17 Top plays books like Foam (NHB Modern Plays) by Harry McDonald

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Foam (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Harry McDonald

3.33

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

1974, a public lavatory. Nicky shaves his head, watched by an older man.Publicly, Nicky is a skinhe…

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Cover of Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin

1. Logical Family: A Memoir

By: Armistead Maupin

3.66

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronic… read more

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2. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

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"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

3. Appropriate

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

3.47

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Every estranged member of the Lafayette clan has descended upon the crumbling Arkansas homestead to… read more

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4. NSFW

By: Lucy Kirkwood

4.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

NSFW is "Not Safe for Work." Lucy Kirkwood's coruscating comedy takes a scathing, hilarious look at… read more

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5. 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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6. People, Places and Things

By: Duncan Macmillan

3.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Emma is in rehab. Her first step is to admit that she has a problem. But the problem isn't with Emm… read more

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7. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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8. Haunted Houses

By: Lynne Tillman

2.57

Format: None pages,

This novel chronicles the loneliness of childhood and incipient womanhood, the salvation of friends… read more

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9. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

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10. Heroes of the Fourth Turning

By: Will Arbery

4.03

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

It's nearing midnight in Wyoming, where four young conservatives have gathered at a backyard after-… read more

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11. Martyr!

By: Kaveh Akbar

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves… read more

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12. Elizabeth Finch

By: Julian Barnes

3.17

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning novelist, a compact narrative that centers on the presence of a vivid and pa… read more

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"In the case of George and the Dragon – an encounter in which the dice were theologically loaded – any morally sentient human being must surely sympathise with the poor dragon."

-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

"I don’t know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it’s an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no ‘should’ in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my…"

-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

"Korean woman who had escaped from the North to the South. She was talking about love. ‘If you grow up in the West,’ she said, ‘you may think romance occurs naturally, but it does not. You learn how t…"

-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

"We must certainly consider, not just in this class, but outside it, in our own turbulent and fretful lives, the element of chance. The number of people we deeply meet is strangely few. Passion may mi…"

-Julian Barnes, Elizabeth Finch

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13. The In-Between

By: Christos Tsiolkas

3.70

Format: 400 pages, ebook

The tender, sensual and moving new novel from the award-winning and bestselling author of The Slap … read more

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"There was respite in history. The beligerence and intolerance of the contemporary age was of no consequence to the past. And there was no shouting."

-Christos Tsiolkas, The In-Between

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14. Headshot

By: Rita Bullwinkel

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

An electrifying debut novel from an “unusually gifted writer” (Lorrie Moore) about the radical inti… read more

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"The desire to please people is the desire to not be singular."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"Tanya Maw's sister is two years older, the perfect age gap for wisdom transmission."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It can be intoxicating to play a sport that requires one to look in their opponent's eyes."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

"It's a warmth that she'll feel again very few times in her life. It's almost like love, but it has a surer, less desperate edge to it."

-Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

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15. The Pisces

By: Melissa Broder

3.30

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from th… read more

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"I would say I'm less afraid of dying than I am of life."

-Melissa Broder, The Pisces

"He took off my flip-flops and began kissing my feet, sucking my toes."

-Melissa Broder, The Pisces

"Feelings were a luxory of the young, or someone much stronger than me - someone more at ease with being human"

-Melissa Broder, The Pisces

"I'd been wrong about death ... There was no gentle escape. When I had taken those Ambien in Phoenix I thought there was a peaceful way to just kind of disappear. But death wasn't gentle. It was a rob…"

-Melissa Broder, The Pisces

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16. Bloom

By: Kevin Panetta

3.91

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Though he loved working there as a kid, Ari cannot fathom a life wasting away over rising dough and… read more

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"Jeez! Why is my family manhandling me at this wedding?"

-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

"Maybe just...Don't try to be what you think you should be. Be what you love."

-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

"Got 'em! Comfortable shoes! Oh my God. They're like pillows. I hate high heels."

-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

"...what does he think is going to happen? An angel will just fall from the sky?"

-Kevin Panetta, Bloom

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17. The Weekend

By: Charlotte Wood

3.38

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Three women in their seventies reunite for one last, life-changing weekend in the beach house of t… read more

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"No, it wasn't lovers but friends - these courageous, shining people - you pursued, romanced with dinners and gifts and weekends away."

-Charlotte Wood, The Weekend

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18. Baby Reindeer

By: Richard Gadd

4.35

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

I looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her to share in the joke. But she didn't. She just s… read more

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Cover of Blackout Songs (NHB Modern Plays) by Joe White

19. Blackout Songs (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Joe White

4.03

Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition

A chance encounter at an AA meeting and they're drawn to one another. Then later, once they're drin… read more

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20. 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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Cover of Foam (NHB Modern Plays) by Harry McDonald

21. Foam (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Harry McDonald

3.33

Format: 101 pages, Kindle Edition

1974, a public lavatory. Nicky shaves his head, watched by an older man.Publicly, Nicky is a skinhe… read more

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Cover of Wreckage (Modern Plays) by Tom Ratcliffe

22. Wreckage (Modern Plays)

By: Tom Ratcliffe

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

I love you I love you I love you I love you I love you. Sam and his fiancé Noel have been together… read more

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Cover of Frank and Percy (Modern Plays) by Ben Weatherill

23. Frank and Percy (Modern Plays)

By: Ben Weatherill

4.19

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

People cross our paths for a reason. That, no doubt, reads like a horrible cliché but I never claim… read more

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24. Camp Siegfried

By: Bess Wohl

4.00

Format: 118 pages, Kindle Edition

I'm a killer I told youI told you that all alongYou were the dummy to believeI could ever be anythi… read more

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25. Infinite Life

By: Annie Baker

4.20

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'I said no one should ever try to recreate this. This is agony in its purest form.' Five women i… read more

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26. Rapture

By: Lucy Kirkwood

4.31

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Noah and Celeste Quilter met on a blind date organised by a newspaper, fell in love, got married an… read more

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Cover of A Mirror (NHB Modern Plays) by Sam Holcroft

27. A Mirror (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Sam Holcroft

4.48

Format: 126 pages, Kindle Edition

…With great pleasure Layla & Joel Invite you to celebrate their marriage. Dress code is smart casua… read more

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28. Corsicana

By: Will Arbery

3.69

Format: 102 pages, Paperback

None read more

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Cover of The Father and the Assassin by Anupama Chandrasekhar

29. The Father and the Assassin

By: Anupama Chandrasekhar

4.14

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Mahatma Gandhi: lawyer, champion of non-violence, beloved leader. Nathuram Godse: journalist, natio… read more

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30. I, Daniel Blake (stage version)

By: Paul Laverty

4.25

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Dan is a carpenter. A Geordie through and through. He had a heart attack recently, but he's on the … read more

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31. Tinderbox or, Love amid the liver (Bush Theatre)

By: Lucy Kirkwood

3.35

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Fast, wild and farcically funny, Lucy Kirkwood's first full-length play is a disturbing vision of a… read more

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