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The Hottest Graphic Novels of Summer 2009: Nonfiction List

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A Drifting Life
by Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Drawn & Quarterly
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You’ll Never Know
by C. Tyler
Fantagraphics
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The Photographer
by Didier Lefèvre and Emmanuel Guibert
First Second
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Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays
edited by Brendan Burford
Villard
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The Passion of the Hausfrau
by Nicole Chaison
Random House
6/16/2009

Abstract Comics
edited by Andrei Molotiu
Fantagraphics
6/29/09

Nelson Mandela: The Authorized Comic Book
by Nelson Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation; illustrated by Umlando Wezithombe
W.W. Norton
7/18/09

The Impostor’s Daughter
by Laurie Sandell
Little, Brown
7/29/09

A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
by Josh Neufeld
Random House
08/11/09

Stitches
by David Small
W.W. Norton
9/8/09