Graphic Novels

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Updated May 27, 2026
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Feeding ghosts : a graphic memoir
Hulls, Tessa
Paper Book
An astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity. In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of Chinese history across three generations of women in her family. Tessa¿s grandmother, Sun...
Haruki Murakami manga stories
Deveney, Jean-Christophe
Paper Book
Haruki Murakami's stories in graphic novel form for the first time! Haruki Murakami's novels, essays and short stories have sold millions of copies worldwide and been translated into dozens of languages. Now for the first time, many of Murakami's best-loved short stories are...
A man & his cat. 1
Sakurai, Umi
Paper Book
The top manga launch in Japan in the first half of 2018, A Man and His Cat was also voted one of the top ten manga of 2018 by Japanese bookstore employees nationwide. Having won hearts and topped charts in Japan, this hotly anticipated series about an older gentleman and his unique,...
Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1
Matsumoto, Taiyo.
Paper Book
The winner of multiple Eisner Awards, author Taiyo Matsumoto explores the relationships between a manga editor, manga creators, art, and the rhythm of life these days. After 30 years as a manga editor, Kazuo Shiozawa suddenly quits. Although he feels early retirement is the only...
Zodiac : a graphic memoir
Ai, Weiwei
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . In this beautifully illustrated and deeply philosophical graphic memoir, legendary artist Ai Weiwei explores the connection between artistic expression and intellectual freedom through the lens of the Chinese zodiac. ONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR<...
The hidden life of trees : a graphic adaptation
Bernard, Frédéric
Paper Book
A STUNNING NEW GRAPHIC NOVEL, BRILLIANTLY ADAPTED FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER A Top Ten Graphic Novel of 2024--American Library Association From "veritable tree whisperer" (WSJ) and...
Where the body was
Brubaker, Ed
Paper Book
Like a true crime podcast crossed with a long-lost diary, Where the Body Was
Search and destroy. Vol. 1
Kaneko, Atsushi
Paper Book
From the cinematic mind of Atsushi Kaneko (Bambi and Her Pink Gun) comes a contemporary reimagining of the timeless, Eisner Award-winning Dororo, by "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka (Buddha, Astro Boy). ALA's Graphic Novel & Comics Round Table Outstanding Adult...
Anxietyland
Correll, Gemma
Paper Book
National Bestseller * Featured in The New Yorker, NPR, and more! * Molly Ringwald's Inaugural Book Club Pick * A Junior Library Guild Selection "Get ready to laugh at your neuroses--and feel seen, too" (Adam Grant, #1 New York Times...
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! ...
Ruined
Vaughn, Sarah
Paper Book
For fans of Bridgerton comes a Regency-era romance graphic novel about the unexpected passion that blooms from a marriage of convenience. The whole town is whispering about how Catherine Benson lost her virtue, though they can never agree on the details. Was it in the public...
Raging clouds
Yudori
Paper Book
In this period drama set in the 16th-century Netherlands, the unlikely pair of a proper Dutchwoman and her husband's slave mistress collaborate on a scientific discovery that could free them from the bounds of patriarchal society. The print debut of Korean manga artist Yudori is a richly imagined...
From above : an (info)graphic novel
Panchaud, Martin
Paper Book
An innovative, award-winning graphic novel that uses the visual language of infographics to tell the story of Simon--an average teenager whose brush with a fortune teller sends him on a surreal adventure The Color of Things is an internationally acclaimed,...
Simplicity : a novel
Lubchansky, Mattie
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER . From the acclaimed author of horror sensation Boys Weekend, a vibrant new graphic novel about a timid academic sent out from the walled dystopian security territory of New York City to investigate a cult in the wilds of the Catskill Mountains "Mattie...
Saint Catherine
Meyer, Anna
Paper Book
In this debut graphic novel, a young woman skips Sunday mass for the very first time and is forced to confront a lifetime of Catholic guilt...as well as the demon hell-bent on possessing her. In her twenty-something years of existence, Catherine never skipped mass once. As a...
The Weight
Mendes, Melissa
Paper Book
A rural family's cycle of love, loss, and renewal, set against the beauty and adversity of mid-century America Edie comes into the world calmly as the adults around her rage. Her father is a cruel man who beats her mother regularly and much of Edie's young life is spent trying...
Brain Damage
Kago
Paper Book
From the brilliant and twisted mind of manga artist Shintaro Kago, a new collection of short stories rife with skin-crawling suspense, visceral body horror, and pitch dark-humor. In 2018, manga artist Shintaro Kago made his English debut with Dementia 21, a collection of...
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. Nilsen brings these old gods to an electrifying new life,...
Holler : a graphic memoir of rural resistance
Nalamalapu, Denali Sai
Paper Book
An "important piece of activist art", this beautiful graphic memoir tells the story of six hopeful activists in Appalachia who had the courage to resist against a threat to their community (Margaret Killjoy). Drawing from original interviews with the author,...
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...
Precious rubbish
E., Kayla
Paper Book
'If an exorcism can ever be slow and quiet, then every panel I've finished has felt something like an exorcism. The gutters give me space to make sense of things: to connect dots and close gaps. To remember.' Kayla E.'s Precious Rubbish is an experimental graphic memoir drawn in a style that...
Gilt frame
Kindt, Margie Kraft
Paper Book
A classic whodunit murder mystery that spans the globe from Paris to Hawaii to Montenegro as we hustle to keep up with the most unlikely murder-solving duo in the history of murder-solvers. Sam, who is in his early twenties, is an orphan, taken in when he was younger by his well...
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...
It rhymes with Takei
Takei, George
Paper Book
Following the award-winning bestseller They Called Us Enemy, George Takei's new full-color graphic memoir reveals his most personal story of all-told in full for the first time anywhere! George Takei has shown the world many faces- actor, author, outspoken activist,...

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