12 Best fiction books like Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet

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Speed-the-Plow

By: David Mamet

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Speed-the-Plow's Broadway run is the most recent triumph of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's ast…

If you liked the fiction plot in Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

1. The Little Foxes

By: Lillian Hellman

3.40

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

Picture a charming home in the South. Into this peaceful scene put the prosperous, despotic Hubbard… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • drama
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2. The Pillowman

By: Martin McDonagh

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

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3. Speed-the-Plow

By: David Mamet

4.38

Format: 613 pages, Paperback

Speed-the-Plow's Broadway run is the most recent triumph of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's ast… read more

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  • drama
  • the united states of america
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 20th century
  • plays
  • audiobook
Cover of Dinner With Friends by Donald Margulies, Matthew Arkin, None, None, None, None

4. 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
Cover of Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars by Seán O'Casey

5. Three Plays: Juno and the Paycock / The Shadow of a Gunman / The Plow and the Stars

By: Seán O'Casey

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Death and the Maiden by Ariel Dorfman

6. Death and the Maiden

By: Ariel Dorfman

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Ariel Dorfman's explosively provocative, award-winning drama is set in a country that has only rece… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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7. How I Learned to Drive

By: Paula Vogel

3.85

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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8. The Three Sisters

By: Anton Chekhov

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sistersprobes the lives and dreams of … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

9. Barefoot in the Park

By: Neil Simon

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

Comedy / 4m, 2f / Int. Paul and Corie Bratter are newlyweds in every sense of the word. He's a stra… read more

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

10. 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

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11. Blithe Spirit

By: Noël Coward

3.97

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times "I will ever be grateful for the almost psych… read more

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  • audiobook
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

12. True West

By: Sam Shepard

3.79

Format: 368 pages,

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13. 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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14. The Elephant Man

By: Bernard Pomerance

3.80

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

"The Elephant Man" is based on the life of John Merrick, who lived in London during the latter part… read more

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15. The Heidi Chronicles

By: Wendy Wasserstein

4.22

Format: 129 pages, Paperback

Comprised of a series of interrelated scenes, the play traces the coming of age of Heidi Holland, a… read more

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16. Hangmen

By: Martin McDonagh

4.05

Format: 371 pages,

In his small pub in Oldham, Harry is something of a local celebrity. But what's the second-best han… read more

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17. Iphigenia in Aulis

By: Euripides , Nicholas Rudall

3.84

Format: 467 pages, Paperback

Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Troj… read more

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18. The Lieutenant of Inishmore

By: Martin McDonagh

4.15

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during The Troublesin Northern Ireland aga… read more

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19. Private Lives

By: Noël Coward

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, … read more

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20. Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

By: Luigi Pirandello , Mark Musa

3.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pirandello (1867-1936) is the founding architect of twentieth-century drama, brilliantly innovatory… 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. Miss Julie and Other Plays

By: August Strindberg , Michael Robinson

4.32

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

This edition embraces Strindberg's crucial transition from Naturalism to Modernism, from his two fi… read more

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23. The Maids & Deathwatch

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Jean Genet , Bernard Frechtman

3.57

Format: 307 pages,

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24. Birds

By: Aristophanes , None

2.56

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

Birds is generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces, for its imaginative plot (it is… read more

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25. Candida

By: George Bernard Shaw , None

4.34

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Candida centers on a romantic triangle and parodies courtly love and the domestic drama of Ibsen. I… read more

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26. Ice Station Zebra

By: Alistair MacLean

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

A classic thriller from the bestselling master of action and suspense. The atomic submarine Dolphin… read more

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27. 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

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  • 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

Cover of Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2) by Karl Braungart

28. Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

By: Karl Braungart

4.31

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine you find yourself losing bits of time. Almost like a dream you only slightly remember. Envi… read more

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  • fiction
  • drama
"Well, here’s the shocker,"

-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

"Yes, I never expected to see you!"

-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

"Their war maneuvers excluded shame."

-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

"I realized he was on the island when I found this matchbook."

-Karl Braungart, Counter Identity (Remmich/Miller, #2)

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29. 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

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  • drama
Cover of Puck's Legacy by Katie Hall-May

30. Puck's Legacy

By: Katie Hall-May

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

In the dusty lights of a deserted theatre a bored young woman makes a desperate decision, and the l… read more

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"Secrets breed other secrets. That’s how they work."

-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

"Extremism, by its very nature, must always go to its extreme."

-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

"I would give anything to hear him say my name one more time. And anything not to."

-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

"It’s all just coloured water. Of course it is. Don’t you want to taste something real?"

-Katie Hall-May, Puck's Legacy

Cover of Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel by Todor Bombov

31. Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

By: Todor Bombov

4.37

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

2nd Book in Sci-Fi Series Is Set on Saturn’s Moon Homo Cosmicus-2: Titan is a sci-fi novel, sui … read more

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  • drama
"While an elderly man in his mid-eighties looks curiously at a porno site, his grandson asks him from afar, “‘What are you reading, grandpa?’"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

"Let’s get to know each other. My name’s William, William More, but you can call me Willy. I’m an engineer-chemist who graduated from MIT. So . . . but you’re all alike to me . . . of course, you woul…"

-Todor Bombov, Homo Cosmicus 2: Titan: A Science Fiction Novel

12 best-selling fiction books like Speed-the-Plow by David Mamet

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The Little Foxes

Lillian Hellman

3.40

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The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh

4.30

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Speed-the-Plow

David Mamet

4.38

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Dinner With Friends

Donald Margulies , Matthew Arkin , None , None , None , None

3.65

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14 best-selling fiction books like The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

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The Wild Duck

David Eldridge , Henrik Ibsen

3.79

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Miss Julie

David French , August Strindberg

3.87

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Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.63

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