| 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 Delislefg
|
| 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 (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
|
