The Greatest Comics & Graphic Novels of All Time
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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.
| Rank | Book | Authors | Year | Country | Language | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 670 | Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi | 2000 | French | French | |
| 808 | Watchmen | Alan Moore | 1986 | American, British | English | |
| 1060 | Fun Home | Alison Bechdel | 2006 | American | English | |
| 1104 | Maus | Art Spiegelman | 1980 | American | English | |
| 1326 | The Compleat Angler | Izaak Walton | 1653 | British | English | |
| 1348 | Sandman | Neil Gaiman | 1989 | British | English | |
| 1682 | Asterix the Gaul | Rene Goscinny | 1959 | French | French | |
| 2231 | Mafalda | Quino | 1978 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 2340 | Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth | Chris Ware | 2000 | American | English | |
| 2637 | The Adventures of Captain Underpants | Dav Pilkey | 1997 | American | English | |
| 2829 | A Contract With God | Will Eisner | 1978 | American | English | |
| 3034 | The Crab With The Golden Claws | Hergé | 1941 | Belgian | French | |
| 3067 | Tintin In Tibet | Hergé | 1960 | Belgian | French | |
| 3156 | The Castafiore Emerald | Hergé | 1963 | Belgian | French | |
| 3282 | Blankets | Craig Thompson | 2003 | American | English | |
| 3478 | American Born Chinese | Gene Luen Yang | 2006 | American | English | |
| 3611 | The Blue Lotus | Hergé | 1936 | Belgian | French | |
| 3946 | The Arrival | Shaun Tan | 2006 | Australian | English | |
| 4088 | Love and Rockets | Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez | 1982 | American | English | |
| 4309 | Hurrah For St Trinian's | Ronald Searle | 1948 | British | English | |
| 4609 | Here | Richard McGuire | 2014 | American | English | |
| 4665 | Building Stories | Chris Ware | 2012 | American | English | |
| 4995 | Persepolis Two | Marjane Satrapi | 2004 | Iranian | French | |
| 5277 | Heartbreak Soup | Gilbert Hernandez | 1985 | American | English | |
| 5344 | Epileptic | David B | 1996 | French | French | |
| 5456 | Ballad of the Salt Sea | Hugo Pratt | 1967 | Italian | Italian | |
| 5621 | V for Vendetta | Alan Moore | 1982 | British | English | |
| 5632 | Sabrina | Nick Drnaso | 2018 | American | English | |
| 5721 | Blake and Mortimer | Edgar P. Jacobs | 1946 | Belgian | French | |
| 6120 | The Best We Could Do | Thi Bui | 2017 | American | English | |
| 6195 | One Piece | Eiichiro Oda | 1997 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 6291 | Gaston | André Franquin | 1957 | French | French | |
| 6376 | Asterios Polyp | David Mazzucchelli | 2009 | American | English | |
| 6675 | Uzumaki | Junji Ito | 1998 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 6706 | Maggie The Mechanic | Jaime Hernandez | 2003 | American | English | |
| 6821 | Donald Duck | Carl Barks, Walt Disney | 1942 | American | English | |
| 7143 | Black Hole | Charles Burns | 1995 | American | English | |
| 7191 | Heartstopper | Alice Oseman | 2018 | British | English | |
| 7192 | O Quinze | Rachel de Queiroz | 1930 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 7880 | Safe Area | Joe Sacco | 2000 | American | English | |
| 8075 | My New York Diary | Julie Doucet | 1999 | Canadian | English | |
| 8295 | Alec: The Years Have Pants | Eddie Campbell | 2008 | British | English | |
| 8456 | March | John Lewis | 2013 | American | English | |
| 8593 | The Adventures Of Tintin | Hergé | 1929 | Belgian | French | |
| 8636 | Other Russias | Victoria Lomasko | 2017 | Russian | Russian | |
| 8673 | The Peanuts Treasury | Charles M. Schulz | 1969 | American | English | |
| 8769 | O Pagador De Promessas | Dias Gomes | 1962 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 8876 | Tongues | Anders Nilsen | 2025 | American | English | |
| 8894 | Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama | Alison Bechdel | 2012 | American | English | |
| 9079 | Bloom | Kevin Panetta | 2019 | Unknown | English | |
| 9124 | Lumberjanes | Noelle Stevenson | 2014 | American | English | |
| 9261 | Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? | Roz Chast | 2014 | American | English | |
| 9330 | Embroideries | Marjane Satrapi | 2003 | Iranian | French | |
| 9611 | The Three Paradoxes | Paul Hornschemeier | 2007 | American | English | |
| 9770 | The Night Bookmobile | Audrey Niffenegger | 2010 | American | English | |
| 9807 | Journal | Julie Delporte | 2013 | Unknown | French | |
| 9890 | Bhimayana | Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand | 2011 | Indian | English | |
| 9947 | The Great Women Superheroes | Trina Robbins | 1996 | American | English | |
| 10061 | Persepolis 1 & 2 — The Complete Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi | 2000 | French | French | |
| 10076 | Habibi | Craig Thompson | 2011 | American | English | |
| 10087 | We Have No Idea | Daniel Whiteson, Jorge Cham | 2017 | Unknown | English | |
| 10200 | From Hell | Alan Moore | 1991 | British | English | |
| 10272 | Juliette | Camille Jourdy | 2016 | French | French | |
| 10486 | Munnu | Malik Sajad | 2015 | Indian | English | |
| 10491 | Remember Us To Life | Joanna Rubin Dranger | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 10624 | Crumb | Dan Nadel | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10675 | Spent | Alison Bechdel | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10881 | Kampung Boy | Lat | 1979 | Malaysian | Malay | |
| 11363 | Notes | Boulet | French | Unknown | ||
| 11425 | Locas | Jaime Hernandez | 1989 | American | English | |
| 11481 | Why Comics? | Hillary L. Chute | 2017 | American | English | |
| 11609 | The Complete Calvin And Hobbes | Bill Watterson | 2005 | American | English | |
| 12016 | Infidel | Pornsak Pichetshote | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 12038 | Ginseng Roots | Craig Thompson | 2024 | American | English | |
| 12043 | Akira | Katsuhiro Otomo | 1982 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 12073 | Dry Cleaned | Joris Mertens | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 12148 | Awkward And Definition | Ariel Schrag | 1997 | American | English | |
| 12225 | Batwoman | Greg Rucka | 2009 | American | English | |
| 12243 | Cannon | Lee Lai | 2025 | Australian | English | |
| 12245 | Photographic Memory | Bill Griffith | 2025 | American | English | |
| 12293 | Precious Rubbish | Kayla E. | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12318 | Muybridge | Guy Delisle, Helge Dascher, Rob Aspinall | 2024 | Unknown | French | |
| 12468 | And The Pursuit Of Happiness | Maira Kalman | 2010 | American | English | |
| 12477 | The Bakery Dragon | Devin Elle Kurtz | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 12570 | Patchwork | Kate Evans | English | |||
| 12586 | Potential | Ariel Schrag | 2000 | American | English | |
| 12584 | Kirby's Lessons For Falling | Laura Gao | 2025 | American | English | |
| 12611 | Whale Eyes | James Robinson, Brian Rea | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12619 | The Ephemerata | Carol Tyler | American | English | ||
| 12644 | J Vs. K | Kwame Alexander, Jerry Craft | American | English | ||
| 12688 | This Beautiful, Ridiculous City | Kay Sohini | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12693 | Scarlet Morning | ND Stevenson | 2025 | American | English | |
| 12700 | How To Say Goodbye In Cuban | Daniel Miyares | American | English | ||
| 12704 | The Weight | Melissa Mendes | Unknown | English | ||
| 12715 | Oasis | Guojing | 2025 | Chinese | English | |
| 12739 | Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me | Mariko Tamaki, illustrated Rosemary Valero-O’Connell | 2019 | Canadian | English | |
| 12755 | On Guard! | Cassidy Wasserman | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12756 | Crumble | Meredith McClaren, Andrea Bell | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12768 | Black Arms To Hold You Up | Ben Passmore | 2025 | American | English | |
| 12774 | The Confessional | Paige Hender | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12778 | Drome | Jesse Lonergan | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12858 | Trans History | Alex L Combs | 2025 | American | English | |
| 12864 | The Extreme Self | Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar, Hans Ulrich Obrist | 2021 | Multiple | English | |
| 12934 | Do Admit | Mimi Pond | 2025 | American | English | |
| 13050 | Gaysians | Mike Curato | 2025 | American | English | |
| 13166 | Donut Squad | Neill Cameron | 2025 | British | English | |
| 13172 | No Refuge | Patrice Aggs, Joe Brady | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 13183 | The Once And Future Riot | Joe Sacco | 2025 | American | English | |
| 13184 | Big Pool | Chris Harnan | 2025 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 13185 | The Witch's Egg | Donya Todd | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 13186 | Milk White Steed | Michael Kennedy | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 13187 | Misery Of Love | Yvan Alagbe, Donald Nicholson-Smith | 2025 | Beninese | French | |
| 13188 | Raised By Ghosts | Briana Loewinsohn | 2025 | American | English | |
| 13217 | Summer Blonde | Adrian Tomine | 2002 | American | English | |
| 13217 | One Hundred Demons | Lynda Barry | 2002 | American | English | |
| 13256 | The Photographer | Emmanuel Guibert | 2003 | French | English | |
| 13359 | The Beano | The Editor | 1938 | British | English | |
| 13566 | Pride Of Baghdad | Brian K. Vaughan | 2006 | American | English | |
| 13566 | Johnny Cash | Reinhard Kleist | 2006 | German | German | |
| 13715 | Age Of Bronze | Eric Shanower | 2007 | American | English |