Plays are really great reads if you don’t have a lot of time to read full novels. This list is compiled of the twenty best plays that everyone should read.

1. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
2. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
3. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
4. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
5. Angels in America by Tony Kushner
6. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
7. Fences by August Wilson
8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
9. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
10. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee
11. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
12. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
13. Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill
14. Moon for the Misbegotten by Eugene O’Neill
15. Our Town by Thornton Wilder
16. God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza
17. The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
18. Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
19. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman
20. The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde