Book Riot's 2020 Read Harder Challenge - hosted by thestorygraph

Read a play by an author of color and/or queer author
All books added
Marie Antoinette by David Adjmi

Marie Antoinette

David Adjmi

100 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

fiction historical play challenging fast-paced
The Importance of Being Ernest by Ernest Cline

The Importance of Being Ernest

Ernest Cline

48 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction classics poetry funny reflective slow-paced
Drag Queens On Trial: A Courtroom Melodrama: They Lived By The Skin Of Their Spike Heels by Sky Gilbert

Drag Queens On Trial: A Courtroom Melodrama: They Lived By The Skin Of Their Spike Heels

Sky Gilbert

67 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

fiction lgbtqia+ play emotional hopeful medium-paced
Dead White Writer on the Floor by Drew Hayden Taylor

Dead White Writer on the Floor

Drew Hayden Taylor

112 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

fiction mystery play mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu: The Love Suicides At Sonezaki, The Battles of Coxinga, The Uprooted Pine, The Love Suicides At Amijima by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Donald Keene

Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu: The Love Suicides At Sonezaki, The Battles of Coxinga, The Uprooted Pine, The Love Suicides At Amijima

Chikamatsu Monzaemon, Donald Keene

220 pages • first pub 1721 (editions)

fiction play challenging reflective sad slow-paced
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot

Mikki Kendall

288 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction feminism politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

104 pages • first pub 1945 (editions)

fiction classics play emotional reflective sad fast-paced
Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi

Kim's Convenience

Ins Choi

111 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

fiction play emotional reflective fast-paced
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm by Marisol LeBrón, Yarimar Bonilla

Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm

Marisol LeBrón, Yarimar Bonilla

170 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative sad slow-paced
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu

288 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

fiction contemporary literary funny reflective fast-paced