The Best Graphic Novels/Comics of 2025 for Adults | Multnomah County LibraryLike this list

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• Spent

  a Comic Novel

  Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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  This wry, funny return to some of the iconic characters from Dykes to Watch Out For — along with a fictionalized Alison Bechdel running a pygmy goat sanctuary — is a gift to all the queer kids who found themselves in Bechdel's earlier work. - Hope L.

• Flip

  Ukazu, Ngozi,

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  Ukazu (Check Please, Bunt) gives us her most personal story yet, with a Nigerian-American scholarship student struggling with her own internalized racism suddenly switching bodies with her white male crush. Funny, insightful and suspenseful. -…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Do Admit!

  the Mitford Sisters and Me

  Pond, Mimi,

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  Fascism! Communism! Espionage! Scandal! A grgeously illustrated story of 6 aristocratic British sisters who led fairly fascinating lives in the early 20th century, viewed through the author's lived experience of growing up mid-century in California.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Tongues. Book 1

  Nilsen, Anders, 1973-

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  A psychedelic tour de force that should sit alongside The Incal as a masterpiece of comic storytelling. Nilsen weaves the horrors of Middle East interventionalist policy with the myth of Prometheus in this bloody, mindbending part 1. - Chloe S.

• I Shall Never Fall in Love

  Conner, Hari,

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  For Queer fans of Jane Austen - Leo B.

• Veil. 1, Temperature of Orange

  Koteri (Comic artist),

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  The illustrations in Veil look like they should be a in a fashion magazine, a full color feast for the eyes. They help lend to the dreamy domestic vignettes of these two characters delighting in each other in cozy everyday life. - Chloe S.

• Ginseng Roots

  a Memoir

  Thompson, Craig, 1975-

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  Deeply researched, self-deprecating memoir graphic novels are my jam. - Patrick P.

• Pink Candy Kiss. 1

  Uozumi, Ami,

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  A paean to queer longing illustrated in lush gorgeous artwork. This slow-burn of emotion and desire begins to grow as two women reconnect and try to reconcile their feelings for each other, while one deals with her passionless marriage to a man. …Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Captain Momo's Secret Base. Volume 1

  Tsuruta, Kenji,

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  Sc-Fi social reflection on social isolation. Nonsexual nudity. This is how we talk to, and name, our cats. Literally lol'd! - Katie H.

• The Bees

  the Women Who Rocked Lithuania

  Magicdusté, Akvilė,

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  This is at once charming and chilling - young women form a rock band, and the KGB doesn’t like it. A touching portrait of the struggle to be an artist in a repressive, authoritarian society. - Erika B.

• This Place Kills Me

  Tamaki, Mariko,

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  How about a dark academia tale of social conspiracy and murder set in a 1980's all girl's school? Tamaki and artist Goux pull the veil away from 1980's nostalgia with a dramatic look at the subtle effects of ostracization from homophobia caused…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Best Books of 2025, chosen by Multnomah County Library staff

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  There's something for everyone in our lists for preschoolers, kids, tweens, teens and adults.