Saturday, August 23, 2008

Top 10 Graphic Novels

#1. Achewood
Written by Chris Onstad
#2. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier
Written by Alan Moore, illustrated by Kevin O'Neill

#3. All Star Superman
Written by Grant Morrison, illustrated by Frank Quitely

#4. Marvel Zombies 2
Written by Robert Kirkman, illustrated by Sean Phillips and Arthur Suydam

#5. Jack of the Fables, Vol. 1: The (Nearly) Great Escape
Written by Bill Willingham, Matthew Sturges and Tony Aikins, illustrated by Andrew Pepoy

Topten Children's Books

#1. When Dinosaurs Came with Everything
Written by Elise Broach, illustrated by David Small
#2. Today I Will Fly
Written and illustrated by Mo Willems

#3. Motherbridge of Love
Illustrated by Josee Masse

#4. Iggy Peck, Architect
Written by Andrea Beaty, illustrated by David Roberts

#5. Great Joy
Written by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline

#6. Diary of A Fly
Written Doreen Cronin; illustrated by Harry Bliss

#7. The Chicken-Chasing Queen of Lamar County
Written by Janice N. Harrington; illustrated by Shelley Jackson

#8. Smelly Bill
Written and Illustrated by Daniel Postgate
#9. City Lullaby
Written by Marilyn Singer, illustrated by Carll Cneut

#10. Cherry and Olive
Written and Illustrated by Benjamin Lacombe

Topten Fiction Books

#1. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
by Junot Díaz
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
#2. Then We Came to the End: A Novel
by Joshua Ferris
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
#3. A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover
#4. Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
by Per Petterson
Publisher: Graywolf Press

#5. Tree of Smoke: A Novel
by Denis Johnson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

#6. The House of Meetings
by Martin Amis
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
#7. No One Belongs Here More Than You
by Miranda July
Publisher: Scribner

#8. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J.K. Rowling
Publisher: Arthur A. Levine Books

#9. Like You'd Understand, Anyway
by Jim Shepard
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group

#10. The Post-Birthday World
by Lionel Shriver
Publisher: HarperCollins