5 best-selling plays books like Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom by Jordan Tannahill

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Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

By: Jordan Tannahill

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom presents wildly apocryphal retellings of two events—one hi…

If you liked the plays plot in Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom by Jordan Tannahill , here is a list of 5 books like this:

Cover of Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill

1. Lullabies for Little Criminals

By: Heather O'Neill

4.03

Format: 330 pages, Paperback

A gritty, heart-wrenching novel about bruised innocence on the city's feral streets—the remarkable … read more

Similar categories in Heather O'Neill's Lullabies for Little Criminals book and Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

  • canada
  • contemporary
"Whenever things were going well, I started to feel vain."

-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

"The smallest a family can be is two members, and that was Jules and me."

-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

"Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way."

-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

"Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it."

-Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

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2. carried away on the crest of a wave

By: None , David Yee

4.16

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Two brothers in Malaysia trying to save their house from sinking; a Canadian radio-show host angere… read more

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  • plays
  • canada
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3. The Pillowman

By: Martin McDonagh

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more

Similar categories in Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman book and Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

  • 21st century
  • theatre
  • plays
"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

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4. What It Is

By: Lynda Barry

4.15

Format: 399 pages, Hardcover

How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of question… read more

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5. Dagon

By: H.P. Lovecraft

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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6. Huff & Stitch

By: Cliff Cardinal

3.87

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

From an award-winning Cree playwright comes two powerful solo shows that promise visceral journeys … read more

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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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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10. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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11. The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)

By: Kay O'Neill

4.41

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

Rinn has grown up with the Tea Dragons that inhabit their village, but stumbling across a real drag… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"We won't stay away so long this time. I forgot how good home tastes."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)

"Aedhan: My name is Aedhan, of the Shining Wing Clan. Erik: I'm Erik, of the mountain vegetable picker clan!"

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Festival (Tea Dragon, #2)

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12. The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

By: Kay O'Neill

4.50

Format: 135 pages, Hardcover

Join Greta and Minette once more for the heartwarming conclusion of the award-winning Tea Dragon se… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"Everything that happens is part of your wholeness."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

"When someone is grieving, the best thing you can do is let them heal on their own, and show them that you'll be there for them."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

"You feel like you've lost your path. It's natural to be sad. It's alright to let those feelings wash over you, and give them time to soak into the earth. That's when things start to grow again."

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

"Well I am, now. But I wasn't always so ready to call it my home--when one feels displaced, it can take a while for the connections to grow. Once I was ready, it felt like I was part of a new song tha…"

-Kay O'Neill, The Tea Dragon Tapestry (Tea Dragon, #3)

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13. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

Similar categories in Mona Awad's Rouge book and Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

  • contemporary
"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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14. Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands

By: Kate Beaton

4.41

Format: 430 pages, Hardcover

Celebrated cartoonist Kate Beaton vividly presents the untold story of Canada. Before there was … read more

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  • canada
Cover of Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1) by Waubgeshig Rice

15. Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

By: Waubgeshig Rice

3.85

Format: 213 pages, Paperback

A daring post-apocalyptic thriller from a powerful rising literary voice. With winter looming, … read more

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  • canada
"Yes, apocalypse. We've had that over and over. But we always survived. We're still here. And we'll still be here, even if the power and the radios don't come back on and we never see any white people…"

-Waubgeshig Rice, Moon of the Crusted Snow (Moon, #1)

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16. House of Cotton

By: Monica Brashears

3.05

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Nineteen years old, broke, and effectively an orphan, Magnolia doesn’t have much to look forward to… read more

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  • contemporary
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17. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

Similar categories in Kaveh Akbar's Martyr! book and Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
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18. 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

Similar categories in Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play book and Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
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19. Woman, Eating

By: Claire Kohda

3.46

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kohda's Woman, Eating book and Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

  • contemporary
"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"

-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating

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20. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

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  • contemporary
"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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21. Pageboy

By: Elliot Page

3.75

Format: 271 pages, None

Pageboy is a groundbreaking coming-of-age memoir from the Academy Award-nominated actor Elliot Page… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"Her visibility meant the world to me. I think about this as I walk through the world now."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"How do people do it? How do they shut off the noise? And I don't mean "happy", they may not be happy, but they seem to be able to exist at least."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"In a world where queerness all too often alienates us from blood, I am grateful to Julia, and the family I have chosen. Without them, I wouldn't be here."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

"I could block myself out, I was a person I didn't know, I'd gaze into what felt like the universe, my eye a planet of its own. I must be somewhere in there, I'd think."

-Elliot Page, Pageboy

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22. The Future

By: Catherine Leroux

3.32

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

In an alternate history in which the French never surrendered Detroit, children protect their own k… read more

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  • canada
"It'll come back," Ulysses says again. "This place isn't made for disappearing, it's a place for resurrection."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

"The exact opposite of the huge car factories she imagines as the city's womb, a uterus that makes automobiles the way others make promises, or laws."

-Catherine Leroux, The Future

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23. When We Lost Our Heads

By: Heather O'Neill

3.97

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destro… read more

Similar categories in Heather O'Neill's When We Lost Our Heads book and Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

  • historical fiction
  • lgbt
  • canada
  • queer
"Her heart leaped like a frog out of a child’s fist."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

"Loving everyone is the same thing as loving nobody at."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

"She felt jealousy pounding like enemy soldiers at the gate."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

"Her words squiggled onto the page like the laces of a girl running for her life with untied boots."

-Heather O'Neill, When We Lost Our Heads

Cover of Patricia Wants to Cuddle by Samantha  Allen

24. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

Similar categories in Samantha Allen's Patricia Wants to Cuddle book and Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
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25. Beyond the Gender Binary

By: Alok Vaid-Menon

4.49

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Beyond the Gender Binary, spoken word poet Alok Vaid-Menon challenges the world to see gender not … read more

Similar categories in Alok Vaid-Menon's Beyond the Gender Binary book and Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

  • lgbt
  • queer
"I learned about gender through shame."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"Critiquing gender is not the same thing as creating gender."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"The days that I feel most beautiful are the days that I am most afraid."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

"It's a surreal experience to have your personhood be reduced to a prop."

-Alok Vaid-Menon, Beyond the Gender Binary

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26. Real Life

By: Brandon Taylor

3.80

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, f… read more

Similar categories in Brandon Taylor's Real Life book and Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
"Miller: "You are so determined to be unknowable." Wallace: "We are always unknowable."

-Brandon Taylor, Real Life

"Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes due with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one’s life."

-Brandon Taylor, Real Life

"The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It takes truth, hones it to a terrifying keenness, and uses it to slice us to the bone."

-Brandon Taylor, Real Life

"It's... mostly fine," Wallace admits, getting too close to the bone. He doesn't want to go back over the thing about how grief can feel diffuse and dense all at once, like a flock of birds in the sky…"

-Brandon Taylor, Real Life

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27. Thirst

By: Marina Yuszczuk

3.58

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Across two different time periods, two women confront fear, loneliness, mortality, and a haunting y… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
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28. The Absinthe Underground

By: Jamie Pacton

3.47

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Moulin Rouge meets Holly Black in a thrilling sapphic friends-to-lovers romantasy! For Sybil Cla… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • lgbt
  • queer
Cover of Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom by Jordan Tannahill

29. Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

By: Jordan Tannahill

4.31

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom presents wildly apocryphal retellings of two events—one hi… read more

Similar categories in Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom book and Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

  • drama
  • canada
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • historical fiction
  • 21st century
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • queer
Cover of Gay Girl Prayers by Emily R. Austin

30. Gay Girl Prayers

By: Emily R. Austin

4.10

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A collection of poetry reclaiming Catholic prayers and biblical passages to empower girls, women, a… read more

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  • contemporary
  • lgbt
  • queer
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31. Queen Goneril

By: Erin Shields

4.28

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Set seven years before King Lear , Queen Goneril centres the struggles of Lear’s daughters as they … read more

Similar categories in Erin Shields's Queen Goneril book and Jordan Tannahill's Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom

  • plays
  • drama

11 Top contemporary books like Botticelli in the Fire and Sunday in Sodom by Jordan Tannahill

Transform Your Habits

Lullabies for Little Criminals

Heather O'Neill

4.03

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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House of Cotton

Monica Brashears

3.05

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Martyr!

Kaveh Akbar

4.24

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Rouge

Mona Awad

3.56

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Let Us Descend

Jesmyn Ward

3.70

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Tananarive Due

4.47

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T. Kingfisher

3.69

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