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My Favorite Thing Is Monsters

By Emil Ferris
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By Emil Ferris
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In this debut, which takes the form of a fictional graphic diary, a 10-year-old girl tries to solve a murder.

2025 Whiting Award WINNER in Fiction

Kirkus Reviews Best 100 Books of the Century (So Far)

Set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor,...

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