9 must-read read for school books like Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes

Cover of Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes

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 …

If you liked the read for school plot in Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Sweat by Lynn Nottage

1. 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

Similar categories in Lynn Nottage's Sweat book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's Water by the Spoonful

  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
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2. 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

Similar categories in Suzan-Lori Parks's Topdog/Underdog book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's Water by the Spoonful

  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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3. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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4. Eurydice

By: Sarah Ruhl

4.10

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Sarah Ruhl re-imagines the classic myth of Orpheus through the eyes of its heroine. Dying too young… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's Water by the Spoonful

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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5. 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

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  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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6. 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

Similar categories in Quiara Alegría Hudes's Water by the Spoonful book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's Water by the Spoonful

  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Anna in the Tropics

By: Nilo Cruz

4.10

Format: 0 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Drama . . . there are many kinds of light. The light of fires… read more

Similar categories in Nilo Cruz's Anna in the Tropics book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's Water by the Spoonful

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

8. Wit

By: None

4.48

Format: None pages,

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Ou… read more

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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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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14. Cock

By: Mike Bartlett

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled wi… read more

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15. 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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16. 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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17. Intimate Apparel - Acting Edition

By: Lynn Nottage

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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18. 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

Similar categories in Jackie Sibblies Drury's Fairview book and Quiara Alegría Hudes's Water by the Spoonful

  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 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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19. 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
  • contemporary
  • 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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20. 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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21. A Doll's House, Part 2

By: Lucas Hnath

3.82

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

In the final scene of Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, Nora Helmer makes the shocking decisi… read more

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

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