New Graphic Novels & Nonfiction:
January 2026
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Fiction
An Embarrassment of Witches by Sophie Goldstein
An Embarrassment of Witches
by Sophie Goldstein

A coming-of-age urban fantasy set in a world full of animal familiars, enchanted plants, and spell-casting that explores the mundane horrors of breakups, job searches, and post-graduate existential angst. 
In the End We All Die: A Graphic Novel by Tobias Aeschbacher
In the End We All Die: A Graphic Novel
by Tobias Aeschbacher

When three sleazy gangsters storm into an apartment in search of a stolen urn, they set off a series of unfortunate events that threatens everyone in the building.
Spectators by Brian K. Vaughan
Spectators
by Brian K. Vaughan

Hundreds of years in the future, New York City is haunted by many ghosts, including a voyeuristic woman who died in our present day and a mysterious gun-toting man from the distant past. Normally solo travelers, these two specters meet and travel around the world together, bearing witness to society's forward march toward decay. A gripping and provocative graphic novel that takes a hard look at sex and violence, and the very different ways we obsessively watch both.
Nonfiction
Free Speech Handbook: A Practical Framework for Understanding Our Free Speech Protections by Ian Rosenberg
Free Speech Handbook: A Practical Framework for Understanding Our Free Speech Protections
by Ian Rosenberg

This book is a graphic novel adaptation of The Fight for Free Speech: Ten Cases That Define Our First Amendment Freedoms, which was published in 2021 by NYU Press.
The Murder Next Door: A Graphic Memoir by Hugh D'Andrade
The Murder Next Door: A Graphic Memoir
by Hugh D'Andrade

When Hugh was ten years old, he walked home from school to find his friends next door crying outside – they had just come home and discovered their mother’s body. She had been murdered. Now an adult, Hugh has a happy social life and a successful career as an artist in Oakland, California. Does trauma ever go away? Or does it just hang around, in the backs of our minds forever? 
Talking to My Father's Ghost: An Almost True Story by Alex Krokus
Talking to My Father's Ghost: An Almost True Story
by Alex Krokus

Inspired by real-life experience, Alex Krokus's graphic novel is a heartfelt and humorous story of losing a parent and getting to know him better after his passing.
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