8 Best plays books like A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn

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A Small Family Business

By: Alan Ayckbourn

3.09

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Jack McCraken has the opportunity of a lifetime: he is the new head of a family furniture business …

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1. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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2. Mrs. Dalloway

By: Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's … read more

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"Life stand still here."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What a lark! What a plunge!"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"To love makes one solitary."

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

"What does the brain matter compared with the heart?"

-Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

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3. Uncle Tom's Children

By: Richard Wright , Richard Yarborough

4.26

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Set in the American Deep South, each of the powerful novellas collected here concerns an aspect of … read more

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4. Slaughterhouse-Five

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages,

Kurt Vonnegut's absurdist classic Slaughterhouse-Fiveintroduces us to Billy Pilgrim, a man who beco… read more

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5. All My Sons

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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6. My Children! My Africa!

By: Athol Fugard

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The search for a means to an end to apartheid erupts into conflict between a black township youth a… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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7. Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)

By: Richelle Mead

4.11

Format: 332 pages, Paperback

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies... Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi … read more

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"Did you see that dress?"

-Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)

"I find more peace with you."

-Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)

"You see something you like?"

-Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)

"What are you? An after school special?"

-Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)

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8. Lend Me a Tenor

By: Ken Ludwig

2.64

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

A concert in Ohio in 1934 is jeopardized when the lead Italian tenor falls into a drunken'stupor. S… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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9. An Inspector Calls

By: None

3.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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10. The Hours

By: None , Michael Cunningham

4.16

Format: None pages, Paperback

Passionate, profound, and deeply moving, "The Hours" is the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan,… read more

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11. Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3)

By: Richelle Mead

4.33

Format: 443 pages, Paperback

WHAT IF FOLLOWING HER HEART MEANS ROSE COULD LOSE HER BEST FRIEND FOREVER?Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi… read more

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"Some people read books for fun."

-Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3)

"I set off, off to kill the man I love."

-Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3)

"You can't save everyone, though God knows you try."

-Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3)

"But I didn't know about the other story." "What other story?"

-Richelle Mead, Shadow Kiss (Vampire Academy, #3)

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12. Kiss Kiss

By: Roald Dahl , None

3.97

Format: 172 pages,

In these wickedly anarchic stories, Dahl explores the dark, sinister side of the psyche: the cunnin… read more

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13. The Homecoming

By: Harold Pinter

3.70

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in Lo… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

14. A Moon for the Misbegotten

By: Eugene O'Neill , Stephen A. Black

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's last completed play, A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel to his autobiographica… read more

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15. A Soldier's Play

By: None

4.00

Format: None pages,

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16. Timbuktu

By: Paul Auster

3.90

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's astonishing new book, is the sidekick and confidant of … read more

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17. The Woman Who Walked Into Doors

By: Roddy Doyle

4.27

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Paula Spencer is a thirty-nine-year-old working-class woman struggling to reclaim her dignity after… read more

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18. The Crucible

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more

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19. Indignation

By: Philip Roth

3.74

Format: 168 pages, Hardcover

Against the backdrop of the Korean War, a young man faces life's unimagined chances and terrifying … read more

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20. Chicas muertas

By: Selva Almada

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

"Tres adolescentes de provincia asesinadas en los anos ochenta, tres muertes impunes ocurridas cuan… read more

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21. 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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22. July's People

By: Nadine Gordimer

4.67

Format: 107 pages,

For years, it had been what is called a "deteriorating situation." Now all over South Africa the ci… read more

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23. 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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24. Glengarry Glen Ross

By: David Mamet

4.49

Format: 563 pages,

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat rea… read more

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25. Bad Girls

By: Camila Sosa Villada

4.43

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman’s coming-of-age tale… read more

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"Nosotras habíamos nacido ya expulsadas del armario,esclavas de nuestra apariencia."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"Cuando una puerta se cierra, se abre una ventana, pero hay que ser muy ágil para entrar o salir por la ventana"

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"La infancia y las travestis son incompatibles. La imagen de una travesti con un niño en brazos es pecado para esa gentuza."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

"A las travestis no nos nombra nadie, salvo nosotras. El resto de la gente ignora nuestros nombres, usa el miso para todas: putos."

-Camila Sosa Villada, Bad Girls

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26. Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
"What, you egg?"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done, is done"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done cannot be undone."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"And nothing is, but what is not."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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27. The Memory Police

By: Yōko Ogawa

3.72

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, bird… read more

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"No one can erase the stories!"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"Few people here have any need of novels"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"It's the most beautiful disappearance ever."

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

"I stood in the middle of that emptiness, feeling myself on the verge of being drawn into its terrible depth"

-Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

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28. The Reluctant Fundamentalist

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.73

Format: 228 pages, Kindle Edition

At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. As d… read more

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"Glaring is something we men of Lahore take seriously..."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"...like Pakistan, America is, after all, a former English colony..."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

"She was struggling against a current that brought her inside herself."

-Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist

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29. Por qué volvías cada verano

By: Belén López Peiró

4.24

Format: 124 pages, Paperback

Hay libros que son hechos. Este es uno: se puede leer como una novela, como una denuncia, como la p… read more

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  • drama
"Aunque te rasguñes, aunque te lastimes, aunque te prendas fuego, siempre vas a estar adentro de este cuerpo."

-Belén López Peiró, Por qué volvías cada verano

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30. A Small Family Business

By: Alan Ayckbourn

3.09

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

Jack McCraken has the opportunity of a lifetime: he is the new head of a family furniture business … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Three Films of Woody Allen: Zelig/Broadway Danny Rose/The Purple Rose of Cairo by Woody Allen

31. Three Films of Woody Allen: Zelig/Broadway Danny Rose/The Purple Rose of Cairo

By: Woody Allen

3.63

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

Originally published by Random House in 1987, this collection of three of Allen's comedy screenplay… read more

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8 Top drama books like A Small Family Business by Alan Ayckbourn

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A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

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All My Sons

Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

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My Children! My Africa!

Athol Fugard

5.00

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Lend Me a Tenor

Ken Ludwig

2.64

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Banana Yoshimoto , Megan Backus

3.66

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I Who Have Never Known Men

Ros Schwartz , Jacqueline Harpman

4.22

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Mona Awad

3.56

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Mieko Kawakami

3.72

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