9 best-selling plays books like The Whale / A Bright New Boise by Samuel D. Hunter

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The Whale / A Bright New Boise

By: Samuel D. Hunter

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed for his gentle, complex characterizations, Samuel D. Hunter's bighearted and funny plays …

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1. The Walking Dead: Compendium Two

By: Robert Kirkman , Charlie Adlard

4.53

Format: 1068 pages, Paperback

Returning with the second eight volumes of the fan-favorite, New York Times bestseller series, The … read more

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2. You Can't Take it With You

By: Moss Hart , George S. Kaufman

3.98

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

At first the Sycamore family seems mad, but it is not long before we realize that if they are mad, … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
"Quiet, everybody! Quiet! Well, Sir, we've been getting along pretty good for quite a while now, and we're certainly much obliged. Remember, all we ask is to just go along and be happy in our own sort…"

-Moss Hart, You Can't Take it With You

"Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Penny, why don't you write a play about Ism-Mania? Penny Sycamore: Ism-Mania? Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Yeah, sure, you know, Communism, Faschism, Voodoo-ism, everybody's …"

-Moss Hart, You Can't Take it With You

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3. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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4. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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5. A Number

By: Caryl Churchill

3.79

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Caryl Churchill, hailed by Tony Kushner as "the greatest living English language playwright," has t… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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6. Arcadia

By: Tom Stoppard

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Arcadiatakes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nat… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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7. The Whale / A Bright New Boise

By: Samuel D. Hunter

3.90

Format: 77 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed for his gentle, complex characterizations, Samuel D. Hunter's bighearted and funny plays … read more

Similar categories in Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale / A Bright New Boise book and Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale / A Bright New Boise

  • theatre
  • drama
  • plays
  • queer

8. 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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9. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?

By: Henry Farrell

4.43

Format: 303 pages, Paperback

Book jacket: Baby Jane, a child star of early vaudeville, resented having to grow up in the shadow … read more

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10. 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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11. X

By: Alistair McDowall

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

It's a tax write-off. This is where they send the new, the under-qualified, the old. And most of al… read more

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12. Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

By: Jamie Loftus

3.92

Format: 301 pages, Hardcover

Part travelogue, part culinary history, all capitalist critique―comedian Jamie Loftus's debut, Raw … read more

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"WE NEED MORE WOMEN PRIESTS! a billboard declares a few miles outside of Buffalo, a new cursed addition to a folder in my Google Drive called 'feminism except not really."

-Jamie Loftus, Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs

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13. The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream

By: Charles Spencer

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The sinking of the White Ship is one of the greatest disasters in English history. Here, Sunday Tim… read more

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14. 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 Samuel D. Hunter's The Whale / A Bright New Boise

  • theatre
  • 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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15. Alien III

By: William Gibson

3.45

Format: 136 pages, Audible Audio

Audible is bringing William Gibson’s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time… read more

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16. Woman Without Shame: Poems

By: Sandra Cisneros

4.11

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A brave new collection of poems from Sandra Cisneros, the best-selling author of The House on Mango… read more

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17. Squished: A Graphic Novel

By: Megan Wagner Lloyd

4.17

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

From the Eisner-nominated duo behind the instant bestseller Allergic comes a fun new graphic novel … read more

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18. I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story

By: Anthony Daniels

3.89

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

"Gloriously witty, keen and spirited" J.J. Abrams, Director of Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker … read more

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"George and I talked. An hour passed. Surely we both had things to do. There was a silence. Nervously. 'Please, may I play the part?' George paused. Then quietly, 'Shurr.' Not even a word. Hardly a sy…"

-Anthony Daniels, I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story

"They can see the character, standing before them. The voice became iconic in its own right. Parents often ask me to do it for their children, who don't quite believe them. After all, any old man can …"

-Anthony Daniels, I Am C-3PO: The Inside Story

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19. The Prettiest Star

By: Carter Sickels

4.43

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Small-town Appalachia doesn't have a lot going for it, but it’s where Brian is from, where his fami… read more

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  • queer
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20. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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21. Passage

By: Christopher Chen

3.57

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

A fantasia inspired by E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, PASSAGE is set in the fictional Country X… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

9 best-selling drama books like The Whale / A Bright New Boise by Samuel D. Hunter

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You Can't Take it With You

Moss Hart , George S. Kaufman

3.98

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Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

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Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

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A Number

Caryl Churchill

3.79

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The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors

Dan Jones

4.27

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Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages

Dan Jones

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Anglo-Saxons A History of the Beginnings of England: 400–1066

Marc Morris

4.34

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Charles Spencer

4.06

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