Books like Fun Home

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel reads as melancholic, witty. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

Epileptic

David B.

Both explore family & identity

69% genome match

The Best We Could Do

Thi Bui

Both explore family & identity

64% genome match

Are You My Mother?

Alison Bechdel

Both explore family & identity

63% genome match

The Complete Persepolis

Marjane Satrapi

Both explore identity & family

69% genome match

Rosalie Lightning

Tom Hart

Both explore grief & family

65% genome match

They Called Us Enemy

George Takei · 2019

Both explore identity

55% genome match

A boy's own story

Edmund White · 1982

Both explore identity & family

57% genome match

Pittsburgh

Frank Santoro · 2018

Both explore family

59% genome match

It's a bird--

Steven T. Seagle · 2004

Both explore identity

55% genome match

Good Talk

Mira Jacob · 2018

Both explore identity & family

69% genome match

Gender Queer

Maia Kobabe

Both explore identity & family

64% genome match

Messy Roots

Laura Gao · 2022

Both explore identity & family

66% genome match