NYT - Paperback Graphic Books

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New York Times - Paperback Graphic Books
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Last Updated by New York Times on Aug 29, 2019

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#1 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 2. It has been on the list for 18 week(s).

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Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis--and Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new home is haunted, and Maya sets her heart on meeting a ghost.

2) drama

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3) Smile

Author

Telgemeier, Raina

Series

Smile

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#3 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 4. It has been on the list for 240 week(s).

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eBook, Kindle

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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood!

Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's...

4) March

Author

Lewis, John

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#4 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 9. It has been on the list for 66 week(s).

5) Fun home: a family tragicomic

Author

Bechdel, Alison

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#6 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. It has been on the list for 50 week(s).

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A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.

6) Persepolis

Author

Satrapi, Marjane

Series

Persepolis volume 1

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#7 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 7. It has been on the list for 81 week(s).

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Originally published to wide critical acclaim in France, where it elicited comparisons to Art Spiegelman's Maus, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi's wise, funny, and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from ages six to fourteen, years that saw the overthrow of the Shah's regime, the triumph of the Islamic Revolution, and...

7) Sisters

Author

Telgemeier, Raina

Series

Smile

Notes

#8 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. Last week it was ranked 8. It has been on the list for 117 week(s).

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile!

Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem...

8) Roller girl

Author

Jamieson, Victoria

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#10 on the Paperback Graphic Books list for 2017-01-29. It has been on the list for 37 week(s).

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"A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart"-- Provided by publisher.