16 best-selling plays books like Scenes with girls by Miriam Battye

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Scenes with girls

By: Miriam Battye

3.83

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

You're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversatio…

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1. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

By: Carmen Maria Machado

3.84

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders betwe… read more

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"I'm having a crisis of function."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"None of us will make it to the end."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"What I say: “Why did you leave her with me?"

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

"Everything is soft, like a fresh oil painting."

-Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories

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2. The People in the Trees

By: Hanya Yanagihara

3.73

Format: 369 pages, Hardcover

In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an e… read more

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"For what more could we presume to ask from death — but kindness?"

-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

"to fear death, you must first have something to tether you to life."

-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

"No existe forma satisfactoria o novedosa de describir la belleza y, por lo demás, me avergüenza hacerlo."

-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

"Desaprender cosas es mucho más complicado que aprenderlas, y hasta los más audaces de espíritu se ven tentados a recular hacia lo conocido a la primera oportunidad."

-Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees

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3. Constellations

By: Nick Payne

4.07

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

One relationship. Infinite possibilities. 'Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here a… read more

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4. The Sugar Syndrome

By: Lucy Prebble

3.50

Format: 53 pages, Paperback

Dani is on a mission. She's just 17, hates her parents, skives college and prefers life in the chat… read more

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5. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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6. Bull

By: Mike Bartlett

3.70

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Two jobs. Three candidates. This would be a really bad time to have a stain on your shirt... A sav… read more

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7. That Face

By: Polly Stenham

3.64

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Mia is at boarding school. She has access to drugs. They are Martha's. Henry is preparing for art c… read more

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8. Brokeback Mountain

By: Annie Proulx

4.00

Format: 55 pages, Paperback

Annie Proulx has written some of the most original and brilliant short stories in contemporary lite… read more

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"I wish I knew how to quit you."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"You know, friend, this is a goddamn bitch of a unsatisfactory situation."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it."

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

"Again the ranch is on the market and they’ve shipped out the last of the horses, paid everybody off the day before, the owner saying, ‘Give them to the real estate shark, I’m out a here,"

-Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain

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9. Troilus and Cressida

By: William Shakespeare , Louis B. Wright , Virginia A. LaMar

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third… read more

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Cover of Fleabag: The Original Play by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

10. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

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11. Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons

By: Sam Steiner

3.96

Format: None pages,

The average person will speak 123,205,750 words in a lifetime. But what if there were a limit? Oliv… read more

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12. The Argonauts

By: Maggie Nelson

3.91

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Ma… read more

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13. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

By: Stephen Adly Guirgis

4.18

Format: None pages, Paperback

From one of our most admired playwrights, "an ambitious, complicated and often laugh-out-loud relig… read more

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14. Outline

By: Rachel Cusk

4.20

Format: 488 pages, Hardcover

A woman writer goes to Athens in the height of summer to teach a writing course. Though her own cir… read more

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15. Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief

By: Paula Vogel

4.11

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

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16. 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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17. The Birthday Party

By: Harold Pinter

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seem… read more

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18. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

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19. Blackbird

By: David Harrower

4.29

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Fifteen years ago Una and Ray had a relationship. They haven't set eyes on each other since. Now, y… read more

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20. 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

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

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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21. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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Cover of Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays) by Clare Barron

22. Dance Nation (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Clare Barron

4.22

Format: 173 pages, Kindle Edition

'Maybe this is the year, this is the moment, this is the dance where your lives will start!'Somewhe… read more

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23. Greta & Valdin

By: Rebecca K. Reilly

4.05

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more

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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."

-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin

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24. Real Life

By: Brandon Taylor

3.80

Format: 329 pages, Hardcover

A novel of startling intimacy, violence, and mercy among friends in a Midwestern university town, f… read more

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"Miller: "You are so determined to be unknowable." Wallace: "We are always unknowable."

-Brandon Taylor, Real Life

"Memory sifts. Memory lifts. Memory makes due with what it is given. Memory is not about facts. Memory is an inconsistent measurement of the pain in one’s life."

-Brandon Taylor, Real Life

"The truly awful thing about beauty is that it reminds us of our limits. Beauty is a kind of unrelenting cruelty. It takes truth, hones it to a terrifying keenness, and uses it to slice us to the bone."

-Brandon Taylor, Real Life

"It's... mostly fine," Wallace admits, getting too close to the bone. He doesn't want to go back over the thing about how grief can feel diffuse and dense all at once, like a flock of birds in the sky…"

-Brandon Taylor, Real Life

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25. Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.

By: Alice Birch

3.96

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Alice Birch examines the language, behavior and forces that shape women in the 21st century and ask… read more

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26. Women, Beware the Devil (Modern Plays)

By: Lulu Raczka

3.26

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

This may be the biggest But it is far from the first sacrifice I've made for this house And I'm sur… read more

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27. Scenes with girls

By: Miriam Battye

3.83

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

You're only the greatest person ever invented and he's some boy who's probs never had a conversatio… read more

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28. Plano

By: Will Arbery

4.27

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Isabel's got pains. Anne's got slugs. And Genevieve doesn't want to talk about hers. She just wants… read more

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29. SAP

By: Rafaella Marcus

4.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

A contemporary thriller with ancient roots.The bark creeps up my body like a rising sea level. I wo… read more

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30. Snowflake

By: Mike Bartlett

3.89

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Andy's forty-three. He loves nostalgic television, pints down the pub, and listening to the whole a… read more

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Cover of The Swell (Modern Plays) by Isley Lynn

31. The Swell (Modern Plays)

By: Isley Lynn

4.50

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

You need to meet the other special people. There are so many of us. You'll fall in love every day. … read more

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11 Best theatre books like Scenes with girls by Miriam Battye

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Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

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The Sugar Syndrome

Lucy Prebble

3.50

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Polly Stenham

3.64

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Claudia Rankine

4.27

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3.91

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4.42

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