7 must-read drama books like In a Word by Lauren Yee

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In a Word

By: Lauren Yee

3.98

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Today is the two-year anniversary of Fiona’s son’s disappearance, and still, nothing makes sense to…

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Cover of Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3) by Kevin Kwan

1. Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)

By: Kevin Kwan

3.95

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians and China Rich Girlfriend, is back with an upro… read more

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"Alamak, it's that Ed Saranwrap! I love his music!"

-Kevin Kwan, Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)

"If someone wrote a book about her, no one would believe it."

-Kevin Kwan, Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)

"Scientists talk about how we inherit health issues from our parents through our genes, but we also inherit this entire lineage of fear and pain—generations of it. I can acknowledge whenever my mother…"

-Kevin Kwan, Rich People Problems (Crazy Rich Asians, #3)

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2. China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)

By: Kevin Kwan

3.84

Format: 378 pages, Hardcover

Kevin Kwan, bestselling author of Crazy Rich Asians, is back with a wickedly funny new novel of soc… read more

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"Her family are the Medicis of Asia."

-Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)

"It's a long story, one that could only happen in China."

-Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)

"Some people had all the luck, being born into the right family."

-Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)

"Bernard has no money. He only gets about ten million a year to live on," Carol confirmed."

-Kevin Kwan, China Rich Girlfriend (Crazy Rich Asians, #2)

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3. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • plays
  • drama
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4. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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5. The Girls

By: Emma Cline

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Hardcover

Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thou… read more

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6. Stupid Fucking Bird

By: Aaron Posner

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile yo… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

7. Fool for Love

By: Sam Shepard

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Through searing truth and dark humor, Fool for Love shows the story of two people who just can't li… read more

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8. Stop Kiss

By: None

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ben Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to Diana Son's play Stop Kiss wh… read more

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9. Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief

By: Paula Vogel

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

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10. 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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11. The Children's Hour

By: Lillian Hellman

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Paperback

This is a serious and adult play about two women who run a school for girls. After a malicious youn… read more

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12. 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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13. Columbinus

By: Stephen Karam

4.12

Format: None pages,

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14. The Winter's Tale

By: William Shakespeare

4.75

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emph… read more

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15. 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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16. Machinal

By: Sophie Treadwell

4.65

Format: None pages, Paperback

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17. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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18. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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19. Time Is a Mother

By: Ocean Vuong

3.94

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershoc… read more

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20. 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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  • plays
  • drama
"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 A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1) by Alexandra Rowland

21. A Taste of Gold and Iron (Mahisti Dynasty, #1)

By: Alexandra Rowland

4.05

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

The Goblin Emperor meets "Magnificent Century" in Alexandra Rowland's A Taste of Gold and Iron, whe… read more

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22. John Proctor is the Villain

By: Kimberly Belflower

4.61

Format: 178 pages, ebook

In present day Appalachian Georgia, a high school class explores the seminal American classic, The … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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23. The Cake

By: Bekah Brunstetter

4.14

Format: 73 pages, Paperback

Dramatic Comedy / 1m, 3f Della makes cakes, not judgment calls - those she leaves to her husband… read more

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  • plays
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24. Eureka Day

By: Jonathan Spector

4.19

Format: 154 pages, Paperback

The Eureka Day School in Berkeley, California, is a bastion of progressive ideals: representation, … read more

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  • plays
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25. Gloria (Acting Edition for Theater Productions)

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

4.26

Format: 59 pages, Paperback

This funny, trenchant, and powerful play follows an ambitious group of editorial assistants at a no… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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26. Man of God

By: Anna Moench

4.21

Format: 97 pages, None

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  • plays
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27. Charles Francis Chan Jr.'s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery

By: Lloyd Suh

3.94

Format: 100 pages, Paperback

In 1967, Berkeley grad student Frank Chan and his artist-activist girlfriend Kathy Ching are stagin… read more

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  • plays
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28. Bull in a China Shop

By: Bryna Turner

4.24

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

Inspired by the real letters between Mary Woolley and Jeannette Marks spanning from 1899 to 1937, t… read more

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  • plays
Cover of In a Word by Lauren Yee

29. In a Word

By: Lauren Yee

3.98

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

Today is the two-year anniversary of Fiona’s son’s disappearance, and still, nothing makes sense to… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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30. The Niceties

By: Eleanor Burgess

4.28

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

At an elite East Coast university, an ambitious young black student and her esteemed white professo… read more

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  • plays
Cover of Daphne's Dive by Quiara Alegría Hudes

31. Daphne's Dive

By: Quiara Alegría Hudes

3.91

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"Ms. Hudes writes with such empathy and vibrant humor about people helping one another to face down… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

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