MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS

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 and set against the tumultuous political backdrop of late '60s Chicago.

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)

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters - Emil Ferris - 9781606999592