Library Journal Best Books - Graphic Novels (Awarded by Library Journal)

Awards List

2025

You Must Take Part in Revolution
(*)
Badiucao

The Cabbie: Definitive Edition
(*)
Riera Ferrer

The Legend of Kamui
(*)
Shirato Sanpei

Les Normaux: A Graphic Novel
(*)
Janine Janssen

Baby Blue
(*)
Bim Eriksson

The Curse of Monte Cristo: A Reimagining of the Novel by Alexandre Dumas
(*)
David Dabel

Fishflies
(*)
Jeff Lemire

Helen of Wyndhorn
(*)
Tom King

Santos Sisters Vol. 1
(*)
Greg & Fake

The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
(*)
Paul Auster

The Pit
(*)
Erik Kriek

Spent: A Comic Novel
(*)
Alison Bechdel

Gaysians
(*)
Michael Curato

It Rhymes With Takei
(*)
George Takei

10,000 Ink Stains: A Memoir
(*)
Jeff Lemire

Death in Trieste
(*)
Jason

Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me
(*)
Mimi Pond

The Knives: A Criminal Book
(*)
Ed Brubaker

The Once and Future Riot
(*)
Joe Sacco

Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Life, Taken by Force
(*)
Ben Passmore

Out of Alcatraz
(*)
Christopher Cantwell

Total THB, Volume 1
(*)
Paul Pope

2024

Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1
(*)
Taiyo Matsumoto

Search and Destroy Vol. 1
(*)
Atsushi Kaneko

Polar Vortex: A Family Memoir
(*)
Denise Dorrance

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two
(*)
Emil Ferris

Final Cut
(*)
Charles Burns

Big Jim and the White Boy: A Graphic Novel Retelling of an American Classic
(*)
David F. Walker

The Hidden Life of Trees: The Graphic Adaptation
(*)
Peter Wohlleben

2023

The Naked Tree
(*)
Wan-Suh Park

Public Domain, Volume 1
(*)
Chip Zdarsky

Shubeik Lubeik
(*)
Deena Mohamed

Mister Mammoth
(*)
Matt Kindt

Impossible People
(*)
Julia Wertz

The Talk
(*)
Darrin Bell

Roaming
(*)
Jillian Tamaki

Monica
(*)
Daniel Clowes

2022

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
(*)
Ram V

Nice House on the Lake Vol. 1
(*)
James Tynion IV

What is Home, Mum?
(*)
Sabba Khan

Talk to My Back
(*)
Yamada Murasaki

Birds of Maine
(*)
Michael DeForge

Fantastic Four: Full Circle
(*)
Abrams Books

One Beautiful Spring Day
(*)
Jim Woodring

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
(*)
Kate Beaton

Step By Bloody Step
(*)
Si Spurrier

Upside
(*)
Dawn Jason

2021

Asadora!, Vol. 1
(*)
Naoki Urasawa

Solo Leveling, Vol. 1 (light novel)
(*)
Chugong

I Will Not Reach You., Vol. 1
(*)
Mika

Monsters
(*)
Barry Windsor-Smith

Stone Fruit
(*)
Lee Lai

Everyone is Tulip
(*)
Dave Baker

Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
(*)
Kristen Radtke

Bliss
(*)
Sean Lewis

Sensor
(*)
Junji Ito

2020

Sports Is Hell
(*)
Ben Passmore

Inappropriate
(*)
Gabrielle Bell

Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio
(*)
Derf Backderf

Dancing After TEN
(*)
Vivian Chong

Jack Kirby: The Epic Life of the King of Comics
(*)
Tom Scioli

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
(*)
Adrian Tomine

Pulp
(*)
Ed Brubaker

Slaughterhouse-Five
(*)
Ryan North

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen?
(*)
Matt Fraction

Billionaire Island
(*)
Mark Russell

2019

Mister Miracle
(*)
Tom King

Grass
(*)
Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi
(*)
Gina Siciliano

Once Upon a Time in France
(*)
Fabien Nury

Rusty Brown
(*)
Chris Ware

Reincarnation Stories
(*)
Kim Deitch

2018

Why Art?
(*)
Eleanor Davis

Award Categories

Christian Fiction

Contemporary Romance

Crime Fiction

Crime Fiction: Mystery

Crime Fiction: Suspense

Crime Fiction: Thriller

Fantasy

Graphic Novels

Historical Fiction

Historical Romance

Horror

LGBTQIA+ Romance

Literary Fiction

Paranormal Romance

Pop Fiction

Romance

Romantasy

Science Fiction

SF/Fantasy

Short Stories

World Literature

Award Years

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018