13 must-read drama books like God Said This (Yale Drama Series) by Leah Nanako Winkler

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God Said This (Yale Drama Series)

By: Leah Nanako Winkler

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The 2018 winner of the Yale Drama Series competition is a riveting exploration of family and death …

If you liked the drama plot in God Said This (Yale Drama Series) by Leah Nanako Winkler , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. 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
  • fiction
  • 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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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Play That Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis, Henry Shields, Jonathan Sayer

3. The Play That Goes Wrong

By: Henry Lewis , Henry Shields , Jonathan Sayer

4.00

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this m… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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4. The Mountaintop

By: Michael Eric Dyson , Katori Hall , None

3.18

Format: 183 pages,

Winner of the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, The Mountaintop is set a… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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5. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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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

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

7. 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

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

8. 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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9. All's Well That Ends Well

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.99

Format: 273 pages,

In the acclaimed BBC Radio Shakespeare series, each play is introduced by Richard Eyre, former Dire… read more

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10. 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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11. Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"I’m tired to the death."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"LINDA [with infinite patience]"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"Be liked and you will never want."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

12. On Beauty

By: Zadie Smith

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Howard Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long-s… read more

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13. 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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14. 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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15. 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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16. Knight Owl (The Knight Owl Series, 1)

By: Christopher Denise

4.51

Format: 48 pages, Hardcover

A Caldecott Honor Winner and  New York Times  Bestseller!  A determined Owl builds strength and … read more

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  • fiction
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17. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

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  • fiction
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18. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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  • fiction
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19. 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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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"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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20. Sipsworth

By: Simon Van Booy

4.26

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Over the course of a single week, a woman who is ready to die discovers an unexpected reason to liv… read more

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  • fiction
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21. I Cheerfully Refuse

By: Leif Enger

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more

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  • fiction
"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"

-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse

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22. The Vulnerables

By: Sigrid Nunez

3.61

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times –bestselling, National Book Award–winning author of The Friend and What Are You … read more

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  • fiction
"Only when I was young did I believe that it was important to remember what happened in every novel I read. Now I know the truth: what matters is what you experience while reading, the states of feeli…"

-Sigrid Nunez, The Vulnerables

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23. The English Understand Wool

By: Helen DeWitt

4.10

Format: 69 pages, Hardcover

Maman was exigeante—there is no English word–and I had the benefit of her training. Others may not … read more

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  • fiction
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24. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

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  • fiction
"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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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 Leah Nanako Winkler's God Said This (Yale Drama Series)

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties by Jen Silverman

26. Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties

By: Jen Silverman

3.95

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

In Collective Rage, the lives of five very different New York women named Betty collide at the inte… read more

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  • plays
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27. Wolf Play

By: Hansol Jung

4.26

Format: None pages, None

A Korean boy is ushered into a new house by his adopted American father. This new house belongs to … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"But wolves hate Katie. Katies hate Wolf. But Katies live with Peters. So even though Peters are very often allies, Peters are not a hundred percent for the wolf."

-Hansol Jung, Wolf Play

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28. God Said This (Yale Drama Series)

By: Leah Nanako Winkler

4.18

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The 2018 winner of the Yale Drama Series competition is a riveting exploration of family and death … read more

Similar categories in Leah Nanako Winkler's God Said This (Yale Drama Series) book and Leah Nanako Winkler's God Said This (Yale Drama Series)

  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Sleep Deprivation Chamber by Adam P. Kennedy

29. Sleep Deprivation Chamber

By: Adam P. Kennedy

3.62

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

The newest play--and first collaboration--by renowned playwright Adrienne Kennedy. read more

Similar categories in Adam P. Kennedy's Sleep Deprivation Chamber book and Leah Nanako Winkler's God Said This (Yale Drama Series)

  • plays
  • drama
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30. The Minotaur

By: Anna Ziegler

3.60

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

"A present-day version of a classic Greek myth. The Minotaur is a contemporary take on love, honor,… read more

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31. 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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