Year Title Authors Ref. 2000s 2006  Nat Turner     (Kyle Baker Publishing ) Kyle Baker    [ 1]     Embroideries     (Pantheon Books ) Marjane Satrapi    Epileptic     (Pantheon Books ) David B.    Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea     (Drawn & Quarterly ) Guy Delisle    True Story, Swear to God     (Clib's Boy Comics ) and  True Story, Swear to God: This One Goes to Eleven    (AiT/Planet Lar ) Tom Beland   2007  Fun Home     (Houghton Mifflin ) Alison Bechdel    [ 2]     I Love Led Zeppelin     (Fantagraphics ) Ellen Forney    Mom's Cancer     (Abrams Books ) Brian Fies    Project X: Cup Noodle     (Digital Manga ,  ISBN     9781569709597 ) Tadashi Katoh    (author) and Akira Imai  (artist) Stagger Lee     (Image Comics ) Derek McCulloch    and Shepherd Hendrix  2008  Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow     (Center for Cartoon Studies /Hyperion Books for Children ) James Sturm     and  Rich Tommaso    [ 3]     Laika     (First Second Books ) Nick Abadzis    The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam     (Riverhead Books /Penguin Group ) Ann Marie Fleming    Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm     (Vertigo Comics /DC Comics ) Percy Carey    and Ronald Wimberly   White Rapids     (Drawn & Quarterly ) Pascal Blanchet   2009  What It Is     (Drawn & Quarterly ) Lynda Barry    [ 4]     [ 5]     Alan's War     (First Second Books ) Emmanuel Guibert    Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story     (Houghton Mifflin ) Frederik Peeters    Fishtown     (IDW Publishing ) Kevin Colden    A Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Lindbergh Child     (NBM Publishing ) Rick Geary   2010s 2010  A Drifting Life     (Drawn & Quarterly ) Yoshihiro Tatsumi    [ 6]     [ 7]     Footnotes in Gaza     (Metropolitan Books /Henry Holt and Company ) Joe Sacco    The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir     (Little, Brown ) Laurie Sandell    Monsters     (Secret Acres ) Ken Dahl    The Photographer     (First Second Books ) Emmanuel Guibert   , Didier Lefèvre , and Frédéric Lemercier   Stitches     (W. W. Norton & Company ) David Small   2011  It Was the War of the Trenches     (Fantagraphics ) Jacques Tardi    [ 8]     [ 9]     Picture This: The Nearsighted Monkey Book     (Drawn & Quarterly ) Lynda Barry    Special Exits: A Graphic Memoir     (Fantagraphics ) Joyce Farmer    Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Terrible Axe Man of New Orleans     (NBM Publishing ) Rick Geary    Two Generals     (McClelland & Stewart ) Scott Chantler    You'll Never Know     Book 2: Collateral Damage (Fantagraphics ) Carol Tyler   2012  Green River Killer: A True Detective Story     (Dark Horse Comics ) Jeff Jensen     and  Jonathan Case    [ 10]     [ 9]     Around the World     (Candlewick Press ) Matt Phelan    Marzi: A Memoir     (Vertigo Comics /DC Comics ) Marzena Sowa    and Sylvain Savoia   Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths     (Drawn & Quarterly ) Shigeru Mizuki    Vietnamerica     (Villard ) GB Tran   2013  Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller     (Center for Cartoon Studies /Hyperion Books for Children )  [ note 1]     Joseph Lambert    [ 11]     [ 9]     The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song     (Abrams ComicArts )  [ note 1]     Frank M. Young     and  David Lasky    A Chinese Life     (SelfMadeHero ) Li Kunwu    and Philippe Ôtié , translated by Edward Gauvin   The Infinite Wait and Other Stories     (Koyama Press ) Julia Wertz    Marbles: Mania Depression Michelangelo & Me     (Gotham Books ) Ellen Forney    You'll Never Know     Book 3: A Soldier's Heart (Fantagraphics ) Carol Tyler   2014  The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story     (M Press /Dark Horse Comics ) Vivek J. Tiwary    ,  Andrew C. Robinson   , and  Kyle Baker    [ 12]     [ 9]     A Bag of Marbles     (Graphic Universe /Lerner Publishing Group ) Joseph Joffo   , Kris , and Vincent Bailly   Hip Hop Family Tree    , Book 1: 1970s-1981 (Fantagraphics ) Ed Piskor    March    : Book One (Top Shelf Productions ) John Lewis   , Andrew Aydin , and Nate Powell   Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life     (Fantagraphics ) Ulli Lust    Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story  [  broken anchor    ]    (Drawn & Quarterly ) Peter Bagge   2015  Hip Hop Family Tree    , Book 2: 1981-1983 (Fantagraphics ) Ed Piskor    [ 13]     [ 9]     Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?     (Bloomsbury Publishing ) Roz Chast    Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories     (2d Cloud /Uncivilized Books ) MariNaomi    El Deafo     (Amulet Books /Abrams Books ) Cece Bell    Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: Treaties Trenches Mud and Blood     (Abrams Books ) Nathan Hale    To End All Wars: The Graphic Anthology of The First World War     (Soaring Penguin Press )edited by Jonathan Clode    and John Stuart Clark  2016  March: Book Two     (Top Shelf Productions /IDW Publishing ) John Lewis    ,  Andrew Aydin   , and  Nate Powell    [ 14]     [ 9]     The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East 1978–1984     (Metropolitan Books ) Riad Sattouf    Displacement: A Travelogue     (Fantagraphics ) Lucy Knisley    Hip Hop Family Tree     Book 3: 1983–1984 (Fantagraphics ) Ed Piskor    Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist     (Fantagraphics ) Bill Griffith    The Story of My Tits     (Top Shelf Productions /IDW Publishing ) Jennifer Hayden   2017  March: Book Three     (Top Shelf Productions ) John Lewis    ,  Andrew Aydin   , and  Nate Powell    [ 15]     [ 9]     Dark Night: A True Batman Story     (Vertigo Comics /DC Comics ) Paul Dini    and Eduardo Risso   Glenn Gould: A Life Off Tempo     (NBM Publishing ) Sandrine Revel    Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir     (St. Martin's Press ) Tom Hart    Tetris: The Games People Play     (First Second Books ) Box Brown   2018  Spinning     (First Second Books ) Tillie Walden    [ 16]     [ 9]     Audubon: On the Wings of the World     (Nobrow Press ) Fabien Grolleau    and Jerémie Royer , translated by Etienne Gilfillan   The Best We Could Do     (Abrams ComicArts ) Thi Bui    Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary 1852–1903     (IDW Publishing ) Christian Perrissin    and Matthieu Blanchin , translated by Diana Schutz  and Brandon Kander   Lennon: The New York Years     (IDW Publishing ) David Foenkinos   , Éric Corbeyran , and Horne Perreard , translated by Ivanka Hahnenberger  2019  Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman     (First Second Books ) Box Brown    [ 17]     [ 18]     All the Answers: A Graphic Memoir     (Gallery 13 ) Michael Kupperman    All the Sad Songs     (Retrofit Comics /Big Planet Comics ) Summer Pierre    Monk!     (First Second Books ) Youssef Daoudi    One Dirty Tree     (Uncivilized Books ) Noah Van Sciver   2020s 2020  They Called Us Enemy     (Top Shelf Productions ) George Takei    ,  Justin Eisinger   ,  Steven Scott   , and  Harmony Becker    [ 19]     [ 20]     Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations     (One World /Random House ) Mira Jacob   Grass   (Drawn & Quarterly ) Keum Suk Gendry-Kim   , translation by Janet Hong   Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos     (First Second Books /Macmillan ) Lucy Knisley    Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight     (Hill & Wang ) Jonathan Fetter-Vorm    My Solo Exchange Diary    , vol. 2 (Seven Seas Entertainment ) Nagata Kabi   , translation Jocelyne Allen  2021  Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio     (Abrams Books ) Derf Backderf    [ 21]     [ 22]     Big Black: Stand at Attica     (Archaia Entertainment /Boom! Studios ) Frank “Big Black” Smith   , Jared Reinmuth , and Améziane   Dragon Hoops     (First Second Books /Macmillan Publishers ) Gene Luen Yang    Invisible Differences: A Story of Asperger’s, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color     (Oni Press ) Mademoiselle Caroline    and Julie Dachez , translation by Edward Gauvin   Paying the Land     (Metropolitan Books /Henry Holt and Company ) Joe Sacco    Year of the Rabbit     (Drawn & Quarterly ) Tian Veasna   , translation by Helge Dascher  2023 Flung Out of Space  (Abrams ComicArts ) Grace Ellis  and Hannah Templer    [ 23]    Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense  (HBM)Noël Simsolo and Dominique Hé, translation by Montana Kane Alice Guy: First Lady of Film  (Self Made Hero )José-Louis Bocquet and Catel Muller, translation by Edward Gauvin But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust  (University of Toronto Press )edited by Charlotte Schallié   Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism  (Fantagraphics ) Jess Ruliffson   Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball  (First Second /Macmillan )Jon Chad