Adult Graphic Novels

Updated August 12, 2025
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Reaver. Volume one, Hell's half-dozen
Jordan, Justin
Paper Book
The continent of Madaras promised a new startfor settlers... but 200 years after its discovery, the war rages on. Deep withinthis savage and untamed land, a darkness builds at The Anvil that must bestopped at all costs.
Coffin bound. Volume 1, Happy ashes
Watters, Dan
Paper Book
Mad Max: Fury Road meets Neil Gaiman'sSandman in this full-throttle, grindhouse, fantasy epic. Cars! Guns! Entropy! Izzy Tyburn haspromised the world that if it won't have her in it, it'll have nothing of her...
Rice Boy
Dahm, Evan
Paper Book
Rice Boy is a surreal fantasy graphic novel set in a world called Overside. A lonely creature called Rice Boy and an ageless machine called The One Electronic venture through a strange world to fulfill a prophecy with implications few understand.
The Boys omnibus. Volume one
Ennis, Garth
Paper Book
This is going to hurt! In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone's got to make sure the "supes" don't get out of line. And someone will! Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother's Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: A CIA...
The waiting
Gendry-Kim, Keum Suk
Paper Book
The story begins with a mother's confession...sisters permanently separated by a border during the Korean War Keum Suk Gendry-Kim was an adult when her mother revealed a family secret: She had been separated from her sister during the Korean War. It's not an uncommon story--the...
Devour
Joyner, Jazmine
Paper Book
In the Deep South, something evil waits in the darkness . . . This horror graphic novel tells the story of the Turner family, who move to Alabama to care for their ailing matriarch, Vassie, when she begins suffering from dementia. But Vassie isn't just any old lady; she's the last of a line...
Welcome to the new world
Halpern, Jake
Paper Book
Now in a full-length book, the New York Times Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic story of a refugee family who fled the civil war in Syria to make a new life in America After escaping a Syrian prison, Ibrahim Aldabaan and his family fled the country to seek protection in...
Door to Door, Night by Night Vol. 1: A World Full of Monsters
Bunn, Cullen
Paper Book
A supernatural horror thriller splattered with dark humor in the vein of Grady Hendrix (My Best Friend's Exorcism), Stranger Things, Welcome to Night Vale, Supernatural, and the Midnight, Texas series (Charlaine Harris), DOOR TO DOOR, NIGHT BY NIGHT Vol. 1: A World Full of...
Where black stars rise
Shammas, Nadia
Paper Book
AN IGNYTE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST COMICS TEAM! "Where Black Stars Rise boldly pushes the limits of what a comic can do. ...It's a gorgeous work. I loved it." --Trung Le Nguyen, author of The Magic Fish Nadia Shammas and Marie Enger's<...
RUR
?upov
Paper Book
Long before there was Terminator and Skynet, there was R.U.R., the Czech classic that gave us the word "robot". The R.U.R. Factory, far from humanity on its own island, has produced the perfect product: Robots! Devoid of pain, love, and all human emotion, never tiring, never...
Wake : the hidden history of women-led slave revolts
Hall, Rebecca
Paper Book
A Best Book of 2021 by NPR and The Washington Post Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour-de-force that tells the "powerful" (The New York Times Book Review) story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall's...
Red harvest
Cherkas, Michael
Paper Book
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin waged a brutal war against the Soviet peasantry leading to the Holodomor, the terror-famine that killed at least 4 million Ukrainians during the fall and winter of 1932-33. Red Harvest is based on the tragic events that took place in Soviet Ukraine and other parts of...
This country : searching for home in (very) rural America
Mahdavian, Navied
Paper Book
"With light and airy illustrations, Mahdavian tackles these complex themes with humor and wit." --NPR, Books We Love 2023 NPR BEST BOOKS OF 2023 ● NEW YORKER BEST BOOKS WE'VE READ IN 2023● A gorgeously...
Night bus
Zuo, Ma
Paper Book
Journey through the countryside in this magical realist debut from an underground Chinese cartoonist In Night Bus, a young woman wearing round glasses finds herself on an adventurous late night bus ride that constantly makes detours through increasingly fantastical...

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