6 must-read school books like Racing Demon by David Hare

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Racing Demon

By: David Hare

3.70

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In conflict with government, torn with internal dissension on matters of doctrine and practice, the…

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1. Trout Fishing in America

By: Richard Brautigan

3.76

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vi… read more

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  • fiction
  • 20th century
"His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

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2. The Ride Down Mt. Morgan

By: Arthur Miller

3.37

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

A car wreck on the slopes of Mt. Morgan puts poet and insurance tycoon Lyman Felt in the hospital. … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

-Arthur Miller, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan

"I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain age, or be ridiculous - you've got to stand there nobly and serene, and let death run his tape o…"

-Arthur Miller, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan

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3. Apt Pupil

By: Stephen King

3.92

Format: 179 pages, Paperback

Todd Bowden is an apt pupil. Good grades, good family, a paper route. But he is about to meet a dif… read more

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  • fiction
"What does a good man fall back on when the situation is desperate? His faith, of course. The science of a new century. The love of his friends."

-Stephen King, Apt Pupil

"Your own politicians make our Dr. Goebbels look like a child playing with picture books in a kindergarten. They speak of morality while they douse screaming children and old women in burning napalm. …"

-Stephen King, Apt Pupil

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4. Broken Glass

By: Arthur Miller

3.46

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Set in Brooklyn, this gripping mystery begins when attractive, level-headed Sylvia Gellburg suddenl… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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5. Brokeback Mountain

By: Annie Proulx

4.00

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more

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  • fiction
"I wish I knew how to quit you."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

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6. The Little Foxes

By: Lillian Hellman

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Picture a charming home in the South. Into this peaceful scene put the prosperous, despotic Hubbard… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Becky Shaw

By: Gina Gionfriddo

3.72

Format: 78 pages, Paperback

"I'm also going to give you some advice. Your husband is not the Red Cross. The last time he starte… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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8. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • school
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9. The House of Blue Leaves

By: John Guare

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

This poignant Obie Award-winning comedy unfolds in New York City on the day the Pope is expected to… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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10. I Am My Own Wife

By: Doug Wright

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. From the Obie Award-winning au… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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11. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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  • school
  • british literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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12. Never the Sinner

By: John Logan

4.23

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In 1924, two young millionaires -- Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb -- abducted and killed fourt… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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13. Lobby Hero

By: Kenneth Lonergan

3.64

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

With his acclaimed plays This Is Our Youth and The Waverly Gallery and his Oscar-nominated film You… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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14. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

By: Robert Louis Stevenson , Robert Mighall

3.92

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

'He put the glass to his lips and drank at one gulp... his face became suddenly black and the featu… read more

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  • fiction
  • school
"I was still cursed with my duality of purpose."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"I saw what I saw, I heard what I heard, and my soul sickened at it; and yet now when that sight has faded from my eyes, I ask myself if I believe it, and I cannot answer."

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

"Instantly the spirit of hell awoke in me and raged. With a transport of glee, I mauled the unresisting body, tasting delight from every blow; and it was not till weariness had begun to succeed, that …"

-Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

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15. Pericles

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Folger Shakespeare Library: the world's leading center for Shakespeare studies. Each edition includ… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, Joseph Frank, Alan Myers, Anna Brailovsky

16. The Idiot

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Constance Garnett , Joseph Frank , Alan Myers , Anna Brailovsky

4.21

Format: 667 pages, Paperback

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, the Christ-like epileptic Prince Myshkin find… read more

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  • fiction
"I'm drunk but truthful."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"Beauty will save the world."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"The Russian soul is a dark place."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

"She is passion embodied, a flower of melodrama in eternal bloom."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot

17. This is Our Youth

By: Kenneth Lonergan

0.00

Format: None pages,

Starring Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager, the original cast was reunited for this exclu… read more

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18. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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19. Three Tall Women

By: Edward Albee

3.44

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Earning a Pulitzer and three Best Play awards for 1994, Edward Albee has, in Three Tall Women, crea… read more

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20. 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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  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"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

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21. Closer: A Play

By: Patrick Marber

3.97

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern rom… read more

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  • british literature
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
"I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

22. Frozen

By: Bryony Lavery

4.30

Format: 256 pages,

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23. Timon of Athens

By: William Shakespeare , Thomas Middleton

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Timon of Athensis a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his… read more

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24. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

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25. Six Degrees of Separation

By: John Guare

3.37

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

The extraordinary tragicomedy of race, class and manners. read more

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26. The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more

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27. Reasons to Be Pretty

By: Neil LaBute

4.07

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

In Reasons to Be Pretty, Greg's tight-knit social circle is thrown into turmoil when his offhand re… read more

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28. Amadeus

By: Peter Shaffer

4.16

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Ambition and jealousyall set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his riva… read more

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  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Goodness is nothing in the furnace of art."

-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

"What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?"

-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

"Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?"

-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

"I bet you that's how God hears the world! Millions of sounds ascending at once and mixing in His ear to become an unending music, unimaginable to us!"

-Peter Shaffer, Amadeus

29. Measure for Measure

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more

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30. Racing Demon

By: David Hare

3.70

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In conflict with government, torn with internal dissension on matters of doctrine and practice, the… read more

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  • school
  • british literature
  • theatre
  • religion
  • 20th century
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Side Man (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Warren Leight

31. Side Man (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

By: Warren Leight

3.83

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Set in 1953 and traveling to 1985, this lovely and poignant memory play unfolds through the eyes of… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

19 Best fiction books like Racing Demon by David Hare

Transform Your Habits

Trout Fishing in America

Richard Brautigan

3.76

Transform Your Habits

The Ride Down Mt. Morgan

Arthur Miller

3.37

Transform Your Habits

Apt Pupil

Stephen King

3.92

Transform Your Habits

Broken Glass

Arthur Miller

3.46

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Transform Your Habits

Blaze

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.76

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Rage

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.73

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Roadwork

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

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The Bachman Books

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

4.14

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