Adult Graphic Novels

Updated August 12, 2025
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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...
Hairball
Kindt, Matt
Paper Book
A young girl with a black cat begins to suspect the innocuous beast is behind all her troubles: her parents' fighting, family plagues, and innumerable supernatural horrors. As she tries her best to rid herself of this creature, she discovers that maybe the cat is not evil after all and a greater...
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...
The girl who flew away
Dean, Lee
Paper Book
"A literary and visual feast." -- FOREWORD  "This dazzles." -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY  It's 1976, and Greer Johnson has found herself pregnant, single, and packed off to Florida. Bunking with total strangers to await and hide the birth of her...
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
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...
Marry me a little : a graphic memoir
Kirby, Robert
Paper Book
In Marry Me a Little, Rob Kirby recounts his experience of marrying his longtime partner, John, just after same-sex marriage was legalized in Minnesota in 2013, and two years before the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges made same-sex marriage the law of the land. This is a...
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...
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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