7 must-read queer books like Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Cover of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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…

"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"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

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

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

If you liked the queer plot in Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

1. The Complete Maus

By: Art Spiegelman

4.57

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive ed… read more

Similar categories in Art Spiegelman's The Complete Maus book and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Ingen är normal."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"Es bueno ser simpatico si quieres vivir."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"He’s more attached to things than people."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

"If you want to live, it's good to be friendly."

-Art Spiegelman, The Complete Maus

Cover of Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) by Art Spiegelman

2. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

By: Art Spiegelman

4.38

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting … read more

Similar categories in Art Spiegelman's Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1) book and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …"

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

"Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

Cover of Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) by Marjane Satrapi, Mattias Ripa

3. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

By: Marjane Satrapi , Mattias Ripa

4.26

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

In powerful black-and-white comic strip images, Satrapi tells the story of her life in Tehran from … read more

Similar categories in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1) book and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
"To each his own way of calming down."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"Saying goodbye is a little like dying."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"My natural optimism just leads me to be skeptical."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

"I want to be justice, love and the wrath of God all in one."

-Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (Persepolis, #1)

Cover of This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki

4. This One Summer

By: Jillian Tamaki , Mariko Tamaki

3.69

Format: 324 pages, Hardcover

Every summer, Rose goes with her mom and dad to a lake house in Awago Beach. It's their getaway, th… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
"Don't worry about any of this stuff, okay? It's all just adult junk that doesn't mean anything."

-Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer

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5. Stitches

By: David Small

3.70

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transfo… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • nonfiction
  • adult
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6. Black Hole

By: Charles Burns

2.83

Format: 124 pages, Hardcover

Suburban Seattle, the mid-1970s. We learn from the out-set that a strange plague has descended upon… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
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7. Ghost World

By: Daniel Clowes

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ghost Worldhas become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of The Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi, Anjali Singh, Mattias Ripa, Blake Ferris

8. The Complete Persepolis

By: Marjane Satrapi , Anjali Singh , Mattias Ripa , Blake Ferris

4.16

Format: 331 pages,

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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9. Nimona

By: None

4.00

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The graphic novel debut from rising star Noelle Stevenson, based on her beloved and critically accl… read more

Similar categories in None's Nimona book and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
Cover of Persepolis, Volume 1 by Marjane Satrapi

10. Persepolis, Volume 1

By: Marjane Satrapi

3.95

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Persepolises la historia autobiografica de la irani Marjane Satrapi, la historia de como crecio en … read more

Similar categories in Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, Volume 1 book and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • nonfiction
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11. Stone Butch Blues

By: Leslie Feinberg

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more

Similar categories in Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues book and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

  • queer
  • lgbt
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12. Blankets

By: Craig Thompson

None

Format: 582 pages, Paperback

Blankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creati… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
Cover of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

13. 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 Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • 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

14. Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth

By: Chris Ware

4.60

Format: 645 pages, Paperback

Jimmy Corriganhas rightly been hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever to be published. It won th… read more

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15. Asterios Polyp

By: David Mazzucchelli

4.35

Format: 255 pages, Hardcover

The triumphant return of one of comics' greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man's sea… read more

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16. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

Similar categories in Kate Beaton's Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands book and Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

  • biography
  • memoir
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • adult
Cover of Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

17. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • graphic novels
  • biography memoir
  • comics
  • nonfiction
  • queer
"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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18. In the Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • lgbt
  • nonfiction
  • adult
  • queer
"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"How do you get someone you want to want you? Why did no one love you?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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19. V for Vendetta #1

By: Alan Moore

4.11

Format: 29 pages, Kindle Edition

In a post-nuclear world, Great Britain has emerged as a Fascist state. When young Evey Hammond is s… read more

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  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
Cover of On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden

20. On a Sunbeam

By: Tillie Walden

4.30

Format: 533 pages, Paperback

Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, pain… read more

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  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • queer
  • lgbt
"It's like the older you get the more you forget that you can change things."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

"I'm not dating the 12% of you that I understand, I'm dating 100% of you. Including all your secrets that I don't know."

-Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam

Cover of Stone Fruit by Lee Lai

21. Stone Fruit

By: Lee Lai

4.06

Format: 231 pages, Hardcover

Bron and Ray are a queer couple who enjoy their role as the fun weirdo aunties to Ray’s niece, six-… read more

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  • lgbt
  • graphic novels comics
  • graphic novels
  • comics
  • adult
  • queer

6 Best adult books like Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Transform Your Habits

Stitches

David Small

3.70

Transform Your Habits

Blankets

Craig Thompson

None

Transform Your Habits

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel

4.08

Transform Your Habits

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton

4.41

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19 Top fiction books like This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki, Mariko Tamaki

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In Real Life

Cory Doctorow , Jen Wang

3.81

None

Raina Telgemeier , Gurihiru

None

Transform Your Habits

The Prince and the Dressmaker

Jen Wang

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Smile (Smile, #1)

Raina Telgemeier

4.23

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