15 must-read plays books like The God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch

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The God of Vengeance

By: Sholem Asch

3.89

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A new translation of the classic Yiddish drama by Sholem Asch about a Jewish brothel owner who trie…

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1. The Merry Wives of Windsor

By: William Shakespeare

3.55

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteer… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"I assure thee: setting the attractions of my good parts aside I have no other charms."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

"I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire."

-William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

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2. The Boys in the Band

By: Mart Crowley

4.01

Format: 182 pages, Paperback

"Boys can still hold its own . . . [Mart] Crowley's point is about how the humor is shaped and defi… read more

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  • classics
  • drama
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • queer
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3. The Laramie Project

By: Moisés Kaufman , Tectonic Theater Project

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moises Kaufman and his Tectonic Thea… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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4. So Vast the Prison

By: Assia Djebar , Betsy Wing

4.40

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

So Vast the Prison is the double-threaded story of a modern, educated Algerian woman existing in a … read more

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  • fiction
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5. Topdog/Underdog

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the w… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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6. Bent

By: Martin Sherman

4.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

(Applause Books). Martin Sherman's worldwide hit play Bent took London by storm in 1979 when it was… read more

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  • drama
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • queer
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7. The Baltimore Waltz

By: Paula Vogel

3.54

Format: 256 pages,

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  • drama
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • queer

8. Last Summer at Bluefish Cove: A Play in Two Acts

By: Jane Chambers

4.27

Format: 67 pages, Paperback

Last Summer at Bluefish Cove is the story of a dissatisfied straight woman who leaves her husband t… read more

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  • lesbian
  • queer
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama

9. Almost, Maine

By: John Cariani

3.98

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

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10. 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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11. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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  • lgbt
  • queer
"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

12. 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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13. The Children's Hour

By: Lillian Hellman

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

This is a serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youn… read more

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14. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

15. Ruined

By: Lynn Nottage

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hi… read more

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16. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)

By: August Wilson

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more

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17. Inherit the Wind

By: Jerome Lawrence , Robert E. Lee

3.93

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

A meaningful play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried … read more

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18. My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

By: Kabi Nagata , Jocelyne Allen

3.74

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience … read more

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19. Intimate Apparel - Acting Edition

By: Lynn Nottage

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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20. Shakespeare's Sonnets

By: William Shakespeare , Katherine Duncan-Jones

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this… read more

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21. Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

By: Anna Deavere Smith

3.19

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Anna Deavere Smith's stunning new work of "documentary theater" in which she uses verbatim the word… read more

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22. The Normal Heart

By: Andrew Holleran , Larry Kramer , Joseph Papp

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

THE NORMAL HEARTis the explosive drama about our most terrifying and troubling medical crisis today… read more

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23. Sorrowland

By: Rivers Solomon

3.83

Format: 355 pages, Hardcover

Vern - seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was ra… read more

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  • lesbian
  • lgbt
  • fiction
  • queer
"The United States was a catalogue of known wrongs."

-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

"It only ever took a moment for life to break apart at the seams."

-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

"Defiance would always be Vern’s purest and most plentiful resource."

-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

"In the woods, where animals ruled with teeth and claws, such things mattered not a lick."

-Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland

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24. 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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  • drama
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • queer
"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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25. The Triangle Factory Fire Project (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

By: Christopher Piehler

4.11

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Saturday, March 25, 1911. 4:45 P.M. In the Triangle Waist Factory off downtown Manhattan s Washingt… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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26. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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27. 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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  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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28. The Book of Bill (Gravity Falls)

By: Alex Hirsch

4.57

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Did you miss him? Admit it, you missed him. The demon that terrorized Gravity Falls is back from… read more

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  • fiction
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29. The God of Vengeance

By: Sholem Asch

3.89

Format: 84 pages, Kindle Edition

A new translation of the classic Yiddish drama by Sholem Asch about a Jewish brothel owner who trie… read more

Similar categories in Sholem Asch's The God of Vengeance book and Sholem Asch's The God of Vengeance

  • lesbian
  • classics
  • drama
  • jewish
  • lgbt
  • judaism
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • queer
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30. 26 Pebbles

By: Eric Ulloa

4.33

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School and killed twenty-six inn… read more

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  • plays
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31. Execution of Justice

By: Emily Mann

3.58

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

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13 Best fiction books like The God of Vengeance by Sholem Asch

Transform Your Habits

The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare

3.55

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The Boys in the Band

Mart Crowley

4.01

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So Vast the Prison

Assia Djebar , Betsy Wing

4.40

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Suzan-Lori Parks

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Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

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Lynn Nottage

4.06

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Paula Vogel

3.85

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Sarah Ruhl

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