15 must-read plays books like Sovereignty: A Play by Mary Kathryn Nagle

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Sovereignty: A Play

By: Mary Kathryn Nagle

4.01

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Sovereignty unfolds over two parallel timelines. In present-day Oklahoma, a young Cherokee lawyer, …

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Cover of The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3) by Rick Riordan

1. The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)

By: Rick Riordan

4.28

Format: 406 pages, Hardcover

He's b-a-a-ack! Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sadie Kane can't seem to keep Apophis, the c… read more

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"Stop smiling!"

-Rick Riordan, The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)

"You never know!"

-Rick Riordan, The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)

"There’s my baby!"

-Rick Riordan, The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)

"If anyone asks you if you’re taken,"

-Rick Riordan, The Serpent's Shadow (The Kane Chronicles, #3)

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2. The Escape: A Leaf For Freedom

By: William Wells Brown , John Ernest

4.25

Format: 351 pages, Hardcover

A well-known nineteenth-century abolitionist and former slave, William Wells Brown was a prolific w… read more

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Cover of Tartuffe by Martin Sorrell, Molière, Curtis Hidden Page

3. Tartuffe

By: Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. … read more

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4. The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)

By: Rick Riordan

4.19

Format: 452 pages, Hardcover

Ever since the gods of Ancient Egypt were unleashed in the modern world, Carter Kane and his sister… read more

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"Think about Isis,"

-Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)

"Courage. Hope. Sacrifice."

-Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)

"the answer to every problem involved penguins"

-Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)

"The right choice is hardly ever the easy choice."

-Rick Riordan, The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles, #2)

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5. Harvest

By: Manjula Padmanabhan

3.64

Format: None pages, Paperback

Om, a young man, is driven by unemployment to sell his body parts for cash. Guards arrive to make h… read more

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6. Yellow Face

By: Frank Rich , David Henry Hwang

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A thesis of a play, unafraid of complexities and contradictions, pepped up with a light dramatic f… read more

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7. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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8. Mongrels

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.51

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding and darkly humorous coming-of-age story about an unusual boy whose family lives on t… read more

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9. 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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10. Cloud 9

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 376 pages, Paperback

In colonial Africa, a Victorian English patrician represses the natives, his wife, his children, ho… read more

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11. La vida es sueño

By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca , None

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

He aqui la creacion mas lograda y de caracter mas universal de Calderon. La vida es suenoes, en sin… read more

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12. Trifles

By: Susan Glaspell

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted fr… read more

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13. The Unplugging

By: Yvette Nolan

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script. In an instant, elect… read more

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14. The Red Letter Plays

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

The playwright who "has burst through every known convention to invent a new theatrical language, l… read more

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15. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)

By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

(1939 translation) read more

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16. Vietgone

By: Qui Nguyen

3.26

Format: None pages,

A love story between two Vietnam War refugees who meet in an Arkansas relocation camp, the show fea… read more

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17. Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Zachary Ying, #1)

By: Xiran Jay Zhao

4.09

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Zachary Ying never had many opportunities to learn about his Chinese heritage. His single mom was b… read more

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"Если хочешь обрести истинную власть над своей жизнью, тебе нужно перестать так сильно беспокоиться о том, что подумают другие"

-Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Zachary Ying, #1)

"«Если хочешь обрести истинную власть над своей жизнью, тебе нужно перестать так сильно беспокоиться о том, что подумают другие»."

-Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Zachary Ying, #1)

"He died taking mercury pills that he thought would make him immortal," Tang Taizong said. "So did you!" Qin Sho Haung yelped without looking at him. "Allegedly! Sources differ!" "You know what you di…"

-Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Zachary Ying, #1)

"You cling so hard to morality out of a desperation for others to like you. You think they'd stop treating you like an outsider if you were a good boy who did everything they wanted. This is your grea…"

-Xiran Jay Zhao, Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor (Zachary Ying, #1)

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18. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

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19. 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

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20. Siren Queen

By: Nghi Vo

3.68

Format: 281 pages, Kindle Edition

“No maids, no funny talking, no fainting flowers.” Luli Wei is beautiful, talented, and desperate t… read more

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"I already knew that being brave didn’t mean anything unless you were willing to do it again."

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

"I'm curious, though, and my father said that if I could be curious instead of afraid, things would probably work out some kind of right."

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

"What's so great about being seen?" Tara demanded. "What's so important about that?" She might have had the words for it, but I didn't. They locked up in my throat, about being invisible, about being …"

-Nghi Vo, Siren Queen

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21. Everybody

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.84

Format: 55 pages, None

This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amo… read more

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Cover of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange

22. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

By: Ntozake Shange

4.28

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In celebration of its highly anticipated Broadway revival, Ntozake Shange’s classic, award-winning … read more

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"What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"i done forgot all abt words aint got no definitions"

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"Through my tears 1 found god in myself and I loved her fiercely"."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

"And this is for Colored girls who have considered suicide, but are moving to the ends of their own rainbows."

-Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Cover of Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1) by Darcie Little Badger

23. Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

By: Darcie Little Badger

4.00

Format: 362 pages, Hardcover

Imagine an America very similar to our own. It's got homework, best friends, and pistachio ice crea… read more

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"Everyone loves pill-bugs. They're the insect version of hedgehogs."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"It's hard to know that you're flying too high until the feathers start dropping."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"She'd say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

"She's say his name and tell his story. Maybe, someday, he'd follow the words home."

-Darcie Little Badger, Elatsoe (Elatsoe, #1)

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24. Sovereignty: A Play

By: Mary Kathryn Nagle

4.01

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Sovereignty unfolds over two parallel timelines. In present-day Oklahoma, a young Cherokee lawyer, … read more

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Cover of Valor, agravio y mujer (Biblioteca de Escritoras) by Ana Caro Mallén de Soto

25. Valor, agravio y mujer (Biblioteca de Escritoras)

By: Ana Caro Mallén de Soto

3.59

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

Ana Caro [...] admitida en los altos círculos de la nobleza cercana al Conde Duque de Olivares, no … read more

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26. Bootycandy

By: Robert O'Hara

4.02

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Robert O'Hara's semi-biographical subversive comedy exploded onto the New York theatre-scene with a… read more

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Cover of Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid by John Fletcher

27. Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid

By: John Fletcher

3.87

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

John Fletcher and Philip Massinger's comedy Love's Cure, or The Martial Maid (1615) is an innovativ… read more

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28. Leopoldstadt

By: Tom Stoppard

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. B… read more

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29. English

By: Sanaz Toossi

4.53

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Winner! 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama Winner! 2023 Obie Award for Best New American Play It's 2008,… read more

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30. Snow in Mid summer

By: Guan Hanqing

3.59

Format: None pages, None

Guan Hanqing (c. 1241-1320), also known under the sobriquet "the Oldman of the Studio", was a notab… read more

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Cover of Trainers or the Brutal Unpleasant Atmosphere of This Most Disagreeable Season: A Theatrical Essay by Sylvan Oswald

31. Trainers or the Brutal Unpleasant Atmosphere of This Most Disagreeable Season: A Theatrical Essay

By: Sylvan Oswald

4.60

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

The only rule is to break the rules. In a parallel present, two queer radicals meet in the fallout … read more

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Transform Your Habits

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

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Paula Vogel

3.85

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