10 best-selling plays books like Wild Goose Dreams by Hansol Jung

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Wild Goose Dreams

By: Hansol Jung

4.21

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Nanhee is a North Korean defector whose family was left behind in North Korea. Minsung is a South K…

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1. The Bluest Eye

By: Toni Morrison

4.12

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and bol… read more

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"Lonely was much better than alone."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"Maybe that was love. Choking sounds and silence."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"She missed -- without knowing what she missed-- paints and crayons"

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

"Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."

-Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

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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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"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. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

By: Frederick Douglass

4.11

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Doug… read more

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"For my part, I should prefer death to hopeless bondage."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"You will be free as soon as you are twenty-one, but I am a slave for life! Have not I as good a right to be free as you have?"

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"I say , this picture sometimes appalled us, and made us rather bear those ills we had. Than fly to others, that we knew not of."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

"They attend with Pharisaical strictness to the outward forms of religion, and at the same time neglect the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith."

-Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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4. Their Eyes Were Watching God

By: Zora Neale Hurston

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

When Janie, at sixteen, is caught kissing shiftless Johnny Taylor, her grandmother swiftly marries … read more

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5. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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6. Fefu and Her Friends

By: María Irene Fornés

4.00

Format: 412 pages, Paperback

This is one of the best-loved Off-Off-Broadway plays of recent decades. In the innovative original … read more

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7. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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8. 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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9. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

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10. Angels in America, Part Two: Perestroika

By: Tony Kushner

3.80

Format: 144 pages,

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11. Convenience Store Woman

By: Sayaka Murata

3.69

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

The English-language debut of one of Japan's most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,0… read more

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"A convenience store is a world of sound."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"People who are considered normal enjoy putting those who aren't on trial, you know."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"Anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

"Well, I guess anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering."

-Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman

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12. The Wolves

By: Sarah DeLappe

4.27

Format: 175 pages, None

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburba… read more

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13. Heroes of the Fourth Turning

By: Will Arbery

4.03

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

It's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-… read more

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14. In the Dream House

By: Carmen Maria Machado

4.42

Format: 251 pages, Hardcover

For years Carmen Maria Machado has struggled to articulate her experiences in an abusive same-sex r… read more

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"But this story? This one's mine."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"I thought you died, but writing this, I'm not sure you did."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

"You tried to tell your story to people who didn't know how to listen."

-Carmen Maria Machado, In the Dream House

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15. Open Water

By: Caleb Azumah Nelson

4.04

Format: 145 pages, Hardcover

Two young people meet at a pub in South East London. Both are Black British, both won scholarships … read more

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"Trauma makes you considerate."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You are more than the sum of your traumas"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"You do not want to die before you can live"

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

"...love was not always synonymous with care."

-Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water

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16. Portrait of a Thief

By: Grace D. Li

3.46

Format: 375 pages, Hardcover

Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief, a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by t… read more

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"We’re children of the diaspora,"

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

"Art could be beauty, but it was also power."

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

"She had never liked anything she did not excel at."

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

"For all that people in power claim to care about looting, it doesn't seem to matter when it's museums doing it."

-Grace D. Li, Portrait of a Thief

Cover of Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays) by Clare Barron

17. Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Clare Barron

4.22

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

'Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start!'Somewhe… read more

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18. The Inheritance

By: Matthew López

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

You have to wonder why there isn't a word in the English language for the fireworks that go off in … read more

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"Enamorarse es coger cita con el sufrimiento"

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

"Leer no es suficiente, Leo. Tienes que poseer tus propios libros."

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

"If we are to learn what we mean to each other, we must first examine what we mean to ourselves. And we must be fearless and honest in that attempt —"

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

"A muchos de nosotros no nos han dado nunca un ejemplo sano de lo que significa ser homosexual. Lo que significa, por supuesto, que nunca nos han enseñado a serlo. A amar. A aceptar el amor."

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

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19. Pipeline

By: Dominique Morisseau

4.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

"Pipeline confirms Dominique Morisseau's reputation as a play wright of piercing eloquence . . . th… read more

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20. Cambodian Rock Band

By: Lauren Yee

4.29

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

In 1978, Chum fled Cambodia and narrowly escaped the murderous Khmer Rouge regime. Thirty years lat… read more

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Cover of Wild Goose Dreams by Hansol Jung

21. Wild Goose Dreams

By: Hansol Jung

4.21

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Nanhee is a North Korean defector whose family was left behind in North Korea. Minsung is a South K… read more

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