11 Top plays books like Hookman by Lauren Yee

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Hookman

By: Lauren Yee

3.75

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Freshman year at college is hard when your roommate is weird, you’re feeling homesick, and a hook-h…

If you liked the plays plot in Hookman by Lauren Yee , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Melancholy Play

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.18

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In this chamber musical version of Sarah Ruhl's Melancholy Play, Tilly's melancholy is of an exquis… read more

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"There’s a word in Japanese for being sad in the springtime – a whole word for just being sad – about how pretty the flowers are and how soon they’re going to die."

-Sarah Ruhl, Melancholy Play

"I would like to curl up and become a small thing. About this big. And still. Very still. Have you ever become so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved’s hand? And lie there, …"

-Sarah Ruhl, Melancholy Play

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2. Bug

By: Tracy Letts

3.87

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Set in a seedy Oklahoma City motel room, the play centers on the meeting between Agnes, a divorced … read more

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3. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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4. 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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5. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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6. The Effect

By: Lucy Prebble

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a contr… read more

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7. 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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8. 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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9. The Motherfucker With the Hat

By: Stephen Adly Guirgis , Bobby Cannavale , Chris Rock , Annabella Sciorra , None , None

4.10

Format: None pages, Audiobook

Addiction, pain, and explosive tempers are not exactly what you'd call the ingredients for a side-s… read more

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10. 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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11. 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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12. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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13. Mr. Burns, a post-electric play

By: Anne Washburn

3.43

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

"What will endure when the cataclysm arrives--when the grid fails, society crumbles, and we're face… read more

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14. The Aliens

By: Annie Baker

4.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Professional slackers and best friends KJ and Jasper spend their days talking music and Bukowski ou… read more

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15. Indecent

By: Paula Vogel

4.46

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire… read more

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"I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

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16. 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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17. Slave Play

By: Jeremy O. Harris

4.18

Format: 162 pages, Paperback

The old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation--in the breeze, in the cotton fields...and in th… read more

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18. 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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Cover of John Proctor is the Villain by Kimberly Belflower

19. John Proctor is the Villain

By: Kimberly Belflower

4.61

Format: 178 pages, ebook

In present day Appalachian Georgia, a high school class explores the seminal American classic, The … read more

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20. The Moors

By: Jen Silverman

4.26

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. … read more

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Cover of Hookman by Lauren Yee

21. Hookman

By: Lauren Yee

3.75

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Freshman year at college is hard when your roommate is weird, you’re feeling homesick, and a hook-h… read more

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