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Drama Books

Drama books grip the reader with exciting and emotional stories. With twists and turns, ups and downs, life events, and tragedies, drama novels across the genres contain something for everyone to connect with. Trust us, you won't want to put these down.

Best-selling Drama titles

Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three Montessori from the Start:...

Paula Polk Lillard, Lynn Lillard Jessen
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Fleabag: The Special Edition (Tcg) Fleabag: The Special Edition ...

Phoebe Waller-Bridge
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The...

Aeschylus, W. Stanford (Editor)
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Sweat (Tcg Edition) Sweat (Tcg Edition)

Lynn Nottage
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Richard III (No Fear Shakespeare): Volume 15 Richard III (No Fear...

Sparknotes
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Antigonick Antigonick

Anne Carson
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The Pillowman The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: Revised by the Author Who's Afraid of Virginia...

Edward Albee
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The Piano Lesson The Piano Lesson

August Wilson
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Hamilton: Vocal Selections Hamilton: Vocal Selections

Lin-Manuel Miranda (Composer)
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Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One and Two Faust: A Tragedy, Parts One...

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Martin Greenberg (Translator)
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King Lear: Third Series King Lear: Third Series

William Shakespeare, R a Foakes (Editor)
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Eating Raoul Eating Raoul

Paul Bartel, Boyd Graham (Compiled by)
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Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems Shakespeare's Sonnets and...

William Shakespeare
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Draw Your Feelings: A Creative Journal to Help Connect with Your Emotions Through Art Draw Your Feelings: A...

Rukmini Poddar
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What the Constitution Means to Me (Tcg Edition) What the Constitution Means...

Heidi Schreck
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Fat Ham Fat Ham

James Ijames
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Lysistrata and Other Plays: The Acharnians, the Clouds, Lysistrata Lysistrata and Other Plays:...

Aristophanes, Alan H Sommerstein (Translator)
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Medea and Other Plays Medea and Other Plays

Euripides
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Baby Reindeer Baby Reindeer

Richard Gadd
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Sophocles, the Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone Sophocles, the Oedipus Cycle:...

Sophocles, Dudley Fitts (Translator)
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House of Games House of Games

Professor David Mamet
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Full Metal Jacket Full Metal Jacket

Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr
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Twelfth Night (No Fear Shakespeare) Twelfth Night (No Fear...

SparkNotes
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FAQs

The drama genre is often defined by characters who are caught up in a series of events or a conflict at a crucial moment in the storyline. The characters and situations portray human experiences and engage the reader's emotions throughout the plot.

Dramas develop popular tropes like betrayal, unrequited love, reluctant hero and many more, creating devoted fans to the genre or series.

Drama novels can range from tragedies to comedies; they're all about hooking the reader. You might think of historical dramas in English literature that focus on romance, but the subgenres of drama are vast, including horror, dramatic Theater, Medieval dramas and Anthologies. And they can be inclusive, too. There are plenty of LGBTQ+ books and racially diverse dramas.

With so many drama stories out there, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the options. Let's focus on some classic drama books that are a must-read.

  • The Great Gatsby is a dramatic story that focuses on Nick Carraway as he interacts with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's pursuit of his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
  • To Kill A Mockingbird features the coming-of-age story of Scout and Jem Finch growing up after their father defends a Black man falsely accused of sexual assault.
  • Frankenstein is a horror drama about a young scientist who creates a monster through unorthodox scientific experiments.

William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer of the English language due to his use of drama in his poems and plays such as Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, and many of his other classic works.

There are plenty of drama fiction books written by women as well. Jane Austen wrote some of the best dramas that have been beloved throughout the centuries. Pride and Prejudice has been the inspiration for countless series, movies, spinoffs, and remakes, both in historical and modern time periods.

Of course, there are notable drama authors of recent years as well, such as:

History is filled with dramatic, life-changing events. Plenty of authors have based their writings on true, dramatic stories that happened to them or a loved one.

  • The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont is about the brief disappearance of Dame Agatha Christie, with the fictional twist of what the author imagines could have happened during that time.
  • Room by Emma Donoghue is about a woman who is kept in captivity inspired by a woman who was imprisoned for 24 hours.
  • The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls is an extraordinary memoir of resilience and redemption that offers a peek into the personal life of a deeply dysfunctional but uniquely loving family.