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