Summer Reads

A page-turning, Kafkaesque dark comedy in brilliant retro style, this graphic novel watches one man try to keep it together while everything falls apart.Upon the publication of his latest novel, G. H. Fretwell, a minor English writer, embarks on a book...

Inspired by the legendary David Bowie, BOWIE: Stardust, Rayguns, & Moonage Daydreams is the original graphic memoir of the great Ziggy Stardust!This graphic novel chronicles the rise of Bowie's career from obscurity to fame; and paralleled by the...

The Eisner Award–winning story about a student figuring out radical politics in a messy worldSophie is young and queer and into feminist theory. She decides to study abroad, choosing Paris for no firm reason beyond liking French comics. Feeling a bit...

(Available after 3-20 days)In his latest graphic novel, Dragon Hoops, New York Timesbestselling author Gene Luen Yang turns the spotlight on his life, his family, and the high school where he teaches.Gene understands stories—comic book stories, in...

Billie Scott is an artist. Her debut gallery exhibition opens in a few months.Within a fortnight she’ll be completely blind.Zoe Thorogood’s first graphic novel is a story about what it’s like to get something you want, have it immediately taken away from...

The Magic Fish is a tender and stunningly beautiful portrait of a young teenage boy learning to connect with his family through stories. With fairytale elements woven throughout, Trung Le Nguyen’s graphic novel is a nuanced story about love, identity and...

Xeric Award-winning cartoonist Kevin Mutch skewers theory-spouting academics, sleazy art dealers, and obnoxious over-sharers.   In this graphic novel, Adam Kline is an aspiring artist with bleak prospects, stuck in a thankless adjunct teaching gig and...

On a summer’s day, Ellen returns to the coastal town she grew up in, the picturesque, yet architecturally strange, Victory Point. Revisiting old haunts and people from her past, she feels increasingly disconnected from her previous life, and exhausted by...

One family’s quest to survive the devastation of the Khmer Rouge"Striking and moving... The comics form allows readers [to] understand through chronological progression and a close view how horror can become the stuff of the everyday."—The New York...

Based on the smash-hit audio serial, Bubble is a hilarious high-energy graphic novel with a satirical take on the “gig economy.”Built and maintained by corporate benevolence, the city of Fairhaven is a literal bubble of safety and order...

Now, truly alone for the first time in her life, Willow must rely only on her instincts - and her magic - to save herself from a different kind of threat than Buffy ever prepared her to face in her first ever comic book series!NO MORE SUNNYDALE. NO MORE...

The horrific secret of Kulan Gath's power is revealed! Steel yourself, True Believers - this one is a bummer for the ages. Can Doctor Strange and Elektra deal with this unbelievable horror? Speaking of horror, something is killing the Shuma-Goraths! That...

For 80 years Wonder Woman has stood as a symbol of truth, justice and equality to people everywhere!But Diana's mission to keep peace in Man's World hasn't always been easy. Follow along in this incredible collection as the Amazon Warrior fights for...

From Colleen Hoover, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends with Us, a heart-wrenching love story that proves attraction at first sight can be messy.When Tate Collins meets airline pilot Miles Archer, she doesn't think it's love at first...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A witty and emotionally charged novel that delves into the heart of a marriage, and how those we love and think we know best can sometimes surprise us the most“A delightful take on the mixed blessings of marital longevity...

A rom-com-obsessed romantic waiting for her perfect leading man learns that life doesn’t always go according to a script in this delightfully charming and funny novel.Annie Cassidy dreams of being the next Nora Ephron. She spends her days writing...

Kerry Winfrey's funny and honest young adult novel, Things Jolie Needs to Do Before She Bites ItJolie’s a lot of things, but she knows that pretty isn’t one of them.She has mandibular prognathism, which is the medical term for underbite. Chewing is a...

Can you fall in love like they do in the movies?It's Evie Summers's job to find out. Because if she can't convince her film agency's biggest client, Ezra Chester, to write the romantic-comedy screenplay he owes producers, her career will be over. The...

What is it about getting a mysterious invitation to a ski weekend in the French Alps that is both intriguing AND terrifying? Allie Reynolds helps us explore both feelings throughout this novel. Here is the "cold-weather beach read" you didn't realize you...

In this compulsively readable debut, set between London and Sicily over one blood-drenched week in the dead of summer, an identical twin reveals the crazy lies and twists she'll go through to not only steal her sister's perfect life, but to keep on...