As always, the list is more than half manga (we’ll get to that in a minute), but the other titles are an interesting mix because they are distributed fairly evenly across several genres. The top title is The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins, a graphic novel based on a podcast about a role-playing game. The book was number one in July and August and has stayed in the top 20 since then, which illustrates the staying power of a niche title (if the niche is big enough, anyway).
The others come marching in two by two: Two superhero titles, both Batman; two Image titles, the latest volumes of Saga and The Walking Dead; and two adaptations of prose classics, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Diary of Anne Frank. Rounding out the non-manga selection is The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, the latest Archie horror title, which may have gotten a boost from the new Netflix series (see "Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s Chilling Adventures Move to Netflix").
And then there’s the manga. The November chart includes 12 volumes of manga. 11 of them are from VIZ Media, and of those, 7 are volumes of My Hero Academia or the spinoff My Hero Academia: Vigilantes. The others are the latest volumes of RWBY: Official Manga Anthology, One Piece, and Dragon Ball: That Time I Got Reincarnated as Yamcha!, all of which came out in November, and vol. 4 of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a September release. The one non-VIZ title on the chart was vol. 1 of Mob Psycho 100, which sounds like it might be about a psychotic gangster but actually is a series about a fake exorcist who relies on his teenage assistant’s magical powers (see "Dark Horse Licenses ‘Mob Psycho 100’"). This series is by ONE, the creator of the super-popular superhero spoof series One-Punch Man.
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NPD BookScan Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels – November 2018 (10/28/18 - 12/1/18) |
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Rank |
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
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1 |
THE ADVENTURE ZONE: HERE THERE BE GERBLINS |
CLINT MCELROY |
FIRST SECOND BOOKS |
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2 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 1 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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3 |
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: A GRAPHIC NOVEL HC |
HARPER LEE |
HARPER |
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4 |
SAGA VOL. 9 |
BRIAN K. VAUGHAN |
IMAGE COMICS |
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5 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 15 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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6 |
BATMAN: WHITE KNIGHT |
SEAN MURPHY |
DC BLACK LABEL |
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7 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 2 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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8 |
RWBY: OFFICIAL MANGA ANTHOLOGY VOL. 3 |
VARIOUS |
VIZ MEDIA |
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9 |
THE WALKING DEAD VOL. 30 |
ROBERT KIRKMAN |
IMAGE COMICS |
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10 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 3 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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11 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 14 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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12 |
THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: TWILIGHT PRINCESS VOL. 4 |
AKIRA HIMEKAWA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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13 |
CHILLING ADVENTURES OF SABRINA |
ROBERT AGUIRRE-SACASA |
ARCHIE COMIC PUB. |
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14 |
ANNE FRANK'S DIARY THE GRAPHIC ADAPTATION HC |
ANNE FRANK |
PANTHEON BOOKS |
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15 |
DRAGON BALL: THAT TIME I GOT REINCARNATED AS YAMCHA! |
AKIRA TORIYAMA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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16 |
ONE PIECE VOL. 88 |
EIICHIRO ODA |
VIZ MEDIA |
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17 |
MOB PSYCHO 100 VOL. 1 |
ONE |
DARK HORSE MANGA |
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18 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA VOL. 4 |
KOHEI HORIKOSHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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19 |
BATMAN VOL. 7 (REBIRTH) |
TOM KING |
DC COMICS |
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20 |
MY HERO ACADEMIA: VIGILANTES VOL. 2 |
HIDEYUKI FURUHASHI |
VIZ MEDIA |
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Source: The NPD Group/BookScan |
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For charts of November graphic novel sales from NPD BookScan:
November 2018 NPD BookScan – Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels
November 2018 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:
November 2018 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Adult Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
November 2018 NPD BookScan - Top 20 Kids Graphic Novels with Actual Sales
November 2018 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."