18 Top fiction books like Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar

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Disgraced

By: Ayad Akhtar

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

The story of Amir Kapoor (Aasif Mandvi), a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly movi…

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1. Between Riverside and Crazy

By: Stephen Adly Guirgis

3.81

Format: 71 pages, Paperback

Written with humor, tenderness, grit, and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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2. The Humans

By: Stephen Karam

3.91

Format: 164 pages, Paperback

Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving a… read more

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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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3. Sweat

By: Lynn Nottage

4.06

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory wor… read more

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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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4. The Little Foxes

By: Lillian Hellman

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Picture a charming home in the South. Into this peaceful scene put the prosperous, despotic Hubbard… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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5. The Mountaintop

By: Michael Eric Dyson , Katori Hall , None

3.18

Format: 183 pages,

Winner of the Olivier Award and set to open on Broadway in September 2011, The Mountaintop is set a… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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6. I Am My Own Wife

By: Doug Wright

3.88

Format: None pages, Paperback

I Am My Own Wife is the winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. From the Obie Award-winning au… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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7. 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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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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8. East of Berlin

By: Hannah Moscovitch

3.21

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

As a teenager, Rudi discovers that his father was a doctor at Auschwitz. Questioning redemption, lo… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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9. Disgraced

By: Ayad Akhtar

4.83

Format: 28 pages, Paperback

The story of Amir Kapoor (Aasif Mandvi), a successful Pakistani-American lawyer who is rapidly movi… read more

Similar categories in Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced book and Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced

  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • religion
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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10. Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays

By: Steve Martin

3.89

Format: 197 pages,

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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11. 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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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

12. Yellow Face

By: Frank Rich , David Henry Hwang

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

"A thesis of a play, unafraid of complexities and contradictions, pepped up with a light dramatic f… read more

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  • plays
  • fiction
  • school
  • drama

13. Stop Kiss

By: None

3.14

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Ben Brantley of the New York Times summed up the critical reaction to Diana Son's play Stop Kiss wh… read more

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14. 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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15. Rabbit Hole

By: David Lindsay-Abaire

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation--an intensel… read more

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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. Intimate Apparel - Acting Edition

By: Lynn Nottage

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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20. The Prisoner of Second Avenue

By: Neil Simon

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

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21. 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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22. In the Next Room, or the vibrator play

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.41

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

In the Next Room or the vibrator playis a comedy about marriage, intimacy, and electricity. Set in … read more

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23. Burned Out

By: Dean Mafako

4.30

Format: 526 pages, Paperback

Eric Philson came to the Children's Hospital of Biloxi with a goal ― to build the cardiac intensive… read more

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  • fiction
"The entire belief was insulting to many of us, but nonetheless, the term “top trained,"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"The hypocrisy was too much to bear, the institution was paying over a million dollars for Mr. Hyde to perform “values training"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"When I arrived, I did the job of six people and worked over one hundred hours per week for more than a year until I collapsed in my yard and nearly died!"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

"One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them…"

-Dean Mafako, Burned Out

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24. Wife For Sale

By: Tabita Gutu

4.41

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Take an unhappy married couple with a small baby, a man whose wife died in a tragic accident and ca… read more

Similar categories in Tabita Gutu's Wife For Sale book and Ayad Akhtar's Disgraced

  • drama
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25. Indecent

By: Paula Vogel

4.46

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire… read more

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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

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26. Fairview

By: Jackie Sibblies Drury

4.27

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Grandma's birthday approaches. Beverly is organizing the perfect dinner, but everything seems doome… read more

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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Once... Well, not once, not at all once. Many many many many times, there was a person who worked hard, a person who tried to work hard, and tried to do their best, and tried to do well by their fami…"

-Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview

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27. 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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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"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

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28. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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29. The Thanksgiving Play

By: Larissa FastHorse

3.87

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A mismatched but well-meaning foursome sets out to devise a politically correct school play that ca… read more

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  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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30. 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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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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31. Leopoldstadt

By: Tom Stoppard

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. B… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

18 Best theatre books like Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar

Transform Your Habits

Between Riverside and Crazy

Stephen Adly Guirgis

3.81

Transform Your Habits

The Humans

Stephen Karam

3.91

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

The Little Foxes

Lillian Hellman

3.40

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15 Best fiction books like The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe

Transform Your Habits

Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Eurydice

Sarah Ruhl

4.10

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