Editors' Top Picks
Angels in America by Tony KushnerAugust by Tracy LettsThe Pillowman by Martin McDonaghArcadia by Tom StoppardDoubt, a Parable by John Patrick Shanley
Best Plays Since 1990
29th out of 204 books — 151 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeMacbeth by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Best Plays Ever
210th out of 856 books — 1,132 voters

Twilight by Anna Deavere SmithThe Prophet by Hassan AbdulrazzakNat Turner in Jerusalem by Nathan Alan DavisLydia's Funeral Video by Samantha ChanseThe Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz
100 Plays Project
1st out of 100 books — 2 voters
The Wolves by Sarah DeLappeA Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryHow I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel'night, Mother by Marsha NormanTop Girls by Caryl Churchill
Book Riot's 50 Must-Read Plays By Women
21st out of 50 books — 14 voters

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryWit by Margaret EdsonFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake ShangeHow I Learned to Drive by Paula VogelThe Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Plays Written by Women
39th out of 174 books — 38 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovSelected Poems of Ezra Pound by Ezra PoundThe Cantos by Ezra PoundAriel by Sylvia PlathThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Vogue Cultural Literacy Test
24th out of 35 books — 1 voter

Lion in Winter by James GoldmanAmadeus by Peter ShafferThe Crucible by Arthur MillerInherit the Wind by Jerome LawrenceHenry V by William Shakespeare
Best Historical / Biographical Plays and Musicals
51st out of 62 books — 28 voters
One for the Money by Janet EvanovichMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John BerendtLord of Chaos by Robert JordanSoul Music by Terry PratchettThe Alienist by Caleb Carr
Best Books of 1994
328th out of 416 books — 145 voters

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee WilliamsDeath of a Salesman by Arthur MillerThe Crucible by Arthur MillerWho's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward AlbeeThe Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Best American Plays
189th out of 250 books — 367 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareMacbeth by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Crucible by Arthur Miller
Best Play Ever
347th out of 520 books — 456 voters

Angels in America by Tony KushnerThe Empty Space by Peter BrookWuthering Heights by Emma RiceContemporary Theatre in Egypt by Marvin A. CarlsonHedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
Contemporary Theatre Studies
23rd out of 45 books — 2 voters
Born Slippy by Tom LutzThe Mountains of California by John MuirMy Dirty California by Jason MosbergThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanIsland of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
A California Reader
72nd out of 120 books — 13 voters

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne FadimanThe Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniThe Devil's Highway by Luis Alberto UrreaWhy Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel TatumGandhi's Way by Mark Juergensmeyer
UC Davis Campus Community Book Project
6th out of 19 books — 1 voter
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. LewisAnne of Green Gables by L.M. MontgomeryBeloved by Toni MorrisonThe Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
All the Books in Well-Read Black Girl (Part 2)
68th out of 94 books — 4 voters

Magical Midnight by Catherine LaniganClockwork Angel by Cassandra ClareCity of Fallen Angels by Cassandra ClarePlague of Angels by John Patrick KennedyAngels & Demons by Dan Brown
Books with Angel in the Title
668th out of 828 books — 155 voters
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrSelected Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily DickinsonIn Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō TanizakiPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie DillardWhat Light Can Do by Robert Hass
Books About Light
97th out of 157 books — 8 voters

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryWhy Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears by Verna AardemaInferno by Dante Alighieriblack is brown is tan by Arnold AdoffThe Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen
Well-Read Black Girl Recommendations #2
72nd out of 85 books — 2 voters
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckCannery Row by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Joy Luck Club by Amy TanOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Best California Books
359th out of 437 books — 217 voters

White Rage by Carol AndersonThe New Jim Crow by Michelle AlexanderStamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. KendiThe Fire Next Time by James BaldwinThis Book Is Anti-Racist by Tiffany Jewell
Bridging the racial divide
14th out of 68 books — 9 voters
Steven D. Lavine. Failure is What It's All About by Jörn Jacob RohwerAngle of Repose by Wallace StegnerCalifornia by Edan LepuckiAssembling California by John McPheeCrossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
Smart Books about California
47th out of 48 books — 12 voters

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryFences by August WilsonDutchman & The Slave by Amiri BarakaPorgy and Bess Fantasy for Two Pianos by George GershwinFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake Shange
African American Plays
32nd out of 43 books — 34 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeMacbeth by William ShakespeareWaiting for Godot by Samuel BeckettMuch Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Theatrical Greatness
137th out of 140 books — 30 voters

American Wop - Beaver Buffalo Buttons Brass Boxing and Beer by Jack TarThe Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)World War Z by Max BrooksNot In The Eye by C.Z. HazardPlease Kill Me by Legs McNeil
Best Books for Oral Historians
7th out of 37 books — 12 voters


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