Sunny Side Down: A Collection of Tales of Mere Existence
10 best books like Sunny Side Down: A Collection of Tales of Mere Existence (Levni Yilmaz): Lighter Than My Shadow, Monstress, Vol. 3: Haven, Macho!, Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth, Keys to the Kingdom, My Dirty Dumb Eyes, Princess Decomposia and Count Spatula, Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts, The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel, Home After Dark
| Author | Katie Green |
| ISBN | 0224090984 |
Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She'd sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten toast in her bedroom, listen to parental threats that she'd have to eat it for breakfast.
But in any life a set of circumstance can collide, and normal behavior might soon shade into something sinister,...
| Author | Marjorie M. Liu |
| ISBN | 1534306919 |
Maika Halfwolf has begun to unlock the mysteries of her past - but the challenges are only going. In this third volume of MONSTRESS, collecting issues 13-18, Maika's journey takes her to the neutral city of Pontus, where she hopes to find temporary refuge from her pursuers. Unfortunately, Pontus may...
Fiction. MACHO! Has been chosen by the New York Public Library for its distinguished list of Books for the Teen Age. Victor Villasenor is the author of several works, most notably the national-bestseller RAIN OF GOLD and many screenplays, including the award-winning The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez....
Deadly Class, Volume 1: Reagan Youth
| Author | Rick Remender |
| ISBN | 1632150034 |
It’s 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can’t focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin’s top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he's failing is “Dismemberment 101,” and...
| Author | Joe Hill |
| ISBN | 1600108865 |
Re-read 2015
So thanks to my pal, Dan 2.0, I've had the chance not only to finally get my hands on the volumes of this series that I haven't been able to read, but also to do a re-read of the first four that I did manage to get my paws on back in the day.
I had forgotten how good these suckers were!
...
| Author | Lisa Hanawalt |
| ISBN | 1770461167 |
My Dirty Dumb Eyes introduces Lisa Hanawalt as a first-rank cartoonist/humorist/stalker for an audience that likes its humor idiosyncratic, at times anthropomorphic or scatological, often uncomfortable, and always sharp witted. Her world vision is intricately rendered in a full spectrum of...
| Author | Andi Watson |
| ISBN | 1626721491 |
Princess Decomposia is overworked and underappreciated.
This princess of the underworld has plenty of her own work to do but always seems to find herself doing her layabout father's job, as well. The king doesn't feel quite well, you see. Ever. So the princess is left scurrying through the...
Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts
Hungry Ghosts
is cooked up by the best selling author and veteran chef, Anthony Bourdain (
Kitchen Confidential
, Emmy-Award winning TV star of
Parts Unknown
) and acclaimed novelist Joel Rose (
Kill, Kill, Faster, Faster
) back again from their
New York Times
#1 best seller,
...
The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel
The perennial bestseller-now available as a sensational new graphic novel.
Since its publication in 2003, nearly 7 million readers have discovered "The Kite Runner." Through Khaled Hosseini's brilliant writing, a previously unknown part of the world was brought to vivid life for readers....
| Author | David Small |
| ISBN | 1631496271 |
Thirteen-year-old Russell Pruitt, abandoned by his mother, follows his father to sun-splashed California in search of a dream. Suddenly forced to fend for himself, Russell struggles to survive in Marshfield, a dilapidated town haunted by a sadistic animal killer and a ring of malicious boys who...
Royal City, Vol. 1: Next of Kin
In his most ambitious and most personal project to date, JEFF LEMIRE spins the captivating and engaging story of a family from the small factory town of ROYAL CITY and the ghosts that haunt them.
In a return to the literary and thematic territory of Lemire's breakthrough graphic novel ESSEX COUNTY,...
| Author | Nate Powell |
| ISBN | 1603094288 |
The first and only comic book artist ever to win a National Book Award returns with a haunting tale of intimacy, guilt, and collective amnesia.
As the sun sets on the 1970s, the spirit of the Love Generation still lingers among the aging hippies of one "intentional community" high in the Ozarks....
Royal City, Vol. 3: We All Float On
| Author | Jeff Lemire |
| ISBN | 1534308490 |
When a surprise new member of the family arrives in the fading industrial town of Royal City looking for answers, the past and present all come together and the Pike family must face the truths about their youngest brother's death, decades earlier. The concluding chapter of this generation-spanning...
