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2025 NoveList Reading Challenge - October - Try an award-winning audiobook or graphic novel

This month's challenge encourages readers to look beyond text on a page and open up their other senses. Experience a story through the intimacy of an audiobook, or discover new dimensions to reading by grabbing a graphic novel! #TigardLibrary #TigardAdults #WCCLS #NoveListChallenge2025 *Annotations are mostly adapted from NoveList

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  • When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2024[S.I.] : Books on Tape, 2024. — Overdrive
  • Combining elements of historical fiction, family drama, a coming-of-age-tale, and a murder mystery into an unforgettable and widely acclaimed debut, author/illustrator Ferris presents the graphic diary of Karen Reyes, an artistically inclined…
    Graphic Novel, 2016Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books, 2016. — GN MY FAVORITE BK.1
  • When she discovers a dead man in the middle of her tea shop, Vera Wong, a suspicious Chinese mother with time on her hands, calls the police but not before swiping the flash drive from the body, setting a trap for the killer that becomes complicated…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023[S.I.] : Books on Tape, 2023. — Overdrive
  • The first graphic novel to win a National Book Award! This autobiographic graphic novel series in three volumes shares the story of the Civil Rights Movement through the eyes of U.S. Congressman John Lewis, one of the integral leaders during the…
    Graphic Novel, 2013Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, [2013] — GRAPHIC MARCH LEWIS
  • The Light We Carry

    Overcoming in Uncertain Times

    Obama, Michelle, 1964-
    Mrs. Obama offers readers a series of fresh stories and insightful reflections on change, challenge, and power, including her belief that when we light up for others, we can illuminate the richness and potential of the world around us, discovering…
    Audiobook CD, 2022Koeln : Random House Audio, [2022] — 921 OBAMA, M.
  • Maus

    a Survivor's Tale

    Spiegelman, Art,
    A son struggles to come to terms with the horrific story of his parents and their experiences during the Holocaust and in postwar America. Perhaps the most celebrated graphic novel ever, Spiegelman's harrowing autofiction fable was awarded the…
    Graphic Novel, 1997New York : Pantheon Books, [1997] — GN 921 SPI 1997
  • Traces a night of solitary mourning and reflection as experienced by the sixteenth president after the death of his eleven-year-old son at the dawn of the Civil War. A massive cast of dozens of marquee narrators brings the story to life in audiobook…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2017New York : Random House Audio, 2017. — Overdrive
  • Set in an alternate world of art deco beauty and steampunk horror, Monstress tells the epic story of Maika Halfwolf, a teenage survivor of a cataclysmic war between humans and their hated enemies, the Arcanics. In the face of oppression and terrible…
    Graphic Novel, 2019Portland, OR : Image Comics, Inc., [2019] — GRAPHIC LIU, MARJORIE MONSTRESS #1-18
  • One of the music world's most iconic artists writes about his remarkable life for the first time, from his early days growing up in Dublin, to U2's meteoric rise to fame, to his more than twenty years of activism dedicated to the fight against AIDS…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2022[S.I.] : Books on Tape, 2022. — Overdrive
  • Kindred

    a Graphic Novel Adaptation

    Duffy, Damian,
    Dana, a Black woman, finds herself repeatedly transported to the antebellum South, where she must make sure that Rufus, the plantation owner's son, survives to father Dana's ancestor. Octavia Butler's classic confrontation with the horrors of…
    Graphic Novel, 2017New York : Abrams Comicarts, 2017. — GRAPHIC BUTLER
  • The United States, the richest country on earth, has more poverty than any other advanced democracy. Why? In this landmark book, acclaimed sociologist Matthew Desmond draws on history, research, and original reporting to show how affluent Americans…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2023[S.I.] : Books on Tape, 2023. — Overdrive
  • Jeff Lemire's trilogy of interconnected stories spotlighting lost souls in his native Ontario was named one of the essential reads of the decade by the CBC!
    Graphic Novel, 2009Atlanta : Top Shelf Productions, [2009] — GRAPHIC LEMIRE
  • Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her life in Boston when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her New Hampshire hometown, taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello…
    Audiobook CD, 2022[New York] : Penguin Random House Audio, [2022] — ABCD Picoult
  • Emily Carroll's collection of spooky shorts is a perfectly stylish October read, and won the author an Eisner and an Ignatz Award.
    Graphic Novel, 2014New York, New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, [2014] — YA GRAPHIC NOVELS CARROLL, EMILY
  • Delilah Green swore she would never go back to Bright Falls-nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. When Delilah's estranged stepsister, Astrid,…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2022[S.I.] : Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2022. — Overdrive
  • Superman's Pal has had his fair share of adventures over the years, but none of them have been quite like this. The Daily Planet's intrepid photographer has found himself in a dangerous situation and faking his own death is only the first step in…
    Book, 2020Burbank, CA : DC Comics, [2020] — FRACTION, MATT
  • Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his…
    Audiobook CD, 2021[Grand Haven, Michigan] : Brilliance: Audible Studios, [2021] — WEIR, A.
  • This gorgeous and empathetic story of a couple’s search for hope and a peaceful future won the LA Times Book Prize for Best Graphic Novel, and has appeared on over 30 best of the year and best of the decade lists, including from The Guardian,…
    Graphic Novel, 2019Montreal, Quebec : Drawn & Quarterly, 2019. — GN HARD
  • A panoramic oral history of the September 11 attacks draws on hundreds of interviews with government officials, first responders, survivors, friends and family members to recount events from the perspectives of firsthand witnesses. The panoply of…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2019[S.I.] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2019. — Overdrive
  • Ducks

    Two Years in the Oil Sands

    Beaton, Kate, 1983-
    Kate Beaton, creator of the popular "Hark! A Vagrant!" webcomic, presents this memoir of her times working in Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where the lobster is as abundant as beaches, fiddles, and Gaelic folk songs. With the singular goal…
    Graphic Novel, 2022Montréal, Québec : Drawn and Quarterly, 2022. — GRAPHIC NOVELS 814.6 BEATON