Adult Graphic Novels

Updated August 12, 2025
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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...
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...
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...
Marry me a little : a graphic memoir
Kirby, Robert
Paper Book
OPRAH MAGAZINE'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023
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...

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