Here we recognize our eight favorites.

We love this one for its imaginative historical sketchings, and its melancholy undertones.

Chaboute’s internationally best-selling French novel uses engrossing black-and-white illustrations for a masterful, darkly funny meditation on loneliness.

Best-Graphic-Novels

Liveright; Macmillan; First Second; Gallery 13; Drawn and Quarterly; Penguin Random House

Bad Friends, by Ancco

Stark, devastating, and intimate in equal measure.

Small executes his arc through raw, detailed facial expressions.

It’s a sweeping queer romance told in Walden’s signature style.

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Gallery 13

Alone by Christophe ChaboutéCR: Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster

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Drawn and Quarterly

Berlin by Jason LutesCR: Drawn and Quarterly

Drawn and Quarterly

Home After Dark by David SmallCR: Liveright

Liveright

On a Sunbeam by Tillie WaldenCR: First Second

First Second

Passing for Human A Graphic Memoir by Liana Finck

Penguin Random House

Sabrina by Nick Drnaso

Macmillan