The Murder of Abraham Lincoln
10 best books like The Murder of Abraham Lincoln (Rick Geary): Gil's All Fright Diner, Gender Queer, Lighter Than My Shadow, A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return, Just Peachy: Comics About Depression, Anxiety, Love, and Finding the Humor in Being Sad, The Undertaking of Lily Chen, Coraline, Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima, Death Note, Vol. 2: Confluence, Life Sucks
| Author | A. Lee Martinez |
| ISBN | 0765350017 |
Bloodier than Fried Green Tomatoes!
Funnier than The Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
Welcome to Gil's All Night Diner, where zombie attacks are a regular occurrence and you never know what might be lurking in the freezer. . . .
Duke and Earl are just passing through Rockwood county...
| Author | Maia Kobabe |
| ISBN | 1549304003 |
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography...
| 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,...
A Game for Swallows: To Die, to Leave, to Return
| Author | Zeina Abirached |
| ISBN | 0761385681 |
When Zeina was born, the civil war in Lebanon had been going on for six years, so it's just a normal part of life for her and her parents and little brother. The city of Beirut is cut in two, separated by bricks and sandbags and threatened by snipers and shelling. East Beirut is for Christians, and West Beirut...
Just Peachy: Comics About Depression, Anxiety, Love, and Finding the Humor in Being Sad
"In this autobiographical collection of thoughtful and poignant comic vignettes, Chisholm explores her experiences with depression, anxiety, and love ." —Booklist
Just Peachy is a comic series that explores what the day-to-day is like with depression and/or anxiety. The all-too-real...
| Author | Danica Novgorodoff |
| ISBN | 1596435860 |
In the mountains of Northern China ancient custom demands that every man have a wife to keep him company in the afterlife.
Deshi Li's brother is dead—and unmarried. Which means that Deshi must find him an eligible body before the week is up.
Lily Chen, sweet as a snakebite, needs money...
When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house, strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is filled with fluttering wind-up angels and dinosaur skulls that crawl and rattle their...
Barefoot Gen, Volume One: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
| Author | Keiji Nakazawa |
| ISBN | 0867196025 |
This harrowing story of Hiroshima was one of the original Japanese manga series. New and unabridged, this is an all-new translation of the author's first-person experiences of Hiroshima and its aftermath, is a reminder of the suffering war brings to innocent people. Its emotions and experiences...
Death Note, Vol. 2: Confluence
| Author | Tsugumi Ohba |
| ISBN | 1421501694 |
Light thinks he's put an end to his troubles with the FBI—by using the Death Note to kill off the FBI agents working the case in Japan! But one of the agents has a fiancée who used to work in the Bureau, and now she's uncovered information that could lead to Light's capture. To make matters worse, L has emerged...
| Author | Jessica Abel |
| ISBN | 1596431075 |
Life sucks for Dave Marshall.
The girl he’s in love with doesn’t know he exists, he hates his job, and ever since his boss turned him into a vampire, he can’t go out in daylight without starting to charbroil.
Undead life in its uncoolest incarnation yet is on display in this cinematic, supernatural...
| Author | Tillie Walden |
| ISBN | 1626727724 |
Poignant and captivating, Ignatz Award winner Tillie Walden's powerful graphic memoir, Spinning, captures what it's like to come of age, come out, and come to terms with leaving behind everything you used to know.
It was the same every morning. Wake up, grab the ice skates, and head to the rink...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1506703933 |
This supernatural mystery set in the world of Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos features a brilliant detective and his partner as they try to solve a horrific murder.
The complex investigation takes the Baker Street investigators from the slums of Whitechapel all the way to...
| Author | Aminder Dhaliwal |
| ISBN | 1770463356 |
The hilarious and wildly popular instagram comic about a world with no men
With her startling humor, it’s no surprise that Aminder Dhaliwal’s web comic Woman World has a devoted audience of more than 150,000 readers, updated biweekly with each installment earning an average of 25,000...
| Author | Richie Tankersley Cusick |
| ISBN | 0590132741 |
After her sister drowns, Ryan McCauley is haunted by the dead girl’s past
Two sisters walk through a snowy wood, collecting pinecones for Christmas decorations. Something has frightened Marisa, and she’s about to explain it to Ryan, her younger sister, when she steps onto a patch of thin...
| Author | Roland Owen Laird Jr. |
| ISBN | 1402762267 |
Still I Rise is a critically acclaimed work with an impressive scope: the entire history of Black America, told in an accessible graphic-novel form. Updated from its original version—which ended with the Million Man March—it now extends from the early days of colonial slavery right through to...
Ten Arguments For Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
| Author | Jaron Lanier |
| ISBN | 1847925391 |
'A blisteringly good, urgent, essential read' ZADIE SMITH
Jaron Lanier, the world-famous Silicon Valley scientist-pioneer and 'high-tech genius' (Sunday Times) who first alerted us to the dangers of social media, explains why its toxic effects are at the heart of its design, and explains...
| Author | John Allison |
| ISBN | 1684153719 |
Daisy, Esther, and Susan’s last year at university is getting a bumpy start, with everything strange after Ed’s declaration of love followed by grievous injury, Daisy with nowhere to live, and McGraw and Susan at odds over their new flat!
The final year of university is about to start for...
| Author | Melissa Jane Osborne |
| ISBN | 1629917699 |
16-year-old Wendy Davies crashes her car into a lake on a late summer night in New England with her two younger brothers in the backseat. When she wakes in the hospital, she is told that her youngest brother, Michael, is dead. Wendy — a once rational teenager – shocks her family by insisting that Michael...
The Chancellor and the Citadel
| Author | Maria Capelle Frantz |
| ISBN | 1945820268 |
Though much about The Chancellor and the Citadel is intriguing, there's not enough meat to those bones to actually make me like this graphic novel. This feels like the skeleton of a story, rather than a full story. Reading the whole thing took less than 30 minute, placing it in the length of an early reader...
