lunch!! What do we learn about Mister Inogashira? He's a sole, independent trader importing household and fashion goods from France. He is always busy but never rushed as he travels around Japan selling...
Ginseng roots : a memoir
Thompson, Craig
Paper Book
From the celebrated author of Blankets and Habibi comes a new graphic memoir exploring the class divide, childhood labor, family, and our globalized world--all centered on Wisconsin's ginseng farming industry "Ginseng Roots is Thompson's most visually arresting...
Cornelius : the merry life of a wretched dog
Torices, Marc
Paper Book
Horrifying and hilarious, Cornelius the dog is a spectacular train wreck--you just can't look away Cornelius is a fumbling loser, the butt of everyone's jokes. When his friend Alspacka iskidnapped, the subsequent criminal investigation turns into a dramatic and...

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