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Tillie Walden Books in Order

Explore Tillie Walden books in order, with quick summaries, series background for Clementine and On A Sunbeam, and simple tips on where to start.

Last updated: July 13, 2026

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I Love This Part

by Tillie Walden

2015

Two girls in a small town pass the time with music, school, and quiet conversations, then slowly fall in love. Walden keeps the story small and gentle, which makes the sadness hit even harder.

The End of Summer

by Tillie Walden

2015

Lars is sick, bored, and trapped inside a vast castle while a three-year winter rages outside. As he spends time with his siblings and giant cat Nemo, family tensions and darker secrets begin to surface.

A City Inside

by Tillie Walden

2016

A dreamlike graphic novella that drifts through one woman's life, from lonely childhood to first love to the home she builds for herself. It's abstract, tender, and more interested in feeling and memory than straight plot.

On a Sunbeam

by Tillie Walden

2016

In deep space, Mia joins a crew that restores abandoned structures while flashbacks revisit her first love at boarding school. The two timelines build a sweeping story about queer love, loss, and found family.

Spinning

by Tillie Walden

2017

Walden's memoir follows years of brutal early mornings, competitive figure skating, first love, and coming out. It's about the discipline of a sport she once loved, and the hard, necessary choice to leave it behind.

Bonne, Claude & Madeleine

by Tillie Walden

2018

Madeleine races through books, duels, crushes, and trouble in this lively comic. It follows a restless heroine who seems to want everything at once, love, freedom, and a bigger life.

I Feel Machine

by Tillie Walden

2018

This anthology brings together six comics creators, including Walden, to imagine how technology reshapes work, love, memory, and daily life. The stories range from intimate to unsettling, but all of them ask what modern machinery is doing to us.

Mini Meditations on Creativity

by Tillie Walden

2018

A small illustrated book built around quotes and reflections on creativity, work, and making things. It's less a narrative than a pocket-sized nudge for artists, writers, and anyone trying to keep going.

Are You Listening?

by Tillie Walden

2019

Bea, fleeing home, crosses paths with Lou, and the two head across West Texas together. Their road trip bends into something eerie and dreamlike, full of grief, danger, and the hard work of telling the truth.

The Cosmic Slumber Tarot

by Tillie Walden

2020

Walden's hand-painted tarot deck reworks the traditional structure with dreamy, vibrant imagery and a few personal twists. It feels mystical without losing readability, making it a good fit for both collectors and intuitive readers.

Alone in Space

by Tillie Walden

2021

This collection gathers Walden's early graphic novellas, including The End of Summer, I Love This Part, and A City Inside, along with sketches and shorter comics. It's the easiest way to see her voice taking shape.

Clementine: Book One

by Tillie Walden

2022

Seventeen-year-old Clementine is still moving through a world overrun by walkers when she meets Amos and heads north to Vermont. At an abandoned ski resort, a small group of teens offers shelter, but survival brings its own dangers.

My Parents Won't Stop Talking!

by Tillie Walden

2022

Molly is ready for the park, but her moms get stuck chatting with the neighbors and time stretches into agony. This funny picture book turns a very ordinary wait into a child's full-scale epic.

Clementine: Book Two

by Tillie Walden

2023

After barely escaping death, Clementine and her friends are taken in by an island community run by the mysterious Ms. Morro. Safety never feels simple, and new secrets force Clementine to decide whether to keep running or stand and fight.

Clementine Book Three

by Tillie Walden

2025

Clementine finally has something like a home, along with people she loves, until fresh loss tears it open again. When the Gardener offers belonging and purpose, Clementine has to decide what kind of future is worth trusting.

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Charity and Sylvia

by Tillie Walden

2026

Walden turns the real story of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake into a warm, clear graphic history. Set in early 19th-century Vermont, it follows the couple as they build a life together across decades of work, gossip, and change.

Where to start with Tillie Walden

If you want the personal starting point: SpinningAre You Listening?
If you want big, romantic science fiction: On a Sunbeam
If you want a sampler of her early short work: Alone in Space
If you want post-apocalyptic survival: Clementine: Book OneClementine: Book TwoClementine Book Three
If you want queer history: Charity and Sylvia

Clementine (Tillie Walden) books in order

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  1. Book cover for "Clementine: Book One"

    Clementine: Book One

    by Tillie Walden

    2022Clementine, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Clementine: Book Two"

    Clementine: Book Two

    by Tillie Walden

    2023Clementine, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Clementine Book Three"

    Clementine Book Three

    by Tillie Walden

    2025Clementine, Book 3

Clementine (Tillie Walden) books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "Clementine: Book One"

    Clementine: Book One

    by Tillie Walden

    2022Clementine, Book 1
  2. Book cover for "Clementine: Book Two"

    Clementine: Book Two

    by Tillie Walden

    2023Clementine, Book 2
  3. Book cover for "Clementine Book Three"

    Clementine Book Three

    by Tillie Walden

    2025Clementine, Book 3

On A Sunbeam books in order

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  1. Book cover for "On a Sunbeam"

    On a Sunbeam

    by Tillie Walden

    2016On A Sunbeam, Book 1

On A Sunbeam books in chronological order

  1. Book cover for "On a Sunbeam"

    On a Sunbeam

    by Tillie Walden

    2016On A Sunbeam, Book 1

Tillie Walden collections, short stories, and related book types

Collections

  1. Book cover for "Alone in Space"

    Alone in Space

    by Tillie Walden

    2021

Children's Books

  1. Book cover for "My Parents Won't Stop Talking!"

    My Parents Won't Stop Talking!

    by Tillie Walden

    2022

Standalone Tillie Walden books

  1. Book cover for "I Love This Part"

    I Love This Part

    by Tillie Walden

    2015
  2. Book cover for "The End of Summer"

    The End of Summer

    by Tillie Walden

    2015
  3. Book cover for "A City Inside"

    A City Inside

    by Tillie Walden

    2016
  4. Book cover for "Spinning"

    Spinning

    by Tillie Walden

    2017
  5. Book cover for "Bonne, Claude & Madeleine"

    Bonne, Claude & Madeleine

    by Tillie Walden

    2018
  6. Book cover for "I Feel Machine"

    I Feel Machine

    by Tillie Walden

    2018
  7. Book cover for "Mini Meditations on Creativity"

    Mini Meditations on Creativity

    by Tillie Walden

    2018
  8. Book cover for "Are You Listening?"

    Are You Listening?

    by Tillie Walden

    2019
  9. Book cover for "The Cosmic Slumber Tarot"

    The Cosmic Slumber Tarot

    by Tillie Walden

    2020
  10. Book cover for "Charity and Sylvia"

    Charity and Sylvia

    by Tillie Walden

    2026

Author bio

Tillie Walden was born in 1996 in San Diego, spent part of her childhood in New Jersey, and moved to Texas when she was 10. She grew up in Austin, and two things shaped her early years more than almost anything else: drawing and competitive figure skating.

Skating was her whole schedule for a long time.

Those early mornings, long drives, and hours at the rink later became the backbone of Spinning, her graphic memoir about growing up, coming out, and walking away from a life that had defined her. The book feels so lived in because it was. Walden spent years inside that routine before she ever turned it into comics.

Comics came into focus in her teens. Her father handed her manga and older comics, and when she was 16 he took her to a workshop in Los Angeles led by Scott McCloud. Something clicked there. After that, she knew she wanted to make comics seriously, not just draw them on the side.

She found the right place at the Center for Cartoon Studies in Vermont, where she studied comics and later began teaching. She started publishing young, with The End of Summer, I Love This Part, and A City Inside, books that already showed the things readers now associate with her work: quiet feelings, queer characters, lonely kids, strange architecture, and a sense that tenderness and sadness often live in the same room.

She got there fast.

Spinning began as her thesis project and went on to win an Eisner Award. Then came On a Sunbeam, a huge space-set love story about first love, found family, and a crew that repairs old buildings drifting through the universe. After that, Are You Listening? turned a road trip through West Texas into a story about grief, danger, friendship, and the hard work of telling the truth. Even when the settings change from ice rinks to spaceships to empty highways, her books keep circling the same questions: Where do you belong, who do you trust, and what kind of home can you build for yourself?

Her range is wider than people sometimes expect from a cartoonist who broke out so young. She made the small illustrated Mini Meditations on Creativity, created The Cosmic Slumber Tarot, and took on a very different kind of franchise work with the Clementine trilogy, set in the world of The Walking Dead. More recently, she turned to history with Charity and Sylvia, a graphic account of a 19th-century couple in Vermont. The surface details change a lot from book to book, but the emotional core is familiar. She keeps returning to love, loneliness, memory, and the fragile ways people care for each other.

What readers tend to love is how clear it all feels. Walden can draw a giant space cathedral or a teenager sitting silently in a bedroom, and both moments carry the same weight. Her books are often dreamy, but they are rarely vague about emotion. You know when a character is longing for something, hiding something, or trying to make a life that finally fits.

These days Walden lives in Vermont with her wife and son, and teaches at the Center for Cartoon Studies. That feels right. Her adult life has been built around making comics, thinking about comics, and helping younger cartoonists find their way into the form. The result is a body of work that grew quickly, but never feels rushed.

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