10 Top classics books like Buried Child by Sam Shepard

Buried Child

By: Sam Shepard

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Childis…

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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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"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 Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

2. Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more

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Cover of All My Sons by Arthur Miller, Christopher Bigsby

3. All My Sons

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

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  • american
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Cover of Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks

4. Topdog/Underdog

By: Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A darkly comic fable of brotherly love and family identity is Suzan-Lori Parks latest riff on the w… read more

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Cover of The Zoo Story by Edward Albee

5. The Zoo Story

By: Edward Albee

3.90

Format: 42 pages, Paperback

The Zoo Story is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee. His first play, it was written… read more

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"Sometimes it’s necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly."

-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

"Now, here is what I had wanted to happen: I had tried to love, and I had tried to kill, and both had been unsuccessful by themselves."

-Edward Albee, The Zoo Story

Cover of How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel

6. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Cover of The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

7. The Piano Lesson

By: August Wilson

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black exper… read more

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8. Buried Child

By: Sam Shepard

4.03

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A newly revised edition of an American classic, Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize winning Buried Childis… read more

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  • american
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Cover of Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes

9. Water by the Spoonful

By: Quiara Alegría Hudes

3.67

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The 2012 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned … read more

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Cover of Betrayal by Harold Pinter

10. Betrayal

By: Harold Pinter

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Betrayalis Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play b… read more

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Cover of The Homecoming by Harold Pinter

11. The Homecoming

By: Harold Pinter

3.70

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in Lo… read more

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"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

12. Proof

By: David Auburn

3.63

Format: 256 pages,

"One of the most acclaimed plays of recent seasons, Proof explores the unknowability of love as muc… read more

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13. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

By: Tom Stoppard , None

3.48

Format: None pages,

Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more

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14. M. Butterfly

By: David Henry Hwang

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterflyopens in the cramped prison cell where di… read more

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15. Long Day's Journey Into Night

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.89

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play Long Day's Journey into Night is regarded as his finest work… read more

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16. The Hairy Ape

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.75

Format: None pages,

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) was a Nobel prize winning American playwright. More than any o… read more

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17. 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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18. 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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19. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

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"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

20. Ruined

By: Lynn Nottage

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hi… read more

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21. 'night, Mother

By: Marsha Norman

4.15

Format: None pages,

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22. American Buffalo

By: David Mamet

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

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23. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)

By: August Wilson

4.23

Format: 690 pages,

Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more

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24. 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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25. 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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26. Doubt

By: John Patrick Shanley

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A superb new drama written by John Patrick Shanley. It is an inspired study in moral uncertainty w… read more

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27. Glengarry Glen Ross

By: David Mamet

4.49

Format: 563 pages,

Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize, David Mamet's scalding comedy is about small-time, cutthroat rea… read more

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28. August: Osage County

By: Tracy Letts

4.29

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history, August: Osage Countyis a … read more

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29. The American Dream & The Zoo Story

By: Edward Albee

3.33

Format: 75 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Albee is one of our most important American playwrights. And n… read more

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Cover of Love on the Line 2 (Women at Work, #2) by Kirsten Fullmer

30. Love on the Line 2 (Women at Work, #2)

By: Kirsten Fullmer

4.30

Format: 341 pages, Kindle Edition

In part two of this extraordinary love story set in the hot, humid, summer of the wide-open mid-wes… read more

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  • drama
Cover of Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again by Sharon Carter

31. Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

By: Sharon Carter

4.31

Format: 306 pages, Kindle Edition

Devastated by the death of her husband in a horrific car accident, Sage lives with a protective arm… read more

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"Universe, not again. You can't cause another tragedy in my life."

-Sharon Carter, Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

"Don't fucking move," Jacob said, pressing the gun into Nick's back."

-Sharon Carter, Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

"I wish i could really believe that---really believe that. I'm glad the two of you met as well."

-Sharon Carter, Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

"One thing I do know my son-in-law didn't hate you. That man loved you so much, sweetie," her father commented."

-Sharon Carter, Love Auction: Too Risky to Love Again

14 best-selling fiction books like Buried Child by Sam Shepard

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

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Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

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All My Sons

Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

4.50

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Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

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Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

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3.58

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4.20

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