Daily Graphic Novel Recommendations
This is a yearlong series of recommendations geared at displaying some of the breadth of worthwhile graphic novel books and stories available. At only 366 entries, this list of recommendations will not come close to approaching an exhaustive collection of what may be worth your time or consideration. Please enjoy this for what it is: a perhaps opportunity to discover some worthwhile comics.
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1) Kingdoms Lost by Boulet
2) Ducks by Kate Beaton
3) Our Toyota Was Fantastic by Boulet
4) Toormina Video by Pat Grant
5) Boy's Night by Max Landis and AP Quatch
6) It Never Happened Again by Sam Alden
7) The Barefoot Serpent by Scott Morse
8) Blue Pills by Frederik Peeters
9) Everything We Miss by Luke Pearson
10) Blue by Pat Grant
11) Lulu Anew by Étienne Davodeau
12) Goddamn This War! by Tardi
13) Sunny by Taiyo Matsumoto and Saho Tono
14) Alpha: Directions by Jens Harder
15) Irmina by Barbara Yelin
16) Infinite Kung Fu by Kagan McLeod
17) Legends Of The Tour by Jan Cleijne
18) Dotter Of Her Father's Eyes by Mary Talbot and Bryan Talbot
19) Relish: My Life In The Kitchen by Lucy Knisley
20) Wrinkles by Paco Roca
21) A Silent Voice by Yoshitoki Oima
22) Wandering Son by Shimura Takako
23) A Taste Of Chlorine by Bastien Vivès
24) Anya's Ghost by Vera Brosgol
25) Nausicaä Of The Valley Of Wind by Hayao Miyazaki
26) The Motherless Oven by Rob Davis
27) Duncan The Wonder Dog by Adam Hines
28) Far Arden by Kevin Cannon
29) Lastman by Balak, Sanlaville, and Vivès
30) Russian Olive To Red King by Kathryn Immonen and Stuart Immonen
31) The Arrival by Shaun Tan
32) A Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori
33) Baby's In Blcak by Arne Bellstorf
34) Beast by Marian Churchland
35) Polina by Bastien Vivès
36) The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew
37) The Thrilling Adventures Of Lovelace And Babbage by Sydney Padua
38) On A Sunbeam by Tillie Walden
39) Little Nemo: Dream Another Dream by a bunch of people
40) Stray Bullets by Daivd Lapham
41) In Clothes Called Fat by Moyoco Anno
42) Eat More Comics by by a bunch of people
43) The Walking Man by Jirô Taniguchi
44) Hark A Vagrant! by Kate Beaton
45) Cape Horn by Christian Perrissin and Enea Riboldi
46) No One Is Safe by Katherine Wirick
47) Alan's War by Emanuel Guibert
48) Eagle: The Making Of An Asian-American President by Kaiji Kawaguchi
49) Yotsuba&! by Kiyohiko Azuma
50) Daytripper by Gabriel Bá and Fábio Moon
51) Mr Wuffles by David Wiesner
52) Palestine by Joe Sacco
53) Here by Richard McGuire
54) The Shark King by R. Kikuo Johnson
55) Unflattening by Nick Sousanis
56) I Killed Adolf hitler by Jason
57) Sin Titulo by Cameron Stewart
58) Ooku: The Inner Chamber by Fumi Yoshinaga
59) Noah by Darren Aronofsky, Ari Handel, and Nico Henrichon
60) Blame! by Tsutomu Nihei
61) Saturn Apartments by Hisae Iwaoka
62) Geis by Alexis Deacon
63) City In The Desert by Moro Rogers
64) Bourbon Island 1730 by Appollo and Lewis Trondheim
65) Carthago by Christophe Bec, Eric Henninot, and Milan Jovanovic
66) Horimiya by HERO and Daisuke Hagiwara
67) Delilah Dirk And The Turkish Lieutenant by Tony Cliff
68) Gotham Central by Greg Rucka, Ed Brubaker, and Michael Lark
69) Vietnamerica by GB Tran
70) Helter Skelter by Kyoko Okazaki
71) Spider-Man Loves Mary Jane by Sean McKeever, Takashi Miyazawa and Christina Strain
72) Sumo by Thien Pham
73) Emma by Kaoru Mori
74) The Property by Rutu Modan
75) Children Of The Sea by Daisuke Igarashi
76) How To Talk To Girls At Parties by Neil Gaiman, Gabriel Ba, and Fabio Moon
77) This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki
78) ReMind by Jason Brubaker
79) The Theory Of The Grain Of Sand by Francoise Schuiten and Benoit Peeters
80) Wolfsmund by Mitsuhisa Kuji
81) Luis Riel by Chester Brown
82) Opus by Satoshi Kon
83) Super Spy by Matt Kindt
84) Just So Happens by Fumio Obata
85) 20th Century Boys by Naoki Urasawa
86) Building Stories by Chris Ware
87) Glenn Gould: A Life Off Tempo by Sandrine Revel
88) The End Of Summer by Tillie Walden
89) The Return Of The Honey Buzzard by Aimée de Jongh
90) 5 Centimeters Per Second by Yukiko Seike (adapted from Makoto Shinkai)
91) The Hero by David Rubin
92) Sacred Heart by Liz Suburbia
93) Chico & Rita by Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba
94) Vinland Saga by Makoto Yukimura
95) Ultimate Spider-Man by Bendis, Bagley, Immonen, etc
96) The Silence Of Our Friends by Long, Demonakos, and Powell
97) Apocalyptigirl by Andrew MacLean
98) Their Story by Tan Jiu
99) Hopeless Savages by Jen Van Meter et al
100) Cross Game by Mitsuru Adachi
101) Panther by Brecht Evans
102) Pluto by Naoki Urasawa
103) The Nao Of Brown by Glyn Dillon
104) Fragile by Fouad Mezher
105) The White Donkey: Terminal Lance by Maximilian Uriarte
106) The Lottery by Miles Hyman
107) The Summit Of The Gods by Jiro Taniguchi
108) The Realist by Asaf Hanuka
109) Pachyderme by Frederik Peeters
110) The Flowers Of Evil by Shuzo Oshimi
111) Equinoxes by Cyril Pedrosa
112) Vattu by Evan Dahm
113) Hellboy In Hell by Mike Mignola
114) Love In Vain: Robert Johnson 1911-1938 by J. M. Dupont and Mezzo
115) Celeste by I.N.J. Culbard
116) Shoplifter by Michael Cho
117) Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai
118) The Eternaut by Héctor Germán Oesterheld and Francisco Solano Lopez
119) Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke
120) The One-Hundred Nights Of Hero by Isabel Greenberg
121) The Red Diary / The Re[a]d Diary by Teddy Kristiansen and Steven T Seagle
122) Slow News Day by Andi Watson
123) Beowulf by Santiago García and David Rubín
124) A Girl On The Shore by Inio Asano
125) The God's Weep by Ashanti Fortson
126) The Lighthouse by Paco Roca, Jeff Whitman (translation), Ortho (lettering)
127) Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales by Nathan Hale
128) Earth by Cathy Malkasian
129) Bone by Jeff Smith
130) Bad Machinery by John Allison
131) BPRD by Mike Mignola, John Arcudi, Guy Davis, Tyler Crook, et al
132) Aya: Life In Yop City / Aya: Love In Yop City by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie
133) Come Prima by Alfred
134) RASL by Jeff Smith
135) The Encyclopedia Of Early Earth by Isabel Greenberg
136) Town Of Evening Calm, Country Of Cherry Blossoms by Fumiyo Kouno
137) Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli
138) Peter Pan by Régis Loisel
139) Kenya by Rodolphe and Leo
140) Nod Away by Joshua W. Cotter
141) Mind MGMT by Matt Kindt
142) What Is Obscenity by Rokudenashiko
143) The Octopi And The Ocean by Dan R. James
144) Berlin by Jason Lutes
145) Blacksad by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido
146) NewsPrints by Ru Xu
147) Solanin by Inio Asano
148) Tetris: The Games People Play by Box Brown
149) Beasts Of Burden by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson
150) Johnny Hiro by Fred Chao
151) Friends With Boys by Faith Erin hicks
152) The Photographer by Emmanuel Guibert
153) Soppy: A Love Story by Philippa Rice
154) Wandering Island by Kenji Tsuruta
155) The Sixth Gun by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt
156) New York Stories by Bill Bragg, Robert Fresson, Wesley Allbrook, et al
157) Unstable Molecules by James Sturm and Guy Davis
158) American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang
159) The Paleozoic by Estrella Vega
160) Age Of Reptiles: The Journey by Richard Delgado
161) Yukiko's Spinach by Frédéric Boilet
162) The Moon Moth by Jack Vance via Humayoun Ibrahim
163) Spill Zone by Scott Westerfield, Alex Puvilland, and Hilary Sycamore
164) Canopy by Karine Bernadou
165) Princess Wolf And Her Life Of Darkness by Beatrix and Kristen Haas Curtis
166) A Distant Neighborhood by Jiro Taniguchi
167) In The Sounds And Seas by Marnie Galloway
168) 750 Years In Paris by Vincent Mahé
169) Fatale by Ed Burbaker and Sean Phillips
170) House Of Penance by Peter J Tomasi and Ian Bertram
171) How To Be Happy by Eleanor Davis
172) Never As Bad As You Think by Kathryn and Stuart Immonen
173) Flight Of The Raven by Jean-Pierre Gibrat
174) Stand Still Stay Silent by Minna Sundberg
175) Sharaz-De: Tales from the Arabian Nights by Sergio Toppi
176) Safari Honeymonn by Jesse Jacobs
177) The Marquis of Anaon by Fabien Vehlmann and Matthieu Bonhomme
178) Domovoi by Peter Bergting
179) Pink by Kyoko Okazaki
180) ream Of The Rarebit Fiend by Winsor McCay
181) The Sound Of The World By Heart by Giacomo Bevilacqua
182) Hostage by Guy Delisle
183) 8 Comics by Seth T. Hahne by Seth T. Hahne
184) The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, A Rún by Nagabe
185) Ravina The Witch? by Junko Mizuno
186) In The Kitchen With Alain Passard by Christophe Blain
187) The Hunter by Joe Sparrow
188) Murder Me Dead by David Lapham
189) The Lost Boy by Greg Ruth
190) Broxo by Zack Giallongo
191) Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët
192) Blankets by Craig Thompson
193) The Complete Don Quixote by Rob Davis
194) Autumnlands by Kurt Busiek and Ben Dewey
195) Welcome To The Ballroom by Tomo Takeuchi
196) Wild's End by Dan Abnett and I.N.J. Culbard
197) Alone by Christophe Chabouté
198) The Boxer by Reinhard Kleist
199) Big Questions by Anders Nilsen
200) I Kill Giants by Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura
201) Happiness by Shuzo Oshimi
202) Beauty by Hubert and Kerascoët
203) She and Her Cat by Tsubasa Yamaguchi (after Makoto Shinkai)
204) Miss Don't Touch Me by Hubert and Kerascoët
205) Venice by Jiro Taniguchi
206) Written In The Bones by Christopher M. Jones and Carey Pietsch
207) Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo
208) Templar by Jordan Mechner, LeUyen Pham, and Alex Puvilland
209) Sailor Twain by Mark Siegel
210) Red Handed by Matt Kindt
211) Two Brothers by Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá (after Milton Hatoum)
212) Zita The Spacegirl by Ben Hatke
213) Boxers and Saints by Gene Luen Yang and Lark Pien
214) Audubon, On The Wings Of The World by Fabien Grolleau and Jérémie Royer
215) Ragnarok by Waler Simonson
216) The Mighty Thor by Waler Simonson
217) Koma by Pierre Wazem and Frederik Peeters
218) The Ancient Magus' Bride by Kore Yamazaki
219) Night Fisher by R. Kikuo Johnson
220) The Strange Tale of Panorama Island by Suehiro Maruo
221) Age Of Bronze by Eric Shanower
222) Mother, Come Home by Paul Hornschemeier
223) Untitled by Chris Ware
224) Mister Blank by Christopher Hicks
225) Smile by Raina Telgemeier
226) Fables by Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham
227) Sam Zabel and the Magic Pen by Dylan Horrocks
228) Mouse Guard by David Petersen
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