A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay

Incredibly well-crafted, the arc of the plot, dialogue as natural as any real-life conversation and scenes set with such vivid attention to detail, character, and emotion, that even though this is a screenplay it reads as satisfyingly as a novel.

There are some spoilers in the introduction/commentary section of the book so you might want to jump ahead to the screenplay first but make sure you go back afterwards as it is both informative and infuriating to read about why this superior screenplay wasn’t used, not that the Sidney Poitier movie wasn’t perfectly fine but when you read this version you realize it could have been even better.

I immediately loved this play when I read it in highschool. Its definitely a must read.