Category: Graphic Novels

  • Heartstopper Volume 4 by Alice Oseman

    Heartstopper is the sweetest graphic novel series celebrating happiness and love between two British boys. If you don’t know the story of Nick and Charlie…well I am quite shocked since they are beloved by essentially everyone in the book community at this point. But in case you really don’t know… Heartstopper is a sweet contemporary…

  • The Sad Ghost Club by Lize Meddings

    The Sad Ghost Club is a delightful graphic novel that covers how it feels to have a mental illness day to day. Unlike other stories feature mental illnesses this story isn’t about the struggles or the heartbreaking moments that comes with it. It’s just your average everyday survival and realising you’re not alone. Our main…

  • Welcome to the New World by Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan

    Welcome to the New World by Jake Halpern and Michael Sloan is the coolest journalism piece I have ever seen in my life. When I first began reading, it reminded me of George Takei’s ’They Called Us Enemy’ in its raw storytelling using majority black and white illustrations. This nonfiction graphic novel follows the story…

  • Topside by J.N Monk &  Harry Bogosian 

    A wild outer-space fantasy about fixing your mistakes and the friends you meet along the way. Publisher: Graphic Universe ISBN: 1512445894 Pages: 200 Publication Date: October 1st 2019 Personal Rating: 3/5 When Jo, a headstrong maintenance technician, makes an error that destabilizes her planet’s core, she only knows one way to fix things: leaving her underground home for…

  • Teens Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia & Illustrated by Gabriel Picolo

    Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia & Gabriel Picolo Publisher:  DC Ink ISBN: 1401286232 Pages: 192 Publication Date: July 2nd, 2019 Personal Rating: 3/5 When a tragic accident takes the life of 17-year-old Raven Roth’s foster mom–and Raven’s memory–she moves to New Orleans to recover and finish her senior year of high school. Starting over isn’t easy. Raven remembers everyday…

  • Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

    Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell Genre: YA Graphic Novel Pages: 304 Publisher: First Second Books Publication: May 7th 2019 My Rating: 4/5 Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley’s dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There’s just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe…

  • Best Books I Read in 2018

    This year I read a total of 63 books from my 50 book goal! I also discovered the beauty of graphic novels and how much I love them. Now I am going to let you know my top 10 books of 2018…in order! 10. City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab Genre: Middle Grade Urban Fantasy…

  • Be prepared by Vera Brosgol

    In Be Prepared, all Vera wants to do is fit in―but that’s not easy for a Russian girl in the suburbs. Her friends live in fancy houses and their parents can afford to send them to the best summer camps. Vera’s single mother can’t afford that sort of luxury, but there’s one summer camp in her…

  • Check, Please!: #Hockey, Vol. 1 By Ngozi Ukazu

    This graphic novel was originally a webcomic created by Ngozi Ukazu that later got picked up and published by 01First Second at Macmillan. This is the story of Eric Bittle (Bitty) — former junior figure skating champion, vlogger, pie baking freshman who is part of Samwell University’s hockey team. Starting university our gay protagonist makes…