10 Best plays books like Orion: A Play by Matthew McLachlan

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Orion: A Play

By: Matthew McLachlan

4.05

Format: 108 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sam and Gwen's relationship comes to an abrupt end, Sam is guided through the wreckage with th…

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Cover of Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Cynthia Marshall

1. Antony and Cleopatra

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Cynthia Marshall

3.71

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt, including not… read more

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"Melt Egypt into Nile!"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"...make death proud to take us."

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

"Thou are the armourer of my heart—"

-William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

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2. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

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Cover of Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson

3. Joe Turner's Come and Gone

By: August Wilson

3.54

Format: 256 pages,

When Herald Loomis arrives at a black Pittsburgh boardinghouse after seven years' impressed labor o… read more

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Cover of How To Make Friends and Then Kill Them: A Play by Halley Feiffer

4. How To Make Friends and Then Kill Them: A Play

By: Halley Feiffer

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

Left to their own devices by their alcoholic mother, Ada and Sam cultivate an insular world into wh… read more

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5. 4000 Miles

By: Amy Herzog

2.33

Format: None pages,

After suffering a major loss while he was on a cross-country bike trip, 21 year-old Leo seeks solac… read more

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6. The 39 Steps

By: John Buchan , Patrick Barlow

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Ha… read more

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7. A Moon for the Misbegotten

By: Eugene O'Neill , Stephen A. Black

3.40

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's last completed play, A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel to his autobiographica… 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 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. Oleanna

By: David Mamet

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

In David Mamet's latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss … read more

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14. Cyrano de Bergerac

By: Edmond Rostand , Lowell Bair , Eteel Lawson

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is Edmond Rostand's immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever capt… read more

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15. Twelve Angry Men

By: David Mamet , Reginald Rose

4.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

A landmark American drama that inspired a classic film and a Broadway revival--featuring an introdu… read more

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16. Passing

By: Nella Larsen

3.93

Format: 141 pages, Paperback

Nella Larsen's fascinating exploration of race and identity--the inspiration for the upcoming Netfl… read more

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"Well, what of it? If sex isn’t a joke, what is it"

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"I think that being a mother is the cruellest thing in the world."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

"It hurt. It hurt like hell. But it didn’t matter, if no one knew."

-Nella Larsen, Passing

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17. Nothing But Blackened Teeth

By: Cassandra Khaw

2.66

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Cassandra Khaw's Nothing But Blackened Teeth is a gorgeously creepy haunted house tale, steeped in … read more

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"Every religion is a one-way relationship."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"The dead miss the sun. It's dark down there."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"Media’s all about the gospel of the lone wolf, but the truth is we’re all just sheep."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

"apologies didn’t exonerate the sinner, only compelled graciousness from its recipient."

-Cassandra Khaw, Nothing But Blackened Teeth

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18. Y/N

By: Esther Yi

2.95

Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition

Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more

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"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"

-Esther Yi, Y/N

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19. 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

20. Witch

By: Jen Silverman

4.32

Format: 94 pages, None

Mischief is afoot in the sleepy village of Edmonton and the fate of the world is at stake in this s… read more

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Cover of Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance by John Waters

21. Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance

By: John Waters

3.30

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind o… read more

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Cover of My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen

22. My Darling Dreadful Thing

By: Johanna van Veen

3.89

Format: 375 pages, Paperback

In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real? Roos Beckman has a spi… read more

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"The question everyone wants answered is this: Was I or was I not actually possessed? But it is not so simple as that."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"There’s a reason the word ‘haunting’ is rarely used in a positive way. To never be free of someone, well, that’s not always a comfort."

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"It’s a dangerous thing, to try and give someone everything. One day, you might find you’ve given away things you should’ve kept. Some parts of us must remain inviolate if we are to survive as a perso…"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

"I was never a happy child. I think that, if I had been, things would have gone very differently with me. For one, I don’t think Ruth would have become my constant companion. Spirits like her are not …"

-Johanna van Veen, My Darling Dreadful Thing

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23. Brutes

By: Dizz Tate

3.18

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The Virgin Suicides meets The Florida Project in this wildly original debut—a coming-of-age story a… read more

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"to be loved, was just to be watched"

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"We feel chased. It doesn't matter if it's only by our own shadows."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"and now I think that to humiliate a woman is the only way some men know how to love one."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

"To be loved was just to be watched, or in my case, to imagine you are loved is to imagine you are watched all the time."

-Dizz Tate, Brutes

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24. Patricia Wants to Cuddle

By: Samantha Allen

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The contestants of a reality television dating show compete for love—and their lives—in this pulse-… read more

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25. Man, Fuck This House

By: Brian Asman

3.36

Format: 158 pages, Kindle Edition

Sabrina Haskins and her family have just moved into their dream home, a gorgeous Craftsman in the r… read more

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26. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more

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27. Dracula

By: Kate Hamill

3.84

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

A bit of a feminist revenge fantasy, really Based loosely on the novel by Bram Stoker read more

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28. Graveyard Shift

By: M.L. Rio

3.49

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Author of sales sensation If We Were Villains returns with a story about a ragtag group of night sh… read more

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29. The Villain Edit

By: Laurie Devore

3.68

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Emily Henry meets Fleabag ...and The Bachelor ! An irresistibly sharp and sexy dramedy about a cyni… read more

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30. Orion: A Play

By: Matthew McLachlan

4.05

Format: 108 pages, Kindle Edition

When Sam and Gwen's relationship comes to an abrupt end, Sam is guided through the wreckage with th… read more

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31. I'm Gonna Marry You Tobey Maguire

By: Samantha Hurley

4.17

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

None read more

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3.71

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3.95

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August Wilson

3.54

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Halley Feiffer

4.53

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Jennifer Marie Thorne

3.95

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Gwendolyn Kiste

3.64

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Christina Henry

3.22

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