11 best-selling plays books like Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl

Small Mouth Sounds

By: Bess Wohl

3.78

Format: None pages, None

“Leaves you moved, refreshed and, yes, maybe even enlightened.” —New York Times (Critic’s Pick)    …

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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
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2. We the Animals

By: Justin Torres

3.72

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

In this award-winning, groundbreaking debut, Justin Torres plunges us into the chaotic heart of one… read more

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"We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing at what we needed."

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

"This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance ha…"

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

"Always more, always hungrily scratching for more. But there were times, quiet moments, when our mother was sleeping, when she hadn’t slept in two days, and any noise, any stair creak, any shut door, …"

-Justin Torres, We the Animals

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3. Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

By: Carolyn L. Karcher , Catharine Maria Sedgwick

3.37

Format: 399 pages, Paperback

Set in seventeenth-century New England in the aftermath of the Pequod War, Hope Leslie not only chr… read more

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"Marriage is not essential to the contentment, the dignity, or the happiness of woman."

-Carolyn L. Karcher, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

"It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight."

-Carolyn L. Karcher, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

"All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return."

-Carolyn L. Karcher, Hope Leslie: or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

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4. 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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  • plays
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5. Into the Woods

By: James Lapine , Stephen Sondheim

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

"That joyous rarity, a work of sophisticated artistic ambition and deep political purpose that affo… read more

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  • plays
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6. The Moor's Account

By: Laila Lalami

3.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1527, the conquistador Panfilo de Narvaez sailed from the port of Sanlucar de Barrameda with a c… read more

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7. The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

By: Anne Carson

4.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The Beauty Of The Husband is an essay on Keats’s idea that beauty is truth, and is also the story o… read more

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"Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"Ray please I never lied to her. When need arose I may have used words that lied."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it"

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

"A wound gives off its own light surgeons say. If all the lamps in the house were turned out you could dress this wound by what shines from it."

-Anne Carson, The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos

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8. Red

By: John Logan

3.66

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF SIX TONY AWARDS A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the twe… read more

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  • plays
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9. I and You

By: Lauren Gunderson

4.12

Format: 204 pages,

Only in high school would two completely unconnected people - cranky, chronically ill Caroline and … read more

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  • plays
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10. A Mercy

By: Toni Morrison

4.51

Format: 192 pages,

In the 1680s the slave trade in the Americas is still in its infancy. Jacob Vaark is an Anglo-Dutch… read more

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11. 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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12. Rabbit Hole

By: David Lindsay-Abaire

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation--an intensel… read more

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13. Circle Mirror Transformation

By: Annie Baker

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Thanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start. Five lost people come together at … read more

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14. 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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15. 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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16. Women playing Hamlet

By: William Missouri Downs

4.00

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

Hamlet's a challenge for any actor, but when Jessica is cast as the titular character in a New York… read more

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17. 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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18. 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater

By: Sarah Ruhl

3.64

Format: 211 pages,

Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stun… read more

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19. Charlotte Temple

By: Cathy N. Davidson , Susanna Rowson

3.64

Format: 216 pages,

Charlotte Temple, a "best seller" that went through more than 200 editions, was the most popular Am… read more

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20. Vietgone

By: Qui Nguyen

3.26

Format: None pages,

A love story between two Vietnam War refugees who meet in an Arkansas relocation camp, the show fea… read more

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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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  • plays
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22. Olivetti

By: Allie Millington

4.10

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and r… read more

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23. I'm Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself: One Woman's Pursuit of Pleasure in Paris

By: Glynnis MacNicol

3.59

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

When you’re a woman smack in so-called “middle age” you are not promised anything at all other than… read more

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24. Eternal Life

By: Dara Horn

3.80

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Rachel is a woman with a problem: she can’t die. Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business,… read more

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"That's the problem. We don't grow. We're like an old book, full of stories and also full of errors, and no one can completely understand us, even though many people try. But the problem is that we do…"

-Dara Horn, Eternal Life

"She didn’t know exactly when she had first felt the sensation of regret. It was a physical sensation, a shudder that began deep in the stomach and traveled up through the throat; it was distinct from…"

-Dara Horn, Eternal Life

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25. Alphabetical Diaries

By: Sheila Heti

4.02

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A thrilling confessional from the award-winning, beloved author of Pure Colour. Sheila Heti kept a… read more

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26. 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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  • plays
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27. The Antipodes

By: Annie Baker

4.13

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Endlessly fascinating … The Antipodes leaves you glowing with a wondering satisfaction. I mean the… read more

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  • plays
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28. 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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  • plays
"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

Cover of The Tree of Life: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World by Elisa Boxer

29. The Tree of Life: How a Holocaust Sapling Inspired the World

By: Elisa Boxer

4.34

Format: 41 pages, Kindle Edition

Hope triumphs over fear in this poignant and impactful true story of the Holocaust—a delicate intro… read more

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30. Small Mouth Sounds

By: Bess Wohl

3.78

Format: None pages, None

“Leaves you moved, refreshed and, yes, maybe even enlightened.” —New York Times (Critic’s Pick)    … read more

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31. The River Bride

By: Marisela Treviño Orta

4.27

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

Three days before a wedding, a handsome and mysterious man is fished from the Amazon River. Set onc… read more

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10 Top theatre books like Small Mouth Sounds by Bess Wohl

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Nick Payne

4.07

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Annie Baker

4.20

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James Lapine , Stephen Sondheim

4.16

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John Logan

3.66

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Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

3.83

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James Baldwin

4.30

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Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

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4.00

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