15 best-selling plays books like Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein

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Uncommon Women and Others

By: Wendy Wasserstein

4.29

Format: None pages,

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Cover of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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2. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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3. Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more

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  • feminism
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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4. 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

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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
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5. John

By: Annie Baker

4.20

Format: None pages,

"Annie Baker's Johnis so good on so many levels that it casts a unique and brilliant light... By no… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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6. 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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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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7. The Importance of Being Earnest

By: Oscar Wilde

2.50

Format: None pages,

Oscar Wilde's madcap farce about mistaken identities, secret engagements, and lovers entanglements … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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8. Getting Out

By: Marsha Norman

3.78

Format: 479 pages,

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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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9. The Interestings

By: Meg Wolitzer

4.00

Format: 202 pages, Hardcover

The Interestings explores the meaning of talent; the nature of envy; the roles of class, art, money… read more

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  • fiction
  • contemporary
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10. Uncommon Women and Others

By: Wendy Wasserstein

4.29

Format: None pages,

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  • feminism
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
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11. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

12. Appropriate

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to… read more

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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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13. Fefu and Her Friends

By: María Irene Fornés

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

This is one of the best-loved Off-Off-Broadway plays of recent decades. In the innovative original … read more

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  • feminism
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

14. This is Our Youth

By: Kenneth Lonergan

0.00

Format: None pages,

Starring Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager, the original cast was reunited for this exclu… read more

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15. Stop Kiss

By: None

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ben Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to Diana Son's play Stop Kiss wh… read more

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16. 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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17. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

By: Tom Stoppard , None

3.48

Format: None pages,

Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more

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18. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

19. Ruined

By: Lynn Nottage

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hi… read more

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20. 'night, Mother

By: Marsha Norman

4.15

Format: None pages,

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21. Steel Magnolias

By: None

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Presents the script of a 1988 play about a group of women in Chinquapin, Louisiana, who learn to dr… read more

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22. No Exit

By: Jean-Paul Sartre

3.92

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Jean-Paul Sartre, the great French existentialist, displays his mastery of drama in NO EXIT, an unf… read more

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23. Ghosts

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"Ghosts" is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her decease… read more

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24. Machinal

By: Sophie Treadwell

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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25. The Actor's Life: A Survival Guide

By: Jenna Fischer

3.21

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Jenna Fischer's Hollywood journey began at the age of 22 when she moved to Los Angeles from her hom… read more

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26. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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27. Crimes of the Heart

By: Beth Henley

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

This drama in three acts won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981. Set in a small Mississippi town,… read more

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28. 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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29. Just Kids

By: Patti Smith

4.21

Format: 262 pages, Hardcover

In Just Kids, Patti Smith's first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-befor… read more

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"There's always new stuff, that's for sure."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself?"

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"I knew he didn't love me, but I adored him anyway."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

"Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself."

-Patti Smith, Just Kids

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30. Cost of Living

By: Martyna Majok

4.14

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating ac… read more

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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
"That's not a thing I'll ever know. Everything's started over for me—"

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"Self-pity has little currency in these characters' worlds. Humor, however, has much."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"It matters who you are. Family. Connections. If there's gonna be a net when you fall. Cuz everybody falls."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"The shit that happens is not to be understood. That's from the Bible. The shit that happens to you is Not To Be Understood."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

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

31. 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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  • feminism
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"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

16 best-selling fiction books like Uncommon Women and Others by Wendy Wasserstein

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

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14 must-read fiction books like The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Transform Your Habits

Pygmalion

George Bernard Shaw

3.89

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

The Yellow Wall-Paper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Transform Your Habits

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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