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24 titles for readers of The Spoils by Jesse Eisenberg, selected for shared themes: Playwriting, Theater, Drama, and Performing Arts.

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Read-alikes chosen for how well they continue the mood, themes, and voice of The Spoils.

Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down Two Plays — John Steinbeck

Of Mice and Men and The Moon Is Down Two Plays

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Amadeus A Play by Peter Shaffer — Peter Shaffer

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

The Nibroc Trilogy Plays by Arlene Hutton — Arlene Hutton

The Nibroc Trilogy Plays

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom — August Wilson

Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Guys and Dolls and Other Writings — Damon Runyon

Guys and Dolls and Other Writings

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Contemporary African American Women Playwrights A Casebook — Philip C. Kolin

Contemporary African American Women Playwrights A Casebook

Philip C. Kolin

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Judah An Original A Play In Three Acts (1894) — Henry Arthur Jones

Judah An Original A Play In Three Acts (1894)

Henry Arthur Jones

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Hamlet — William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

A Doll’s House, Part 2 — Lucas Hnath

A Doll’s House, Part 2

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Romance — David Mamet

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Revised by the Author — Edward Albee

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Revised by the Author

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

The Playwright’s Muse — Joan Herrington

The Playwright’s Muse

Joan Herrington

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Long Day’s Journey Into Night — Eugene O’Neill

Long Day’s Journey Into Night — Eugene O’Neill

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Cost of Living — Martyna Majok

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Broken Glass Revised — Arthur Miller

Broken Glass Revised

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Working on a Song The Lyrics of HADESTOWN — Anaïs Mitchell

Working on a Song The Lyrics of HADESTOWN

Anaïs Mitchell

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Young Playwrights for Change An Anti-bullying Play Anthology — American Alliance for Theatre and Educat

Young Playwrights for Change An Anti-bullying Play Anthology

American Alliance for Theatre and Educat

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

The Penguin Arthur Miller Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) — Arthur Miller

The Penguin Arthur Miller Collected Plays (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Reasons to Be Happy — Neil LaBute

Reasons to Be Happy

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Hobson’s Choice A Three Act Comedy (1916) — Harold Brighouse

Hobson’s Choice A Three Act Comedy (1916)

Harold Brighouse

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf — Ntozake Shange

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Schimmelpfennig: Plays One The Animal Kingdom; Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God; Idomeneus; The Four Points of the Compass — Roland Schimmelpfennig

Schimmelpfennig: Plays One The Animal Kingdom; Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God; Idomeneus; The Four Points of the Compass

Roland Schimmelpfennig

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Lobby Hero — Kenneth Lonergan

Kenneth Lonergan

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Corpus Christi A Play — Terrence McNally

Corpus Christi A Play

Terrence McNally

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with The Spoils by Jesse Eisenberg. Connected by Playwriting, Theater, Drama. Authors featured include John Steinbeck, Peter Shaffer, Arlene Hutton, August Wilson, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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