21 Best plays books like Selling Kabul by Sylvia Khoury

Selling Kabul

By: Sylvia Khoury

4.21

Format: 66 pages, None

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Cover of Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Tim Dolin, Margaret R. Higonnet

1. Tess of the D’Urbervilles

By: Thomas Hardy , Tim Dolin , Margaret R. Higonnet

3.83

Format: 518 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers can be found here and here. When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty t… read more

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"Bless thy simplicity, Tess"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"One thing he certainly was— sincere."

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"The roof was a gymnasium for the winds"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

"Tess was carried along the wings of the hours"

-Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles

Cover of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

2. Wide Sargasso Sea

By: Jean Rhys

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more

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"When trouble comes, close ranks"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought I'd try to write her a life"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Cover of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

3. 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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Cover of The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, Carolyn G. Heilbrun

4. The Moonstone

By: Wilkie Collins , Carolyn G. Heilbrun

3.38

Format: None pages, Paperback

"The Moonstone is a page-turner," writes Carolyn Heilbrun. "It catches one up and unfolds its amazi… read more

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5. Appropriate

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to… read more

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Cover of Red by John Logan

6. Red

By: John Logan

3.66

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

WINNER OF SIX TONY AWARDS A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the twe… read more

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Cover of Dead Man's Cell Phone by Sarah Ruhl

7. Dead Man's Cell Phone

By: Sarah Ruhl

3.79

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

"Satire is her oxygen. . . . In her new oddball comedy, Dead Man's Cell Phone, Sarah Ruhl is foreve… read more

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Cover of Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

8. 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

Cover of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Michael   Meyer

9. 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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"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

10. Mauritius

By: Theresa Rebeck

4.20

Format: None pages,

3m, 2f / Comedy / Interior Stamp collecting is far more risky than you think. After their mother's … read more

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11. 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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12. 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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13. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)

By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more

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14. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

15. The Lonesome West

By: Martin McDonagh

3.81

Format: 329 pages, Unknown Binding

Valene and Coleman, two brothers living alone in their father's house after his recent death, find … read more

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16. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

Cover of Fairview by Jackie Sibblies Drury

17. Fairview

By: Jackie Sibblies Drury

4.27

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more

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"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"

-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview

Cover of Cost of Living by Martyna Majok

18. 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

Cover of Fat Ham by James Ijames

19. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

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Cover of The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

20. 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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Cover of Heroes of the Fourth Turning by Will Arbery

21. Heroes of the Fourth Turning

By: Will Arbery

4.03

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

It's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-… read more

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Cover of Kentucky by Leah Nanako Winkler

22. Kentucky

By: Leah Nanako Winkler

3.73

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

Hiro is a self-made woman making it in New York. But she is also single, almost thirty and estrange… read more

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Cover of Becky Nurse of Salem by Sarah Ruhl

23. Becky Nurse of Salem

By: Sarah Ruhl

3.91

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A wry, innovative reckoning with the legacy of the Salem witch trials from one of America’s foremos… read more

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Cover of English by Sanaz Toossi

24. English

By: Sanaz Toossi

4.53

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Winner! 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama Winner! 2023 Obie Award for Best New American Play It's 2008,… read more

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Cover of Guards at the Taj by Rajiv Joseph

25. Guards at the Taj

By: Rajiv Joseph

4.31

Format: 47 pages, Paperback

In 1648 India, two Imperial Guards watch from their post as the sun rises for the first time on the… read more

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Cover of School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play by Jocelyn Bioh

26. School Girls; or, the African Mean Girls Play

By: Jocelyn Bioh

3.92

Format: 62 pages, Paperback

Paulina, the reigning queen bee at Ghana's most exclusive boarding school, has her sights set on th… read more

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27. Teenage Dick

By: Mike Lew

3.79

Format: None pages, None

In this brilliant retelling of Shakespeare’s Richard III, one of the most famous disabled character… read more

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28. Selling Kabul

By: Sylvia Khoury

4.21

Format: 66 pages, None

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Cover of The Hot Wing King by Katori Hall

29. The Hot Wing King

By: Katori Hall

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ready, set, fry! It’s time for the annual "Hot Wang Festival" in Memphis, Tennessee, and Cordell Cr… read more

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Cover of Cardboard Piano by Hansol Jung

30. Cardboard Piano

By: Hansol Jung

4.31

Format: None pages, None

Northern Uganda on the eve of the millennium: The daughter of American missionaries and a local tee… read more

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Cover of Wish You Were Here by Sanaz Toossi

31. Wish You Were Here

By: Sanaz Toossi

3.70

Format: None pages, Audible Audio

Williamsburg Theatre Festival Nazanin and her friends are on the brink of adulthood. As they pre… read more

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18 must-read fiction books like English by Sanaz Toossi

Transform Your Habits

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Transform Your Habits

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

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