13 must-read plays books like Good by C.P. Taylor

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Good

By: C.P. Taylor

3.98

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

A story about a liberal-minded university professor who drifts well-meaningly into a position in th…

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1. Journey's End

By: R.C. Sherriff

3.86

Format: 114 pages, Hardcover

The "Heinemann Plays" series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editi… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"You must always think of it like that if you can. Think of it all as - as romantic. It helps."

-R.C. Sherriff, Journey's End

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2. The Comedy of Errors

By: William Shakespeare

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

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3. Don Juan in Soho: After Molière

By: Patrick Marber

3.93

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

The infamous, amoral hedonist in a society entranced by sensation. Moliere's farcical, tragic, anar… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
"We pimp our precious lives to the infernal gnashing babble - Follow me! Friend me! Like me! But don't ever know me."

-Patrick Marber, Don Juan in Soho: After Molière

"A million years ago - some hairy bastard daubed a horse on the wall of his cave, he saw it, he drew it - well done! Flash forward: 'Hello, welcome to my vlog. Today I bought a plum"

-Patrick Marber, Don Juan in Soho: After Molière

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4. Torchwood: Broken (Big Finish Torchwood, #2.5)

By: Joseph Lidster , John Barrowman , Scott Handcock , None , Gareth David-Lloyd , Blair Mowat

3.82

Format: None pages,

Whenever Ianto Jones has a tough day at work, he has somewhere he can hide. And, for Ianto Jones, i… read more

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  • fiction
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5. Mother Courage and Her Children

By: David Hare , Bertolt Brecht

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her … read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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6. Under Milk Wood

By: Dylan Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A moving and hilarious account of a spring day in a small Welsh coastal town, Under Milk Woodis "ly… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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7. Henry V

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.00

Format: 126 pages, Paperback

Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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8. Kindertransport

By: Diane Samuels

3.79

Format: None pages, Paperback

The best play about the pain and passion of mother/daughter relationships.--Guardian. read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama

9. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more

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10. Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches

By: Tony Kushner

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pulitzer Prize-winner for Drama, 1993. The first part of Tony Kushner's epic drama of America in th… read more

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11. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more

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12. Ruined

By: Lynn Nottage

3.76

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "A powerhouse drama. . . . Lynn Nottage's beautiful, hi… read more

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13. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)

By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan

3.87

Format: None pages, Paperback

David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more

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14. Intimate Apparel - Acting Edition

By: Lynn Nottage

3.65

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

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15. Richard II

By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None

3.91

Format: 385 pages, Paperback

Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more

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16. Measure for Measure

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more

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17. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes

By: Cody Cassidy

4.06

Format: 195 pages, Paperback

A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more

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18. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

By: Salman Rushdie

4.10

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more

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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."

-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder

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19. Stone Yard Devotional

By: Charlotte Wood

3.68

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

A deeply moving novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be 'good', from the award-winn… read more

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  • fiction
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20. These Truths: A History of the United States

By: Jill Lepore

4.40

Format: 960 pages, Paperback

Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review… read more

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"Most of what once existed is gone... Nature takes one toll, malice another... most of what historians study survives because it was purposely kept... (it) is called the historical record, & it is mad…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

"Washington's Farewell Address consists of a series of warnings about the danger of disunion. The North and the South, the East and the West, ought not to consider their interests separate or competin…"

-Jill Lepore, These Truths: A History of the United States

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21. The Nice and Accurate Good Omens TV Companion

By: Matt Whyman

4.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The ultimate TV companion book to Good Omens, a massive new television launch on Amazon Prime Video… read more

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22. Good

By: C.P. Taylor

3.98

Format: 70 pages, Paperback

A story about a liberal-minded university professor who drifts well-meaningly into a position in th… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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23. Doctor Who: The Star Beast

By: Gary Russell

3.95

Format: 149 pages, Paperback

A life-changing encounter. A fugitive from the stars. Wrathful warriors in pursuit. Landing on… read more

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  • fiction
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24. Nonfiction

By: Julie Myerson

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

This is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. E… read more

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  • fiction
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25. Leopoldstadt

By: Tom Stoppard

4.36

Format: None pages, Hardcover

At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. B… read more

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  • historical fiction
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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26. Wolf Play

By: Hansol Jung

4.26

Format: None pages, None

A Korean boy is ushered into a new house by his adopted American father. This new house belongs to … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"But wolves hate Katie. Katies hate Wolf. But Katies live with Peters. So even though Peters are very often allies, Peters are not a hundred percent for the wolf."

-Hansol Jung, Wolf Play

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27. The Motive and the Cue

By: Jack Thorne

4.27

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Richard Burton, the firebrand Welsh actor, newly married to movie star Elizabeth Taylor, is to play… read more

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  • plays

28. The Invisible Hand

By: Ayad Akhtar

3.97

Format: None pages, Audiobook

A chilling examination of how far we will go to survive and the consequences of the choices we make… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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29. Plays 1: The Sugar Syndrome / Enron / The Effect / A Very Expensive Poison

By: Lucy Prebble

4.46

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Lucy Prebble is one of Britain's foremost writers for the stage and screen. This eagerly anticipate… read more

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  • plays
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30. Nye (Modern Plays)

By: Tim Price

4.71

Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition

One man's dream of the NHS.From campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NH… read more

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31. Nachtland

By: Marius von Mayenburg

3.73

Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition

The people who buy paintings like this aren't just driven by aesthetic desire. People who buy paint… read more

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Journey's End

R.C. Sherriff

3.86

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The Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare

3.72

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Don Juan in Soho: After Molière

Patrick Marber

3.93

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Stephen Adly Guirgis

3.81

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4.06

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3.26

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Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

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