The Indie Comics & 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 October 3, 2021.

Children's

1. Friends Forever
Shannon Hale, LeUyen Pham (Illus.), First Second, $12.99, 9781250317568

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

3. Allergic
Megan Wagner Lloyd, Michelle Mee Nutter (Illus.), Graphix, $12.99, 9781338568905

4. Sisters
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540605

5. Guts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9780545852500

6. New Kid
Jerry Craft, Quill Tree Books, $12.99, 9780062691194

7. Ghosts
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545540629

8. Smile
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $12.99, 9781338740264

9. Drama
Raina Telgemeier, Graphix, $10.99, 9780545326995

10. When Stars Are Scattered
Victoria Jamieson, Omar Mohamed, Dial Books, $12.99, 9780525553908

Adult

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

2. Run: Book One
John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury (Illus.), Nate Powell (Illus.), Abrams ComicArts, $24.99, 9781419730696

3. The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel, Mariner Books, $24, 9780544387652

4. Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
Kristen Radtke, Pantheon Books, $30, 9781524748067

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

6. They Called Us Enemy
George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, Harmony Becker (Illus.), Top Shelf Productions, $19.99, 9781603094504

7. Solutions and Other Problems
Allie Brosh, Gallery Books, $30, 9781982156947

8. Let's Make Dumplings!: A Comic Book Cookbook
Hugh Amano, Sarah Becan, Ten Speed Press, $19.99, 9781984858757

9. Strange Planet
Nathan W. Pyle, Morrow Gift, $14.99, 9780062970701

10. Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi, Pantheon, $16, 9780375714573