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Curated category · 2006—2025

Best graphic novels

Award-winning and editorially recommended graphic novels across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.

Selections
220
Authors
195
Lists & prizes
2

Showing 1–48 of 220

2025Graphic novels

Cannon

Lee Lai

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2025Graphic novels

Muybridge

Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall

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2025Graphic novels

Tongues

Anders Nilsen

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2024Graphic novels

Woman, Life, Freedom

Marjane Satrapi, translated by Una Dimitrijevic

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2024Graphic novels

Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

Ai Weiwei with Elettra Stamboulis, illustrated by Gianluca Costantini

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2023Graphic novels

Boys Weekend

Mattie Lubchansky

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2023Graphic novels

My Picture Diary

Fujiwara Maki, translated by Ryan Holmberg

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2023Graphic novels

Roaming

Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki

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