11 Best drama books like The Living Room by Graham Greene

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The Living Room

By: Graham Greene

3.33

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Graham Greene's first play (1953), dealing with sin and salvation, illustrates Shaw's line, "You ca…

If you liked the drama plot in The Living Room by Graham Greene , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

By: Masha Gessen

4.19

Format: 515 pages, Hardcover

The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of … read more

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  • audiobook
"...But reason was helpless against demagogy."

-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

"[Hannah] Arendt wrote about the subjugation of public space - in effect the disappearance of public space, which, by depriving a person of boundaries and agency, rendered him profoundly lonely."

-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

"Some studies actually showed that that Russian drinkers lived longer than non-drinkers. [Michelle Parsons] suggested an explanation for the apparent vodka paradox: for what it is worth, alcohol may h…"

-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

"At the time of the October Revolution, the Russian intellectual elite had been both a part and a partner to the European conversation about God, power, and human life. After fifty years of purges, ar…"

-Masha Gessen, The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

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2. The Origin of Species

By: Charles Darwin

4.01

Format: 703 pages, Hardcover

Darwin's theory of natural selection issued a profound challenge to orthodox thought and belief: no… read more

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"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"...Showing that they descend from common parents, and consequently must be ranked as varieties."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"I am convinced that natural selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

"The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient."

-Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

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3. The Master

By: Colm Tóibín

3.84

Format: 339 pages, Paperback

“Colm Tóibín’s beautiful, subtle illumination of Henry James’s inner life” (The New York Times) cap… read more

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  • fiction
"It is terrible to be an unprotected being."

-Colm Tóibín, The Master

"For the first time in years, he felt the deep sadness of exile, knowing that he was alone here, an outsider, and too alert to the ironies, the niceties, the manners, and indeed, the morals to be able…"

-Colm Tóibín, The Master

"His consolation was that at least he had known her as the world had not, and the pain of living without her was no more than a penalty he paid for the privilege of having been young with her. What on…"

-Colm Tóibín, The Master

"He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best a dull contentment. Sometimes the dullness came to the fore with a strange and insistent ache whic…"

-Colm Tóibín, The Master

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4. Oslo

By: J.T. Rogers

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

“The stuff of crackling theater. Combining investigative zeal and theatrical imagination with insid… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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5. 8

By: Dustin Lance Black , Kevin Bacon , Matt Bomer

4.18

Format: 2 pages, Audio CD

An unconstitutional proposition. An unprecedented decision. An all-star cast. Starring Geor… read more

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  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • audiobook
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6. An Area of Darkness

By: V.S. Naipaul

4.17

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darknessis Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound r… read more

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7. Broadway Bound

By: Neil Simon

3.70

Format: None pages, Paperback

Neil Simon continues the semiautobiographical trilogy begun with Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi … read more

Similar categories in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound book and Graham Greene's The Living Room

  • audiobook
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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8. Dinner With Friends

By: Donald Margulies , Matthew Arkin , None , None , None , None

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Filled with humor, warmth, insight and wisdom, Dinner w… read more

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  • audiobook
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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9. A Woman of No Importance

By: Oscar Wilde

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Oscar Wilde's audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's lo… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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10. The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy

By: George Bernard Shaw

3.72

Format: None pages, Paperback

First staged in 1906, "The Doctor's Dilemma" is a play that revolves around a community of doctors,… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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11. Timequake

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

2.57

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

Think of Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut's 19th and last novel (or so he says), as a victory lap. It's a c… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

By: Anthony Trollope , Ruth Rendell

4.14

Format: 557 pages, Paperback

A recent cover reprint for this ISBN can be found here and an older one here. Son of a bankrupt … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
"Conduct! Is conduct everything? One may conduct oneself excellently, and yet break one's heart."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall."

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Buying and selling is good and necessary; it is very necessary, and may, possibly, be very good; but it cannot be the noblest work of man; and let us hope that it may not in our time be esteemed the …"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

"Oh! do look at Miss Oriel's bonnet the next time you see her. I cannot understand why it should be so, but I am sure of this—no English fingers could put together such a bonnet as that; and I am near…"

-Anthony Trollope, Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #3)

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13. Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

By: None , Larry Heinemann , Julia Whitby , Robin Whitby , Svetlana Alexievich

4.30

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

From 1979 to 1989 a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed … read more

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"There’s not much humanity in a human being — that’s what war taught me."

-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

"Jenže já tam nechal krev… Svou… I cizí… Dávali nám vyznamenání, která nenosíme…"

-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

"Dreptul omului de a nu ucide. De a nu învața să ucidă. Neînscris în nicio constituție."

-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

"Každá stránka Zinkových chlapců volá: lidé, nedopusťte, aby se tento krvavý zlý sen opakoval!"

-None, Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War

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14. Androcles and the Lion

By: George Bernard Shaw , Dan H. Laurence

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

Androcles and the Lion is a 1912 play written by George Bernard Shaw. Androcles and the Lion is Sha… read more

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  • theatre
  • religion
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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15. Biloxi Blues

By: Neil Simon

3.94

Format: 489 pages,

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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16. The Living Room

By: Graham Greene

3.33

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Graham Greene's first play (1953), dealing with sin and salvation, illustrates Shaw's line, "You ca… read more

Similar categories in Graham Greene's The Living Room book and Graham Greene's The Living Room

  • drama
  • theatre
  • religion
  • fiction
  • plays
  • audiobook
Cover of Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire #4) by Anthony Trollope

17. Framley Parsonage (Chronicles of Barsetshire #4)

By: Anthony Trollope

3.00

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Fourth in the Barsetshire Chronicles, FRAMLEY PARSONAGE was published in 1860. In it the values of … read more

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  • fiction
  • audiobook
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18. After the Fall

By: Arthur Miller

4.15

Format: 384 pages,

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

19. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

By: Laurence Sterne , Melvyn New

3.90

Format: 256 pages,

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categoriz… read more

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20. The Epic of Gilgamesh

By: Anonymous , N.K. Sandars

3.74

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets dating back as much as four thousand years, the poem of Gilg… read more

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  • fiction
"As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"Gilgamesh was called a god and a man; Enkidu was an animal and a man. It is the story of their becoming human together."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

"When all the illusions of personal immortality are stripped away, there is only the act to maintain the freedom to act."

-Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

21. 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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22. California Suite

By: Neil Simon

4.24

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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23. Mrs. Warren's Profession

By: George Bernard Shaw

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

Middle-aged Mrs. Warren is a madam, proprietress of a string of successful brothels. Her daughter, … read more

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24. Six Degrees of Separation

By: John Guare

3.37

Format: 395 pages, Paperback

The extraordinary tragicomedy of race, class and manners. read more

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25. Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans

By: Brian M. Fagan

3.33

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Cro-Magnons were the first fully modern Europeans?not only the creators of the stunning cave painti… read more

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26. Le Malade imaginaire

By: Molière

3.63

Format: 255 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Le Malade imaginaire est la dernière comédie et en même temps la dernière pièce écrite par Molière.… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"La musique est accoutumée à ne point faire ce qu'on veut."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

"Presque tous les hommes meurent de leurs remèdes, et non pas de leurs maladies."

-Molière, Le Malade imaginaire

27. The Prisoner of Second Avenue

By: Neil Simon

3.86

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

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28. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

By: David Brooks

4.14

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper c… read more

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  • audiobook
"Being open-hearted is a prerequisite for being a full, kind, and wise human being."

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

"A person who is looking for beauty is likely to find wonders, while a person looking for threats will find danger. A person who beams warmth brings out the glowing sides of the people she meets, whil…"

-David Brooks, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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29. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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  • audiobook
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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30. Guard Her With Your Life

By: Joy Ellis

3.97

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

A GRIPPING NEW STANDALONE THRILLER FROM MULTI-MILLION SELLING AUTHOR JOY ELLIS. Detective Sam H… read more

Similar categories in Joy Ellis's Guard Her With Your Life book and Graham Greene's The Living Room

  • fiction
  • audiobook
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31. So Many Steves: Afternoons with Steve Martin

By: Steve Martin

3.83

Format: 3 pages, Audiobook

Steve Martin is more candid than he’s ever been about his creative life in this engrossing audio-bi… read more

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  • audiobook

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3.84

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4.19

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