8 best-selling drama books like The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

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The Miracle Worker

By: William Gibson

4.06

Format: None pages,

If you liked the drama plot in The Miracle Worker by William Gibson , here is a list of 8 books like this:

Cover of You Can't Take it With You by Moss Hart, George S. Kaufman

1. 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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  • classics
  • school
  • 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

Cover of Everyman by Anonymous, Unknown

2. Everyman

By: Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play te… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Donald Margulies, Tappan Wilder

3. Our Town

By: Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder

4.35

Format: 26 pages, Paperback

Our Townwas first produced and published in 1938 to wide acclaim. This Pulitzer Prize-winning drama… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Fat Pig by Neil LaBute

4. Fat Pig

By: Neil LaBute

3.02

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama

5. Living The Best Day Ever

By: Hendri Coetzee

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

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  • nonfiction
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6. The Miracle Worker

By: William Gibson

4.06

Format: None pages,

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  • classics
  • biography
  • school
  • theatre
  • nonfiction
  • plays
  • drama

7. The Prophetess: Deborah's Story (Daughters of the Promised Land, #2)

By: Jill Eileen Smith

4.50

Format: 142 pages, Paperback

Outspoken and fearless, Deborah has faith in God but struggles to see the potential her own life ho… read more

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8. 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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9. The Man Who Walked Between the Towers

By: Mordicai Gerstein

4.15

Format: None pages, Hardcover

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10. Steel Magnolias

By: None

3.62

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Presents the script of a 1988 play about a group of women in Chinquapin, Louisiana, who learn to dr… read more

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11. Inherit the Wind

By: Jerome Lawrence , Robert E. Lee

3.93

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

A meaningful play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, in which a Tennessee teacher was tried … read more

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12. No Compromise

By: David Hazard , Melody Green

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Longtime fans and new listeners can experience the impact of Keith's character, courage, and commit… read more

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13. 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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14. Eminent Victorians

By: Lytton Strachey , John Sutherland

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Eminent Victorians is a groundbreaking work of biography that raised the genre to the level of high… read more

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15. Gidget (Gidget series, #1)

By: Frederick Kohner , None

3.47

Format: 288 pages,

My English comp teacher Mr. Glicksberg says if you want to be a writer you have to, quote, sit on a… read more

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Cover of FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History by Steven Lomazow

16. FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

By: Steven Lomazow

4.33

Format: 316 pages, Paperback

THE HIDDEN ILLNESSES THAT SHAPED FDR’S LIFE AND CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY Conventional wisdo… read more

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  • drama
"Researching this book has been a voyage of discovery and it is a privilege to present an unexpurgated medical biography of the most consequential American of the twentieth century."

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"Another new and groundbreaking story in FDR Unmasked is about his highly consequential friendship with Vincent Astor, the closest with any man in his adult life. To truly understand the “real"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked chronicles Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s life from a physician’s perspective. It tells a harrowing story of heroic achievement by a great leader determined to impart his vision of freedom …"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

"FDR Unmasked is first to present convincing evidence of Roosevelt’s battle with prostate cancer, underpinned by FBI memoranda and reliable firsthand information from multiple physicians - even a shoc…"

-Steven Lomazow, FDR Unmasked: 73 Years of Medical Cover-ups That Rewrote History

Cover of "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion by Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

17. "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

By: Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

4.31

Format: 274 pages, Paperback

A GREAT MAN AND HIS UNHERALDED ASSISTANT For some 50 years, Paul Sochaczewski has been on the tr… read more

Similar categories in Paul Spencer Sochaczewski's "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion book and William Gibson's The Miracle Worker

  • nonfiction
  • biography
"The “facts"

-Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

"A key element in everyone’s hero’s journey is the “decision point,"

-Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

"The Wallace-Ali relationship reflects the great mythic “hero’s journey."

-Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

"Wallace would not have been as successful as he was without Ali’s support."

-Paul Spencer Sochaczewski, "Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird": Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion

Cover of Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love by Aimee Cabo Nikolov

18. Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

By: Aimee Cabo Nikolov

4.30

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Her family secrets burst in the spotlight when Aimee and her sister went to the authorities. In thi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • drama
"#metooasachild"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"We can be beacons of light"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"Unconditional Love conquers all!"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

"God is the Cure, Love is the Answer"

-Aimee Cabo Nikolov, Love is the Answer, God is the Cure: A True Story of Abuse, Betrayal and Unconditional Love

Cover of Wife For Sale by Tabita Gutu

19. 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 William Gibson's The Miracle Worker

  • drama
Cover of Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power by Karen  Hinton

20. Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

By: Karen Hinton

4.27

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

“A vivid, clear-eyed glimpse into American politics from a woman who grew up in the hinterlands of … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"I don’t remember anything about the accident that changed my life. All I knew was what seemed like an endless, foggy dream."

-Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

"…I was finding that reporting the news wasn't enough. I wanted to be more than just a paid observer. I wanted to be in the fight. I got my chance."

-Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

"We…realized that no matter who won the race, we were girls, and we were from Soso, Mississippi, population 434, which meant we were destined to be last in pretty much everything else."

-Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

"The last few weeks of that summer, Janice lost interest in our conversations…. Her mind was taking her to other places, as though she was listening to a song or watching a movie or reading a book we …"

-Karen Hinton, Penis Politics: A Memoir of Women, Men and Power

Cover of Growing Up American: A Novel by Rafael Polo

21. Growing Up American: A Novel

By: Rafael Polo

4.29

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1959, the Cold War was getting warmer. Cuba was the revolutionary fuel that made it hot. When Fi… read more

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"When power becomes the ultimate goal, freedom must be shackled."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"It became visible as a firefly in the dark that the political climate was swiftly getting more and more oppressive."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"At last, he fully understood that change comes from within. It was up to him to get up and fight for a better life."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

"His family could not understand the attraction to Marxism. It offered nothing and demanded everything, including your soul."

-Rafael Polo, Growing Up American: A Novel

5 Top school books like The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

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You Can't Take it With You

Moss Hart , George S. Kaufman

3.98

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Everyman

Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

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Our Town

Thornton Wilder , Donald Margulies , Tappan Wilder

4.35

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Fat Pig

Neil LaBute

3.02

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Steve Jobs: The Man Who Thought Different: A Biography

Karen Blumenthal

3.94

Transform Your Habits

I. Asimov: A Memoir

Isaac Asimov

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

Jan Swafford

4.25

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The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn

Eric Ives

4.20

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