⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for Art Spiegelman's Maus series. It's a graphic family memoir about the Holocaust. Spiegelman's father survived life in Auschwitz among other concentration camps, and the author tells his story along with the effect it had on his own life in New York a generation later.

These two books are often on the list of banned graphic novels, and maybe precisely for that reason they should be read by anyone. The graphic format is super accessible, even though the black and white line drawing style took a little getting used to for me.

Having grown up in a WWII perpetrator country, I devour anything about the Holocaust that I can get my hands on. I don't know why that is, but I suspect it has to do with processing our country's guilt, and perhaps my own shame that comes with it, even if I didn't have anything to do with this slice of history.