8 Best fiction books like Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett

Everybody Comes to Rick's

By: Murray Burnett

3.43

Format: 107 pages, ebook

A play featuring Rick, an American bar owner of the Cafe Americain in Casablanca, Morocco, who serv…

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Cover of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Cover of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

2. A Streetcar Named Desire

By: Tennessee Williams

3.98

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."

-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

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3. Ghost World

By: Daniel Clowes

3.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

Ghost Worldhas become a cultural and generational touchstone, and continues to enthrall and inspire… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris

4. Holidays on Ice

By: David Sedaris

4.40

Format: None pages,

David Sedaris's beloved holiday collection is new again with six more pieces, including a never bef… read more

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5. The Taming of the Shrew

By: William Shakespeare

3.78

Format: 438 pages,

Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more

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6. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

7. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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8. 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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9. 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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10. Jasmine

By: Bharati Mukherjee

4.13

Format: None pages, Paperback

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11. Great Expectations

By: Charles Dickens

3.79

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

Great Expectations charts the progress of Pip from childhood through often painful experiences to a… read more

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  • fiction
"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"You are in every line I have ever read."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"It is the most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her."

-Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

12. No Country for Old Men

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more

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13. Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean

By: None

4.34

Format: None pages, Paperback

Drama / Characters: 1 male, 8 femaleScenery: Interior In a small town dime store in West Texas, the… read more

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14. Vietgone

By: Qui Nguyen

3.26

Format: None pages,

A love story between two Vietnam War refugees who meet in an Arkansas relocation camp, the show fea… read more

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15. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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  • fiction
"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

Cover of I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid

16. I'm Thinking of Ending Things

By: Iain Reid

3.55

Format: 241 pages, Kindle Edition

Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in t… read more

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"Reality only happens once." (P. 48)"

-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

"It hurts, all of it, but we feel nothing."

-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

"Every story is made up. Even the real ones."

-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

"I actually want to be older. I’m happy to age, seriously."

-Iain Reid, I'm Thinking of Ending Things

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17. They Called Us Enemy

By: George Takei

4.42

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

A graphic memoir recounting actor/author/activist George Takei's childhood imprisoned within Americ… read more

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"The wheel of democracy turns slowly."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Shame is a cruel thing. It should rest on the perpetrators but they don't carry it the way the victims do."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

"Our Democracy is a Participatory Democracy. Existentially it's dependent on people who cherish the shinning, highest ideals of our Democracy and actively engage in the political process."

-George Takei, They Called Us Enemy

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18. Severance

By: Ling Ma

3.91

Format: 291 pages, Hardcover

Candace Chen, a millennial drone self-sequestered in a Manhattan office tower, is devoted to routin… read more

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  • fiction
"New York has a way of forgetting you."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"She says, Only in America do you have the luxury of being depressed."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"Just because you're adequately good at something doesn't mean that's what you should do."

-Ling Ma, Severance

"When other people are happy, I don't have to worry about them. There is room for my happiness."

-Ling Ma, Severance

Cover of Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips

19. Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020

By: Carl Phillips

3.97

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

WINNER OF THE 2023 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY A new collection of poems from one of America’s most e… read more

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20. Till Voices Wake Us (A Play)

By: Louella Dizon

2.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

Drama / Anthology read more

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21. Everybody Comes to Rick's

By: Murray Burnett

3.43

Format: 107 pages, ebook

A play featuring Rick, an American bar owner of the Cafe Americain in Casablanca, Morocco, who serv… read more

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  • plays
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9 must-read nonfiction books like They Called Us Enemy by George Takei

Transform Your Habits

March: Book Three (March, #3)

Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.65

Transform Your Habits

March: Book One (March, #1)

Nate Powell , John Lewis , Andrew Aydin

4.00

Transform Your Habits

They Called Us Enemy

George Takei

4.42

Transform Your Habits

Almost American Girl

Robin Ha

4.22

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