8 best-selling humor books like Tale Of The Allergist's Wife by Charles Busch

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Tale Of The Allergist's Wife

By: Charles Busch

3.50

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

Comedy / 2m, 3f / Interior / An award winning hit at the Manhattan Theatre Club and on Broadway,The…

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1. The Power of the Dog

By: Thomas Savage , Annie Proulx

4.18

Format: 293 pages, Paperback

First published in 1967, Thomas Savage's western novel about two brothers now includes an afterword… read more

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"Fate punishes the proud, and dashes hope"

-Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog

"He taught me that if you’ve got guts, you can do any damned thing, guts and patience. Impatience is a costly commodity, Pete."

-Thomas Savage, The Power of the Dog

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2. The Winter of Our Discontent

By: John Steinbeck , Susan Shillinglaw

4.01

Format: 291 pages, Paperback

Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store … read more

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"Can you honestly love a dishonest thing?"

-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

"If you want to keep a friend, never test him."

-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

"A little hope, even hopeless hope, never hurt anybody."

-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

"Money does not change the sickness, only the symptoms."

-John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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3. Election

By: Tom Perrotta

4.18

Format: None pages,

A suburban New Jersey high school teacher confronts a student-body election gone haywire in this da… read more

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  • humor
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4. The Pillowman

By: Martin McDonagh

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more

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  • plays
"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

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5. The Corrections

By: Jonathan Franzen

3.84

Format: 653 pages, Paperback

"The Corrections" is a grandly entertaining novel for the new century - a comic, tragic masterpiece… read more

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"To be so vigorous and healthy and yet so nothing. "

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

"Brooklyn was like Philadelphia made better by its proximity to Manhattan."

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

"His problem consisted of a burning wish not to have done the things he'd done."

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

"Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude."

-Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

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6. Razzle Dazzle: The Battle for Broadway

By: Michael Riedel

3.95

Format: 254 pages, Hardcover

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7. The Chisellers (Agnes Browne, #2)

By: Brendan O'Carroll

4.00

Format: 321 pages,

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  • humor
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8. The Granny (Agnes Browne, #3)

By: Brendan O'Carroll

4.00

Format: 321 pages,

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  • humor

9. Barefoot in the Park

By: Neil Simon

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Comedy / 4m, 2f / Int. Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a stra… read more

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  • humor
  • plays
  • drama
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10. The Ruins

By: Scott Smith

3.68

Format: 319 pages, Hardcover

Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything th… read more

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"The Greek pissed and pissed and pissed."

-Scott Smith, The Ruins

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11. Something Wicked This Way Comes

By: Ray Bradbury

None

Format: None pages, None

One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now feat… read more

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12. The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

3.39

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format… read more

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"When I'm bad I am bad !"

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"He fairly glittered in the gloom."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"I was ready to know the very worst that was to be known."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

"There was something between them." "There was everything."

-Henry James, The Turn of the Screw

13. Rabbit Hole

By: David Lindsay-Abaire

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation--an intensel… read more

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14. The Mammy (Agnes Browne, #1)

By: Brendan O'Carroll

3.30

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Mammy" is what Irish children call their mothers and The Mammyis Agnes Browne--a widow struggling … read more

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15. Long Day's Journey Into Night

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more

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16. Plaza Suite

By: Neil Simon

4.33

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Comedy / 7m, 5f (performed on Broadway with 3m, 2f) / Scenery: InteriorHilarity abounds in this por… read more

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17. 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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18. The Day of the Locust

By: Nathanael West , Alfred Kazin

3.85

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

The Day of the Locustis a novel about Hollywood and its corrupting touch, about the American dream … read more

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19. The Secret Life of the American Musical: How Broadway Shows Are Built

By: Jack Viertel

4.07

Format: 640 pages, Hardcover

A New York Times Bestseller For almost a century, Americans have been losing their hearts and losin… read more

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20. The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man's World

By: Alan Downs

4.24

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The gay male world today is characterized by seductive beauty, artful creativity, flamboyant sexual… read more

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21. Let Us Descend

By: Jesmyn Ward

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From Jesmyn Ward—the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congres… read more

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"You must leap. You must do as your people did. You must sink in order to rise."

-Jesmyn Ward, Let Us Descend

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22. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

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  • humor
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Lie With Me by Philippe Besson

23. Lie With Me

By: Philippe Besson

4.26

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more

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"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

Cover of Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2) by Andrew Sean Greer

24. Less Is Lost (Arthur Less, #2)

By: Andrew Sean Greer

3.72

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

In the follow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthu… read more

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  • humor
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25. The Passenger

By: Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

3.95

Format: 266 pages, Hardcover

Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing a… read more

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26. I Was Better Last Night: A Memoir

By: Harvey Fierstein

4.37

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A poignant and hilarious memoir from the cultural icon, gay rights activist, and four-time Tony Awa… read more

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  • humor
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27. Delicate Condition

By: Danielle Valentine

3.67

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister … read more

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"Sometimes it felt like the continuation of our species was an ongoing experiment being performed on the backs of women. Or on our wombs."

-Danielle Valentine, Delicate Condition

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28. Singular Sensation: The Triumph of Broadway

By: Michael Riedel

4.09

Format: 352 pages, ebook

“Fun and gossipy.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A masterful history.” —Publishers Weekly (starred re… read more

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  • plays
Cover of Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution by Todd S. Purdum

29. Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution

By: Todd S. Purdum

4.23

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory portrait of the creative partnership that transformed musical theater and provided the… read more

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  • plays
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30. Summer, 1976

By: David Auburn

3.52

Format: 2 pages, Audiobook

Starring four-time Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Laura Linney and Tony Award nominee … read more

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  • plays
Cover of Tale Of The Allergist's Wife by Charles Busch

31. Tale Of The Allergist's Wife

By: Charles Busch

3.50

Format: 82 pages, Kindle Edition

Comedy / 2m, 3f / Interior / An award winning hit at the Manhattan Theatre Club and on Broadway,The… read more

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  • humor
  • plays
  • drama

7 Best plays books like Tale Of The Allergist's Wife by Charles Busch

Transform Your Habits

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Martin McDonagh

4.30

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Neil Simon

3.95

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James Ijames

4.06

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4.09

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Ray Bradbury

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The Fisherman

John Langan

3.91

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’Salem’s Lot

Stephen King

4.10

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William Peter Blatty

4.20

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