True North Country Comics presents the top 10 go-to comic books and graphic novels list from J.M. Frey.

J.M. Frey is an author and screenwriter, and she’s appeared in podcasts, documentaries, and on radio and television to discuss all things geeky. Her debut novel Triptych was nominated for two Lambda Literary Awards, and garnered a place among the Best Books of 2011 from Publishers Weekly.

Here’s J.M. Frey’s top 10 go-to comic book and graphic novels, who said “the reason I picked all of them is the exact same: Gorgeous, comprehensive, subtle and extremely thoughtful storytelling.”

1. Beauty & The Beast by Megan Kearney
2. Inu Yasha by Takahashi
3. X/1999 by CLAMP Studios
4. Hawkeye by Matt Fraction and David Aja
5. Sex Criminals by Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky
6. Least I Could Do by Ryan Sohmer and Lar de Souza
7. Sandman by Neil Gaiman and others
8. Preacher by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon
9. Ex Machina by Brian K. Vaughan and Tony Harris
10. Captain America: Man out of Time by Mark Waid and Jorge Molina

You can discover more about J.M. Frey on Twitter at @scifrey and online at jmfrey.net