For the eight-week period ending November 17, 2009, and based on sales at independent bookstores nationwide.
Courtesy of the American Booksellers Association. Reprinted with permission.
 
1. The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
Norton, $24.95, 9780393061024
 
2. Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis, Christos Papadimitriou, Bloomsbury, $22.95, 9781596914520
 
3. The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
Max Brooks, Ibraim Roberson, Three Rivers, $17, 9780307405777
 
4. Watchmen
Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, DC Comics, $19.99, 9780930289232
 
5. Naruto, Volume 46
Masashi Kishimoto, Masashi Kishimoto (Illus.), Viz Media, $9.99, 9781421533049
 
6. Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection
Don Roff, Chris Lane (Illus.), Chronicle, $19.95, 9780811871006
 
7. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: The Authorized Adaptation
Tim Hamilton, Hill & Wang, $16.95, 9780809051014
 
8. A People’s History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation
Howard Zinn, et al., Metropolitan, $17, 9780805087444
 
9. What It Is
Lynda Barry, Drawn & Quarterly, $24.95, 9781897299357
 
10. The Adventures of TinTin in the Land of the Soviets
Herge, Little Brown, $10.99, 9780316003742
 
11. V for Vendetta
Alan Moore, David Lloyd (Illus.), Vertigo, $19.99, 9781401208417
 
12. Masterpiece Comics
R. Sikoryak, Drawn & Quarterly, $19.95, 9781897299845
 
13. Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel
Paul Guinan, Anina Bennett, Abrams Image, $24.95, 9780810989504
 
14. The Photographer: Into War-Torn Afghanistan with Doctors Without Borders
Emmanuel Guibert, et al., First Second, $29.95, 9781596433755
 
15. A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge
Josh Neufeld, Pantheon, $24.95, 9780307378149
 
16. Asterix the Gaul
Rene Goscinny, Albert Uderzo (Illus.), Orion, $9.95, 9780752866055
 
17. Maximum Ride: The Manga, Vol. 1
James Patterson, Narae Lee, Yen Press, $10.99, 9780759529519
 
18. The Cartoon History of the Modern World, Part II: From the Bastille to Baghdad
Larry Gonick, Harper, $18.99, 9780060760083
 
19. Asterios Polyp
David Mazzucchelli, Pantheon, $29.95, 9780307377326
 
20. Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness
Reinhard Kleist, Abrams ComicArts, $17.95, 9780810984639
 
21. American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang, Lark Pien (Illus.), Square Fish, $8.99, 9780312384487
 
22. The Beats: A Graphic History
Harvey Pekar, et al., Hill & Wang, $22, 9780809094967
 
23. Chicken with Plums
Marjane Satrapi, Pantheon, $12.95, 9780375714757
 
24. Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert (Illus.), DC Comics, $24.99, 9781401223038
 
25. Yu-GI-Oh!: R, Vol. 1
Akira Ito, Viz Media, $9.99, 9781421530062