Smart People: A Play
By: Lydia R. Diamond
3.72
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In Smart People , Lydia R. Diamond shows that no matter how well we think we understand the influen…
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1. Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more
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"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey
3.95
Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more
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"My soul is in the sky."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Farewell, sweet playfellow."-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
3. Go Tell It on the Mountain
By: James Baldwin
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
Go Tell It On The Mountain, first published in 1953, is Baldwin's first major work, a semi-autobiog… read more
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4. Long Way Down
By: Jason Reynolds
4.25
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
A cannon. A strap. A piece. A biscuit. A burner. A heater. A chopper. A gat. A hammer A tool for RU… read more
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"How do you tell water ain't nothing funny about drowing?"-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"Best to become invisible in times like these. Everybody knows that."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"just because they were dead. People always love people more when they’re dead."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
"Pretended like yellow tape was some kind of neighborhood flag that don't nobody wave but always be flapping in the wind."-Jason Reynolds, Long Way Down
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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6. Galileo
By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley , Charles Laughton
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileoexplores the question of a scientist'… read more
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7. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
By: Stephen Adly Guirgis
4.18
Format: None pages, Paperback
From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud relig… read more
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8. 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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9. This is Our Youth
By: Kenneth Lonergan
0.00
Format: None pages,
Starring Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hamilton and Missy Yager, the original cast was reunited for this exclu… read more
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10. The Whale
By: Samuel D. Hunter
3.69
Format: 32 pages,
On the outskirts of Mormon Country, Idaho, a six hundred pound recluse hides away in his apartment … read more
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11. Moon Over Buffalo
By: Ken Ludwig
4.60
Format: 431 pages, Paperback
Charlotte and George Hay, an acting couple not exactly the Lunts are on tour in Buffalo in 1953 wit… read more
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12. Circle Mirror Transformation
By: Annie Baker
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Thanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start. Five lost people come together at … read more
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13. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
By: Mark Haddon , Simon Stephens
5.00
Format: 229 pages, Paperback
My name is Christopher John Francis Boone. I know all the countries of the world and the capital ci… read more
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14. The Merchant of Venice
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None
3.78
Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback
In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more
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"He will fence with his own shadow."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
15. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches
By: Tony Kushner
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more
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16. An Enemy of the People
By: Henrik Ibsen
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
An Enemy of the people (original Norwegian title: En folkefiende) is an 1882 play by Norwegian play… read more
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17. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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18. Another Country
By: James Baldwin
4.08
Format: None pages, Paperback
When Another Countryappeared in 1962, it caused a literary sensation. James Baldwin's masterly stor… read more
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19. 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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20. 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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21. Mary Page Marlowe
By: Tracy Letts
4.33
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
"A deeply moving new play from Tracy Letts." --Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Known for his complex p… read more
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22. 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater
By: Sarah Ruhl
3.64
Format: 211 pages,
Sarah Ruhl is a mother of three and one of America's best-known playwrights. She has written a stun… read more
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23. Dept. of Speculation
By: Jenny Offill
4.60
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Dept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysterie… read more
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24. 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
25. 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
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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27. Recitatif
By: Toni Morrison
4.31
Format: 19 pages, Audiobook
A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more
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"Difficult to “move on"-Toni Morrison, Recitatif
28. Making a Scene
By: Constance Wu
3.67
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A powerful and poignant new book by Crazy Rich Asians and Fresh Off the Boat star Constance Wu abou… read more
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29. 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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31. Smart People: A Play
By: Lydia R. Diamond
3.72
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
In Smart People , Lydia R. Diamond shows that no matter how well we think we understand the influen… read more
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