14 must-read plays books like Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh

Cover of Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh

Ring Round the Moon

By: Jean Anouilh

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

NYTs Brooks Atkinson called it a work "of many moods... wistfully romantic, satirical, fantastic...…

If you liked the plays plot in Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh , here is a list of 14 books like this:

Cover of Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion, David  Thomson

1. Play It As It Lays

By: Joan Didion , David Thomson

3.92

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

A ruthless dissection of American life in the late 1960s, Play It as It Lays captures the mood of a… read more

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"The letter is still in my makeup box but I am careful not to read it unless I am drunk"

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"Carter and Helene still believe in cause-effect. Carter and Helene also believe that people are either sane or insane."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"Carter and Helene still ask questions. I used to ask questions, and I got the answer: nothing. The answer is “nothing."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

"She could remember it all but none of it seemed to come to anything. She had a sense the dream had ended and she had slept on."

-Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays

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2. Arms and the Man

By: George Bernard Shaw

4.06

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Arms and the Manis a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and publ… read more

Similar categories in George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man book and Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Constellations by Nick Payne

3. Constellations

By: Nick Payne

4.07

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

One relationship. Infinite possibilities. 'Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here a… read more

Similar categories in Nick Payne's Constellations book and Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

4. 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

Similar categories in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire book and Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon

  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • 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

Cover of Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel

5. Dancing at Lughnasa

By: Brian Friel

3.71

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

It is 1936 and harvest time in County Donegal. In a house just outside the village of Ballybeg live… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama
"Dancing as if language had surrendered to movement - as if this ritual, this wordless ceremony, was now the way to speak, to whisper private and sacred things, to be in touch with some otherness. Dan…"

-Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa

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6. The Bacchae

By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
"Cleverness is not wisdom."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"He who believes needs no explanation."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"

-Euripides, The Bacchae

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7. Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill

3.70

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more

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  • plays
  • school
  • drama
"Et tu, Brute?"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Beware the ides of March."

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

Cover of Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Peter Salm

8. Faust: First Part

By: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , Peter Salm

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

Goethe's masterpiece and perhaps the greatest work in German literature, Faust has made the legenda… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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9. Under Milk Wood

By: Dylan Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Woodis "ly… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Accidental Death of an Anarchist by Dario Fo, Joseph Farrell, Simon Nye, Jenny Stevens, Chris Megson

10. Accidental Death of an Anarchist

By: Dario Fo , Joseph Farrell , Simon Nye , Jenny Stevens , Chris Megson

4.25

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

In its first two years of production, Dario Fo's controversial farce, Accidental Death of an Anarch… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of As You Like It by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine

11. As You Like It

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

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • school

12. 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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13. Death of a Salesman

By: Arthur Miller

3.57

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

'For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you t… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman book and Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon

  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama
"I’m tired to the death."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"LINDA [with infinite patience]"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"Be liked and you will never want."

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

"I'm losing weight, you notice, Pop?"

-Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman

14. The Ruffian on the Stair

By: Joe Orton

3.60

Format: 212 pages,

It is an unsympathetic yet comedic one-act portrayal of working class England, as played out by a c… read more

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15. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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16. 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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17. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis

4.15

Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback

«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more

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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."

-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)

18. For Whom the Bell Tolls

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.76

Format: 180 pages, Paperback

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found  In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Sp… read more

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19. Much Ado About Nothing

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None

3.92

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more

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20. Othello

By: William Shakespeare

4.48

Format: None pages,

In Othello, Shakespeare creates a powerful drama of a marriage that begins with fascination (betwee… read more

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21. La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu

By: Larousse , Jean Giraudoux

3.50

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Written in 1935, an exploration of the looming threat of World War II, set against the backdrop of … read more

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22. My Name Is Barbra

By: Barbra Streisand

4.20

Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited memoir by the superstar of stage, screen, recordings, and television. Barbra St… read more

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"Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Once again I was struck by the power of music. Somehow, it can be the connective tissue between souls."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"There are some things I hope we can all agree upon: The antidote to lies is truth, the remedy to war is peace, and the solution to hate is love."

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

"Language gives us an insight into the way women are viewed in a male-dominated society . . . A man is commanding—a woman is demanding. A man is forceful—a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising—a wo…"

-Barbra Streisand, My Name Is Barbra

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23. Table for Two

By: Amor Towles

4.26

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of The Lincoln Highway, A Gentleman in Moscow, and Rules of Civility, a… read more

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"And though she couldn’t remember the exact reference and whether it was from mythology or the Bible, she knew instinctively as they approached the pier’s limit she mustn’t look back."

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

"It is a funny aspect of life, thought Charlie, how a group of grown people can convince themselves to do something that none of them really want to do. They start by talking an idea into existence. O…"

-Amor Towles, Table for Two

Cover of Payback's a Witch (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #1) by Lana Harper

24. Payback's a Witch (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #1)

By: Lana Harper

3.61

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The L Word in this fresh, sizzling rom-com by Lana Harper. … read more

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"Places from the past are usually much smaller than you remember when you return to them years later, shocked that they'd ever managed to command so much space in your brain at all."

-Lana Harper, Payback's a Witch (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #1)

Cover of Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1) by Attica Locke

25. Bluebird, Bluebird (Highway 59, #1)

By: Attica Locke

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A powerful thriller about the explosive intersection of love, race, and justice from a writer and p… read more

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Cover of A Brazen Curiosity (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #1) by Lynn Messina

26. A Brazen Curiosity (Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, #1)

By: Lynn Messina

3.97

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing ruins a lovely house party like bloody murder. At the decrepit old age of six-and-twenty… read more

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27. Straight Line Crazy

By: David Hare

3.96

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never ele… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Critic by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

28. The Critic

By: Richard Brinsley Sheridan

3.50

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

In "The Critic" Richard Brinsley Sheridan turns his attention to satirize the Theatre and all the p… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible."

-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy."

-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

"Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!"

-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

"The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed."

-Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic

Cover of Ring Round the Moon by Jean Anouilh

29. Ring Round the Moon

By: Jean Anouilh

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

NYTs Brooks Atkinson called it a work "of many moods... wistfully romantic, satirical, fantastic...… read more

Similar categories in Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon book and Jean Anouilh's Ring Round the Moon

  • school
  • theatre
  • france
  • plays
  • drama
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30. Wolf at the Door

By: Marisela Treviño Orta

4.38

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

Isadora finds the strength to stand up to her abusive husband Septimo when he forces the very pregn… read more

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3.98

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3.71

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3.92

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Cane

Jean Toomer , Darwin Turner

3.83

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Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

3.59

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William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

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