Harvey Award for Book of the Year
| Book of the Year | |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| First award | 2018 |
This list covers the winners and nominees of the Harvey Award for Book of the Year from 2018 onward.
In 2018, the Harvey Awards were revamped into six categories, recognizing works as opposed to individual creators as in previous years.[1] Per the Harvey Awards website, the Book of the Year Award honors the "Best long-form graphic novel or collection that demonstrating excellence in writing, art or cartooning showcasing great representation of the form."[2]
Winner and nominees
| Year | Title | Author | Publisher | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Monstress | Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda | Image Comics | [3] |
| Black Hammer: Secret Origins | Jeff Lemire, Dean Ormston and Dave Stewart | Black Horse | [4] | |
| Boundless | Jillian Tamaki | Drawn and Quarterly | ||
| Everything is Flammable | Gabrielle Bell | Uncivilized Books | ||
| Hostage | Guy Delisle | Drawn and Quarterly | ||
| Kindred | Octavia E. Butler, adapted by Damian Duffy and illustrated by John Jennings | Abrams ComicArts | ||
| Lighter Than My Shadow | Katie Green | Lion Forge | ||
| My Favorite Thing is Monsters | Emil Ferris | Fantagraphics | ||
| Roughneck | Jeff Lemire | Gallery 13 | ||
| Shade the Changing Girl | Cecil Castellucci and Marley Zarcone | DC Comics | ||
| Spinning | Tillie Walden | First Second | ||
| The Best We Could Do | Thi Bui | Abrams Books | ||
| The Customer is Always Wrong | Mimi Pond | Drawn and Quarterly | ||
| The Flinstones | Mark Russell and Steve Pugh | DC Comics | ||
| The Prince and the Dressmaker | Jen Wang | First Second | ||
| 2019 | Hey Kiddo | Jarrett J. Krosoczka | Scholastic Graphix | [5] |
| Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home | Nora Krug | Scribner | [6][7] | |
| Berlin | Jason Lutes | Drawn & Quarterly | ||
| BTTM FDRS | Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore | Fantagraphics | ||
| Kid Gloves | Lucy Knisley | First Second | ||
| Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me | Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell | First Second | ||
| My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies | Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips | Image | ||
| On a Sunbeam | Tillie Walden | First Second | ||
| Upgrade Soul | Ezra Claytan Daniels | Lion Forge | ||
| When I Arrived at the Castle | E.M. Carroll | Koyama Press | ||
| 2020 | Dragon Hoops | Gene Luen Yang | First Second Books | [5] |
| Are You Listening? | Tillie Walden | First Second | [8] | |
| Grass | Keum Suk Gendry-Kim | Drawn and Quarterly | ||
| The Hard Tomorrow | Eleanor Davis | Drawn and Quarterly | ||
| Invisible Kingdom Vol. 1 | G. Willow Wilson and Christian Ward | Dark Horse Books/Berger Books | ||
| Little Bird: The Fight for Elder’s Hope | Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram | Image Comics | ||
| Making Comics | Lynda Barry | Drawn and Quarterly | ||
| Reincarnation Stories | Kim Deitch | Fantagraphics | ||
| Rusty Brown | Chris Ware | Pantheon Graphic Library | ||
| Something is Killing the Children Vol. 1 | James Tynion IV and Werther Dell’Edera | BOOM! Studios | ||
| 2021 | The Magic Fish | Trung Le Nguyen | Random House | [5] |
| The Book Tour | Andi Watson | Top Sheld Productions | [9][10] | |
| Cyclopedia Exotica | Aminder Dhaliwal | Drawn & Quarterly | ||
| Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End Of The World | James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds | Image Comics | ||
| Heaven No Hell | Michael DeForge | Drawn & Quarterly | ||
| Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio | Derf Backderf | Abrams | ||
| Monsters | Barry Windsor-Smith | Fantagraphics | ||
| Stone Fruit | Lee Lai | Fantgraphics | ||
| Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? | Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber | DC Comics | ||
| Save It For Later: Promises, Protest and Parenthood | Nate Powell | Abrams | ||
| 2022 | The Good Asian, Vol. 1 | Pornsak Pichetshote and Alexandre Tefenkgi | Image Comics | [5] |
| Ballad for Sophie | Filipe Melo and Juan Cavia | Top Shelf Productions | [11] | |
| Crisis Zone | Simon Hanselmann | Fantagraphics | ||
| Department of Truth, Vol 3: Free Country | James Tynion IV, Jorge Fornes, David Romero, John J. Pearson, Tyler Boss, Elsa Charretier and Alison Sampson | Image Comics | ||
| Far Sector | N. K. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell | DC Comics | ||
| The Many Deaths of Laila Starr | Ram V, Filipe Andrade, & Ines Amaro | BOOM! Studios | ||
| Lightfall Book 2: Shadow of the Bird | Tim Probert | HarperAlley | ||
| The Nice House on the Lake | James Tynion IV and Alvaro Martinez Bueno | DC Comics | ||
| Run: Book One | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury and Nate Powell | Abrams Books | ||
| Sisters of the Mist | Marlyn Spaaij | Flying Eye Books | ||
| 2023 | Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands | Kate Beaton | Drawn & Quarterly | [5] |
| Acting Class | Nick Drnaso | Drawn and Quarterly | [12][13] | |
| Follow Me Down: A Reckless Book | Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips and Jacob Phillips | Image Comics | ||
| Girl Juice | Benji Nate | Drawn and Quarterly | ||
| It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth | Zoe Thorogood | Image Comics | ||
| Little Monsters Vol. 1 | Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen | Image Comics | ||
| The Man in the McIntosh Suit | Rina Ayuyang | Drawn and Quarterly | ||
| Mimosa | Archie Bongiovanni | Abrams ComicArts/Surely | ||
| Public Domain Vol. 1 | Chip Zdarsky | Image Comics | ||
| Who Will Make The Pancakes | Megan Kelso | Fantagraphics | ||
| 2024 | Roaming | Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki | Drawn & Quarterly | [5] |
| Monica | Daniel Clowes | Fantagraphics | [14][15][16] | |
| A Guest in the House | E.M. Carroll | Macmillan Publishers | ||
| My Favorite Thing is Monsters Vol. 2 | Emil Ferris | Fantagraphics | ||
| Shubeik Lubeik | Deena Mohamed | Penguin Random House | ||
| Watership Down Graphic Novel | James Sturm and Joe Sutphin, based on the novel by Richard Adams | Penguin Random House | ||
| Tender | Beth Hetland | Fantagraphics | ||
| Lunar New Year Love Story | Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham | Macmillan Publishers | ||
| Love Everlasting | Tom King and Elsa Charretier | Image | ||
| Where the Body Was | Ed Brubaker and Sean Philips | Image | ||
| Radiant Black Vol. 5 | Kyle Higgins, Joe Clark, Eduardo Ferigato, and Marcelo Costa | Image | ||
| 2025 | Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees | Patrick Horvath | IDW Publishing | [17] |
| Final Cut | Charles Burns | Pantheon | [18] | |
| Ultimate Spider-Man Vol. 1 | Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto | Marvel Comics | ||
| Helen of Wyndhorn | Tom King and Bilquis Evely | IDW Publishing | ||
| Precious Metal: From the World of Little Bird | Darcy Van Poelgeest and Ian Bertram | Image Comics | ||
| 2026 | Absolute Batman Vol. 1: The Zoo | Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta | DC | [19] |
| Absolute Martian Manhunter Vol. 1: Martian Vision | Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez | DC | ||
| Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance | Ben Passmore | Pantheon | ||
| Cannon | Lee Lai | Drawn & Quarterly | ||
| Drome | Jesse Lonergan | 23rd Street Books/Macmillan | ||
| The Ephemerata: Shaping the Exquisite Nature of Grief | Carol Tyler | Fantagraphics | ||
| A Garden of Spheres | Linnea Sterte | Peow2 | ||
| More Weight: A Salem Story | Ben Wickey | Top Shelf/IDW | ||
| The Once and Future Riot | Joe Sacco | Metropolitan/Holt | ||
| The Weight | Melissa Mendes | Drawn & Quarterly |
References
- ↑ MacDonald, Heidi (2018-06-27). "Details of the 2018 Harvey Awards announced and it's a big change". The Beat. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
- ↑ "Harvey Awards". www.harveyawards.com. Retrieved 2026-07-25.
- ↑ MacDonald, Heidi (2018-10-06). "2018 Harvey Award Winners Announced". The Beat. Retrieved 2026-07-21.
- ↑ MacDonald, Heidi (2018-08-09). "2018 Harvey Awards Nominations Announced". The Beat. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Previous Winners". www.harveyawards.com. Retrieved 2026-07-21.
- ↑ "Announcing The 2019 Harvey Awards Nominees". www.harveyawards.com. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ MacDonald, Heidi (2019-08-14). "Syndicated Comics". The Beat. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ "HARVEY AWARDS REVEAL 2020 NOMINEES". www.harveyawards.com. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ "Harvey Awards Reveal 2021 Nominees". www.harveyawards.com. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ Grunenwald, Joe (2021-07-16). "2021 Harvey Awards nominees revealed, and voting is now open". The Beat. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ "Harvey Awards Unveil 2022 Nominees". www.harveyawards.com. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ Brooke, David (2023-08-11). "Harvey Awards 2023 nominees announced". AIPT. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ "Harvey Awards Unveil 2023 Nominees". www.harveyawards.com. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ MacDonald, Heidi (October 22, 2024). "At the 2024 New York Comic Con, Comics Still Rule". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved October 24, 2024.
- ↑ "Harvey Awards Reveal 2024 Nominees". www.harveyawards.com. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ MacDonald, Heidi (2024-08-14). "2024 Harvey Awards nominees announced". The Beat. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ Community (2025-10-13). "These Are The 2025 Harvey Award Winners". BOOK RIOT. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ "Harvey Awards Unveil 2025 Nominees". www.harveyawards.com. Retrieved 2026-07-16.
- ↑ "Harvey Awards Unveil 2026 Nominees". www.harveyawards.com. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
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