Curated category · 2006—2025
Award-winning and editorially recommended graphic novels across twenty years, organized for discovery rather than sales ranking.
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Breadcrumbs: Coming of Age in Post-Soviet Poland by Kasia Babis appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around eye-opening reads, identity & culture, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Cannon by Lee Lai appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, comics & graphic novels, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Defiant: The Story of Robert Smalls by Rob Edwards, illustrated by Sean Damien Hill and Alex Paterson, cover illustration by Nikolas Draper-Ivey appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Ginseng Roots: A Memoir by Craig Thompson appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, family matters, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Muybridge by Guy Delisle, translated by Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around for art lovers, for history lovers, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Patchwork: A Graphic Biography of Jane Austen by Kate Evans appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, historical fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Photographic Memory: William Henry Jackson and the American West by Bill Griffith appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around for art lovers, for history lovers, the states we’re in, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Remember Us to Life: A Graphic Memoir by Joanna Rubin Dranger appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around eye-opening reads, family matters, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Simplicity by Mattie Lubchansky appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, comics & graphic novels, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Spent: A Comic Novel by Alison Bechdel appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, identity & culture, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief by Carol Tyler appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, for art lovers, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
The Weight by Melissa Mendes appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, comics & graphic novels, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A Graphic Memoir by Kay Sohini appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
This Might Surprise You: A Breast Cancer Story by Hayley Gullen appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, comics & graphic novels, rather short, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Tongues by Anders Nilsen appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, comics & graphic novels, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
You Must Take Part In Revolution by Badiucao and Melissa Chan appears in NPR’s 2025 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, comics & graphic novels, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Adrift on a Painted Sea by Tim Bird, paintings by Sue Bird appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey by Teresa Wong appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt's Journey to His Musical Language by Joonas Sildre, edited by Aile Tooming, translated by Adam Cullen appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Blue Sky Through the Window of a Moving Car: Comics for Beautiful, Awful and Ordinary Days by Jordan Bolton appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, short stories, essays & poetry, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Milk Without Honey by Hanna Harms, translated by Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, comics & graphic novels, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, mysteries & thrillers, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy by Sacha Mardou appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Still Life with Remorse by Maira Kalman appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Tender by Beth Hetland appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, staff picks, the dark side, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Victory Parade by Leela Corman appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, for art lovers, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Woman, Life, Freedom by Marjane Satrapi, translated by Una Dimitrijevic appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, comics & graphic novels, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei with Elettra Stamboulis, illustrated by Gianluca Costantini appears in NPR’s 2024 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
40 Men and 12 Rifles: Indochina 1954 by Marcelino Truong, translated by David Homel appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, comics & graphic novels, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Artificial: A Love Story by Amy Kurzweil appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Boys Weekend by Mattie Lubchansky appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, staff picks, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
How to Say Goodbye by Wendy MacNaughton appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
I Must Be Dreaming by Roz Chast appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around rather short, nonfiction, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story by Julia Wertz appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Juliette or, the Ghosts Return in the Spring by Camille Jourdy, translated by Aleshia Jensen appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, family matters, fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Kafka: A Manga Adaptation by Nishioka Kyodai, translated by David Yang appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, comics & graphic novels, for art lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Mimosa by Archie Bongiovanni appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, staff picks, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
My Picture Diary by Fujiwara Maki, translated by Ryan Holmberg appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Roaming by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, love & romance, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, comics & graphic novels, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America by Navied Mahdavian appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons by Kelly Sue DeConnick, illustrated by Phil Jimenez, Gene Ha and Nicola Scott appears in NPR’s 2023 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, comics & graphic novels, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson by Charles Johnson appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, eye-opening reads, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Birds of Maine by Michael DeForge appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, biography & memoir, comics & graphic novels, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Flung Out of Space: Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith by Grace Ellis, illustrated by Hannah Templer appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, identity & culture, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank by Eric Orner appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, biography & memoir, for history lovers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
