13 must-read drama books like Body Awareness by Annie Baker

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Body Awareness

By: Annie Baker

3.86

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

It's "Body Awareness" week on a Vermont college campus and Phyllis, the organizer, and her partner,…

If you liked the drama plot in Body Awareness by Annie Baker , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Constellations

By: Nick Payne

4.07

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

One relationship. Infinite possibilities. 'Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here a… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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2. Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

By: Anne Carson

4.18

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

"One of the most interesting gatherings of material that any poet has published within living memor… read more

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  • plays
"Everything is a naked thought that strikes."

-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

"I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable."

-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

"Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go."

-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

"What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away."

-Anne Carson, Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera

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3. The Colossus and Other Poems

By: Sylvia Plath

3.31

Format: 267 pages,

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4. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

5. Gravity and Grace

By: Simone Weil , Emma Crawford

4.03

Format: 246 pages, Paperback

Gravity and Gracewas the first ever publication by the remarkable thinker and activist, Simone Weil… read more

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6. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

By: Sophocles , Eamon Grennan , Rachel Kitzinger

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

The latest title to join the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, Sophocles' Oedipus… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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8. Dead Man's Cell Phone

By: Sarah Ruhl

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

"Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is foreve… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

9. 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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10. 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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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. American Buffalo

By: David Mamet

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

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13. 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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14. Dog Sees God

By: None

5.00

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

When CB's dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best frien… read more

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15. The Nether

By: Jennifer Haley

3.00

Format: None pages,

I've read the studies. No one has been able to draw a conclusive correlation between virtual behavi… read more

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16. Oleanna

By: David Mamet

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

In David Mamet's latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss … read more

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17. Light Years

By: James Salter

3.83

Format: None pages, Paperback

This exquisite, resonant novel by PEN/Faulkner winner James Salter is a brilliant portrait of a mar… read more

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18. Mary Page Marlowe

By: Tracy Letts

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

"A deeply moving new play from Tracy Letts." --Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Known for his complex p… read more

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19. Killer Joe

By: Tracy Letts

2.97

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Full Length, Black ComedyCharacters: 3 male, 2 female Interior Set This exciting first play by the … read more

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20. 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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  • theatre
  • 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

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21. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

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  • drama
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • plays
  • queer
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22. The Wolves

By: Sarah DeLappe

4.27

Format: 175 pages, None

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburba… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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23. Heroes of the Fourth Turning

By: Will Arbery

4.03

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

It's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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24. Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Clare Barron

4.22

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

'Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start!'Somewhe… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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25. 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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  • theatre
  • 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

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26. The Minutes

By: Tracy Letts

4.06

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Beneath the deadpan back-and-forth of a seemingly typical city council board meeting lies the whiff… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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27. Body Awareness

By: Annie Baker

3.86

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

It's "Body Awareness" week on a Vermont college campus and Phyllis, the organizer, and her partner,… read more

Similar categories in Annie Baker's Body Awareness book and Annie Baker's Body Awareness

  • drama
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • plays
  • queer
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28. Describe the Night

By: Rajiv Joseph

4.17

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

In 1920, the Russian writer Isaac Babel wanders the countryside with the Red Cavalry. Seventy years… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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29. Plano

By: Will Arbery

4.27

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Isabel's got pains. Anne's got slugs. And Genevieve doesn't want to talk about hers. She just wants… read more

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  • plays
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30. I'm Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire

By: Samantha Hurley

4.17

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

None read more

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  • plays
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31. Love by Kate Cortesi

By: Kate Cortesi

4.00

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

THE When Penelope is asked to join a group of women making harassment allegations against her form… read more

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17 must-read plays books like Body Awareness by Annie Baker

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Nick Payne

4.07

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Anne Carson

4.18

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Paula Vogel

3.85

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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

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Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

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Lynn Nottage

4.06

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Paula Vogel

3.85

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Sarah Ruhl

4.10

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