New Adult Graphic Novels (2025)

Updated January 22, 2026
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Gaysians
Curato, Mike
Paper Book
Kirkus Best Fiction of the Year * From the acclaimed author of the young adult graphic novel Flamer comes a heartwarming story following four gay Asians navigating love, identity, and friendship--a celebration of queer chosen family.​ When AJ moves to...
Geiger 1
Johns, Geoff.
Paper Book
The critically acclaimed team of writer GEOFF JOHNS andartist GARY FRANK unites with superstar colorist BRAD ANDERSON to bring theirfirst creator-owned hero to Image Comics! Setin the years after a nuclear war ravaged the planet,...
The knives : a criminal book
Brubaker, Ed
Paper Book
THE BEAT BEST COMICS OF 2025 "This ambitious and elegiac crime thriller is among the best of Brubaker and Phillips's highly acclaimed collaborations." --Library Journal (starred review) THE FIRST NEW CRIMINAL BOOK IN FIVE YEARS! ...
The Whitestone chronicles : Ripley.
Nijkamp, Marieke
Paper Book
Tragedy strikes the renowned de Rolo family of Whitestone when they re massacred by the vicious Briarwoods. Luckily for Dr. Anna Ripley, the bloodshed and regime change presents the perfect opportunity for her to further her own dark plans in service to Whitestone s new ruling family. But just how...
Lore Olympus: Volume Nine
Smythe, Rachel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love--the Greek tale of Hades and Persephone gets a romantic modern update in the gorgeously illustrated, Eisner Award-winning Lore Olympus, including a brand new bonus short story! "The...
Love languages
Albon, James
Paper Book
Two foreigners in France reach across language barriers and turn each other's lives upside down in this stunningly beautiful queer romance graphic novel painted in dazzling watercolor. Sarah Huxley has moved from London to Paris, only to find a lonely life of corporate drudgery...
Monstress Volume 10
Liu, Marjorie
Paper Book
The tenth volume of the multiple Eisner, Harvey, Hugo, and British Fantasy Award-winning series. The Defiled, a group of Monstra long confined to the prison planet Golga, have slipped through a rift between worlds and possessed anyone who has ever held the Mask of the Shaman...
Motherlover
Ishihiro, Lindsay
Eisner Award Nomination for Best Webcomic  The New York Public Library's Best New Comics of 2025 for Adults "Will have readers cheering." -- NEW YORK TIMES "Readers will fall for...
Parable of the Talents: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Butler, Octavia E.
Paper Book
From a celebrated author, the thrilling sequel to The Parable of the Sower--a cautionary novel ahead of its time, perfect for fans of The Broken Earth trilogy. In 2032, Lauren Olamina has survived the destruction and ruin of everything she knew. Her peaceful community...
Rare flavours
V, Ram
Paper Book
'Peppered with myths, culinary history, and recipes, this is a terrifying trip to savor. '- Publishers Weekly Starred Review 'Ram V and Filipe Andrade cook up a tale worthy of Gaiman or Bourdain.' - ComicsOnline 'With wondrous depictions of simple recipes, deep-seated emotional experiences, and a...
Witchcraft
Otero, Sole
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1768. It is a dark and foreboding night when the boat arrives from Europe, bringing three shadowy figures to shore. Before long, the Maria sisters will take the New World by storm. In the coming years, they wend their way from town to town, assisting women in need and...
Crema : a haunted romance in three chapters
Christmas, Johnnie
Paper Book
#1 New York Times Bestselling cartoonist Johnnie Christmas and Prism Award Nominee Dante Luiz bring you a haunted tale of love, ghosts, and coffee beans. Esme, a barista, feels invisible, like a ghost... also, when Esme drinks too much coffee she actually sees ghosts. Yara, the elegant heir to a...
Spectators
Vaughan, Brian K.
Paper Book
"It's an eye-popping show." --Publishers Weekly "A visually ambitious, thematically daring, and powerfully unsettling supernatural romance that veers into incendiary social critique." --Library Journal A gripping and provocative graphic novel...

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