Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work checklist
Every Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work book on our site, newest first. Print it and tick off the ones you have read.
| Read | Year | Title | By | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Black Arms to Hold You Up: A History of Black Resistance | Ben Passmore | Winner | |
| 2026 | Do Admit: The Mitford Sisters and Me | Mimi Pond | Nominee | |
| 2026 | Fela: Music is the Weapon | Jibola Fagbamiye, Conor McCreery | Nominee | |
| 2026 | Globetrotters: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s World Tour | Julian Voloj and Julie Rocheleau | Nominee | |
| 2026 | Muybridge | Guy Delisle | Nominee | |
| 2026 | Surrounded: America's First School for Black Girls, 1832 | Wilfrid Lupano, Stéphane Fert | Nominee | |
| 2025 | Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race, and Voting Rights in the U.S. | Caitlin Cass | Winner | |
| 2025 | Djuna | Jon Macy | Nominee | |
| 2025 | The Heart That Fed: A Father, a Son, and the Long Shadow of War | Carl Sciacchitano | Nominee | |
| 2025 | The Mythmakers: The Remarkable Fellowship of C. S. Lewis & J. R. R. Tolkien | John Hendrix | Nominee | |
| 2025 | The Puerto Rican War: A Graphic History | John Vasquez Mejias | Nominee | |
| 2024 | Three Rocks: The story of Ernie Bushmiller: The Man Who Created Nancy | Bill Griffith | Winner | |
| 2024 | Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? | Chris Oliveros | Nominee | |
| 2024 | Last on His Feet: Jack Jackson and the Battle of the Century | Adrian Matejka and Youssef Daoudi | Nominee | |
| 2024 | Messenger: The Legend of Muhammad Ali | Marc Bernardin and Ron Salas | Nominee | |
| 2024 | Thing: Inside the Struggle for Animal Personhood | Samuel Machado and Cynthia Sousa Machado with Steven M. Wise | Nominee | |
| 2023 | Flung Out of Space | Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer | Winner | |
| 2023 | Alfred Hitchcock: The Master of Suspense | Noël Simsolo and Dominique Hé, translation by Montana Kane | Nominee | |
| 2023 | Alice Guy: First Lady of Film | José-Louis Bocquet and Catel Muller, translation by Edward Gauvin | Nominee | |
| 2023 | But I Live: Three Stories of Child Survivors of the Holocaust | Charlotte Schallié | Nominee | |
| 2023 | Invisible Wounds: Graphic Journalism | Jess Ruliffson | Nominee | |
| 2023 | Pinball: A Graphic History of the Silver Ball | Jon Chad | Nominee | |
| 2021 | Kent State: Four Dead in Ohio | Derf Backderf | Winner | |
| 2021 | Big Black: Stand at Attica | Frank “Big Black” Smith, Jared Reinmuth, and Améziane | Nominee | |
| 2021 | Dragon Hoops | Gene Luen Yang | Nominee | |
| 2021 | Invisible Differences: A Story of Asperger’s, Adulting, and Living a Life in Full Color | Mademoiselle Caroline and Julie Dachez, translation by Edward Gauvin | Nominee | |
| 2021 | Paying the Land | Joe Sacco | Nominee | |
| 2021 | Year of the Rabbit | Tian Veasna, translation by Helge Dascher | Nominee | |
| 2020 | They Called Us Enemy | George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott, and Harmony Becker | Winner | |
| 2020 | Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations | Mira Jacob | Nominee | |
| 2020 | Grass | Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, translation by Janet Hong | Nominee | |
| 2020 | Kid Gloves | Lucy Knisley | Nominee | |
| 2020 | Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight | Jonathan Fetter-Vorm | Nominee | |
| 2020 | My Solo Exchange Diary | Nagata Kabi, translation Jocelyne Allen | Nominee | |
| 2019 | Is This Guy For Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman | Box Brown | Winner | |
| 2019 | All the Answers: A Graphic Memoir | Michael Kupperman | Nominee | |
| 2019 | All the Sad Songs | Summer Pierre | Nominee | |
| 2019 | Monk! | Youssef Daoudi | Nominee | |
| 2019 | One Dirty Tree | Noah Van Sciver | Nominee | |
| 2018 | Spinning | Tillie Walden | Winner | |
| 2018 | Audubon: On the Wings of the World | Fabien Grolleau and Jerémie Royer | Nominee | |
| 2018 | Calamity Jane: The Calamitous Life of Martha Jane Cannary 1852–1903 | Christian Perrissin and Matthieu Blanchin | Nominee | |
| 2018 | Lennon: The New York Years | David Foenkinos, Éric Corbeyran, and Horne Perreard | Nominee | |
| 2018 | The Best We Could Do | Thi Bui | Nominee | |
| 2017 | March: Book Three | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell | Winner | |
| 2017 | Dark Night: A True Batman Story | Paul Dini and Eduardo Risso | Nominee | |
| 2017 | Glenn Gould: A Life Off Tempo | Sandrine Revel | Nominee | |
| 2017 | Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir | Tom Hart | Nominee | |
| 2017 | Tetris: The Games People Play | Box Brown | Nominee | |
| 2016 | March: Book Two | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell | Winner | |
| 2016 | Displacement: A Travelogue | Lucy Knisley | Nominee | |
| 2016 | Hip Hop Family Tree | Ed Piskor | Nominee | |
| 2016 | Invisible Ink: My Mother’s Secret Love Affair with a Famous Cartoonist | Bill Griffith | Nominee | |
| 2016 | The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East 1978–1984 | Riad Sattouf | Nominee | |
| 2016 | The Story of My Tits | Jennifer Hayden | Nominee | |
| 2015 | Hip Hop Family Tree | Ed Piskor | Winner | |
| 2015 | Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? | Roz Chast | Nominee | |
| 2015 | Dragon’s Breath and Other True Stories | MariNaomi | Nominee | |
| 2015 | El Deafo | Cece Bell | Nominee | |
| 2015 | Nathan Hale’s Hazardous Tales: The Underground Abductor | Nathan Hale | Nominee | |
| 2015 | To End All Wars: The Graphic Anthology of The First World War | Jonathan Clode and John Stuart Clark | Nominee | |
| 2014 | The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story | Vivek J. Tiwary, Andrew C. Robinson, and Kyle Baker | Winner | |
| 2014 | A Bag of Marbles | Joseph Joffo, Kris, and Vincent Bailly | Nominee | |
| 2014 | Hip Hop Family Tree | Ed Piskor | Nominee | |
| 2014 | March | John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell | Nominee | |
| 2014 | Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life | Ulli Lust | Nominee | |
| 2014 | Woman Rebel: The Margaret Sanger Story | Peter Bagge | Nominee | |
| 2013 | Annie Sullivan and the Trials of Helen Keller | Joseph Lambert | Winner | |
| 2013 | The Carter Family: Don't Forget This Song | Frank M. Young and David Lasky | Winner | |
| 2013 | A Chinese Life | Li Kunwu and Philippe Ôtié | Nominee | |
| 2013 | Marbles: Mania Depression Michelangelo & Me | Ellen Forney | Nominee | |
| 2013 | The Infinite Wait and Other Stories | Julia Wertz | Nominee | |
| 2013 | You'll Never Know | Carol Tyler | Nominee | |
| 2012 | Green River Killer: A True Detective Story | Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case | Winner | |
| 2012 | Around the World | Matt Phelan | Nominee | |
| 2012 | Marzi: A Memoir | Marzena Sowa and Sylvain Savoia | Nominee | |
| 2012 | Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths | Shigeru Mizuki | Nominee | |
| 2012 | Vietnamerica | GB Tran | Nominee | |
| 2011 | It Was the War of the Trenches | Jacques Tardi | Winner | |
| 2011 | Picture This: The Nearsighted Monkey Book | Lynda Barry | Nominee | |
| 2011 | Special Exits: A Graphic Memoir | Joyce Farmer | Nominee | |
| 2011 | Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Terrible Axe Man of New Orleans | Rick Geary | Nominee | |
| 2011 | Two Generals | Scott Chantler | Nominee | |
| 2011 | You'll Never Know | Carol Tyler | Nominee | |
| 2010 | A Drifting Life | Yoshihiro Tatsumi | Winner | |
| 2010 | Footnotes in Gaza | Joe Sacco | Nominee | |
| 2010 | Monsters | Ken Dahl | Nominee | |
| 2010 | Stitches | David Small | Nominee | |
| 2010 | The Impostor's Daughter: A True Memoir | Laurie Sandell | Nominee | |
| 2010 | The Photographer | Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre, and Frédéric Lemercier | Nominee | |
| 2009 | What It Is | Lynda Barry | Winner | |
| 2009 | A Treasury of XXth Century Murder: The Lindbergh Child | Rick Geary | Nominee | |
| 2009 | Alan’s War | Emmanuel Guibert | Nominee | |
| 2009 | Blue Pills: A Positive Love Story | Frederik Peeters | Nominee | |
| 2009 | Fishtown | Kevin Colden | Nominee | |
| 2008 | Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow | James Sturm and Rich Tommaso | Winner | |
| 2008 | Laika | Nick Abadzis | Nominee | |
| 2008 | Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm | Percy Carey and Ronald Wimberly | Nominee | |
| 2008 | The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam | Ann Marie Fleming | Nominee | |
| 2008 | White Rapids | Pascal Blanchet | Nominee | |
| 2007 | Fun Home | Alison Bechdel | Winner | |
| 2007 | I Love Led Zeppelin | Ellen Forney | Nominee | |
| 2007 | Mom's Cancer | Brian Fies | Nominee | |
| 2007 | Project X: Cup Noodle | Tadashi Katoh | Nominee | |
| 2007 | Stagger Lee | Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix | Nominee | |
| 2006 | Nat Turner | Kyle Baker | Winner | |
| 2006 | Embroideries | Marjane Satrapi | Nominee | |
| 2006 | Epileptic | David B. | Nominee | |
| 2006 | Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea | Guy Delisle | Nominee | |
| 2006 | True Story, Swear to God | Tom Beland | Nominee |
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