Catalog

George Orwell

Surveillance, doublethink, and a state that controls the past by controlling the present. The dystopia everyone quotes and few outrun.

adapted from George Orwell, art by Fido Nesti

Orwell’s surveillance-state classic, rendered in stark, oppressive graphic form.

Anthony Burgess

Ultraviolence, invented slang, and a state that would rather erase your free will than let you keep choosing evil.

George Orwell

A barnyard revolution curdles into the exact tyranny it replaced. Fable-length, still sharp.

Bill Martin Jr. & Eric Carle

A rhythmic, repeating parade of colorful animals — one of the best first read-alouds there is.

Chaosium

Investigate cosmic horrors you were never meant to understand. The granddaddy of horror RPGs, still sharp.

Esphyr Slobodkina

A peddler naps under a tree and wakes to find monkeys have stolen every cap he owns. A classic of the picture-book shelf.

Leslie Marmon Silko

A mixed-ancestry WWII veteran returns to the Laguna Pueblo reservation and finds healing only through his people’s oldest stories. A cornerstone of Native American literature.

Donald X. Vaccarino · Rio Grande Games

The game that invented deckbuilding. A 2009 Spiel des Jahres winner and still the genre’s cleanest entry point.

Frank Herbert

Desert planet, spice, prophecy, empire. The science fiction novel most other science fiction novels are still arguing with.

Stephen Baker · Avalon Hill / Hasbro

The dungeon crawl that introduced a generation to tabletop fantasy. One GM, a party of heroes, a board full of monsters.

N. Scott Momaday

A young Pueblo man returns from WWII fractured between worlds. Won the Pulitzer and helped launch the Native American Renaissance.

Gareth Hinds (Candlewick Press)

A gorgeously illustrated adaptation of Poe’s best-known stories and poems — The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and more.

Ursula K. Le Guin

An ambiguous utopia. The anarchist moon Anarres, the capitalist world Urras, and the physicist caught between.

Alison Bechdel

Decades of Bechdel’s beloved, cult-favorite comic strip chronicling a circle of lesbian friends, collected in one volume.

Isaac Asimov

The collapse of a galactic empire, predicted centuries in advance by mathematics — and the secret plan to shorten the coming dark age.

Ursula K. Le Guin

An envoy is sent to a world where people have no fixed gender. A foundational work of feminist and queer science fiction.

Gareth Hinds (Candlewick Press)

Homer’s epic homeward voyage, adapted into sweeping, cinematic comics pages.

Annie Proulx

A hapless man rebuilds his life in a windswept Newfoundland fishing town. Pulitzer and National Book Award winner.

Eric Carle

A tiny caterpillar eats his way through the week and turns into something beautiful. Essential first-library material.

Alan Moore

A masked anarchist wages a one-man war against a fascist future Britain. A cornerstone of political comics.

Renegade Game Studios / Paradox

Personal horror and vampire politics in the modern nights. A World of Darkness cornerstone.

Alan Moore

Superheroes, aged and compromised, in a Cold War world that never needed saving as much as it thinks it does. The book that broke the genre open.

Nikos Kazantzakis

A buttoned-up intellectual and a force-of-nature laborer test each other’s philosophies on a Cretan hillside.