18 Best plays books like Fun Home by Lisa Kron

Cover of Fun Home by Lisa Kron

Fun Home

By: Lisa Kron

4.45

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the sto…

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Cover of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by Christopher Durang

1. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

By: Christopher Durang

3.96

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Nominated for six Tony Awards®, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike is one of the most lauded and b… read more

Similar categories in Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • lgbt
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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2. Sweat

By: Lynn Nottage

4.06

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory wor… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Nottage's Sweat book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
Cover of Fleabag: The Original Play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag: The Original Play book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Mountaintop by Michael Eric Dyson, Katori Hall, None

4. The Mountaintop

By: Michael Eric Dyson , Katori Hall , None

3.18

Format: 183 pages,

Winner of the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, The Mountaintop is set a… read more

Similar categories in Michael Eric Dyson's The Mountaintop book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

5. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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6. Eurydice

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Are You My Mother?

By: Alison Bechdel

4.42

Format: 718 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly tol… read more

Similar categories in Alison Bechdel's Are You My Mother? book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • nonfiction
  • queer
  • lgbt
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8. I and You

By: Lauren Gunderson

4.12

Format: 204 pages,

Only in high school would two completely unconnected people - cranky, chronically ill Caroline and … read more

Similar categories in Lauren Gunderson's I and You book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school

9. Last Summer at Bluefish Cove: A Play in Two Acts

By: Jane Chambers

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

Last Summer at Bluefish Cove is the story of a dissatisfied straight woman who leaves her husband t… read more

Similar categories in Jane Chambers's Last Summer at Bluefish Cove: A Play in Two Acts book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

10. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

By: Stephen Adly Guirgis

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud relig… read more

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11. Wit

By: None

4.48

Format: None pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Ou… read more

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12. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

Similar categories in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • nonfiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

13. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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14. Ruined

By: Lynn Nottage

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hi… read more

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15. 'night, Mother

By: Marsha Norman

4.15

Format: None pages,

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16. Choir Boy

By: Tarell Alvin McCraney

3.50

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

Those melodies, the pitch harmonies and Rhythms, those are the maps and guides to the Promised Land… read more

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17. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

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18. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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19. The Normal Heart

By: Andrew Holleran , Larry Kramer , Joseph Papp

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

THE NORMAL HEARTis the explosive drama about our most terrifying and troubling medical crisis today… read more

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20. Antigonick

By: Sophocles , Anne Carson , Bianca Stone

3.91

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

An illustrated new translation of Sophokles' Antigone. With text blocks hand-inked on the page by A… read more

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21. Indecent

By: Paula Vogel

4.46

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire… read more

Similar categories in Paula Vogel's Indecent book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • drama
  • lgbt
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • plays
  • queer
"I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

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22. Fairview

By: Jackie Sibblies Drury

4.27

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"

-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview

Cover of Cost of Living by Martyna Majok

23. Cost of Living

By: Martyna Majok

4.14

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating ac… read more

Similar categories in Martyna Majok's Cost of Living book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
"That's not a thing I'll ever know. Everything's started over for me—"

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"Self-pity has little currency in these characters' worlds. Humor, however, has much."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"It matters who you are. Family. Connections. If there's gonna be a net when you fall. Cuz everybody falls."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"The shit that happens is not to be understood. That's from the Bible. The shit that happens to you is Not To Be Understood."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

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24. The Thanksgiving Play

By: Larissa FastHorse

3.87

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A mismatched but well-meaning foursome sets out to devise a politically correct school play that ca… read more

Similar categories in Larissa FastHorse's The Thanksgiving Play book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
Cover of Fun Home by Lisa Kron

25. Fun Home

By: Lisa Kron

4.45

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

When her father dies unexpectedly, graphic novelist Alison dives deep into her past to tell the sto… read more

Similar categories in Lisa Kron's Fun Home book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • lesbian
  • drama
  • gay
  • lgbt
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • musicals
  • plays
  • queer
Cover of Mary Jane (TCG Edition) by Amy Herzog

26. Mary Jane (TCG Edition)

By: Amy Herzog

4.05

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

“The most profound and harrowing of Ms. Herzog’s many fine plays.” —Jesse Green, New York Times Arm… read more

Similar categories in Amy Herzog's Mary Jane (TCG Edition) book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
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27. The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

By: Shaun David Hutchinson

3.59

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A good friend will bury your body, a best friend will dig you back up. Dino doesn’t mind spendin… read more

Similar categories in Shaun David Hutchinson's The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • lgbt
  • queer
"Of course my battery dies. Fucking figures the only thing dead in this coffin is the one thing that shouldn’t be."

-Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

"You can tell me I’m dead until the words lose their meaning, but it won’t change that I’m not, and I don’t want to waste the time I have."

-Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

"Fine. He dumped me for a girl with perfectly normal hips who’s probably one of those people who believes the earth is as flat as your ass."

-Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

"I’ve never understood how doctors can smoke. It’s like a firefighter deliberately disabling the smoke detectors in her house and then setting fire to her couch."

-Shaun David Hutchinson, The Past and Other Things That Should Stay Buried

Cover of What the Constitution Means to Me (TCG Edition) by Heidi Schreck

28. What the Constitution Means to Me (TCG Edition)

By: Heidi Schreck

4.37

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“ BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR” New York Times · New Yorker · TIME · Hollywood Reporter · Newsweek · BuzzF… read more

Similar categories in Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me (TCG Edition) book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • plays
  • drama
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29. A Strange Loop

By: Michael R. Jackson

4.22

Format: 111 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Usher is a black, queer writer, working a day job he… read more

Similar categories in Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • drama
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • musicals
  • plays
  • queer
Cover of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City: A Play by Halley Feiffer

30. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City: A Play

By: Halley Feiffer

4.11

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“I’ve been single for so long, I’ve started having sexual fantasies about my vibrator,” riffs Karla… read more

Similar categories in Halley Feiffer's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center of New York City: A Play book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Home, I'm Darling by Laura Wade

31. Home, I'm Darling

By: Laura Wade

3.87

Format: 157 pages, Kindle Edition

How happily married are the happily married? Every couple needs a little fantasy to keep their m… read more

Similar categories in Laura Wade's Home, I'm Darling book and Lisa Kron's Fun Home

  • theatre
  • plays

17 must-read drama books like Fun Home by Lisa Kron

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Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Christopher Durang

3.96

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Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

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Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

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The Mountaintop

Michael Eric Dyson , Katori Hall , None

3.18

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Alison Bechdel

4.42

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Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh

3.95

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Elizabeth Fournier

3.67

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