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 | |
| 2232 | Mafalda | Quino | 1978 | Argentinian | Spanish | |
| 2342 | Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth | Chris Ware | 2000 | American | English | |
| 2638 | The Adventures of Captain Underpants | Dav Pilkey | 1997 | American | English | |
| 2830 | 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 | |
| 3155 | The Castafiore Emerald | Hergé | 1963 | Belgian | French | |
| 3281 | Blankets | Craig Thompson | 2003 | American | English | |
| 3477 | American Born Chinese | Gene Luen Yang | 2006 | American | English | |
| 3610 | The Blue Lotus | Hergé | 1936 | Belgian | French | |
| 3947 | The Arrival | Shaun Tan | 2006 | Australian | English | |
| 4089 | Love and Rockets | Gilbert Hernandez, Jaime Hernandez, Mario Hernandez | 1982 | American | English | |
| 4310 | Hurrah For St Trinian's | Ronald Searle | 1948 | British | English | |
| 4610 | Here | Richard McGuire | 2014 | American | English | |
| 4666 | Building Stories | Chris Ware | 2012 | American | English | |
| 4998 | Persepolis Two | Marjane Satrapi | 2004 | Iranian | French | |
| 5278 | Heartbreak Soup | Gilbert Hernandez | 1985 | American | English | |
| 5346 | Epileptic | David B | 1996 | French | French | |
| 5457 | Ballad of the Salt Sea | Hugo Pratt | 1967 | Italian | Italian | |
| 5623 | V for Vendetta | Alan Moore | 1982 | British | English | |
| 5634 | Sabrina | Nick Drnaso | 2018 | American | English | |
| 5723 | Blake and Mortimer | Edgar P. Jacobs | 1946 | Belgian | French | |
| 6122 | The Best We Could Do | Thi Bui | 2017 | American | English | |
| 6198 | One Piece | Eiichiro Oda | 1997 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 6293 | Gaston | André Franquin | 1957 | French | French | |
| 6378 | 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 | |
| 7192 | Heartstopper | Alice Oseman | 2018 | British | English | |
| 7193 | O Quinze | Rachel de Queiroz | 1930 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 7881 | Safe Area | Joe Sacco | 2000 | American | English | |
| 8076 | My New York Diary | Julie Doucet | 1999 | Canadian | English | |
| 8298 | Alec: The Years Have Pants | Eddie Campbell | 2008 | British | English | |
| 8459 | March | John Lewis | 2013 | American | English | |
| 8597 | The Adventures Of Tintin | Hergé | 1929 | Belgian | French | |
| 8640 | Other Russias | Victoria Lomasko | 2017 | Russian | Russian | |
| 8677 | The Peanuts Treasury | Charles M. Schulz | 1969 | American | English | |
| 8774 | O Pagador De Promessas | Dias Gomes | 1962 | Brazilian | Portuguese | |
| 8880 | Tongues | Anders Nilsen | 2025 | American | English | |
| 8898 | Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama | Alison Bechdel | 2012 | American | English | |
| 9083 | Bloom | Kevin Panetta | 2019 | Unknown | English | |
| 9128 | Lumberjanes | Noelle Stevenson | 2014 | American | English | |
| 9264 | Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? | Roz Chast | 2014 | American | English | |
| 9333 | Embroideries | Marjane Satrapi | 2003 | Iranian | French | |
| 9614 | The Three Paradoxes | Paul Hornschemeier | 2007 | American | English | |
| 9774 | The Night Bookmobile | Audrey Niffenegger | 2010 | American | English | |
| 9811 | Journal | Julie Delporte | 2013 | Unknown | French | |
| 9894 | Bhimayana | Srividya Natarajan, S. Anand | 2011 | Indian | English | |
| 9952 | The Great Women Superheroes | Trina Robbins | 1996 | American | English | |
| 10066 | Persepolis 1 & 2 — The Complete Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi | 2000 | French | French | |
| 10081 | Habibi | Craig Thompson | 2011 | American | English | |
| 10092 | We Have No Idea | Daniel Whiteson, Jorge Cham | 2017 | Unknown | English | |
| 10205 | From Hell | Alan Moore | 1991 | British | English | |
| 10276 | Juliette | Camille Jourdy | 2016 | French | French | |
| 10489 | Munnu | Malik Sajad | 2015 | Indian | English | |
| 10494 | Remember Us To Life | Joanna Rubin Dranger | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 10628 | Crumb | Dan Nadel | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10679 | Spent | Alison Bechdel | 2025 | American | English | |
| 10886 | Kampung Boy | Lat | 1979 | Malaysian | Malay | |
| 11366 | Notes | Boulet | French | Unknown | ||
| 11428 | Locas | Jaime Hernandez | 1989 | American | English | |
| 11483 | Why Comics? | Hillary L. Chute | 2017 | American | English | |
| 11611 | The Complete Calvin And Hobbes | Bill Watterson | 2005 | American | English | |
| 12018 | Infidel | Pornsak Pichetshote | 2018 | Unknown | English | |
| 12040 | Ginseng Roots | Craig Thompson | 2024 | American | English | |
| 12045 | Akira | Katsuhiro Otomo | 1982 | Japanese | Japanese | |
| 12074 | Dry Cleaned | Joris Mertens | 2022 | Unknown | English | |
| 12149 | Awkward And Definition | Ariel Schrag | 1997 | American | English | |
| 12226 | Batwoman | Greg Rucka | 2009 | American | English | |
| 12244 | Cannon | Lee Lai | 2025 | Australian | English | |
| 12246 | Photographic Memory | Bill Griffith | 2025 | American | English | |
| 12294 | Precious Rubbish | Kayla E. | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12320 | Muybridge | Guy Delisle, Helge Dascher, Rob Aspinall | 2024 | Unknown | French | |
| 12470 | And The Pursuit Of Happiness | Maira Kalman | 2010 | American | English | |
| 12479 | The Bakery Dragon | Devin Elle Kurtz | 2024 | Unknown | English | |
| 12572 | Patchwork | Kate Evans | English | |||
| 12588 | Potential | Ariel Schrag | 2000 | American | English | |
| 12586 | Kirby's Lessons For Falling | Laura Gao | 2025 | American | English | |
| 12613 | Whale Eyes | James Robinson, Brian Rea | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12621 | The Ephemerata | Carol Tyler | American | English | ||
| 12646 | J Vs. K | Kwame Alexander, Jerry Craft | American | English | ||
| 12690 | This Beautiful, Ridiculous City | Kay Sohini | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12695 | Scarlet Morning | ND Stevenson | 2025 | American | English | |
| 12702 | How To Say Goodbye In Cuban | Daniel Miyares | American | English | ||
| 12706 | The Weight | Melissa Mendes | Unknown | English | ||
| 12717 | Oasis | Guojing | 2025 | Chinese | English | |
| 12741 | Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me | Mariko Tamaki, illustrated Rosemary Valero-O’Connell | 2019 | Canadian | English | |
| 12757 | On Guard! | Cassidy Wasserman | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12758 | Crumble | Meredith McClaren, Andrea Bell | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12770 | Black Arms To Hold You Up | Ben Passmore | 2025 | American | English | |
| 12776 | The Confessional | Paige Hender | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12780 | Drome | Jesse Lonergan | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 12860 | Trans History | Alex L Combs | 2025 | American | English | |
| 12866 | The Extreme Self | Douglas Coupland, Shumon Basar, Hans Ulrich Obrist | 2021 | Multiple | English | |
| 12937 | Do Admit | Mimi Pond | 2025 | American | English | |
| 13053 | Gaysians | Mike Curato | 2025 | American | English | |
| 13169 | Donut Squad | Neill Cameron | 2025 | British | English | |
| 13175 | No Refuge | Patrice Aggs, Joe Brady | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 13186 | The Once And Future Riot | Joe Sacco | 2025 | American | English | |
| 13187 | Big Pool | Chris Harnan | 2025 | Unknown | Unknown | |
| 13188 | The Witch's Egg | Donya Todd | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 13189 | Milk White Steed | Michael Kennedy | 2025 | Unknown | English | |
| 13190 | Misery Of Love | Yvan Alagbe, Donald Nicholson-Smith | 2025 | Beninese | French | |
| 13191 | Raised By Ghosts | Briana Loewinsohn | 2025 | American | English | |
| 13220 | Summer Blonde | Adrian Tomine | 2002 | American | English | |
| 13220 | One Hundred Demons | Lynda Barry | 2002 | American | English | |
| 13259 | The Photographer | Emmanuel Guibert | 2003 | French | English | |
| 13362 | The Beano | The Editor | 1938 | British | English | |
| 13567 | Pride Of Baghdad | Brian K. Vaughan | 2006 | American | English | |
| 13567 | Johnny Cash | Reinhard Kleist | 2006 | German | German | |
| 13716 | Age Of Bronze | Eric Shanower | 2007 | American | English |