Life Sucks.
By: Aaron Posner
4.04
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In this brash reworking of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, a group of old friends, ex-lovers, estranged in-l…
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1. The White Album
By: Joan Didion
4.05
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
First published in 1979, Joan Didion's The White Album records indelibly the upheavals and aftermat… read more
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"Somewhere between the Yolo Causeway and Vallejo it occurred to me that during the course of any given week I met too many people who spoke favorably about bombing power stations."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"I have trouble maintaining the basic notion that keeping promises matters in a world where everything I was taught seems beside the point. The point itself is increasingly obscure."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image..."-Joan Didion, The White Album
"Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a disp…"-Joan Didion, The White Album
2. 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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"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?
3. The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
By: Anne Rice
3.75
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
In a gripping feat of storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that b… read more
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"The Vampire Lestat here."-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
"God is love. But I'm not sure God is absolutely brilliant."-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
"One tiny flame could make so many other flames; one tiny flame could set afire a whole world."-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
"What in hell was mortality? Shitting, pissing, eating, and then the same cycle all over again!"-Anne Rice, The Tale of the Body Thief (The Vampire Chronicles, #4)
4. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I pity you That's a degree to love"-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
5. 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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- drama
6. The Play That Goes Wrong
By: Henry Lewis , Henry Shields , Jonathan Sayer
4.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this m… read more
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7. Eurydice
By: Sarah Ruhl
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young… read more
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- drama
8. Every Brilliant Thing
By: Duncan Macmillan
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
You're six years old. Mum's in hospital. Dad says she's 'done something stupid'. She finds it hard … read more
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9. Buried Child
By: Sam Shepard
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Childis… read more
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10. Gruesome Playground Injuries
By: Rajiv Joseph
3.98
Format: 212 pages, Paperback
The fourth play written by playwright Rajiv Joseph follows the lives of two best friends tumultuous… read more
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11. Uncle Vanya
By: Anton Chekhov
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more
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12. The Effect
By: Lucy Prebble
4.57
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a contr… read more
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13. The Queen of the Damned (The Vampire Chronicles, #3)
By: Anne Rice
3.68
Format: 420 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of … read more
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14. 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
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"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
15. The Vampire Lestat (The Vampire Chronicles, #2)
By: Anne Rice
3.85
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the d… read more
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16. 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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17. Dog Sees God
By: None
5.00
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
When CB's dog dies from rabies, CB begins to question the existence of an afterlife. His best frien… read more
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18. 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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19. Worry
By: Alexandra Tanner
3.36
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Frances Ha meets No One Is Talking About This in a debut that follows two twenty-something siblings… read more
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20. 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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- 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
21. Indecent
By: Paula Vogel
4.46
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire… read more
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"I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater."-Paula Vogel, Indecent
"How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?"-Paula Vogel, Indecent
"God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!"-Paula Vogel, Indecent
"As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater."-Paula Vogel, Indecent
22. Cost of Living
By: Martyna Majok
4.14
Format: 91 pages, Paperback
Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating ac… read more
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"That's not a thing I'll ever know. Everything's started over for me—"-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living
"Self-pity has little currency in these characters' worlds. Humor, however, has much."-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living
"It matters who you are. Family. Connections. If there's gonna be a net when you fall. Cuz everybody falls."-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living
"The shit that happens is not to be understood. That's from the Bible. The shit that happens to you is Not To Be Understood."-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living
23. The Thanksgiving Play
By: Larissa FastHorse
3.87
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
A mismatched but well-meaning foursome sets out to devise a politically correct school play that ca… read more
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24. Meet Cute Diary
By: Emery Lee
3.25
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
Felix Ever After meets Becky Albertalli in this swoon-worthy, heartfelt rom-com about how a transge… read more
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25. Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays)
By: Clare Barron
4.22
Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition
'Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start!'Somewhe… read more
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26. Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
By: Angela Chen
4.36
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
An engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attra… read more
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"Representation not only reflects, but actually changes reality."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Loving another person should never mean forfeiting bodily autonomy."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"It is a failure of society if anyone needs to say “I have a partner"-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
"Aces aren't a puzzle with a missing piece. Everyone is their own full puzzle."-Angela Chen, Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
27. Better Hate than Never (The Wilmot Sisters, #2)
By: Chloe Liese
3.68
Format: 366 pages, Paperback
Childhood enemies discover the fine line between love and loathing in this heartfelt reimagining of… read more
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28. The Moors
By: Jen Silverman
4.26
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Two sisters and a dog live out their lives on the bleak English moors, dreaming of love and power. … read more
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29. Dry Land
By: Ruby Rae Spiegel
4.04
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
Ester is a swimmer trying to stay afloat. Amy is curled up on the locker room floor. DRY LAND is a … read more
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30. Afterglow: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
By: Grist
3.99
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Hopeful and forward-looking futuristic short stories that explore how the power of storytelling can… read more
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31. Life Sucks.
By: Aaron Posner
4.04
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
In this brash reworking of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, a group of old friends, ex-lovers, estranged in-l… read more
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