11 Best drama books like Promises, Promises by Neil Simon

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Promises, Promises

By: Neil Simon

3.64

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Christmas Day * A Fact Can Be a Beautiful Thing * Half As Big As Life * I'll Never Fall in Love Aga…

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Cover of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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2. Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

By: Agatha Christie

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Was it a misstep that sent a handsome stranger plummeting to his death from a cliff? Or something m… read more

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"Why didn't they ask the Evans?"

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Young men are sadly degenerate nowadays."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"A woman would know all right about her own husband."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

"Time, thought Bobby suddenly, was a very frightening thing."

-Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

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3. Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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4. Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

By: Richard Russo

4.11

Format: 549 pages, Paperback

Richard Russo's slyly funny and moving novel follows the unexpected operation of grace in a deadbea… read more

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"Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man."

-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

"It was a scary thought. A man could be surrounded by poetry reading and not know it."

-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

"probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it."

-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

"He couldn’t very well start lecturing the boy now. There was every reason to believe that the first thirty-five years of Peter’s life had been the formative ones."

-Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool (Sully #1)

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5. 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
  • plays
  • drama
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6. Our Town

By: Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Our Townwas first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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7. The Yiddish Policemen's Union

By: Michael Chabon

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

For sixty years, Jews have prospered in the Federal District of Sitka, a "temporary" safe haven cre… read more

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8. Kimberly Akimbo

By: David Lindsay-Abaire

3.26

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Playwright, David Lindsay-Abaire's Ki… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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9. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Randolph Hogan

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

This is Marquez's account of a real-life event. In 1955, eight crew members of the destroyer Caldas… read more

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10. The World According to Garp

By: John Irving

4.10

Format: 610 pages, Hardcover

This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields—a feminist leader ahead o… read more

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  • drama
"...energy begets energy."

-John Irving, The World According to Garp

"Bonkie bit Garp!" Garp bit Bonkie"

-John Irving, The World According to Garp

"In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases"

-John Irving, The World According to Garp

"...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar."

-John Irving, The World According to Garp

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11. The Aleph and Other Stories

By: Jorge Luis Borges , Andrew Hurley

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, these stories contain some of Borges's mo… read more

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12. Blithe Spirit

By: Noël Coward

3.97

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times "I will ever be grateful for the almost psych… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

13. The Night of the Iguana

By: Tennessee Williams

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

At a shabby hotel in Mexico, c 1940, various American tourists, including a defrocked minister and … read more

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14. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

By: August Wilson

3.00

Format: 282 pages,

The time is 1927. The place is a rundown recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blue… read more

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15. The Heidi Chronicles

By: Wendy Wasserstein

4.22

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes, the play traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a… read more

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16. 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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17. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more

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18. Pay It Forward

By: Catherine Ryan Hyde

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of how a boy who believed in the goodness of human nature set out to change the world. Pa… read more

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19. Hedwig and the Angry Inch

By: John Cameron Mitchell , Stephen Trask

3.92

Format: 594 pages, Hardcover

On Valentine's Day 1998, Hedwig and the Angry Inch opened off-Broadway to rave reviews, revitalizin… read more

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20. Reading Lolita in Tehran

By: Azar Nafisi

4.20

Format: 172 pages,

Every Thursday morning for two years in the Islamic Republic of Iran, a bold and inspired teacher n… read more

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21. The Swans of Fifth Avenue

By: Melanie Benjamin

1.00

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator's Wife comes an enthralling new novel abo… read more

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22. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

By: Rebecca Wells

4.32

Format: 480 pages, Paperback

When Siddalee Walker, oldest daughter of Vivi Abbott Walker, Ya-Ya extraordinaire, is interviewed i… read more

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23. 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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24. The Cherry Orchard

By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more

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25. The Lion in Winter

By: James Goldman

3.52

Format: None pages, Paperback

Insecure siblings fighting for their parents' attention; bickering spouses who can't stand to be to… read more

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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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  • plays
  • drama
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27. Chances Are...

By: Richard Russo

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning Richard Russo--in his first stand-alone novel in a decade--comes a … read more

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"The only thing a warrior cannot fight is her own fierce nature."

-Richard Russo, Chances Are...

"Fear is what makes us human and it is in overcoming fear that we show our strength."

-Richard Russo, Chances Are...

"I don't know this song. They haven't taught me it to us at school." " When in doubt, just do what I do, Robs. Hum if you don't know the words"

-Richard Russo, Chances Are...

"Bang, bang, bang. Bang, bang, bang. It seemed that only policemen and social workers—people who wanted to take you away—announced their arrival in that way."

-Richard Russo, Chances Are...

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28. Follies

By: James Goldman

4.26

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

On the eve of its destruction, the once-glorious Weissman Theatre is filled with the ghosts of its … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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29. Alice by Heart

By: Steven Sater

3.13

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A teen girl takes refuge in a London Tube station during WWII and confronts grief, loss, and first … read more

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  • theatre
Cover of Gloria (Acting Edition for Theater Productions) by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

30. Gloria (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

4.26

Format: 59 pages, Paperback

This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a no… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Promises, Promises by Neil Simon

31. Promises, Promises

By: Neil Simon

3.64

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Christmas Day * A Fact Can Be a Beautiful Thing * Half As Big As Life * I'll Never Fall in Love Aga… read more

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