7 best-selling theatre books like Straight Line Crazy by David Hare

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Straight Line Crazy

By: David Hare

3.96

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never ele…

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Cover of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee

1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Cover of A Few Figs from Thistles by Edna St. Vincent Millay

2. A Few Figs from Thistles

By: Edna St. Vincent Millay

4.17

Format: 48 pages, Paperback

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain… read more

Similar categories in Edna St. Vincent Millay's A Few Figs from Thistles book and David Hare's Straight Line Crazy

  • fiction
"You leave me much against my will."

-Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

"All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!"

-Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

" Second Fig Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!"

-Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives a lovely light!"

-Edna St. Vincent Millay, A Few Figs from Thistles

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3. Chinatown Family (Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the Americas (MELA))

By: Lin Yutang , C. Lok Chua

3.55

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Lin Yutang (1895–1976), author of more than thirty-five books, was arguably the most distinguished … read more

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4. Rock 'n' Roll

By: Tom Stoppard

3.70

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Rock ’n’ Roll is an electrifying collision of the romantic and the revolutionary. It is 1968 and th… read more

Similar categories in Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll book and David Hare's Straight Line Crazy

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"I am not my body. My body is nothing without me."

-Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll

"I'm leaving everything here. Your records? No. Everything else."

-Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll

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5. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

By: Muriel Spark

3.70

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

A teacher at a girl's school in Edinburgh during the 1930s comes into conflict with school authorit… read more

Similar categories in Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie book and David Hare's Straight Line Crazy

  • fiction
"It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"[...] there were other people's Edinburghs quite different from hers [...]"

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"... flattening their scorn underneath the chariot wheels of her superiority."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

"To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul."

-Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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6. A Delicate Balance

By: Edward Albee

3.91

Format: 178 pages, Paperback

Edwards Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Delicate Balance reveals the emotional savagery of su… read more

Similar categories in Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance book and David Hare's Straight Line Crazy

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
"Addiction is a repeated temporary...stilling. I am concerned with peace...not mere relief."

-Edward Albee, A Delicate Balance

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7. Richard III

By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's Richard III book and David Hare's Straight Line Crazy

  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama

8. The Habit of Art

By: Alan Bennett

4.21

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Auden often said that metre and rhyme led him down unexpected paths to thoughts he wouldn't otherwi… read more

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9. 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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10. A View from the Bridge: A Play in Two Acts

By: Arthur Miller

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

America's greatest playwright weaves "a vivid, crackling, idiomatic psychosexual horror tale." --Fr… 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. Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more

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13. Prima Facie

By: Suzie Miller

4.37

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

This is not life, this is law… Tessa Ensler loves her job. She’s worked her up to being a top cr… read more

Similar categories in Suzie Miller's Prima Facie book and David Hare's Straight Line Crazy

  • plays
  • fiction
"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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14. The Lehman Trilogy

By: Stefano Massini

4.25

Format: 720 pages, Hardcover

Magnificent in scope,  internationally lauded, and transcendent, the novel in verse that inspired t… read more

Similar categories in Stefano Massini's The Lehman Trilogy book and David Hare's Straight Line Crazy

  • fiction
Cover of Yekl: A Tale Of The New York Ghetto by Abraham Cahan

15. Yekl: A Tale Of The New York Ghetto

By: Abraham Cahan

3.25

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A few weeks later, on a Saturday morning, Jake, with an unfolded telegram in his hand, stood in fro… read more

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  • fiction
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16. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
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17. Dear Octopus

By: Dodie Smith

3.67

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Successfully produced in London and New York. 'Dear Octopus' is the family from which none of its m… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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18. Straight Line Crazy

By: David Hare

3.96

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

For forty uninterrupted years, Robert Moses was the most powerful man in New York. Though never ele… read more

Similar categories in David Hare's Straight Line Crazy book and David Hare's Straight Line Crazy

  • new york
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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19. The 47th

By: Mike Bartlett

3.93

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

2024. As America goes to the polls, democracy itself is on the brink. Who takes the White House – a… read more

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  • plays
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20. Hansard

By: Simon Woods

4.32

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Hansard; noun The official report of all parliamentary debates. It’s a summer’s morning in 1988 and… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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21. Kerry Jackson

By: April De Angelis

2.54

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

So what have you got against gobby women running restaurants?El Barco is the newest tapas restauran… read more

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11 Best fiction books like Straight Line Crazy by David Hare

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

Transform Your Habits

A Few Figs from Thistles

Edna St. Vincent Millay

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Rock 'n' Roll

Tom Stoppard

3.70

Transform Your Habits

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark

3.70

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21 Best fiction books like Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard

Transform Your Habits

Between Riverside and Crazy

Stephen Adly Guirgis

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Sweat

Lynn Nottage

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Kimberly Akimbo

David Lindsay-Abaire

3.26

Transform Your Habits

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

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