5 must-read drama books like First Reformed by Paul Schrader

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First Reformed

By: Paul Schrader

4.50

Format: 88 pages, None

Called “an ecstatic, arc-bright wonder and terror” by The New Yorker, this major work of art now re…

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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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  • drama
"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. True Romance

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

True Romance, directed by Tony Scott, is a hilarious, twisted road movie about which Interview rave… read more

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  • film
  • drama
"He musta thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?"

-Quentin Tarantino, True Romance

"Do i look like a beautiful blond with big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice-cream? No. no, you don't. Then why are you telling me all this bullshit just so you can fuck me."

-Quentin Tarantino, True Romance

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3. Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

By: Art Spiegelman

4.38

Format: 159 pages, Hardcover

The first installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting … read more

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"Friends? Your friends? If you lock them together in a room with no food for a week…Then you could see what it is, friends! …"

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

"Maybe your father needed to show that he was always right - that he could always SURVIVE - because he felt GUILTY about surviving."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)

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4. Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

By: Bryan Lee O'Malley , Steve Buccellato

4.31

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

That’s right, folks! Put down the video game controller! Skip that rehearsal for your band! Make wh… read more

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"Somehow the pantsless gay man is not bringing the romance, Scott."

-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

"Anyway, how are you and Ramona doing?' Uh... you know. Pretty good.' Have you said the L-Word yet?' The L-Word? You mean? Lesbian?' Uh... No. The other L-Word.' ?' Okay. Uh, It's "love." I wasn't try…"

-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 4: Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together

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5. Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

By: Bryan Lee O'Malley

4.43

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

It's finally here! Six years and almost one-thousand pages have all led to this epic finale! With s… read more

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"Alright, go away. I have a tiny world to save."

-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

"Do you want to have sex? I think we should have sex. CASUAL sex."

-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

"Scott: I don't think I'm ready to be a grown-up. Kim: I don't think you are either, buddy. But hey, you'll get it. It just takes practice."

-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

"I feel like im in this river just getting swept along... And if I hold on to anyone, if I'm holding on for dear life, I'm not getting anywhere. I'm stuck. ...I never wanted to get stuck"

-Bryan Lee O'Malley, Scott Pilgrim, Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour

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6. Inherent Vice

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.31

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Part noir, part psychedelic romp, all Thomas Pynchon- private eye Doc Sportello comes, occasionally… read more

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7. The Sirens of Titan

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depr… read more

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8. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more

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9. Notes on the Cinematographer

By: J.M.G. Le Clézio , Robert Bresson , Jonathan Griffin

3.00

Format: 54 pages, Paperback

Robert Bresson makes some quite radical distinctions between what he terms "cinematography" and som… read more

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  • film
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10. Julius Caesar

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill

3.70

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

The Oxford School Shakespeare has become the preferred introduction to the literary legacy of the g… read more

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  • drama
"Et tu, Brute?"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Beware the ides of March."

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

"Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"

-William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

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11. Coriolanus

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill

3.30

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Shakespeare's last tragedy explores the career and death of a brilliant and arrogant Roman general.… read more

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  • drama

12. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

By: Raymond Carver

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Alternate-cover edition can be found  In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more

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13. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

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14. Scott Pilgrim, Volume 5: Scott Pilgrim Vs. the Universe

By: Bryan Lee O'Malley

3.00

Format: 432 pages, Paperback

Scott Pilgrim just turned 24, and things couldn't possibly be better! This means things are about t… read more

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15. 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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16. Heart of Darkness

By: Joseph Conrad

3.99

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the inf… read more

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17. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

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"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

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18. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

3.82

Format: 38 pages, Paperback

".. Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe first published in "Graham's Magazine" in 1841.… read more

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"The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"I was deeply interested in the little family history which he detailed to me with all that candor which a Frenchman indulges whenever mere self is the theme."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"There are very few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained."

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

"You will say, no doubt, using the language of the law, that 'to make out my case,' I should rather undervalue, than insist upon a full estimation of the activity required in this matter. This may be …"

-Edgar Allan Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)

Cover of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Norman Dietz, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, Boris de Schlœzer, Emanuela Guercetti, None, Donald Fanger, None, None, None

19. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

20. Reservoir Dogs

By: Quentin Tarantino

2.00

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

Quentin Tarantino's films have single-handedly revived and redefined American noir, bringing to Hol… read more

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21. North by Northwest

By: Alfred Hitchcock , Ernest Lehman

3.33

Format: 153 pages, Paperback

Hitchcock's best-loved romantic thriller is one of the most influential works ever made in the genr… read more

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22. The Island of Dr. Moreau

By: H.G. Wells

4.67

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Ranked among the classic novels of the English language and the inspiration for several unforgettab… read more

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23. The Republic

By: Plato , Desmond Lee

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more

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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."

-Plato, The Republic

"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."

-Plato, The Republic

"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."

-Plato, The Republic

"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"

-Plato, The Republic

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24. The Exorcist

By: William Peter Blatty

4.20

Format: 385 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Georgetown, Washington D.C. Actress and divorced mother Chris MacNeil starts to experience 'difficu… read more

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"Keep away. The sow is mine."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"The child was slender as a fleeting hope."

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

"In forgetting, they were trying to remember"

-William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist

25. The Poetics of Space

By: Gaston Bachelard , Maria Jolas , Étienne Gilson , John R. Stilgoe

3.46

Format: None pages, Paperback

Since its first publication in English in 1964, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard's Poetics of Sp… read more

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26. Richard II

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more

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27. Baumgartner

By: Paul Auster

3.78

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning… read more

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"Vivir es sentir dolor, y vivir con miedo al dolor es negarse a vivir"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"To live is to feel pain, he told himself, and to live in fear of pain is to refuse to live."

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"at some point in the coming years, the two books should be combined and reconfigured into a large, one-volume collected poems—a monument of singing pages that will overwhelm the silence of Anna’s gra…"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

"the story turns out to be so astounding and so powerful that your jaw drops open and you feel that it has changed or enhanced or deepened your understanding of the world, does it matter if the story …"

-Paul Auster, Baumgartner

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28. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • film
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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29. Minor Detail

By: Adania Shibli

4.20

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more

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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"

-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail

Cover of Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1) by Katherine Rundell

30. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

By: Katherine Rundell

4.18

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more

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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"

-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)

Cover of First Reformed by Paul Schrader

31. First Reformed

By: Paul Schrader

4.50

Format: 88 pages, None

Called “an ecstatic, arc-bright wonder and terror” by The New Yorker, this major work of art now re… read more

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