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Loved Astérix le Gaulois by René Goscinny? Here are 10 books with a similar appeal — drawn mostly from graphic novels, ranked by how confidently we'd recommend them next.

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    Watchmen

    Alan Moore · 1987 · Graphic Novels

    Flawed, ageing superheroes in an alternate Cold War; the graphic novel that proved comics could be literature.

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    Persepolis

    Marjane Satrapi · 2000 · Graphic Novels

    A girl grows up during and after the Iranian revolution; a witty, moving graphic memoir.

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    Jim Dine

    Jim Dine · 1963 · Graphic Novels

    Jim Dine (b. 1935) is one of America's best-known image-makers. This book, published to accompany the first major exhibition of Dine's work from the 1960s, reproduces a broad selection of his early mi

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    Outlaw of Gor

    John Norman · 1967 · Graphic Novels

    In this second volume of the Gorean Series, Tarl Cabot finds himself transported back to Counter-Earth from the sedate life he knows as a history professor on Earth. He is glad to be back in his role

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    Dragonflight

    Anne McCaffrey · 1968 · Graphic Novels

    HOW CAN ONE GIRL SAVE AN ENTIRE WORLD?To the nobles who live in Benden Weyr, Lessa is nothing but a ragged kitchen girl. For most of her life she has survived by serving those who betrayed her father

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    The Last Unicorn

    Peter S. Beagle · 1968 · Graphic Novels

    The unicorn lived in a lilac wood, and she lived all alone… …so she ventured out from the safety of the enchanted forest on a quest for others of her kind. Joined along the way by the bumbling magicia

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    Hallowe'en Party

    Agatha Christie · 1969 · Graphic Novels

    Mystery writer Ariadne Oliver has been invited to a Hallowe’en party at Woodleigh Common. One of the other guests is an adolescent girl known for telling tall tales of murder and intrigue -- and for b

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    Mystery Ranch

    Gertrude Chandler Warner · 1958 · Graphic Novels

    Violet and Jessie begin an adventure when they journey to Centerville to keep Aunt Jane company on the family ranch.

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    Dead Man's Folly

    Agatha Christie · 1956 · Graphic Novels

    Whilst organising a mock murder hunt for the village fete hosted by Sir George and Lady Stubbs, a feeling of dread settles on the famous crime novelist Adriane Oliver. Call it instinct, but it's a fee

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    Histoire d'O

    Dominique Aury · 1954 · Graphic Novels

    the best handbook of bdsm - wriiten way before 50 shades and so much better

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