13 Top plays books like The Funeral Director by Iman Qureshi

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The Funeral Director

By: Iman Qureshi

3.89

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize - 2018 Life as the director of a Muslim funeral parlour i…

If you liked the plays plot in The Funeral Director by Iman Qureshi , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Will Grayson, Will Grayson

By: John Green , David Levithan

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Will Grayson meets Will Grayson. One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two stranger… read more

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"I'm not asexual. I'm arelationshipal."

-John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

"Some people have lives; some people have music."

-John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

"Random questions are the least random of all questions."

-John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

"All sorts of yayness floods my brain. Love is such a drug."

-John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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2. Black Hawk: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY

By: Black Hawk , Donald Jackson

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

This story is told in the words of a tragic figure in American history - a hook-nosed, hollow-cheek… read more

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3. Walden

By: Henry David Thoreau

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Paperback

Walden, or, Life in the Woods, is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David T… read more

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4. Jerusalem

By: Jez Butterworth

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

"[A] startlingly brilliant new play. . . . A tragic and hilarious vision of life in an English coun… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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5. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

This startling novel describes the adolescence of a ferociously bright and rebellious orphan adopte… read more

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6. Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft

By: Janet Burroway , Elizabeth Stuckey-French

2.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

The most widely used and respected text in its field, Writing Fiction, 7e guides the novice story w… read more

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7. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

8. 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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9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

10. Inferno (The Divine Comedy #1)

By: Dante Alighieri , Anthony Esolen

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante plunges to the very depths of Hell and embarks on his arduous jour… read more

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11. A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

By: Arthur Miller

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." --Fr… 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. Anatomy of a Suicide

By: Alice Birch

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Three generations of women. For each, the chaos of what has come before brings with it a painful le… read more

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14. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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15. 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

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"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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16. Y/N

By: Esther Yi

2.95

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more

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"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

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17. 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
  • plays
"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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18. The Batman Who Laughs

By: Scott Snyder

3.76

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Left rattled by the events of Dark Knights: Metal, Bruce Wayne must come face to face with the ulti… read more

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19. People Person

By: Candice Carty-Williams

3.70

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Dimple Pennington knew of her half siblings, but she didn't really know them. Five people who don't… read more

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20. Dear Dolly

By: Dolly Alderton

3.83

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

'What I learnt from sharing my most private pain with a semi-professional problem-solver was that t… read more

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"Pero, ¿quién se enamora de lo correcto?"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"Watching a best friend become a parent is a magical thing. It can open up a part of their personality that you've never seen before and it can also open a new chapter of your friendship."

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

"...romantics are, ironically, the worst culprits for being relationship avoidant. This is for two reasons. The first being that committing to someone would mean they would have to call off the search…"

-Dolly Alderton, Dear Dolly

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21. The Wife of Willesden

By: Zadie Smith

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoff… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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22. Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner

By: Jasmine Lee-Jones

3.01

Format: 89 pages, Paperback

In this innovative play blending real life and online culture, a young Black woman takes to Twitter… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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23. Sincerity

By: Carol Ann Duffy

3.70

Format: 96 pages, Hardcover

Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy returns with  Sincerity , her last full collection as Poet Laureate, … read more

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24. 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

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25. The Funeral Director

By: Iman Qureshi

3.89

Format: 100 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the Papatango New Writing Prize - 2018 Life as the director of a Muslim funeral parlour i… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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26. Rockets and Blue Lights

By: Winsome Pinnock

4.07

Format: 80 pages, ebook

On the set of a new film about Victorian artist J.M.W. Turner, young actress Lou is haunted by an u… read more

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  • plays
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27. Perfect Arrangement

By: Topher Payne

4.18

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

It’s 1950, and new colors are being added to the Red Scare. Two U.S. State Department employees, Bo… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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28. Ear for Eye

By: debbie tucker green

4.03

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

"Marchin' days is over man." Patience is running out, times have changed. And progress isn't enough… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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29. A History of Water in the Middle East

By: Sabrina Mahfouz

4.21

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Can you hear it, the hiss of water wiggling its way out into the world uncaptured, wasted, wanton? … read more

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  • plays
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30. The High Table

By: Temi Wilkey

4.48

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

That's actually what me and Leah came here to talk to you about. Look- there's no easy way of sayin… read more

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  • plays
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31. Fragile Land (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Tanika Gupta

3.06

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The first performance in The Space, Tanika Gupta's Fragile Land is about what nationhood means for … read more

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Jerusalem

Jez Butterworth

3.81

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A Doll's House

Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

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Indecent

Paula Vogel

4.46

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The Wife of Willesden

Zadie Smith

3.74

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

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A Passage to India

E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

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3.79

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