Adult Graphic Novels

Updated August 12, 2025
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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...
Hairball
Kindt, Matt
Paper Book
A brand-new supernatural nightmare that's Junji Ito meets Hayao Miyazaki from the Eisner-nominated creators of Fear Case and Apache Delivery Service. A young girl with a black cat begins to suspect the innocuous beast is behind all her troubles: her parents'...
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<...
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...
Little mama
Mahmoudi, Halim
Paper Book
Life isn't easy for little Brenda, whose single teenage mom isimmature, selfish, and prone to violent mood swings. Brenda takes care of her asbest she can, missing out on many childhood joys to be her mother's LittleMama. Sadly, her already challenging existence gets even worse when hermom'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...
Helm Greycastle. Book one
Barajas, Henry
Paper Book
New Latinx fantasy by HENRY BARAJAS, author of thecritically acclaimed La Voz De M.A.Y.O. Tata Rambo! The last dragon prince hasbeen abducted--kept prisoner by an unknown threat: AZTEC MEXICA! HelmGreycastle and his outsider comrades are here to save the prince--but...

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