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I’ve been reading more and more graphic novels over the years, and as 2020 finally winds down, I thought I would post which ones I am tentatively planning on reading in 2021. Some of these come from Graphic Mundi, which is a new collection by Penn State University Press publishing “both fiction and nonfiction narratives on subjects such as health and human rights, politics, the environment, science, and technology.” I might not read all of these, and I’ll probably read more, but I like looking forward to the new year rather than looking back to what I read in 2020.
Below is the list of books. I generated this list by placing a hold on each book at my local library. Most of these books are not yet available, and some already have plenty of holds ahead of me, which means that I won’t be getting them early. And that becomes part of the fun of this reading plan: I don’t know what I’m getting when until I receive the email that a book (or multiple books!) are ready for pickup.
| Title | Author |
|---|---|
| 1984 : The Graphic Novel | Orwell, George. |
| 7 Good Reasons Not to Grow Up | Gownley, Jimmy. |
| Algériennes : the forgotten women of the Algerian Revolution | Meralli, Swann, |
| And Now I Spill the Family Secrets : An Illustrated Memoir | Kimball, Margaret. |
| Barely Functional Adult : It'll All Make Sense Eventually | Ng, Meichi. |
| Be More Chill : The Graphic Novel | Vizzini, Ned. |
| Billie Holiday : The Graphic Novel | Gilbert, Ebony. |
| Billionaires | Cunningham, Darryl. |
| Cocaine Coast | Carretero, Nacho. |
| COVID Chronicles : A Comics Anthology | Boileau, Kendra. |
| Crude : A Memoir | Fajardo, Pablo. |
| Desperate Pleasures | Harkness, M. S. |
| Drawing Lines : An Anthology of Women Cartoonists | Oates, Joyce Carol. |
| Fat | Hofer, Regina. |
| Flash Forward : An Illustrated Guide to Possible (and Not So Possible) Tomorrows | Eveleth, Rose. |
| For Justice : The Serge & Beate Klarsfeld Story | Bresson, Pascal. |
| Freiheit! : The White Rose Graphic Novel | Ciponte, Andrea Grosso. |
| Girlsplaning | Klengel, Katja. |
| Heaven No Hell | DeForge, Michael. |
| I Never Promised You a Rose Garden | Murphy, Mannie. |
| I Nina | Chmielewski, Daniel. |
| I Survived the Nazi Invasion, 1944 | Tarshis, Lauren. |
| I'm a Wild Seed : A Graphic Memoir on Queerness and Decolonizing the World | Cruz, Sharon Lee De La. |
| In Love & Pajamas : A Collection of Comics about Being Yourself Together | Chetwynd, Catana. |
| Infinitum : An Afrofuturist Tale | Fielder, Tim. |
| Join the Future | Kaplan, Zack. |
| Kimiko Does Cancer : A Graphic Memoir | Tobimatsu, Kimiko. |
| Maids | Skelly, Katie. |
| Martian Ghost Centaur | Heagerty, Mat. |
| Measuring Up | LaMotte, Lily. |
| Menopause : a comic treatment | Czerwiec, MK (MaryKay), |
| Mudfish | Piskor, Ed. |
| My Body in Pieces | Hebert, Marie-Noelle. |
| My Life in Transition : A Super Late Bloomer Collection | Kaye, Julia. |
| Oak Flat : a fight for sacred land in the American West | Redniss, Lauren, |
| Okay, Universe : Chronicles of a Woman in Politics | Plante, Valerie. |
| Onion Skin | Camacho, Edgar. |
| Orwell | Christin, Pierre & Sebastian Verdier. |
| Our Work Is Everywhere : An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance | Rose, Syan. |
| Parenthesis | Durand, Elodie. |
| Paul at Home | Rabagliati, Michel. |
| Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed : The Detroit Uprising of 1943 | Williams, Rachel. |
| Save It for Later : Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest | Powell, Nate. |
| Seen : Rachel Carson | Willis, Birdie. |
| Slaughterhouse-five : or the children's crusade : a duty-dance with death | North, Ryan, 1980- |
| Sylvie | Kantorovitz, Sylvie. |
| The Black Panther Party : A Graphic Novel History | Walker, David F. |
| The Butcher of Paris | Phillips, Stephanie. |
| The City of Belgium | Evens, Brecht. |
| The Great Gatsby : A Graphic Novel Adaptation | Fitzgerald, F. Scott. |
| The Incredible Nellie Bly : Journalist, Investigator, Feminist, and Philanthropist | Cimino, Luciana. |
| The Minamata Story : An EcoTragedy | Wilson, Sean Michael. |
| The Thud | Ross, Mikael. |
| To Know You're Alive | McFadzean, Dakota. |
| Tokyo Love Story : A Manga Memoir of One Woman's Personal Journey in the World's Most Exciting City | Fujita, Julie Blanchin. |
| Travesia : A Migrant Girl's Cross-Border Journey | Gerster, Michelle. |
| Vulnerability Is My Superpower : An Underpants and Overbites collection | Davis, Jackie. |
| We Hereby Refuse : Japanese American Acts of Resistance During World War II | Abe, Frank. |
| We Should Meet in Air : A Graphic Memoir on Reading Sylvia Plath | Eisenberg, Lisa Rosalie. |
| Whistle : A New Gotham City Hero | Lockhart, E. |
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