12 Best plays books like Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris

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Clybourne Park

By: Bruce Norris

3.78

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Clybourne park had its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Set in Chicago, the play "ap…

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1. 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

Similar categories in Stephen Karam's The Humans book and Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • adult
  • plays
  • drama
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2. 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 Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • race
  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • college
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman, Tectonic Theater Project

3. The Laramie Project

By: Moisés Kaufman , Tectonic Theater Project

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

For a year and a half following the murder of Matthew Shepard, Moises Kaufman and his Tectonic Thea… read more

Similar categories in Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project book and Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • theatre
  • plays
  • school
  • drama
Cover of Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks

4. 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 Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

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

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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Similar categories in Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive book and Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • school
  • theatre
  • college
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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6. 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 Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Redemption of Callie & Kayden (The Coincidence, #2) by Jessica Sorensen

7. The Redemption of Callie & Kayden (The Coincidence, #2)

By: Jessica Sorensen

4.33

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Coincidence of Callie & Kaydencomes an emotional … read more

Similar categories in Jessica Sorensen's The Redemption of Callie & Kayden (The Coincidence, #2) book and Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • college
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8. 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 Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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9. 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 Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

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

10. 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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11. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

By: August Wilson

3.00

Format: 282 pages,

The time is 1927. The place is a rundown recording studio in Chicago. Ma Rainey, the legendary blue… read more

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12. 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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13. A Raisin in the Sun

By: Lorraine Hansberry

4.20

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black peo… read more

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14. Venus in Fur

By: David Ives

3.94

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

A young playwright, Thomas, has written an adaptation of the 1870 novel Venus in Fur by Leopold von… read more

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15. Jumpers

By: Tom Stoppard

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Incredible Radical Liberal Jumpers are a team of acrobatic professors of philosophy, whose absu… read more

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16. 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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17. 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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18. 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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19. Oleanna

By: David Mamet

3.75

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

In David Mamet's latest play, a male college instructor and his female student sit down to discuss … read more

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20. Brighton Beach Memoirs

By: Neil Simon

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

The first in Neil Simon's "Eugene Trilogy," followed by Biloxi Bluesand Broadway Bound Winner of a… read more

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21. 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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22. Clybourne Park

By: Bruce Norris

3.78

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Clybourne park had its UK premiere at the Royal Court Theatre, London. Set in Chicago, the play "ap… read more

Similar categories in Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park book and Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • race
  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • college
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • adult
  • plays
  • drama

23. The Normal Heart

By: Andrew Holleran , Larry Kramer , Joseph Papp

4.24

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

THE NORMAL HEARTis the explosive drama about our most terrifying and troubling medical crisis today… read more

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24. 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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Cover of Burned Out by Dean Mafako

25. 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

Similar categories in Dean Mafako's Burned Out book and Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • 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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26. 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 Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • drama
Cover of Saint Richard Parker by Merlin Franco

27. Saint Richard Parker

By: Merlin Franco

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

His search for love and enlightenment across India, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia...… read more

Similar categories in Merlin Franco's Saint Richard Parker book and Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • fiction
  • drama
"See you later, tailgater."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"Dark is beautiful, brother."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"Tell me, son, what do you seek?"

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

"A saint has control over his anger and itches."

-Merlin Franco, Saint Richard Parker

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28. 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

Similar categories in Paula Vogel's Indecent book and Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • historical 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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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

Similar categories in Larissa FastHorse's The Thanksgiving Play book and Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • read for school
  • theatre
  • college
  • 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

Similar categories in Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves book and Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • school
  • read for school
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Homecoming Queen by Chad Boudreaux

31. Homecoming Queen

By: Chad Boudreaux

4.31

Format: 344 pages, Paperback

NO ONE EVER LEAVES MIRANDA TWICE Anika Raven faces the challenge of a lifetime. She must rescue … read more

Similar categories in Chad Boudreaux's Homecoming Queen book and Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park

  • drama
"But things had changed, and now she sat in her car outside her childhood residence staring at an open gate with a fifteen-inch Bowie knife in her lap, thinking. "

-Chad Boudreaux, Homecoming Queen

"Anika nodded, reflecting on her situation as the sirens grew louder. She had some time, but cops, hurricanes, and jealous women weren’t the party favors she’d expected for her homecoming parade."

-Chad Boudreaux, Homecoming Queen

"Ascending the creaky steps, she heard the old timers discussing the weather. But this wasn’t the usual small talk. They ranked Texas storms. Not by category, wind speed, or monetary damage, but by ca…"

-Chad Boudreaux, Homecoming Queen

"She remembered what her old priest had said: a half-truth masquerading as a whole truth was nothing but an untruth. But half-truths were horseplay in Miranda, where big lies came quick and easy. And …"

-Chad Boudreaux, Homecoming Queen

13 must-read fiction books like Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris

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Stephen Karam

3.91

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Lynn Nottage

4.06

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Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

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Paula Vogel

3.85

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Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

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Lynn Nottage

4.06

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Paula Vogel

3.85

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Sarah Ruhl

4.10

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