Graphic Novels
This shelf gathers a small, changing set of graphic novels worth reading, across memoir, reportage, comedy and quiet fiction. Each one carries its story in pictures as much as words, so it pulls you in quickly and stays with you afterwards. Follow any title for a fuller description and where to find a copy.
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A Fire Story
A cartoonist loses his home to a California wildfire and draws the aftermath.
Last verified 2026-07-23
Building Stories
This novel comes as a box of fourteen booklets, read in any order.
Last verified 2026-07-23
Cassandra Darke
A disgraced London art dealer stumbles from fraud into murder.
Last verified 2026-07-23
Driving Short Distances
A young man and a talkative older colleague share a van and long, empty workdays.
Last verified 2026-07-23
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
A daughter reckons with her closeted father and the family funeral home.
Last verified 2026-07-23
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
A lonely man meets the father he has never known, over one weekend.
Last verified 2026-07-23
Maus
A son draws his father's survival of the Holocaust, with Jews as mice and Nazis as cats.
Last verified 2026-07-23
Palestine
Joe Sacco reports from the West Bank and Gaza in comics, in the early 1990s.
Last verified 2026-07-23
Persepolis
A girl grows up through the Iranian Revolution, in stark black and white.
Last verified 2026-07-23
Sabrina
A woman disappears, a video leaks, and the internet fills the silence with theories.
Last verified 2026-07-23
The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
A fake biography of a Singaporean cartoonist who never existed.
Last verified 2026-07-23