The number three title is Anthony Bourdain’s Hungry Ghosts, collecting the four issues of the comic that the late chef and television host co-wrote with Joel Rose (his collaborator on Get Jiro), and with art by Alberto Ponticelli, Irene Koh, Paul Pope, and others. The book includes recipes and extras and may be attracting non-comics-readers who are fans of Bourdain, who committed suicide earlier this year.
The only superhero comic on this very mixed Top 20 is Sean Murphy's Batman: White Knight, the first trade released under DC Comics' Black Label imprint and a story that’s far outside the standard Batman continuity.
The Top 20 includes 12 volumes of manga, all from VIZ Media; one superhero comic, as noted above; and eight other graphic novels, from a variety of publishers and in a variety of genres: Volume 9 of Saga, two volumes of The Walking Dead, the Anthony Bourdain book, the unstoppable gamer comic The Adventure Zone, and two books that could probably also be classed as Young Adult, Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Novel and Sheets.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – October 2018 (9/30/18 - 10/27/18) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
SAGA VOL. 9 |
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN |
IMAGE COMICS |
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2 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 15 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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3 |
ANTHONY BOURDAIN'S HUNGRY GHOST HC |
ANTHONY BOURDAIN |
DARK HORSE COMICS |
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4 |
BATMAN: WHITE KNIGHT |
SEAN MURPHY |
DC BLACK LABEL |
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5 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VIGILANTES VOL. 2 |
HIDEYUKI FURUHASHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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6 |
THE ADVENTURE ZONE: HERE THERE BE GERBLINS |
CLINT MCELROY |
FIRST SECOND BOOKS |
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7 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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8 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 14 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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9 |
THE WALKING DEAD VOL. 30 |
ROBERT KIRKMAN |
IMAGE COMICS |
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10 |
TOKYO GHOUL RE VOL. 7 |
SUI ISHIDA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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11 |
BERSERK OFFICIAL GUIDEBOOK |
KENTARO MIURA |
DARK HORSE MANGA |
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12 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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13 |
ANNE FRANK'S DIARY THE GRAPHIC ADAPTATION HC |
ANNE FRANK |
PANTHEON BOOKS |
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14 |
FRANKENSTEIN: JUNJI ITO STORY COLLECTION HC |
JUNJI ITO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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15 |
BLEACH VOL. 74 |
TITE KUBO |
VIZ MEDIA |
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16 |
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS VOL. 4 |
AKIRA HIMEKAWA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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17 |
WALKING DEAD BOOK 15 HC |
ROBERT KIRKMAN |
IMAGE COMICS |
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18 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 3 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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19 |
SHEETS |
BRENNA THUMMLER |
LION FORGE |
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20 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VIGILANTES VOL. 1 |
HIDEYUKI FURUHASHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of October graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
October 2018 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels
October 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Manga, Superhero, and Author Graphic Novels
For the charts with the actual sales numbers from NPD BookScan, see these articles on the ICv2 Pro site:
October 2018 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sale
October 2018 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
October 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Manga, Superhero, and 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."