of course, most libraries just catalog it as GN Nar and shelve it in a Graphic Novel display.

Hmmm… there was a previous manga title in March which was “mainstreamed” into the regular list. Non-fiction GNs are included on this list (The Beats) so that may explain this week.

Wolverine… that’s a style of drawing. If it’s CGI fumetti, or manga, or watercolor, or cartoony… it’s still Wolverine, and should not be listed on the manga list. NYT should make the distinctions clear, though.

A bigger concern is that Absolute Watchmen sales ($75) are counted with the regular hardcover sales ($40). That’s like counting the sales of a $8 mass market book with the sales of a $17 trade paperback. (The NYT does split MM and TP editions.)

Naruto is the envy of every publisher. Each volume hits the charts for a month, then the next volume, then the next. In regular prose publishing, one has to wait six months to a year for the next title from a bestselling author, and rarely is it a continung story. (Laurel K. Hamilton is an exception.)

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Well, I see that one can’t URL one’s way to a specific LOC catalog record. Here’s the relevant text of the record:

Author: Kishimoto, Masashi, 1974-
Uniform Title: Naruto. Takigakure no shit¯o, ore ga eiy¯u datte
ba yo. English
Title: Naruto. Mission: protect the waterfall village! /
original concept by Masashi Kishimoto ; written by Masatoshi
Kusakabe ; translated by Tomo Kimura with Janet Gilbert.
Published: San Francisco : VIZ Media, 2007.
Description: 184 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
LC Call No.: PL872.5.I57N3713 2007
Dewey No.: 895.6/36 22
ISBN: 9781421515021
1421515024
Notes: “First published in Japan in 2003 by Shueisha
Inc., Tokyo”–T.p. verso.
Other authors: Kusakabe, Masatoshi, 1964-
Kimura, Tomo.
Gilbert, Janet.
Control No.: 14934969

Do you have thoughts/opinion on why Drifting Life doesn’t appear on the manga list when it’s a manga? I’m guessing that they’re classifying based on publisher.

It could be, that for the purposes of the list, they refer to how the book is cataloged. Take a look at the book’s WorldCat entry. The book is primarily an autobiography. I tried several large public libraries, through the Library of Congress’s gateway, but couldn’t pull up a MARC record.

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Johanna: I hadn’t even thought of that.