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 1–13 of 13

2024Graphic novels

Adrift on a Painted Sea

Tim Bird, paintings by Sue Bird

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2024Graphic novels

All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey

Teresa Wong

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2024Graphic novels

Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt's Journey to His Musical Language

Joonas Sildre, edited by Aile Tooming, translated by Adam Cullen

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Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car: Comics for Beautiful, Awful and Ordinary Days

Jordan Bolton

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Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir

Tessa Hulls

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2024Graphic novels

Milk Without Honey

Hanna Harms, translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp

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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two

Emil Ferris

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Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy

Sacha Mardou

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Still Life with Remorse

Maira Kalman

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Tender

Beth Hetland

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Victory Parade

Leela Corman

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Woman, Life, Freedom

Marjane Satrapi, translated by Una Dimitrijevic

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Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir

Ai Weiwei with Elettra Stamboulis, illustrated by Gianluca Costantini

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