Here are a few sample reading lists from my online education courses focusing on graphic novels, comics, and Japanese manga and anime. If you’ve gotten to this entry, then I’ve sent you the password to access this! Please do not distribute or reproduce these lists without checking with me about permission. Thanks!
Recommended general readings:
- Graphic Novels 101: Reading Lessons by Hollis Rudiger, The Horn Book, March/April 2006 (PDF)
- Graphic Novels 101: FAQ by Robin Brenner, The Horn Book, March/April 2006
- How Manga Conquered the US, by Jason Thompson, Wired Magazine, 2007
Course Reading lists in the format:
- Isn’t Otaku a Kind of Sushi? Japanese Manga and Anime
- Graphic Novels for Adults and Academic Collections
- Graphic Novels 101 for Young Readers and Schools
For Isn’t Otaku a Kind of Sushi? Japanese Manga and Anime Continuing Education Course, Simmons College
last offered February 2011
The following list is to help you select a title to read. If you find another title you’d like to read instead, please send me a message (email or via Moodle) and just let me know what you’re reading.
For every week, I ask that if possible everyone read the starred red titles so we have books in common to discuss. In week three and four, there are two titles, but let me know if that’s a problem in terms of timing — I was just trying to give you all the most diverse reading I could.
If you cannot get a copy of the required title, I’ve added an online alternative (where the full volume available to be read online.) Look for these titles in green. **I’ve worked out an arrangement with the publisher Digital Manga to allow all of us to have access to a selection of their titles online, so most of these title will be from Digital Manga. They have graciously agreed to allow each of you to be set up with a free reviewer account on their digital website, http://www.emanga.com/, so that you can read and preview titles. You should have gotten an email directly from Digital Manga about your emanga username and password — let me know if you didn’t get one!
Check out Udon’s very clear “how to read” manga examples.
Week One: Shonen (teen boys)
Alive: The Final Evolution by Tadashi Kawashima (about | check if your library owns it)
Beet the Vandel Buster by Riku Sanjo (about | check if your library owns it)
Beyblade by Takao Aoki (about | check if your library owns it)
Black Cat by Kentaro Yabuki (about | check if your library owns it)
Black Jack by Osamu Tezuka (about | check if your library owns it)
Bleach by Tite Kubo (about | check if your library owns it)
Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba (about | check if your library owns it)
Dororo by Osamu Tezuka (about | check if your library owns it)
Fairy Tail by Hro Mashima (about | check if your library owns it)
*Fullmetal Alcehmist by Hiromu Arakawa (about | check if your library owns it)
Hikaru no Go by Yumi Hotta (about | check if your library owns it)
Hunter X Hunter by Yoshihiro Togashi (about | check if your library owns it)
InuYasha by Rumiko Takahashi (about | check if your library owns it)
Kekkaishi by Yellow Tanabe (about | read online)
Love Roma by Minoru Toyoda (about | check if your library owns it)
Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto (about | check if your library owns it)
Negima! by Ken Akamatsu (about | check if your library owns it)
One Piece by Eiichiro Oda (about | check if your library owns it)
Planetes by Makoto Yukimura (about | check if your library owns it)
Prince of Tennis by Takeshi Konomi (about | check if your library owns it)
Ranma 1/2 by Rumiko Takahashi (about | check if your library owns it)
Rurouni Kenshin by Nobuhiro Watsuki (about | check if your library owns it)
Speed Racer by Tatsuo Yoshida (about | read online via emanga)**
Train + Train by Hideyuki Kurata (about | check if your library owns it)
Whistle! by Daisuke Higuchi (about | check if your library owns it)
Yakitate! Japan by Takashi Hashiguchi (about | check if your library owns it)
Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi (about | check if your library owns it)
Week Two: Shojo (teen girls)
After School Nightmare by Setona Mizushiro (about | check if your library owns it)
Aria by Kozue Amano (about | check if your library owns it)
Aquaby Kozue Amano (about | check if your library owns it)
Andromeda Stories by Keiko Takemiya (about | check if your library owns it)
Beauty Pop by Kiyoko Arai (about | check if your library owns it)
Boys Over Flowers by Yoko Kamio (about | check if your library owns it)
Ceres Celestial Legend by Yu Watase (about | check if your library owns it)
Crimson Hero by Mitsuba Takanashi (about | check if your library owns it)
Demon Ororon by Mizuki Hakase (about | check if your library owns it)
D. N. Angel by Yukiru Sugisaki (about | check if your library owns it)
*Fruits Basket by Natsuki Takaya (about | check if your library owns it)
Gakuen Alice by Tachibana Higuchi (about | check if your library owns it)
Hana-Kimi by Hisaya Nakajo (about | check if your library owns it)
High School Debut by Kazune Kawahara (about | check if your library owns it)
Itazura no Kiss by Kaoru Tada (about | read online via emanga)**
Kitchen Princess by Natsumi Ando (about | check if your library owns it)
Love Com by Aya Nakahara (about | check if your library owns it)
Mars by Fuyumi Soryo (about | check if your library owns it)
My Heavenly Hockey Club by Ai Morinaga (about | check if your library owns it)
Only the Ring Finger Knows (yaoi/BL) by Satoru Kannagi (about | check if your library owns it)
Papillon by Miwa Ueda (about | check if your library owns it)
Paradise Kiss by Ai Yazawa (about | check if your library owns it)
Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo by Matsuri Akino (about | check if your library owns it)
Princess Princess by Mikiyo Tsuda (about | read online via emanga)**
Pumpkin Scissors by Ryotaro Iwanaga (about | check if your library owns it)
Same Cell Organism by Sumomo Yumeka (about | read online via emanga)**
Sand Chronicles by Hinako Ashihara (about | check if your library owns it)
Skip Beat by Yoshiko Nakamura (about | check if your library owns it)
To Terra by Keiko Nakamura (about | check if your library owns it)
Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino (about | check if your library owns it)
V. B. Rose by Banri Hidaka (about | check if your library owns it)
W Juliet by Emura (about | check if your library owns it)
Week Three: Seinen and Josei Manga
Seinen (adult men)
*20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa (about | check if your library owns it)
Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (about | check if your library owns it)
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo (about | check if your library owns it)
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (about | check if your library owns it)
Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura (about | check if your library owns it)
Buddha by Osamu Tezuka (about | check if your library owns it)
Cat Eyed Boy by Kazuo Umezu (about | check if your library owns it)
Crying Freeman by Kazuo Koike (about | check if your library owns it)
The Drifting Classroom by Kazuo Umezu (about | check if your library owns it)
Eden: It’s an Endless World by Hiroki Endo (about | check if your library owns it)
Emma by Kaoru Mori (about | check if your library owns it)
ES (Eternal Sabbath) by Fuyumi Soryo (about | check if your library owns it)
Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow (about | check if your library owns it)
Golgo 13 by Takao Saito (about | check if your library owns it)
Hellsing by Kohta Hirano (about | check if your library owns it)
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka (about | check if your library owns it)
Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike (about | check if your library owns it)
Me and the Devil Blues by Akira Hiramoto (about | check if your library owns it)
Monster by Naoki Urasawa (about | check if your library owns it)
Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara (about | check if your library owns it)
Ode to Kirihito by Osamu Tezuka (about | check if your library owns it)
Oishinbo, a la carte by Tetsu Kariya (about | check if your library owns it)
Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki (about | check if your library owns it)
The Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (about | check if your library owns it)
Solanin by Asano Inio (about | check if your library owns it)
Swallowing the Earth by Osamu Tezuka (about | read online via emanga)**
Translucent by Kazuhiro Okamoto (about | check if your library owns it)
Uzumaki by Junji Ito (about | check if your library owns it)
Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue (about | check if your library owns it)
Josei (adult women)
Antique Bakery by Fumi Yoshinaga (about | read online via emanga)**
Demon Flowers by Hakase Mizuki (about | check if your library owns it)
Honey and Clover by Chika Umino (about | check if your library owns it)
*Nana by Ai Yazawa (about | check if your library owns it)
Ooku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga (about | check if your library owns it)
Tramps Like Us by Yayoi Ogawa (about | check if your library owns it)
Ristorante Paradiso by Natsume Ono (about | check if your library owns it)
Rules of Love by Erica Sakurazawa (or any titles by this author) (about | check if your library owns it)
Suppli by Mari Okazaki (about | check if your library owns it)
Vassalord by Nanae Chrono (about | check if your library owns it)
Walkin’ Butterfly by Chihiro Tamaki (about | check if your library owns it)
With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child by Keiko Tobe (about | check if your library owns it)
Yaoi (adult women)
Alley of First Love by Ellie Mamahara (about | check if your library owns it)
Camera, Camera, Camera by Yugi Yamada (about | check if your library owns it)
Don’t Blame Me by Yugi Yamada (about | check if your library owns it)
FAKE by Sanami Matoh (about | check if your library owns it)
Future Lovers by Saika Kunieda (about | check if your library owns it)
Little Butterfly by Hinako Kawaii (about | check if your library owns it)
Loveholic by Toko Kawaii (about| check if your library owns it)
Lovers and Souls by Kano Miyamoto (about | check if your library owns it)
The Moon and the Sandals by Fumi Yoshinaga (about | check if your library owns it)
Seduce Me After the Show by Est Em (about| check if your library owns it)
Shout Out Loud! by Satosumi Takaguchi (about| check if your library owns it)
Star by Keiko Konno (about | check if your library owns it)
Tea for Two by Yaya Sakuragi (about| check if your library owns it)
Yellow by Makoto Tateno (about | check if your library owns it)
Week Four: Breaking the Mold
Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (about | check if your library owns it)
Banana Fish by Akimi Yoshida (about | check if your library owns it)
Barefoot Gen by Keiji Nakazawa (about | check if your library owns it)
Buddha by Osamu Tezuka (about | check if your library owns it)
The House of Five Leaves by Natsume Ono (about | read online)
Me and the Devil Blues by Akira Hiramoto (about | check if your library owns it)
Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara (about | check if your library owns it)
New Engineering by Yuichi Yokohama (about | check if your library owns it)
Oishinbo, a la carte by Tetsu Kariya (about | check if your library owns it)
Project X: Cup Noodle by Tadashi Katoh (about | check if your library owns it)
Sexy Voice and Robo by Kuroda (about | check if your library owns it)
Solanin by Asano Inio (about | check if your library owns it)
Tekkonkinkreet: Black and White by Taito Matsumoto (about | check if your library owns it)
Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno (about | check if your library owns it)
With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child by Keiko Tobe (about | check if your library owns it)
Korean Manhwa
The Antique Gift Shop by Lee Eun (about | check if your library owns it)
Bride of the Water God by Mi-Kyung Yun (about | check if your library owns it)
Bring it On! by Hye Kyung Baek (about | check if your library owns it)
Chocolat by Ji Sang Jin (about | check if your library owns it)
Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa (about | check if your library owns it)
Comic by Ha SiHyun (about | check if your library owns it)
Dokebi Bride by Marley (about | check if your library owns it)
DVD by Kye Young Chon (about | check if your library owns it)
Forest of Gray City by Uhm JungHyun (about | check if your library owns it)
Goong by SoHee Park (about | check if your library owns it)
Heavenly Executioner Chiwoo by Lee HaNa (about | check if your library owns it)
One Thousand and One Nights by Jeon JinSeok (about | check if your library owns it)
Manga-style Titles (not Japanese)
Demo by Brian Wood (about | check if your library owns it)
*Dramacon by Svetlana Chmakova (about | check if your library owns it)
Dramacon by Svetlana Chmakova (about | read online)
The Dreaming by Queenie Chan (about | check if your library owns it)
East Coast Rising by Becky Cloonnan (about | check if your library owns it)
Gothic Sports by Anike Hage (about | check if your library owns it)
Re:Play by Christy Lijewski (about | check if your library owns it)
Megatokyo by Fred Gallagher (about | check if your library owns it)
Scott Pilgrim by Bryan Lee O’Malley (about | check if your library owns it)
Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber (about | check if your library owns it)
For Graphic Novels for Adults and Academic Collections Continuing Education Course, Simmons College
last offered November 2010
The following list is to help you select a title to read. If you find another title you’d like to read instead, please send me a message (email or via Moodle) and just let me know what you’re reading.
For every week, I ask that if possible everyone read the starred red titles so we have books in common to discuss. However, if you can’t get a copy of the week’s titles, please select from the list!
Week One: Classic Graphic Novels for Adult Readers
The Landmark Titles
These are the titles that have, in some way, impacted the history of the format as it has progressed forward for adult readers and students studying the format. We’ll discuss the adult “canon” in this week’s forum.
Cerebus by Dave Sim (about | check if your library owns it)
*A Contract with God by Will Eisner (about | check if your library owns it)
Maus by Art Spiegelman (about | check if your library owns it)
Sandman series by Neil Gaiman (about | check if your library owns it)
Watchmen by Alan Moore (about | check if your library owns it)
Week Two: Award Winning “Canon” Titles
These are the titles that are frequently recommended for adult readers as the equivalent of literary fiction — the award winners, and the titles that sidestep the negative association of being “comics” — these are “graphic novels.”
American Splendor by Harvey Pekar (about | check if your library owns it)
*Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli (about | check if your library owns it)
Blankets by Craig Thompson (about | check if your library owns it)
Epileptic by David B. (about | check if your library owns it)
Essex County series by Jeff Lemire (about | check if your library owns it)
Exit Wounds by Rutu Modan (about | check if your library owns it)
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (about | check if your library owns it)
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes (about | check if your library owns it)
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware (about | check if your library owns it)
Logicomix by Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou, Alecos Papadatos, and Annie Di Donna (about | check if your library owns it)
Lost Girls by Alan Moore (about | check if your library owns it)
Love and Rockets series by Los Bros Hernandez (about | check if your library owns it)
Palestine by Joe Sacco (about | check if your library owns it)
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi (about | check if your library owns it)
Stitches by David Small (about | check if your library owns it)
Swallow Me Whole by Nate Powell (about | check if your library owns it)
What it Is by Lynda Barry (about | check if your library owns it)
Wimbledon Green by Seth (about | check if your library owns it)
Week Three: Popular Titles
These are the titles that are frequently recommended for adult readers.Unfortunately, these are also the titles that are harder to justify in some eyes because they are popular versus being singled out as literary or worthy of academic acclaim.
100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello (about | check if your library owns it)
300 by Frank Miller (about | check if your library owns it)
Air series by G. Willow Wilson (about | check if your library owns it)
All Star Superman series by Grant Morrison (about | check if your library owns it)
The Authority series by Warren Ellis (about | check if your library owns it)
The Boys series by Garth Ennis (about | check if your library owns it)
B.P.R.D. series by Mike Mignola (about | check if your library owns it)
Captain America series by Ed Brubaker (about | check if your library owns it)
Chew series by John Layman (about | check if your library owns it)
Criminal series by Ed Brubaker (about | check if your library owns it)
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller (about | check if your library owns it)
Dark Tower by Peter David (about | check if your library owns it)
Ex Machina by Brian K. Vaughan (about | check if your library owns it)
*Fables series by Bill Willingham (about | check if your library owns it)
Green Lantern: Blackest Night by Geoff Johns (about | check if your library owns it)
Hellboy series by Mike Mignola (about | check if your library owns it)
Kabuki by David Mack (about | check if your library owns it)
Kick-Ass by Mark Millar (about | check if your library owns it)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series by Alan Moore (about | check if your library owns it)
New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis (about | check if your library owns it)
Powers series by Brian Michael Bendis (about | check if your library owns it)
Preacher series by Garth Ennis (about | check if your library owns it)
Queen & Country series by Greg Rucka (about | check if your library owns it)
Scalped by Jason Aaron (about | check if your library owns it)
Scott Pilgrim series by Bryan Lee O’Malley (about | check if your library owns it)
Sin City series by Frank Miller (about | check if your library owns it)
Strangers in Paradise series by Terry Moore (about | check if your library owns it)
Transmetropolitan series by Warren Ellis (about | check if your library owns it)
V for Vendetta by Alan Moore (about | check if your library owns it)
Umbrella Academy series by Gerard Way (about | check if your library owns it)
The Unwritten by Mike Carey (about | check if your library owns it)
The Walking Dead series by Robert Kirkman (about | check if your library owns it)
Why I Hate Saturn by Kyle Baker (about | check if your library owns it)
Y the Last Man series by Brian K. Vaughan (about | check if your library owns it)
Week Four: Adult Manga
For our fourth week, getting into what happens when manga grows up — i.e. seinen (adult men’s) manga and josei (adult women’s) manga. You’ll find that some (Nana and Honey and Clover) have been marketed in the US to teen girls, but they were in fact josei titles in Japan.
Josei also includes yaoi (a subgenre of male/male romances written by women for women), which is popular both here and in Japan. This subgenre, at least currently, represents a lot of the josei that is currently available in the US, despite its status as a niche genre in both countries. If any of you would like to give yaoi a go, let me know and I can recommend titles from the list according to your taste.
Seinen (adult men)
20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa (about | check if your library owns it)
Abandon the Old in Tokyo by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (about | check if your library owns it)
Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo (about | check if your library owns it)
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami (about | check if your library owns it)
Blade of the Immortal by Hiroaki Samura (about | check if your library owns it)
Buddha by Osamu Tezuka (about | check if your library owns it)
Cat Eyed Boy by Kazuo Umezu (about | check if your library owns it)
Crying Freeman by Kazuo Koike (about | check if your library owns it)
The Drifting Classroom by Kazuo Umezu (about | check if your library owns it)
Eden: It’s an Endless World by Hiroki Endo (about | check if your library owns it)
Emma by Kaoru Mori (about | check if your library owns it)
ES (Eternal Sabbath) by Fuyumi Soryo (about | check if your library owns it)
Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow (about | check if your library owns it)
Golgo 13 by Takao Saito (about | check if your library owns it)
Hellsing by Kohta Hirano (about | check if your library owns it)
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service by Eiji Otsuka (about | check if your library owns it)
Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike (about | check if your library owns it)
Me and the Devil Blues by Akira Hiramoto (about | check if your library owns it)
Monster by Naoki Urasawa (about | check if your library owns it)
Mushishi by Yuki Urushibara (about | check if your library owns it)
Ode to Kirihito by Osamu Tezuka (about | check if your library owns it)
Oishinbo, a la carte by Tetsu Kariya (about | check if your library owns it)
Parasyte by Hitoshi Iwaaki (about | check if your library owns it)
Pluto by Naoki Urasawa (about | check if your library owns it)
The Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi (about | check if your library owns it)
Solanin by Asano Inio (about | check if your library owns it)
Translucent by Kazuhiro Okamoto (about | check if your library owns it)
Uzumaki by Junji Ito (about | check if your library owns it)
Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue (about | check if your library owns it)
Josei (adult women)
*Antique Bakery by Fumi Yoshinaga (about | read online via emanga)
Honey and Clover by Chika Umino (about | check if your library owns it)
Nana by Ai Yazawa (about | check if your library owns it)
Ooku: The Inner Chambers by Fumi Yoshinaga (about | check if your library owns it)
Tramps Like Us by Yayoi Ogawa (about | check if your library owns it)
Ristorante Paradiso by Natsume Ono (about | check if your library owns it)
Rules of Love by Erica Sakurazawa (or any titles by this author) (about | check if your library owns it)
Suppli by Mari Okazaki (about | check if your library owns it)
Vassalord by Nanae Chrono (about | check if your library owns it)
Walkin’ Butterfly by Chihiro Tamaki (about | check if your library owns it)
With the Light: Raising an Autistic Child by Keiko Tobe (about | check if your library owns it)
Yaoi (adult women)
Age Called Blue by Est Em (about| check if your library owns it)
Alley of First Love by Ellie Mamahara (about | check if your library owns it)
Camera, Camera, Camera by Yugi Yamada (about | check if your library owns it)
Don’t Blame Me! by Yugi Yamada (about | check if your library owns it)
FAKE by Sanami Matoh (about | check if your library owns it)
Future Lovers by Saika Kunieda (about | check if your library owns it)
Little Butterfly by Hinako Kawaii (about | check if your library owns it)
Loveholic by Toko Kawaii (about| read online via emanga)
Lovers and Souls by Kano Miyamoto (about | check if your library owns it)
The Moon and the Sandals by Fumi Yoshinaga (about | read online via emanga)
Shout Out Loud! by Satosumi Takaguchi (about| check if your library owns it)
Star by Keiko Konno (about | read online via emanga)
Tea for Two by Yaya Sakuragi (about| check if your library owns it)
For Graphic Novels 101 for Young Readers and Schools Continuing Education Course, Simmons College
last offered July 2010
The following list is to help you select a title to read. If you find another title you’d like to read instead, please send me a message (email or via Moodle) and just let me know what you’re reading.
For every week, I ask that if possible everyone read the starred red titles so we have books in common to discuss. However, if you can’t get a copy of the week’s titles, please select from the list!
Week One: Grades K-2
Benny and Penny series by Geoffrey Hayes (about | check if your library owns it)
Binky the Space Cat series by Ashley Spires (about | check if your library owns it)
Captain Raptor series by Kevin O’Malley (about | check if your library owns it)
Guinea Pig, Pet Shop Private Eye series by Colleen A. F. Venable (about | check if your library owns it)
Johnny Boo series by James Kochalka (about | check if your library owns it)
Korgi series by Christian Slade (about | check if your library owns it)
Little Mouse Gets Ready by Jeff Smith (about | check if your library owns it)
Long Tail Kitty by Lark Pien (about | check if your library owns it)
Luke on the Loose by Harry Bliss (about | check if your library owns it)
*Owly series by Andy Runton (about | check if your library owns it)
Sam and Friends mystery series by Mary Labatt (about | check if your library owns it)
Seadogs: An Epic Ocean Operetta by Lisa Wheeler and Mark Siegel (about | check if your library owns it)
*Stinkyby Eleanor Davis (about | check if your library owns it)
There’s a Wolf at the Door by Zoe Alley and R. W. Alley (about | check if your library owns it)
Three Little Pigs by David Wiesner (about | check if your library owns it)
Week Two: Grades 3-5
The Adventures of Daniel Boom aka Loud Boy series by D.J. Steinberg and Brian Smith (about | check if your library owns it)
Alison Dare series by J. Torres and J. Bone. (about | check if your library owns it)
Amelia Rules series by Jimmy Gownley. (about | check if your library owns it)
Asterix series by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. (about | check if your library owns it)
*Babymouse series by Jennifer Holm and Matt Holm. (about | check if your library owns it)
Baby-sitters Club series by Ann M. Martin and Raina Telgemeier. (about | check if your library owns it)
The Clouds Above by Jordan Crane. (about | check if your library owns it)
Donald Duck Classics: Quack Up by Carl Barks, et al.(about | check if your library owns it)
Ed’s Terrestrials by Scott Christian Sava and Diego Jourdan. (about | check if your library owns it)
Geronimo Stilton graphic novel series. (about | check if your library owns it)
Kit Feeny series by Michael Townsend. (about | check if your library owns it)
Little Adventures in Oz series by Eric Shanower. (about | check if your library owns it)
Little Lulu series by Marge Buell. (about | check if your library owns it)
Little Vampire by Joann Sfar. (about | check if your library owns it)
Lunch Lady series by Jarrett Krosoczka. (about | check if your library owns it)
Magic Pickle by Scott Morse. (about | check if your library owns it)
Meanwhile: Pick Any Path–3,856 Story Possibilities by Jason Shiga. (about | check if your library owns it)
Missile Mouse: The Star Crusher by Jake Parker. (about | check if your library owns it)
Robot City Adventures series by Paul Collicut. (about | check if your library owns it)
*Salt Water Taffy series by Matthew Loux. (about | check if your library owns it)
Sardine in Outer Space series by Joann Sfar and Emmanuel Guibert. (about | check if your library owns it)
Star Wars Adventures series. (about | check if your library owns it)
Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures series. (about | check if your library owns it)
Tiny Titans series by Art Baltazar and Franco. (about | check if your library owns it)
Tiny Tyrant series by Lewis Trondheim and Fabrice Parme. (about | check if your library owns it)
Warriors graphic novel series by Erin Hunter, et al. (about | check if your library owns it)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, Eric Shanower, and Skottie Young. (about | check if your library owns it)
The World of Quest series by Jason Kruse. (about | check if your library owns it)
Week Three: Grades 6-8
Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow by James Sturm. (about | check if your library owns it)
To Dance: a Ballerina’s Graphic Novel by Siena Cherson Siegel and Mark Siegel. (about | check if your library owns it)
Fiction
Amulet series by Kazu Kibuishi. (about | check if your library owns it)
The Arrival by Shaun Tan. (about | check if your library owns it)
Crogan Adventure series by Chris Schweizer. (about | check if your library owns it)
Kaput & Zosky by Lewis Trondheim. (about | check if your library owns it)
Little Rock Nine by Marshall Poe and Ellen Lindner. (about | check if your library owns it)
Resistance by Carla Jablonski and Leland Purvis. (about | check if your library owns it)
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon. (about | check if your library owns it)
The Search by Eric Heuvel. (about | check if your library owns it)
The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook by Eleanor Davis. (about | check if your library owns it)
Spiral-Bound by Aaron Renier. (about | check if your library owns it)
The Storm in the Barn by Matt Phelan. (about | check if your library owns it)
Usagi Yojimbo series by Stan Sakai. (about | check if your library owns it)
Wonderland by Tommy Kovac and Sonny Liew. (about | check if your library owns it)
Week Four: Manga for Young Readers
Grades 3-5
*Baron the Cat Returns by Aoi Hiiragi. (about | check if your library owns it)
Dinosaur Hour by Hitoshi Shioya. (about | check if your library owns it)
Happy Happy Clover by Sayuri Tatsuyama. (about | check if your library owns it)
Leave it to PET by Kenji Sonishi. (about | check if your library owns it)
Swans in Space by Lun Lun Yamamoto. (about | check if your library owns it)
Yotsuba&! by Azuma Kiyohiko. (about | check if your library owns it)
Grades 6-8
Ultra Maniac by Wataru Yoshizumi. (about | check if your library owns it)
