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Each month, explore a new genre - or enjoy a favorite - with NoveList's 2026 Reading Challenge: Find What You Like.
This month's spotlight genre is Graphic Novels! Explore stories told through art, be it realistic, cartoony, nighmarish, or charming.
The Great British Bump-Off by John Allison, Max Sarin, Sammy Borras, and Jim Campbell
An Agatha Christie-style murder mystery set in the world of English competitive baking from Giant Days' John Allison and Max Sarin. Available on Hoopla.
Spent by Alison Bechdel
In Alison Bechdel’s hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont, is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink of civil war. She wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathingly self-critical memoir about her own greed and privilege?
Houses of the Unholy by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
An FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn into a hunt for an insane killer hiding in the shadows of the occult underworld. Also available on Hoopla.
Ruined by Sarah Vaughn, Sarah Winifred Searle, and Niki Smith
For fans of Bridgerton comes a Regency-era romance graphic novel about the unexpected passion that blooms from a marriage of convenience.
Big Jim and the White Boy by David F. Walker and Marcus Kwame Anderson
A radical retelling of this American classic, centering the experiences of Jim, an enslaved Black man in search of his kidnapped wife and children, along with his cheeky sidekick, Huckleberry Finn.
Raging Clouds by Yudori
In this period drama set in the 16th-century Netherlands, the unlikely pair of a proper Dutchwoman and her husband’s slave mistress collaborate on a scientific discovery that could free them from the bounds of patriarchal society. Available on Hoopla.
Find these and more on NoveList's curated Graphic Novel list.