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Books like Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger by John Osborne reads as angry, cynical. These 12 books share its genome — matched by how they actually read, not just their shelf label.

A hatful of rain cover
A hatful of rain
Michael V. Gazzo · 1956
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69% genome match
Glengarry Glen Ross cover
Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet · 1984
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69% genome match
Getting out cover
Getting out
Marsha Norman · 1979
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69% genome match
Famous American plays of the 1950s cover
Famous American plays of the 1950s
Lee Strasberg · 1962
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69% genome match
Belles-soeurs cover
Belles-soeurs
Tremblay, Michel · 1968
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69% genome match
Seven Plays (Buried Child / Curse of the Starving Class / The Tooth of Crime / La Turista / Tongues / Savage Love / True West) cover
Seven Plays (Buried Child / Curse of the Starving Class / The Tooth of Crime / La Turista / Tongues / Savage Love / True West)
Sam Shepard · 1981
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69% genome match
I will marry when I want cover
I will marry when I want
Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo · 1977
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69% genome match
Of Mice and Men [play] cover
Of Mice and Men [play]
John Steinbeck · 1937
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69% genome match
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? cover
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee · 1962
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83% genome match
Sweat cover
Sweat
Lynn Nottage · 2017
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69% genome match
August cover
August
Tracy Letts · 2007
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69% genome match
Golden boy cover
Golden boy
Clifford Odets · 1937
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69% genome match

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