The Indie Comics and Graphic Works Bestseller List

The American Booksellers Association’s specialty bestseller lists provide a current snapshot of what’s selling in indie bookstores nationwide.

Here is the Indie Comics and Graphic Works Bestseller List, based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide for the eight-week period ending July 17, 2022. 

Children's & Young Adult

1. Heartstopper #1: A Graphic Novel
Alice Oseman, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338617436

2. Heartstopper #4: A Graphic Novel
Alice Oseman, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338617559

3. The First Cat in Space Ate Pizza
Mac Barnett, Shawn Harris (Illus.), Katherine Tegen Books, $15.99, 9780063084087

4. Heartstopper #3: A Graphic Novel
Alice Oseman, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338617528

5. Cat Kid Comic Club: Perspectives
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338784855

6. Heartstopper #2: A Graphic Novel
Alice Oseman, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338617474

7. Remarkably Ruby (Emmie & Friends)
Terri Libenson, Balzer + Bray, $13.99, 9780063139183

8. The Girl from the Sea: A Graphic Novel
Molly Knox Ostertag, Graphix, $14.99, 9781338540574

9. Swim Team
Johnnie Christmas, HarperAlley, $12.99, 9780063056763

10. Cat Kid Comic Club
Dav Pilkey, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338712766

Adult

1. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $22.99, 9780062976581

2. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $16.95, 9780394747231

3. The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $35, 9780679406419

4. Gender Queer: A Memoir
Maia Kobabe, Oni Press, $19.99, 9781549304002

5. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
Art Spiegelman, Pantheon, $16.95, 9780679729778

6. Lore Olympus: Volume One
Rachel Smythe, Random House Worlds, $19.99, 9780593356074

7. Lore Olympus: Volume Two
Rachel Smythe, Random House Worlds, $21, 9780593356081

8. The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse Deluxe (Yellow) Edition
Charlie Mackesy, HarperOne, $24.99, 9780063142787

9. On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy Snyder, Nora Krug (Illus.), Ten Speed Press, $16.99, 9781984859150

10. Sapiens: A Graphic History: The Birth of Humankind (Volume 1)
Yuval Noah Harari, Harper Perennial, $25.99, 9780063051331