Like clockwork, the editors of Amazon.com have announced their choices for the Best Books of 2013, in categories ranging from History to Literature & Fiction to, yes, Comics & Graphic Novels.
Of course, comics weren't limited to that one section: While Gilbert Hernandez's Marble Season was named the best book in Comics & Graphic Novels, it also appeared at No. 71 on the editors' rundown of the Top 100 of 2013, alongside Rutu Modan's The Property (No. 80). Here's the full Comics & Graphic Novels list:
- Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, by Allie Brosh (Touchstone)
- Batman, Vol. 3: Death of the Family, by Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo (DC Comics)
- Saga, Vol. 2, by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples (Image Comics)
- Boxers & Saints, by Gene Luen Yang (First Second)
- Battling Boy, by Paul Pope (First Second)
- March Book 1, by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell (Top Shelf Productions)
- Hawkeye, Vol. 1: My Life as a Weapon, by Matt Fraction, David Aja and Javier Pulido (Marvel)
- East of West, Vol. 1: The Promise, by Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta (Image Comics)
- The Black Beetle, Vol. 1: Now Way Out, by Francesco Francavilla (Dark Horse)
- The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Ship That Sank Twice, by Mike Carey and Peter Gross (Vertigo)
- All-New X-Men, Vol. 1: Yesterday's X-Men, by Brian Michael Bendis and Stuart Immonen (Marvel)
- Relish: My Life in the Kitchen, by Lucy Knisley (First Second)
- Solo: The Deluxe Edition, by Darwyn Cooke, Jeph Loeb, Brian Azzarello, Richard Corben, Tim Sale, John Arcudi, Howard Chaykin, Mike Allred, Neil Gaiman, Steven T. Seagle and others (DC Comics)
- Mind MGMT, Vol. 1, by Matt Kindt (Dark Horse)
- Very Casual, by Michael DeForge (Koyama Press)
- My Dirty Dumb Eyes, by Lisa Hanawalt (Drawn and Quarterly)
- Lost Cat, by Jason (Fantagraphics)
- Daredevil by Mark Waid, Vol. 1, by Mark Waid, Paolo Rivera, Marcos Martin and Emma Rios (Marvel)
- The Property, by Rutu Modan (Drawn and Quarterly)
- Marbles, by Gilbert Hernandez (Drawn and Quarterly)
Pope's Battling Boy also earns a place among the Top 20 Children's Books of 2013, while Hyperbole and a Half also pops up on the Humor & Entertainment list. Also of note: Tim Leong's Super Graphic: A Visual Guide to the Comic Book Universe (Chronicle Books) comes in at No. 59 on the Top 100 books of 2013.