# Books like Sweat

**10** books similar to *Sweat* by Lynn Nottage (Realistic Fiction · grades 11–12), matched on shared themes, shared award lists, genre, and reading level. Every pick is grade-appropriate (a reading-level match, not just a topical one) and links to where it is assigned in US schools.

**Themes:** drama, interpersonal relations, global financial crisis, 2008-2009, city and town life
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## Similar books

- [Barber Shop Chronicles](https://readinglist.school/book/barber-shop-chronicles) by Inua Ellams _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of drama, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and same genre (Realistic Fiction).
- [Our Country's Good](https://readinglist.school/book/our-countrys-good) by Timberlake Wertenbaker _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of drama, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and same genre (Realistic Fiction).
- [The Rover](https://readinglist.school/book/the-rover) by Aphra Behn _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of drama, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and same genre (Realistic Fiction).
- [Impulse](https://readinglist.school/book/impulse) by Ellen Hopkins _(Grades 9–12)_ — Shares themes of interpersonal relations, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (9–12).
- [Ironman](https://readinglist.school/book/ironman) by Chris Crutcher _(Grades 9–12)_ — Shares themes of interpersonal relations, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (9–12).
- [Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes](https://readinglist.school/book/staying-fat-for-sarah-byrnes) by Chris Crutcher _(Grades 9–12)_ — Shares themes of interpersonal relations, same genre (Realistic Fiction), and overlapping grades (9–12).
- [All We Have Left](https://readinglist.school/book/all-we-have-left) by Wendy Mills _(Grades 9–12)_ — Shares themes of interpersonal relations and overlapping grades (9–12).
- [Henry IV, Part 1](https://readinglist.school/book/henry-iv-part-1) by William Shakespeare _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of drama, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and overlapping grades (11–12).
- [Middlemarch](https://readinglist.school/book/middlemarch) by George Eliot _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of city and town life, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and overlapping grades (11–12).
- [The Taming of the Shrew](https://readinglist.school/book/the-taming-of-the-shrew) by William Shakespeare _(Grades 11–12)_ — Shares themes of drama, both on the Cambridge AS & A-Level English Literature (9695) list, and overlapping grades (11–12).

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