Home
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters
Barnes and Noble
Loading Inventory...
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters in Franklin, TN
Current price: $44.99

Barnes and Noble
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters in Franklin, TN
Current price: $44.99
Loading Inventory...
Size: OS
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, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
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, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
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, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.
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, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge.