Graphic Novel Reading Lists
Our Selection Lists
The Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) Best Graphic Novels for Adults Reading List highlights the best graphic novels for adults published each year. The Best Graphic Novels for Children Reading List seeks to highlight the best graphic novels for children ages 5-12. These lists aim to increase awareness of the graphic novel medium, raise voices of diverse comics creators, and aid library staff in the development of graphic novel collections.
Best Graphic Novels for Adults
This reading list highlights the best graphic novels for adults published in late 2023 through 2024.
Featured is our Top Ten selections.
2024 Best Graphic Novels for Adults
This reading list highlights the best graphic novels for adults published in late 2022 through 2023.
Featured is one of our Top Ten selections, Shubeik Lubeik by Deena Mohamed.
2023 Best Graphic Novels for Adults
This year's reading list highlights the best graphic novels for adults published in late 2021 and through 2022.
Featured is one of our Top Ten selections, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton.
2022 Best Graphic Novels for Adults
This year's reading list highlights the best graphic novels for adults published in late 2020 and through 2021.
Featured is a close up of one of our Top Ten selections, The Good Asian, Volume 1. Written by Pornsak Pichetshote with art by Alexandre Tefenkgi.
2021 Best Graphic Novels for Adults
Best Graphic Novels for Children
This reading list highlights the best graphic novels for children published in late 2023 through 2024.
Featured is our Top Ten selections.
2024 Best Graphic Novels for Children
This reading list highlights the best graphic novels for children aged 5 – 12 years old, published in late 2022 through 2023.
Featured is one of our Top Ten selections, Mabuhay! by Zachary Sterling.
2023 Best Graphic Novels for Children
This reading list highlights the best graphic novels for children aged 5 – 12 years old, published in late 2021 and through 2022.
Featured is one of our Top Ten selections, Frizzy by Claribel Ortega and Rose Bousamra.
2022 Best Graphic Novels for Children
This reading list highlights the best graphic novels for children aged 5 – 12 years old, published in late 2020 through 2021.
Featured is one of our Top Ten selections, The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen.
2021 Best Graphic Novels for Children
Our Collaboration Lists
The Graphic Novels & Comics Round Table (GNCRT) Collaboration Core Lists aim to increase awareness of the graphic novel medium, raise voices of diverse comics creators, and aid library staff in the development of graphic novel collections.
