Dav Pilkey’s Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls, released in mid-August, is the top seller, and Raina Telgemeier’s Guts, a mid-September release, is the number two title.
In third place is the newest Baby-Sitters Club graphic novel, Boy-Crazy Stacey, making Gale Galligan the third best-selling comic creator of the month. That book is also a mid-September release, so it’s impressive that it has done so well. Telgemeier adapted the first four Baby-Sitters Club graphic novels, which were published in black and white in the late 00s and reissued in color after Smile became a best-seller. Galligan took over with volume 5, and her adaptations have consistently made the top 20.
Shannon Hale’s Best Friends, the follow-up to her 2017 graphic novel Real Friends, is at number five.
Between Dog Man, Telgemeier’s books, the Baby-Sitters Club, and the graphic adaptations of Tui Sutherland’s Wings of Fire books, it’s a very Graphix chart this month. The only interlopers are Best Friends (First Second), Big Nate: Hug It Out! (Andrews McMeel), two Last Kids on Earth books (Viking), and the latest Terri Libenson book, Just Jaime (Balzer & Bray).
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels – September 2019 (9/1/19 - 10/5/19) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
DOG MAN: FOR WHOM THE BALL ROLLS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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2 |
GUTS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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3 |
BOY-CRAZY STACEY |
ANN M. MARTIN |
GRAPHIX |
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4 |
DOG MAN: BRAWL OF THE WILD HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
|
5 |
BEST FRIENDS |
SHANNON HALE |
FIRST SECOND BOOKS |
|
6 |
DOG MAN HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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7 |
DOG MAN: LORD OF THE FLEAS HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
|
8 |
DOG MAN UNLEASHED HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
|
9 |
DOG MAN AND CAT KID HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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10 |
DOG MAN: A TALE OF TWO KITTIES HC |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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11 |
THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH HC |
BRALLIER, MAX |
VIKING BOOKS YR |
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12 |
BIG NATE: HUG IT OUT! |
LINCOLN PEIRCE |
ANDREWS MCMEEL |
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13 |
DRAMA |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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14 |
SMILE |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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15 |
GHOSTS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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16 |
SISTERS |
RAINA TELGEMEIER |
GRAPHIX |
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17 |
THE LAST KIDS ON EARTH AND THE ZOMBIE PARADE HC |
MAX BRALLIER |
VIKING BOOKS YR |
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18 |
THE DRAGONET PROPHECY |
TUI T. SUTHERLAND |
GRAPHIX |
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19 |
DOG MAN: THE SUPA EPIC COLLECTION |
DAV PILKEY |
GRAPHIX |
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20 |
JUST JAIME |
TERRI LIBENSON |
BALZER & BRAY |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of September graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
September 2019 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels
September 2019 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Superhero, Manga, Author Graphic Novels
For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
September 2019 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
September 2019 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
September 2019 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Superhero, Manga, Author Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
NPD BookScan collects weekly point-of-sale data on print books from over 16,000 locations including e-tailers, chains, mass merchandisers, independent bookstores, and more. NPD BookScan covers approximately 85% of the U.S. trade print book market. The ranks on this chart are based on piece sales. Some publishers classify titles that are primarily text, or art books, as graphic novels; we've removed those titles from the ranking above.
For past BookScan Top 20 Graphic Novel lists, see the "BookScan Top 20 GN Index."
