Read-alikes and related books

Books like Fosse

24 books recommended for fans of Fosse by Sam Wasson, tied together by themes of Broadway & Musicals, Women Artists, Individual Director, and Dance.

Broadway & Musicals Women Artists Individual Director Dance Theater Film Entertainment & Performing Arts Drama History & Criticism Performing Arts American Art Women Biography & Autobiography

Top related books to Fosse

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to Fosse.

By Myself and Then Some

Lauren Bacall

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Women Artists • Theater

Fifth Avenue, 5 A. M. Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

Sam Wasson

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Theater • Film

Oscar Wars A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

Michael Schulman

Themes: Women Artists • Theater • Film

Pieces of My Heart A Life

Robert J. Wagner

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Women Artists • Theater

Alright, Alright, Alright An Oral History of Richard Linklater’s Dazed and Confused

Melissa Maerz

Themes: Individual Director • Theater • Film

All That Heaven Allows A Biography of Rock Hudson

Mark Griffin

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Women Artists • Theater

Inside the Dream Palace The Life and Times of New York’s Legendary Chelsea Hotel

Sherill Tippins

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Theater • Film

Tallulah! The Life and Times of a Leading Lady

Joel Lobenthal

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Theater • Film

Pimps, Hos, Playa Hatas, and All the Rest of My Hollywood Friends My Life

John Leguizamo

Themes: Women Artists • Theater • Film

#10

Hit Hard A Story of Hitting Rock Bottom at the Top

Joey Kramer

Themes: Women Artists • Theater • Entertainment & Performing Arts

#11

Lot Six A Memoir

David Adjmi

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Theater • Entertainment & Performing Arts

#12

Deconstructing Sammy Music, Money, Madness, and the Mob

Matt Birkbeck

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Theater • Entertainment & Performing Arts

#13

The Wreckage of My Presence Essays

Casey Wilson

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Theater • Film

#14

Blanche The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Creation

Nancy Schoenberger

Themes: Theater • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Drama

#15

Hollywood The Oral History

Jeanine Basinger

Themes: Film • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Drama

#16

Eleanor Powell Born to Dance

Paula Broussard

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Individual Director • Dance

#17

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

Themes: Individual Director • Theater • Film

#18

Fall to Pieces A Memoir of Drugs, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Mental Illness

Mary Forsberg Weiland

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Women Artists • Theater

#19

Mostly Sunny How I Learned to Keep Smiling Through the Rainiest Days

Janice Dean

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Women Artists • Theater

#20

Woke Up This Morning The Definitive Oral History of the Sopranos

Michael Imperioli

Themes: Film • Entertainment & Performing Arts • Drama

#21

Dancing Man A Broadway Choreographer’s Journey

Bob Avian

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Dance • Theater

#22

Razzle Dazzle The Battle for Broadway

Michael Riedel

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Theater • Entertainment & Performing Arts

#23

Mike Hodges

Mark Adams

Themes: Individual Director • Film • Entertainment & Performing Arts

#24

Musicals The Definitive Illustrated Story

Themes: Broadway & Musicals • Theater • Film

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Broadway & Musicals, Women Artists, Individual Director — the same threads that run through Fosse by Sam Wasson. Among the authors featured: Lauren Bacall, Sam Wasson, Michael Schulman, Robert J. Wagner, and others.