Kirkus Best Books of the Year - YA Graphic Novels (Awarded by Kirkus)

Awards List

2024

Call Me Iggy
(*)
Jorge Aguirre

49 Days
(*)
Agnes Lee

Safe Passage
(*)
G. Neri

Dreamer: Bad Dream
(*)
Nicole Maines

Young Hag and the Witches' Quest
(*)
Isabel Greenberg

Brownstone
(*)
Samuel Teer

The Deep Dark
(*)
Molly Knox Ostertag

Maelstrom: A Prince of Evil
(*)
Lorian Merriman

The Ghostkeeper
(*)
Johanna Taylor

Woe: A Housecat's Story of Despair: (A Graphic Novel)
(*)
Lucy Knisley

Ash's Cabin
(*)
Jen Wang

Please Be My Star: A Graphic Novel
(*)
Victoria Grace Elliott

Leap
(*)
Simina Popescu

2023

Hungry Ghost
(*)
Victoria Ying

Mage and the Endless Unknown
(*)
S.J. Miller

Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story
(*)
Sarah Myer

Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali
(*)
Marc Bernardin

Phoebe's Diary
(*)
Phoebe Wahl

Look on the Bright Side
(*)
Lily Williams

Courage to Dream
(*)
Neal Shusterman

2022

Crushing
(*)
Sophie Burrows

Amazona
(*)
Canizales

Shuna's Journey
(*)
Hayao Miyazaki

2021

The Crossroads at Midnight
(*)
Abby Howard

Nubia
(*)
L.L. McKinney

The Hazards of Love Vol. 1: Bright World
(*)
Stan Stanley

Run: Book One
(*)
John Lewis

Himawari House
(*)
Harmony Becker

The Devil's Music
(*)
Nathan Page

2020

Long Way Down
(*)
Jason Reynolds

Superman Smashes the Klan
(*)
Gene Luen Yang

Flamer
(*)
Mike Curato

The Magic Fish
(*)
Trung Le Nguyen

Children
(*)
Abby Howard

Award Categories

Affirming Picture Books

Bedtime Books

Beginning Readers

Board Books

Book Club Fiction

Books for Beginning Readers

Debut Fiction

Empowering Picture Books

Environmental Fiction

Fiction

Fiction in Translation

Fictional Families

Fictional Voices

Funniest Picture Books

Historical Fiction

Informational Picture Books

Joyous Picture Books

Middle-Grade About Speaking Up

Middle-Grade Activist

Middle-Grade Adventures

Middle-Grade Family Stories

Middle-Grade Fantasy and SF

Middle-Grade Fiction

Middle-Grade Friendship Stories

Middle-Grade Graphic Fiction

Award Years

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019