6 must-read plays books like Sisters Matsumoto by Philip Kan Gotanda

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Sisters Matsumoto

By: Philip Kan Gotanda

3.68

Format: 2 pages, Audio CD

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US government sent thousands of Japanese American cit…

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1. The Sealed Room

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.46

Format: 34 pages, Paperback

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish physician and writer … read more

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  • audiobook
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2. Hurricane Song

By: Paul Volponi

3.75

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

Hurricane Katrina is raging and you are inside the Superdome! Miles has only lived in New Orleans w… read more

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  • historical
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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3. Like No Other

By: Una LaMarche

3.16

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Fate brought them together. Will life tear them apart? Devorah is a consummate good girl who has n… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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4. The Horror of the Heights

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

5.00

Format: None pages, ebook

"The Horror of the Heights" is a short story by Arthur Conan Doyle. It was first published in Stran… read more

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  • fiction

5. Boy

By: Anna Ziegler

3.69

Format: 32 pages,

Inspired by a true story, Anna Ziegler's BOY explores the tricky terrain of finding love amidst the… read more

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6. The White Rose

By: Dorothee Sölle , Inge Aicher-Scholl

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

The White Rose tells the story of Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, who in 1942 led a small undergroun… read more

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7. The Memory of Light

By: Francisco X. Stork

4.36

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

16-year-old Vicky Cruz wakes up in a hospital's mental ward after a failed suicide attempt. Now she… read more

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8. This Book Betrays My Brother

By: Kagiso Lesego Molope

4.08

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"Basi is as special as raindrops on dying crops. I say this not with jealousy but with apology, rea… read more

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9. Rook

By: Sharon Cameron

4.44

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

History has a way of repeating itself. In the Sunken City that was once Paris, all who oppose the n… read more

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10. Into White

By: Randi Pink

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

When a black teenager prays to be white and her wish comes true, her journey of self-discovery take… read more

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11. Disappeared

By: Francisco X. Stork

4.16

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

Four months ago: Sara Zapata's best friend disappeared, kidnapped by the web of criminals who terro… read more

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12. Lot No. 249

By: Arthur Conan Doyle

3.80

Format: 240 pages,

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13. Displacement

By: Kiku Hughes

4.29

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

A teenager is pulled back in time to witness her grandmother's experiences in World War II-era Japa… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"A memory is too powerful a weapon."

-Kiku Hughes, Displacement

"But when a community comes together to demand more, when we do not let trauma stay obscured but bring it up to the surface and remember it together, we can make sure it is not repeated."

-Kiku Hughes, Displacement

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14. Descendant of the Crane

By: Joan He

3.63

Format: 413 pages, Paperback

In New York Times and Indie bestselling author Joan He's debut novel, Descendant of the Crane , a d… read more

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  • historical
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • historical fiction
"To learn, her mind had needed to unlearn."

-Joan He, Descendant of the Crane

"No night was perfect for treason, but this one came close."

-Joan He, Descendant of the Crane

"Knowledge is truth, Little Bird. Those who refuse to learn live in a world of falsity."

-Joan He, Descendant of the Crane

"In the times ahead, you may not know whom to trust. So trust in yourself, and trust in your beliefs."

-Joan He, Descendant of the Crane

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15. In Search Of Us

By: Ava Dellaira

4.02

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The author of the beloved Love Letters to the Dead returns with a parallel story of a mother and da… read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Love's worth it, for however long it lasts."

-Ava Dellaira, In Search Of Us

"Su beso no es solo un beso. Su beso es el único beso que lo haya cambiado todo jamas."

-Ava Dellaira, In Search Of Us

"Maybe it's true that there are no happy endings. But, right now, Angie is grateful to be at what feels like a beginning."

-Ava Dellaira, In Search Of Us

"But missing something is okay. It's better, anyways, than feeling stuck somewhere. I'll take longing over boredom any day."

-Ava Dellaira, In Search Of Us

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16. Extinction (a play)

By: Hannie Rayson

2.94

Format: None pages, ebook

One wild winter night, Harry Jewell is driving along the Great Ocean Road, when he hits an animal. … read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • audiobook
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17. Picture Us in the Light

By: Kelly Loy Gilbert

4.09

Format: 361 pages, Hardcover

Danny Cheng has always known his parents have secrets. But when he discovers a taped-up box in his … read more

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  • family
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"Other people don't exist just to be your happy ending, you know?"

-Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

"Something crackles on my skin like a fire. He felt me in that moment, he understood what it was to me."

-Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

"We all have those things, I think – those things we want too badly to speak about aloud for fear someone'll swoop in and tell us we're just dreaming, those things we hold close and fantasize about at…"

-Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

"Art doesn't change the ending. It doesn't let you lose yourself that way--the opposite, really; it calls you from the darkness, into the glaring, unforgiving light. But at least--this is why it will …"

-Kelly Loy Gilbert, Picture Us in the Light

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18. Bump

By: Chiara Atik

3.45

Format: 66 pages, Paperback

2 men, 10 women A car mechanic on the verge of becoming a grandfather, a community of expectant … read more

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  • plays
  • audiobook
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19. Easy Prey

By: Catherine Lo

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Only three students had access to a teacher’s racy photos before they went viral. There’s Mouse, a … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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20. Paradise

By: Laura Maria Censabella

3.43

Format: 99 pages, Audiobook

Yasmeen Al-Hamadi is a Muslim, Yemeni-American senior at a struggling inner-city Bronx high school.… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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21. Crescendo: The Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Southern Town

By: Allen Cheney

4.14

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A story of mercy, miracles, and melody—and above all else: love. During the Great Depression, Fr… read more

Similar categories in Allen Cheney's Crescendo: The Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Southern Town book and Philip Kan Gotanda's Sisters Matsumoto

  • family
  • audiobook
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22. The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi

By: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

3.69

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling, genre-defying novel in verse, from the author Delia Owens says “tackles the absurdities… read more

Similar categories in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's The Perfect Nine: The Epic of Gĩkũyũ and Mũmbi book and Philip Kan Gotanda's Sisters Matsumoto

  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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23. Someone Like Me: How One Undocumented Girl Fought for Her American Dream

By: Julissa Arce

4.11

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Born in the picturesque town of Taxco, Mexico, Julissa Arce was left behind for months at a time wi… read more

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  • family
  • audiobook
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24. Come On In

By: Adi Alsaid

3.94

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

This exceptional and powerful anthology explores the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration,… read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
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25. Never Look Back

By: Lilliam Rivera

3.88

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Eury comes to the Bronx as a girl haunted. Haunted by losing everything in Hurricane Maria--and by … read more

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  • fiction
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"He is not my medicine."

-Lilliam Rivera, Never Look Back

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26. This Is What I Know About Art

By: Kimberly Drew

4.14

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space … read more

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  • audiobook
"It's absurd to think about how a $1,600 stipend changed the course of my life. It's absurd to think about how many internships are still unpaid, and how elitist and morally corrupt it is to hire unpa…"

-Kimberly Drew, This Is What I Know About Art

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27. Secret Soldiers: How the U.S. Twenty-Third Special Troops Fooled the Nazis

By: Paul B. Janeczko

3.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

What do set design, sound effects, and showmanship have to do with winning World War II? Meet the G… read more

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  • world war ii
  • historical
  • audiobook
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28. Sisters Matsumoto

By: Philip Kan Gotanda

3.68

Format: 2 pages, Audio CD

After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the US government sent thousands of Japanese American cit… read more

Similar categories in Philip Kan Gotanda's Sisters Matsumoto book and Philip Kan Gotanda's Sisters Matsumoto

  • audiobook
  • historical
  • young adult
  • world war ii
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • family
  • adult
  • plays
  • drama
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29. No-No Boy

By: Ken Narasaki

3.42

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Ken Narasaki's adaptation of the novel by Japanese-American author John Okada is set during the aft… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • plays
  • historical fiction
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30. Rebuttal

By: Jyotsna Hariharan

3.39

Format: 2 pages, Audio CD

The Grand Prize winner of HarperCollins's audio drama contest. By turns amusing and angst-filled, t… read more

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  • audiobook
  • fiction
  • young adult
  • drama
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31. Fake (Library Edition Audio CDs)

By: Eric Simonson

3.01

Format: 1 pages, Audio CD

Oscar-winning and Tony-nominated writer and director Eric Simonson explores the most famous archeol… read more

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  • audiobook
  • historical
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • drama

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