13 must-read drama books like The Roommate by Jen Silverman

Cover of The Roommate by Jen Silverman

The Roommate

By: Jen Silverman

4.10

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Sharon, in her mid-fifties, is recently divorced and needs a roommate to share her Iowa home. Robyn…

If you liked the drama plot in The Roommate by Jen Silverman , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane

1. Shutter Island

By: Dennis Lehane

4.12

Format: 369 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter … read more

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"I'm just bones in a box, Teddy."

-Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

"There's always a 'she'. Isn't there?"

-Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

"You was in all sorts of places, huh?"

-Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

"One that society can't forgive, but I can."

-Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island

Cover of Sweat by Lynn Nottage

2. 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 Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
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3. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

Similar categories in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Fleabag: The Original Play book and Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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4. Becky Shaw

By: Gina Gionfriddo

3.72

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

"I'm also going to give you some advice. Your husband is not the Red Cross. The last time he starte… read more

Similar categories in Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw book and Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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5. 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 Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
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6. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

read more

Similar categories in Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive book and Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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7. 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 Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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8. A Bright New Boise

By: Samuel D. Hunter

4.11

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Characters: 3 male, 2 female Interior Winner! 2011 Obie Award for Playwriting Nominated for the 201… read more

Similar categories in Samuel D. Hunter's A Bright New Boise book and Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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9. You Got Older

By: Clare Barron

4.57

Format: None pages, Paperback

WINNER - 2015 Obie Award for Playwriting and PerformanceTHE KILROYS LIST - 1st Place - 2015 FINALIS… read more

Similar categories in Clare Barron's You Got Older book and Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

10. 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

Similar categories in Frank Rich's Yellow Face book and Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • plays
  • drama

11. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

By: Stephen Adly Guirgis

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud relig… read more

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12. Wit

By: None

4.48

Format: None pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Ou… read more

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13. The Other Place

By: None

4.05

Format: 371 pages, Paperback

Juliana Smithton is a successful neurologist whose life seems to be coming unhinged. But, piece by … read more

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14. 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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15. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

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16. Venus - Acting Edition

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

3.86

Format: 157 pages, Paperback

Parks' latest and most controversial work. read more

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17. In the Next Room, or the vibrator play

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

In the Next Room or the vibrator playis a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. Set in … read more

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Cover of Mary Jane (TCG Edition) by Amy Herzog

18. Mary Jane (TCG Edition)

By: Amy Herzog

4.05

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

“The most profound and harrowing of Ms. Herzog’s many fine plays.” —Jesse Green, New York Times Arm… read more

Similar categories in Amy Herzog's Mary Jane (TCG Edition) book and Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
Cover of The Roommate by Jen Silverman

19. The Roommate

By: Jen Silverman

4.10

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

Sharon, in her mid-fifties, is recently divorced and needs a roommate to share her Iowa home. Robyn… read more

Similar categories in Jen Silverman's The Roommate book and Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school
Cover of What the Constitution Means to Me (TCG Edition) by Heidi Schreck

20. What the Constitution Means to Me (TCG Edition)

By: Heidi Schreck

4.37

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

“ BEST PLAY OF THE YEAR” New York Times · New Yorker · TIME · Hollywood Reporter · Newsweek · BuzzF… read more

Similar categories in Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me (TCG Edition) book and Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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21. The Brothers Size

By: Tarell Alvin McCraney

4.12

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Tarell Alvin McCraneyThe Brothers SizeThere are two brothers Size.There is Ogun who owns an auto-re… read more

Similar categories in Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size book and Jen Silverman's The Roommate

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • read for school

13 must-read plays books like The Roommate by Jen Silverman

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Becky Shaw

Gina Gionfriddo

3.72

Transform Your Habits

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

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Transform Your Habits

The Humans

Stephen Karam

3.91

Transform Your Habits

John

Annie Baker

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Metamorphoses

Mary Zimmerman

5.00

Transform Your Habits

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

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