Adult Core List
As a staff, we’ve considered nominations, voted, and created a series of recommended core title lists. These are the titles and series that we believe belong on all library shelves. Some are the most popular, others classics of the format, and some the most engaging titles for both fans of graphic novels and new comics readers.
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About Betty’s Boob
An inspiring and surprisingly comedic tale of loss and acceptance told largely through silent sequential ...
Afar
Boetema suddenly develops the ability to astrally project to other worlds, unintentionally possessing the bodies ...
Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984
In striking, virtuoso graphic style that captures both the immediacy of childhood and the fervor of political ...
Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye
Meet Charlie Chan Hock Chye. Now in his early 70s, Chan has been making comics in his native Singapore since 1954, ...
Batman: The Killing Joke
ONE BAD DAY. According to the grinning engine of madness and mayhem known as the Joker, that's all that separates ...
Batwoman
Batwoman battles a madwoman known only as Alice, inspired by Alice in Wonderland, who sees her life as a fairy ...
Beautiful Darkness
Newly homeless, a group of fairies find themselves trying to adapt to their new life in the forest. As they dodge ...
Best We Could Do
This illustrated memoir is about the search for a better future and a longing for the past. Exploring the anguish ...
Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary
A lost classic of underground cartooning, Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin
Mary is Justin Green’s ...
Bitch Planet
In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her ...
Bitter Root
Once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, the Sangerye family specialized in curing the souls of ...
Black Hole
The setting: suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the outset that a strange plague has descended upon ...
Black Panther
A new era for the Black Panther begins as the kingdom of Wakanda enters its final days! Award-winning writer ...
Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World
Throughout history and across the globe, one characteristic connects the daring women of Brazen: their indomitable ...
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
In her first memoir, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. ...
Chew
Special Introductory Price! Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which ...
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, the young sorceress Sabrina Spellman finds herself at a crossroads, having ...
Clean Room
Somewhere between the realms of self-help and religion lies the Honest World Foundation. Its creator started out ...
Daytripper
Daytripper follows the life of one man, Bras de Olivias Dominguez. Every chapter features an important period in ...
DC: The New Frontier
The masked mystery men who fought for freedom in the Second World War have been outlawed. The soldiers and spies ...
Deadly Class
It's 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can't focus in ...
Descender
Young Robot boy TIM-21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been ...
Ex Machina
When a strange accident gives civil engineer Mitchell Hundred the amazing ability to control machinery, he uses ...
Fables
When a savage creature, known only as the Adversary, conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, the ...
Fadeout
An epic graphic novel of Hollywood in the early days of the Blacklist, THE FADE OUT tracks the murder of an ...