7 Top queer books like Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Cover of Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Angels in America

By: Tony Kushner

3.79

Format: 248 pages,

In two full-length plays--Millennium Approaches and Perestroika--Kushner tells the story of a handf…

If you liked the queer plot in Angels in America by Tony Kushner , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of In the Heights: The Complete Book and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes

1. In the Heights: The Complete Book and Lyrics

By: Lin-Manuel Miranda , Quiara Alegría Hudes

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

Music and Lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Book by Quiara Alegria Hudes, Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miran… read more

Similar categories in Lin-Manuel Miranda's In the Heights: The Complete Book and Lyrics book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"[NINA] When I was a child I stayed wide awake Climbed to the highest place On every fire escape Restless to climb I got every scholarship Saved every dollar The first to go to college How do I tell t…"

-Lin-Manuel Miranda, In the Heights: The Complete Book and Lyrics

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2. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

Similar categories in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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3. The Boys in the Band

By: Mart Crowley

4.01

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

"Boys can still hold its own . . . [Mart] Crowley's point is about how the humor is shaped and defi… read more

Similar categories in Mart Crowley's The Boys in the Band book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • classics
  • drama
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • queer
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4. Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more

Similar categories in Caryl Churchill's Top Girls book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Sweat by Lynn Nottage

5. 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 Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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6. The Pillowman

By: Martin McDonagh

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more

Similar categories in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

Cover of The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman, Tectonic Theater Project

7. The Laramie Project

By: Moisés Kaufman , Tectonic Theater Project

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moises Kaufman and his Tectonic Thea… read more

Similar categories in Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me by Tony Kushner, Larry Kramer

8. The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me

By: Tony Kushner , Larry Kramer

4.26

Format: 999 pages, Paperback

The Normal Heart, set during the early years of the AIDS epidemic, is the impassioned indictment of… read more

Similar categories in Tony Kushner's The Normal Heart & The Destiny of Me book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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9. Topdog/Underdog

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the w… read more

Similar categories in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of The Harm in Hate Speech by Jeremy Waldron

10. The Harm in Hate Speech

By: Jeremy Waldron

3.96

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech--except the United States. For consti… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Waldron's The Harm in Hate Speech book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

Cover of How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

11. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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12. 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 Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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13. 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 Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Angels in America by Tony Kushner

14. Angels in America

By: Tony Kushner

3.79

Format: 248 pages,

In two full-length plays--Millennium Approaches and Perestroika--Kushner tells the story of a handf… read more

Similar categories in Tony Kushner's Angels in America book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • classics
  • drama
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • queer
Cover of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

15. 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 Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • 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

16. M. Butterfly

By: David Henry Hwang

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterflyopens in the cramped prison cell where di… read more

Similar categories in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

17. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)

By: August Wilson

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more

Similar categories in August Wilson's Fences (The Century Cycle #6) book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

18. 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

Similar categories in Andrew Holleran's The Normal Heart book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

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19. The Wolves

By: Sarah DeLappe

4.27

Format: 175 pages, None

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburba… read more

Similar categories in Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of The Inheritance by Matthew López

20. The Inheritance

By: Matthew López

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

You have to wonder why there isn't a word in the English language for the fireworks that go off in … read more

Similar categories in Matthew López's The Inheritance book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • drama
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • queer
"Enamorarse es coger cita con el sufrimiento"

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

"Leer no es suficiente, Leo. Tienes que poseer tus propios libros."

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

"If we are to learn what we mean to each other, we must first examine what we mean to ourselves. And we must be fearless and honest in that attempt —"

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

"A muchos de nosotros no nos han dado nunca un ejemplo sano de lo que significa ser homosexual. Lo que significa, por supuesto, que nunca nos han enseñado a serlo. A amar. A aceptar el amor."

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

Cover of The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America by Isaac Butler

21. The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America

By: Isaac Butler

4.58

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

The oral history of Angels in America, told by artists who created it and audiences forever changed… read more

Similar categories in Isaac Butler's The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent of Angels in America book and Tony Kushner's Angels in America

  • queer
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

12 must-read fiction books like Angels in America by Tony Kushner

Transform Your Habits

In the Heights: The Complete Book and Lyrics

Lin-Manuel Miranda , Quiara Alegría Hudes

4.53

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Boys in the Band

Mart Crowley

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

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Transform Your Habits

Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Eurydice

Sarah Ruhl

4.10

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