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Monstress Tops Amazon's Best Comics And Graphic Novels Of 2016

61y3bskw7hlAmazon has named its top twenty comics and graphic novels of 2016, with the overall winner being Monstress Vol 1: Awakening by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda, published by Image Comics.

Monstress is also the only comic book to appear on the Top 100 Books Of 2016 Amazon list – though it is also joined by the prose novella Normal by Warren Ellis.

Here is the full top twenty, in order of sales.

Ghosts
by Raina Telgemeier

Moebius Library: The World of Edena
by Moebius

Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet Book 1
by Ta-Nehisi Coates and Brian Stelfreeze

March: Book Three
by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin

Monstress Volume 1: Awakening
by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda

Paper Girls Volume 1
by Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang

Vision Vol. 1: Little Worse Than A Man
by Tom King and Gabriel Hernandez Walta

Patience
by Daniel Clowes

Dark Night: A True Batman Story
by Paul Dini and Eduardo Risso

Neil Gaiman's How to Talk to Girls at Parties
by Neil Gaiman and Gabriel Bá

Rolling Blackouts: Dispatches from Turkey, Syria, and IraqOct 4, 2016
by Sarah Glidden

Clean Room Vol. 1: Immaculate Conception
by Gail Simone

Princess Jellyfish 1
by Akiko Higashimura

Hot Dog Taste Test
by Lisa Hanawalt

Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
by Tom Hart

Black Magick Volume 1: Awakening
by Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott

Faith Volume 1: Hollywood and Vine
by Jody Houser and Francis Portela

How to Be Perfect: An Illustrated Guide
by Ron Padgett and Jason Novak

The Birth of Kitaro
by Shigeru Mizuki and Zack Davisson

Exits
by Daryl Seitchik

Are there any commonalities? Well clearly being good is one, having a female lead helps and calling the first volume of your series "Awakening" seems to work too…


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