Family books for adults
81 award-winning books for adults. Parents, siblings and the families we make.
Fantasy and magic86Science fiction69Superheroes28Memoir and real lives139History98Funny109Manga124Horror and spooky48Crime and mystery57Adventure30Friendship and school25Family81Animals35Science and the real world130LGBTQ+ stories19
81 books
Winner2024Family Style: Memories of an American from VietnamThien Pham2024 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir winner
Winner2024Hip Hop Family TreeEd Piskor2024 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint winner
Winner2021The Loneliness of the Long-Distance CartoonistAdrian Tomine2021 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir winner
Winner2020Cats of the LouvreTaiyō Matsumoto2020 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Asia winner
Winner2016Two BrothersFábio Moon and Gabriel Bá2016 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium winner
Winner2014The PropertyRutu Modan2014 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New winner
Winner2014Vader's Little PrincessJeffrey Brown2014 Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication winner
Winner2013The Carter Family: Don't Forget This SongFrank M. Young and David Lasky2013 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work winner
Winner2011WilsonDaniel Clowes2011 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New winner
Winner2009Swallow Me WholeNate Powell2009 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New winner
Winner2008Exit WoundsRutu Modan2008 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New winner
Winner2007Fun HomeAlison Bechdel2007 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work winner
Winner2004BlanketsCraig Thompson2004 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New winner
Winner2002The Name of the GameWill Eisner2002 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New winner
Winner2001Jimmy CorriganChris Ware2001 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint winner
Winner1994Cerebus: Flight (Mothers and Daughters, Book 1)Dave Sim and Gerhard1994 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint winnerMy Brother's HusbandGengoroh TagameWinner2018My Brother's HusbandGengoroh Tagame2018 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Asia winner
Nominee2025The Heart That Fed: A Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of WarCarl Sciacchitano2025 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2023Talk to My BackMurasaki Yamada2023 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Asia nominee
Nominee2022Ballad For SophieFilipe Melo and Juan Cavia2022 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nominee
Nominee2022Meadowlark: A Coming-of-Age Crime StoryEthan Hawke and Greg Ruth2022 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nominee
Nominee2022ParenthesisÉlodie Durand [ fr ]2022 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir nominee
Nominee2022Save it for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of ProtestNate Powell2022 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir nominee
Nominee2021I Don't Know How to Give Birth!Ayami Kazama2021 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir nominee
Nominee2021Stone FruitLee Lai2021 Harvey Award for Book of the Year nominee
Nominee2021Year of the RabbitTian Veasna, translation by Helge Dascher2021 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2020Clyde FansSeth2020 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint nominee
Nominee2020Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Salvador Dali, the Marx Brothers, and the Strangest Movie Never MadeJosh Frank, Tim Heidecker, and Manuela Pertega2020 Eisner Award for Best Adaptation from Another Medium nominee
Nominee2020Kid GlovesLucy Knisley2020 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2020Rusty BrownChris Ware2020 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint nominee
Nominee2019Belonging: A German Reckons with History and HomeNora Krug2019 Harvey Award for Book of the Year nominee
Nominee2019One Dirty TreeNoah Van Sciver2019 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2018Everything is FlammableGabrielle Bell2018 Harvey Award for Book of the Year nominee
Nominee2018Lighter Than My ShadowKatie Green2018 Harvey Award for Book of the Year nominee
Nominee2018RoughneckJeff Lemire2018 Harvey Award for Book of the Year nominee
Nominee2018The Best We Could DoThi Bui2018 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2017Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic MemoirTom Hart2017 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2016Displacement: A TravelogueLucy Knisley2016 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2016Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous CartoonistBill Griffith2016 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2016Soldier’s Heart: The Campaign to Understand My WWII Veteran FatherCarol Tyler2016 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint nominee
Nominee2016The Story of My TitsJennifer Hayden2016 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2015Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?Roz Chast2015 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2015Kill My MotherJules Feiffer2015 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nominee
Nominee2014When David Lost His VoiceJudith Vanistendael2014 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material nominee
Nominee2014Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger StoryPeter Bagge2014 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2013UnterzakhnLeela Corman2013 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nominee
Nominee2012Kinky & CosyNix2012 Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication nominee
Nominee2012VietnamericaGB Tran2012 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2011AyakoOsamu Tezuka2011 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Asia nominee
Nominee2011Bunny DropYumi Unita2011 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Asia nominee
Nominee2011Special Exits: A Graphic MemoirJoyce Farmer2011 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2010My mommy is in America and she met Buffalo BillJean Regnaud and Émile Bravo2010 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nominee
Nominee2010StitchesDavid Small2010 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2010The Impostor's Daughter: A True MemoirLaurie Sandell2010 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee
Nominee2010Years of the ElephantWilly Linthout2010 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material nominee
Nominee2009Skyscrapers of the MidwestJoshua W. Cotter2009 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint nominee
Nominee2009The Umbrella AcademyGerard Way and Gabriel Bá2009 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint nominee
Nominee2009Three ShadowsCyril Pedrosa2009 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nominee
Nominee2007Mom's CancerBrian Fies2007 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint nominee
Nominee2006Acme Novelty Library #16Chris Ware2006 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nominee
Nominee2000Ethel & ErnestRaymond Briggs2000 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nominee
Nominee1999Family MatterWill Eisner1999 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nominee
Nominee1999The Amazing "True" Story of a Teenage Single MomKatherine Arnoldi1999 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nominee
Nominee1999You Are HereKyle Baker1999 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nominee
Nominee1997Daddy's GirlDebbie Drechsler1997 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint nominee
Nominee1996Fairy Tales of the Brothers GrimmDoug Wheeler and David Wenzel1996 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nomineeDo Admit: The Mitford Sisters and MeMimi PondNominee2026Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and MeMimi Pond2026 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nomineeTalking to My Father's Ghost: An Almost True StoryAlex KrokusNominee2026Talking to My Father's Ghost: An Almost True StoryAlex Krokus2026 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir nomineeKids Are Still Weird: And More Observations from ParenthoodJeffrey BrownNominee2025Kids Are Still Weird: And More Observations from ParenthoodJeffrey Brown2025 Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication nomineeGeneviève Castrée: Complete WorksGeneviève Castrée, translation by Phil Elverum and Aleshia JensenNominee2023Geneviève Castrée: Complete WorksGeneviève Castrée, translation by Phil Elverum and Aleshia Jensen2023 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: Reprint nomineeSaga, Volume 10Brian K. VaughanNominee2023Saga, Volume 10Brian K. Vaughan2023 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story or Comic nomineeWho Will Make The PancakesMegan KelsoNominee2023Who Will Make The PancakesMegan Kelso2023 Harvey Award for Book of the Year nomineeSisters of the MistMarlyn SpaaijNominee2022Sisters of the MistMarlyn Spaaij2022 Harvey Award for Book of the Year nomineeA Journal of My FatherJiro TaniguchiNominee2021A Journal of My FatherJiro Taniguchi2021 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Asia nomineeFlakeMatthew DooleyNominee2021FlakeMatthew Dooley2021 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nomineeAll the Answers: A Graphic MemoirMichael KuppermanNominee2019All the Answers: A Graphic MemoirMichael Kupperman2019 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nomineeSaga, Volume 9Brian K. VaughanNominee2019Saga, Volume 9Brian K. Vaughan2019 Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story or Comic nomineeThe Motherless OvenRob DavisNominee2015The Motherless OvenRob Davis2015 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nomineeWolf Children: Ame & YukiMamoru Hosoda and YūNominee2015Wolf Children: Ame & YukiMamoru Hosoda and Yū2015 Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material: Asia nomineeHomesickJason WalzNominee2014HomesickJason Walz2014 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album: New nomineeYou'll Never KnowCarol TylerNominee2013You'll Never KnowCarol Tyler2013 Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work nominee