The Empress (Oberon Modern Plays)
By: Tanika Gupta
3.76
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
It is the Jubilee! Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887. At Tilbury Docks, Rani and Abdul step ash…
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1. Pond
By: Claire-Louise Bennett
4.33
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Feverish and forthright, Pondis an absorbing chronicle of the pitfalls and pleasures of a solitudin… read more
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"If we have lost the knack of living, I thought, it is a safe bet to presume we have forfeited the magic of dying."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I only wish you could spend just five minutes beneath my skin and feel what it’s like. Feel the savage swarming magic I feel."-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"I haven't yet discovered what my first language is so for the time being I use English words in order to say things: I expect I will always have to do it that way; regrettably I don't think my first …"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
"Quite often I'm terribly disappointed by how things turn out, but it's usually my own fault for the simple reason that I'm too quick to conclude that things have turned out as fully as it is possible…"-Claire-Louise Bennett, Pond
2. A Streetcar Named Desire
By: Tennessee Williams
3.98
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
The Pulitzer Prize and Drama Critics Circle Award winning play—reissued with an introduction by Art… read more
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"Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart..."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"And funerals are pretty compared to deaths."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I think you have a great capacity for devotion,"-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
"I want to rest. I want to breathe quietly again."-Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Top Girls
By: Caryl Churchill
3.58
Format: 87 pages, Paperback
Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more
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4. Blood Brothers
By: Willy Russell
3.70
Format: 640 pages, Paperback
A Liverpudlian West Side Story: twin brothers are separated at birth because their mother cannot af… read more
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5. DNA
By: Dennis Kelly
3.50
Format: 824 pages, Paperback
A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But whe… read more
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6. Shopping and Fucking
By: Mark Ravenhill
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
This ground-breaking drama was Mark Ravenhill's first full-length play and part of a movement in th… read more
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7. An Inspector Calls
By: None
3.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
The action of the play occurs in an English industrial city, where a young girl commits suicide and… read more
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8. Once (Once, #1)
By: Morris Gleitzman
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Paperback
Onceby Morris Gleitzman is the story of a young Jewish boy who is determined to escape the orphanag… read more
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9. Strangers
By: Taichi Yamada , None
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Set in the great human maelstrom of Tokyo, Strangersis a thinking man's ghost story. When Harada, a… read more
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10. Look Back in Anger
By: John Osborne
3.80
Format: 25 pages, Paperback
The text of the play, first performed in London in 1956, depicts the despair of post-war youth. read more
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11. Refugee Boy
By: Benjamin Zephaniah
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
A Junior Library Guild Selection A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age A Children's Book … read more
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12. Closer: A Play
By: Patrick Marber
3.97
Format: 123 pages, Paperback
In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern rom… read more
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"I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts."-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play
"DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want."-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play
"Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance."-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play
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14. The God of Carnage
By: Yasmina Reza , Christopher Hampton
3.75
Format: 289 pages, Paperback
What happens when two sets of parents meet up to deal with the unruly behavior of their children? A… read more
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15. Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None
3.92
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more
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16. Sula
By: Toni Morrison
3.97
Format: None pages,
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood i… read more
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17. Ghosts
By: Henrik Ibsen
3.88
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
"Ghosts" is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her decease… read more
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18. Boys Don't Cry
By: Malorie Blackman
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
This is the explosively page-turning new novel for teenagers from the author of the award-winning "… read more
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19. Morgan Is My Name (Morgan le Fay, #1)
By: Sophie Keetch
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
An atmospheric, feminist retelling of the early life of famed villainess Morgan le Fay, set against… read more
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"My name is Morgan. And there aren't enough words for all that I am."-Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name (Morgan le Fay, #1)
"Do not apologize, Lady Morgan. Your decorum leaves a little to be desired, but never have I been able to fault your work. Never apologize for seeking further wisdom, or for being remarkable."-Sophie Keetch, Morgan Is My Name (Morgan le Fay, #1)
20. Lonely Castle in the Mirror
By: Mizuki Tsujimura
4.27
Format: 355 pages, Hardcover
Seven students are avoiding going to school, hiding in their darkened bedrooms, unable to face thei… read more
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"In another world, we were already friends."-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
"You're battling every single day, aren't you?"-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
"Her mother always said this. That no matter how disgusted you might be with a friend, you should never speak ill of them."-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
"Houses just like the one she lived in; tall condos, apartment buildings that looked, from where she stood, like matchboxes. In the distance, she could catch the lights flickering in the supermarket. …"-Mizuki Tsujimura, Lonely Castle in the Mirror
21. Macbeth
By: William Shakespeare
3.89
Format: None pages, Paperback
What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more
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"What, you egg?"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done, is done"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What's done cannot be undone."-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
"What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]"-William Shakespeare, Macbeth
22. The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken
By: The Secret Barrister
3.90
Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the world of the Secret Barrister. These are the stories of life inside the courtroom. T… read more
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23. Persephone (Into Shadow, #2)
By: Lev Grossman
3.02
Format: 31 pages, Kindle Edition
A teenage nobody crosses a line that will change her life forever in this short coming-of-age story… read more
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24. Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
By: Akala
4.54
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was whit… read more
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"The officer's question already let me know that in his eyes I was dirt; that is, matter out of place."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"As long as whiteness is a metaphor for power, blackness must of course function as a metaphor for powerlessness, and as long as money whitens, poverty must blacken."-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Are we really trying to encourage and normalise black academic excellence in the UK? Or would we prefer the extra cost of imprisonment and crime that comes further down the line after neglect, just s…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
"Real-life racism makes you paranoid, even in children it creates the dilemma of not knowing if someone is just being horrible in the ‘normal’ way, as people so often are, or if you are being ‘blacked…"-Akala, Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
25. Wandering Souls
By: Cecile Pin
4.15
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, boldly imagined debut novel about three Vietnamese siblings who seek refuge in the UK, … read more
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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live. We tell ourselves stories in order to heal."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
"I didn't know that my culture had fashioned the shape of my mourning; I didn't know that my grief could be improper."-Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls
26. The Dark Lady
By: Akala
3.44
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A natural storyteller with a vision of his own, The Dark Lady, Akala's debut novel for teens will e… read more
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27. What About Men?
By: Caitlin Moran
3.70
Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition
As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you w… read more
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"Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is und…"-Caitlin Moran, What About Men?
28. 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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29. The Empress (Oberon Modern Plays)
By: Tanika Gupta
3.76
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
It is the Jubilee! Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, 1887. At Tilbury Docks, Rani and Abdul step ash… read more
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30. Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
By: Tomi Adeyemi
3.49
Format: 358 pages, Hardcover
New allies rise. The Blood Moon nears. Zélie faces her final enemy. The king who hunts her heart… read more
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"Do not pray to be saved; pray to be reborn."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
"I like hearing your people call out to your gods- they never seem to come."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
"I teach you to be warriors in the garden, so that you may never be gardeners in a war."-Tomi Adeyemi, Children of Anguish and Anarchy (Legacy of Orïsha, #3)
31. Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
By: Katherine Rundell
4.18
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The day Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever.… read more
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"I'm no philosopher, and I prefer, in an ideal world, to go uneaten. (p. 111)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"What is this rainfall of children? Did I go sailing just to have storms of infants cascading down my sail at me? (p. 74)"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
"Nighthand grunted, and signalled for another bottle of wine. "Are you sure?" said Irian. "Shouldn't we keep our wits about us?" "I see no reason to. I prefer the world drunk. It disappoints me less."…"-Katherine Rundell, Impossible Creatures (Impossible Creatures, #1)
