Serious Graphic Novels for Adult Readers

1.
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic 4.08 avg rating — 197,145 ratings
2.
The Complete Maus
The Complete Maus 4.58 avg rating — 245,667 ratings
3.
Daytripper
Daytripper 4.33 avg rating — 36,554 ratings
4.
March: Book One (March, #1)
March: Book One (March, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 56,873 ratings
5.
Stitches: A Memoir
Stitches: A Memoir 4.06 avg rating — 27,705 ratings
6.
Gender Queer: A Memoir
Gender Queer: A Memoir 4.27 avg rating — 74,781 ratings
7.
Grass
Grass 4.54 avg rating — 17,414 ratings
8.
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands 4.40 avg rating — 34,130 ratings
9.
Blankets
Blankets 4.06 avg rating — 123,319 ratings
10.
The Best We Could Do
The Best We Could Do
by: Thi Bui
4.36 avg rating — 38,830 ratings
11.
Hostage
Hostage 4.09 avg rating — 8,652 ratings
12.
Happily Ever After & Everything In Between
Happily Ever After & Everything In Between 4.12 avg rating — 6,430 ratings
13.
Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story
Quiet Girl in a Noisy World: An Introvert's Story 4.31 avg rating — 18,384 ratings
14.
A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories (The Contract With God Trilogy #1)
A Contract with God and Other Tenement Stories (The Contract With God Trilogy #1) 4.06 avg rating — 13,607 ratings
15.
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos
Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos 4.38 avg rating — 9,728 ratings
16.
The Contract With God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (The Contract With God Trilogy, #1-3)
The Contract With God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (The Contract With God Trilogy, #1-3) 4.24 avg rating — 4,305 ratings
17.
The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The Plot: The Secret Story of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion 3.82 avg rating — 2,055 ratings
18.
Sabrina
Sabrina 3.83 avg rating — 16,830 ratings
19.
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
by: Roz Chast
4.16 avg rating — 31,597 ratings
20.
A Life Force (The Contract With God Trilogy #2)
A Life Force (The Contract With God Trilogy #2) 4.13 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
21.
Will Eisner's New York: The Big City
Will Eisner's New York: The Big City 4.13 avg rating — 614 ratings
22.
Wrinkles
Wrinkles
by: Paco Roca
4.37 avg rating — 10,070 ratings
23.
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984
The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984 4.12 avg rating — 20,835 ratings
24.
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth 4.05 avg rating — 20,348 ratings
25.
The Name of the Game
The Name of the Game 3.91 avg rating — 453 ratings
26.
The Building
The Building 4.11 avg rating — 635 ratings
27.
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness
My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness 4.11 avg rating — 29,550 ratings
28.
Home After Dark
Home After Dark 3.65 avg rating — 2,957 ratings
29.
Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
by: Tom Hart
4.14 avg rating — 3,395 ratings
30.
Parenthesis
Parenthesis 4.14 avg rating — 1,770 ratings
31.
Mom's Cancer
Mom's Cancer 3.93 avg rating — 1,681 ratings
32.
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995
Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia, 1992-1995
by: Joe Sacco
4.29 avg rating — 10,581 ratings
33.
Yossel, April 19, 1943
Yossel, April 19, 1943 4.01 avg rating — 618 ratings
34.
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations
Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations 4.45 avg rating — 26,180 ratings
35.
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio 4.47 avg rating — 4,116 ratings
36.
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me
Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me 4.02 avg rating — 16,571 ratings
36.
What Has Happened to Me: A Testimony of a Uyghur Woman
What Has Happened to Me: A Testimony of a Uyghur Woman 4.27 avg rating — 141 ratings
38.
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
by: Nora Krug
4.32 avg rating — 9,225 ratings
38.
Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care
Dying for Attention: A Graphic Memoir of Nursing Home Care 3.94 avg rating — 180 ratings
40.
The Spiral Cage
The Spiral Cage 3.60 avg rating — 95 ratings
40.
Mauvais genre
Mauvais genre 3.92 avg rating — 2,977 ratings
42.
French Milk
French Milk 3.33 avg rating — 8,405 ratings
42.
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq
Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and Iraq 4.02 avg rating — 2,084 ratings
42.
Hey, Wait...
Hey, Wait...
by: Jason
4.07 avg rating — 4,337 ratings
45.
March: Book Two (March, #2)
March: Book Two (March, #2) 4.49 avg rating — 28,882 ratings
46.
Displacement: A Travelogue
Displacement: A Travelogue 3.95 avg rating — 6,444 ratings
46.
That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story
That Can Be Arranged: A Muslim Love Story 4.20 avg rating — 4,616 ratings
48.
Weapons of Mass Diplomacy
Weapons of Mass Diplomacy 4.19 avg rating — 827 ratings
48.
The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic
The Mental Load: A Feminist Comic
by: Emma
4.07 avg rating — 3,545 ratings
50.
Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City
Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City 4.22 avg rating — 16,958 ratings
51.
Excuse Me
Excuse Me 3.82 avg rating — 740 ratings
52.
Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America
Cannabis: The Illegalization of Weed in America 3.93 avg rating — 1,038 ratings
53.
Last Day In Vietnam
Last Day In Vietnam 3.73 avg rating — 853 ratings
54.
Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371
Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371 4.41 avg rating — 1,048 ratings
55.
Invisible People
Invisible People 4.01 avg rating — 507 ratings
56.
To the Heart of the Storm
To the Heart of the Storm 4.10 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
57.
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened 4.17 avg rating — 213,870 ratings
58.
Patience & Esther
Patience & Esther 3.82 avg rating — 1,829 ratings
59.
The System
The System 3.92 avg rating — 372 ratings
59.
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?
Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? 4.23 avg rating — 4,313 ratings
61.
Us
Us 3.67 avg rating — 1,608 ratings
61.
Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir 4.51 avg rating — 11,142 ratings
61.
Over Easy
Over Easy
by: Mimi Pond
3.62 avg rating — 2,703 ratings
64.
Alone
Alone 4.40 avg rating — 3,725 ratings
65.
The Customer Is Always Wrong
The Customer Is Always Wrong
by: Mimi Pond
3.91 avg rating — 1,512 ratings
66.
Stone Fruit
Stone Fruit
by: Lee Lai
4.05 avg rating — 5,352 ratings
67.
Good Riddance: An Illustrated Memoir of Divorce
Good Riddance: An Illustrated Memoir of Divorce 3.38 avg rating — 470 ratings
67.
Berlin
Berlin 4.45 avg rating — 3,585 ratings
69.
Blast: Intégrale (Tome 1-4)
Blast: Intégrale (Tome 1-4) 4.61 avg rating — 379 ratings
70.
Becoming Unbecoming
Becoming Unbecoming
by: Una
4.24 avg rating — 3,807 ratings
71.
Our Cancer Year
Our Cancer Year 3.91 avg rating — 1,295 ratings
71.
La casa
La casa
by: Paco Roca
4.45 avg rating — 7,857 ratings
73.
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
The Secret to Superhuman Strength 4.15 avg rating — 11,285 ratings
74.
In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer
In-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with Cancer 4.20 avg rating — 760 ratings
74.
Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually
Barely Functional Adult: It’ll All Make Sense Eventually
by: Meichi Ng
4.16 avg rating — 2,930 ratings
74.
Portugal
Portugal 4.12 avg rating — 2,984 ratings
77.
Asterios Polyp
Asterios Polyp 4.22 avg rating — 28,560 ratings
78.
The Collected Essex County
The Collected Essex County 4.32 avg rating — 12,813 ratings
79.
Lost Girls
Lost Girls 3.60 avg rating — 6,063 ratings
80.
Hard Time: 50 to Life
Hard Time: 50 to Life 3.70 avg rating — 123 ratings
81.
Stuck Rubber Baby
Stuck Rubber Baby 4.04 avg rating — 5,441 ratings
82.
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics
Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person: A Memoir in Comics 3.90 avg rating — 629 ratings
83.
Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works
Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works 3.79 avg rating — 462 ratings
83.
I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation
I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation 3.78 avg rating — 1,635 ratings
85.
A Fade of Light
A Fade of Light 4.31 avg rating — 182 ratings
86.
Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
Tangles: A Story About Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me 4.16 avg rating — 1,950 ratings
87.
Mimosa: A Graphic Novel
Mimosa: A Graphic Novel 3.67 avg rating — 2,116 ratings
88.
In Waves
In Waves 4.37 avg rating — 7,013 ratings
88.
Woman World
Woman World 4.02 avg rating — 9,642 ratings
88.
Special Exits
Special Exits 4.03 avg rating — 1,905 ratings
88.
Death to the Tsar
Death to the Tsar 3.67 avg rating — 267 ratings
88.
In.
In. 4.37 avg rating — 6,904 ratings
88.
Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg
Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg 4.16 avg rating — 3,794 ratings
88.
Feelings: A Story in Seasons
Feelings: A Story in Seasons 4.18 avg rating — 3,341 ratings
88.
My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (Otouto no Otto, #1-2)
My Brother's Husband, Volume 1 (Otouto no Otto, #1-2) 4.34 avg rating — 12,129 ratings
88.
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth 4.08 avg rating — 24,516 ratings
88.
Beklediğim Sen Değildin
Beklediğim Sen Değildin 4.37 avg rating — 3,486 ratings
88.
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth
It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth 4.18 avg rating — 11,204 ratings
88.
The Complete Persepolis
The Complete Persepolis 4.40 avg rating — 199,578 ratings
88.
Cold Front
Cold Front 3.84 avg rating — 259 ratings
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