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 1–16 of 16

2025Graphic novels

Breadcrumbs: Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Poland

Kasia Babis

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Cannon

Lee Lai

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Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls

Rob Edwards, illustrated by Sean Damien Hill and Alex Paterson, cover illustration by Nikolas Draper-Ivey

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Ginseng Roots: A Memoir

Craig Thompson

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Muybridge

Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall

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Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen

Kate Evans

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Photographic Memory: William Henry Jackson and the American West

Bill Griffith

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Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir

Joanna Rubin Dranger

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Simplicity

Mattie Lubchansky

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Spent: A Comic Novel

Alison Bechdel

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The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief

Carol Tyler

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The Weight

Melissa Mendes

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This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir

Kay Sohini

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This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story

Hayley Gullen

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Tongues

Anders Nilsen

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You Must Take Part In Revolution

Badiucao and Melissa Chan

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