12 Best drama books like The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken

Cover of The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken

The Lifespan of a Fact

By: Jeremy Kareken

3.93

Format: 59 pages, ebook

Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact-checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. Jo…

If you liked the drama plot in The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Children by Lucy Kirkwood

1. The Children

By: Lucy Kirkwood

3.82

Format: 224 pages,

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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Donald Margulies, Tappan Wilder

2. Our Town

By: Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Our Townwas first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman, Tectonic Theater Project

3. The Laramie Project

By: Moisés Kaufman , Tectonic Theater Project

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moises Kaufman and his Tectonic Thea… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter

4. Hamilton: The Revolution

By: Lin-Manuel Miranda , Jeremy McCarter

4.27

Format: 260 pages, Hardcover

Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical Hamiltonis as revolutionary as its subject, the poor ki… read more

Similar categories in Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton: The Revolution book and Jeremy Kareken's The Lifespan of a Fact

  • plays
Cover of Stupid Fucking Bird by Aaron Posner

5. Stupid Fucking Bird

By: Aaron Posner

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile yo… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard

6. Arcadia

By: Tom Stoppard

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Arcadiatakes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nat… read more

Similar categories in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia book and Jeremy Kareken's The Lifespan of a Fact

  • plays
  • drama

7. The 39 Steps

By: John Buchan , Patrick Barlow

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Ha… read more

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8. Gruesome Playground Injuries

By: Rajiv Joseph

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

The fourth play written by playwright Rajiv Joseph follows the lives of two best friends tumultuous… read more

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9. 4.48 Psychosis

By: Sarah Kane

3.89

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

4.48 Psychosissees the ultimate narrowing of Sarah Kane's focus in her work. The struggle of the se… read more

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10. Proof

By: David Auburn

3.63

Format: 256 pages,

"One of the most acclaimed plays of recent seasons, Proof explores the unknowability of love as muc… read more

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11. 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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12. Spring's Awakening

By: Eric Bentley , Frank Wedekind

4.03

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is kill… read more

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13. The God of Carnage

By: Yasmina Reza , Christopher Hampton

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A… read more

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14. Respect for Acting

By: Uta Hagen , None

3.20

Format: None pages,

Respect for Acting "This fascinating and detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo, the accu… read more

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15. Clybourne Park

By: Bruce Norris

3.78

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Clybourne park had its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Set in Chicago, the play "ap… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park book and Jeremy Kareken's The Lifespan of a Fact

  • plays
  • drama

16. Doubt

By: John Patrick Shanley

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty w… read more

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17. Machinal

By: Sophie Treadwell

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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18. Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

By: Tony Kushner

3.80

Format: 144 pages,

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19. The Normal Heart

By: Andrew Holleran , Larry Kramer , Joseph Papp

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

THE NORMAL HEARTis the explosive drama about our most terrifying and troubling medical crisis today… read more

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20. Punk Rock

By: Simon Stephens

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Based on the playwright's experience as a teacher, this play explores the underlying tensions and p… read more

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21. The Lifespan of a Fact

By: John D'Agata , None

3.82

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

How negotiable is a fact in nonfiction? In 2003, an essay by John D'Agata was rejected by the magaz… read more

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22. Fairview

By: Jackie Sibblies Drury

4.27

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more

Similar categories in Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview book and Jeremy Kareken's The Lifespan of a Fact

  • plays
  • drama
"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"

-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview

Cover of Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione

23. Basil and Oregano

By: Melissa Capriglione

3.86

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Mix two parts The Great British Bake Off with one-part magical boarding school plus a generous dash… read more

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Cover of The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession by Alexandra Robbins

24. The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

By: Alexandra Robbins

4.19

Format: 372 pages, Hardcover

The hit national bestseller - a New York Times Spring Nonfiction Pick, USA Today "Hottest New Book… read more

Similar categories in Alexandra Robbins's The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession book and Jeremy Kareken's The Lifespan of a Fact

"Teachers deserve a well-defined, realistic job description and enough protected school day planning time to fulfill that job within their paid contracted hours."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"Teachers deserve to helm every committee determining school operations rather than policymakers who proclaim what should happen in the classroom despite never having taught in one."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"Teachers deserve a safe working environment in which violence is not tolerated from students, parents, or staff, and educators can report it and other transgressions without fear of retaliation."

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

"By the fall of 2021, schools across the country had lost a staggering number of teachers, paraeducators, substitutes, bus drivers, and other staff who quit, retired early, got sick, or died because o…"

-Alexandra Robbins, The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession

Cover of The Revolutionists: A Comedy, a Quartet, a Revolutionary Dream Fugue, a True Story by Lauren Gunderson

25. The Revolutionists: A Comedy, a Quartet, a Revolutionary Dream Fugue, a True Story

By: Lauren Gunderson

4.23

Format: 73 pages, Paperback

THE REVOLUTIONISTS is a brutal comedic quartet about four very real women who lived boldly in Franc… read more

Similar categories in Lauren Gunderson's The Revolutionists: A Comedy, a Quartet, a Revolutionary Dream Fugue, a True Story book and Jeremy Kareken's The Lifespan of a Fact

  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Clue: On Stage by Jonathan Lynn

26. Clue: On Stage

By: Jonathan Lynn

3.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

None read more

Similar categories in Jonathan Lynn's Clue: On Stage book and Jeremy Kareken's The Lifespan of a Fact

  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken

27. The Lifespan of a Fact

By: Jeremy Kareken

3.93

Format: 59 pages, ebook

Jim Fingal is a fresh-out-of-Harvard fact-checker for a prominent but sinking New York magazine. Jo… read more

Similar categories in Jeremy Kareken's The Lifespan of a Fact book and Jeremy Kareken's The Lifespan of a Fact

  • plays
  • drama
Cover of POTUS by Selina Fillinger

28. POTUS

By: Selina Fillinger

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spin… read more

Similar categories in Selina Fillinger's POTUS book and Jeremy Kareken's The Lifespan of a Fact

  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise by Laura  Silverman

29. Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise

By: Laura Silverman

3.55

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

When everyone else goes to bed, the ones who stay up feel like they’re the only people in the world… read more

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"I don't want to live my life behind a mask with no one to share who I am with."

-Laura Silverman, Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise

"...the choices we make--the choices that matter--aren't just the big, sweeping ones. Sometimes a meaningful choice is a simple choice, as simple as five words."

-Laura Silverman, Up All Night: 13 Stories between Sunset and Sunrise

Cover of Orphans by Lyle Kessler

30. Orphans

By: Lyle Kessler

3.91

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

When Treat kidnaps Harold, a mysterious middle-aged man with a briefcase full of bonds, it changes … read more

Similar categories in Lyle Kessler's Orphans book and Jeremy Kareken's The Lifespan of a Fact

  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Grown-Ups by Skylar Fox

31. The Grown-Ups

By: Skylar Fox

4.23

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

The campers are all finally asleep, and the lake is getting quiet. Have a beer; make a s'more; tell… read more

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  • plays
"I'm sorry I almost killed you. For what it's worth, in my head I was trying to save your life."

-Skylar Fox, The Grown-Ups

"She'll realize that she would still do anything to just be one of them. And she'll realize that she hasn't really changed at all. And that maybe nothing ever does. All there is is living with it."

-Skylar Fox, The Grown-Ups

14 best-selling plays books like The Lifespan of a Fact by Jeremy Kareken

Transform Your Habits

The Children

Lucy Kirkwood

3.82

Transform Your Habits

Our Town

Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder

4.35

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The Laramie Project

Moisés Kaufman , Tectonic Theater Project

3.11

Transform Your Habits

Hamilton: The Revolution

Lin-Manuel Miranda , Jeremy McCarter

4.27

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7 best-selling adult books like The Teachers: A Year Inside America's Most Vulnerable, Important Profession by Alexandra Robbins

Transform Your Habits

Tom Lake

Ann Patchett

3.99

Transform Your Habits

Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger, and Higher Education

Stephanie Land

3.62

Transform Your Habits

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

James McBride

4.00

Transform Your Habits

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

4.32

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