12 Top drama books like How to Hold Your Breath by Zinnie Harris

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How to Hold Your Breath

By: Zinnie Harris

3.62

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

Because we live in Europe. Because nothing really bad happens. The worst is a bit of an inconvenien…

If you liked the drama plot in How to Hold Your Breath by Zinnie Harris , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble

1. 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

Similar categories in Lucy Prebble's The Sugar Syndrome book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

  • plays
Cover of Pornography (Modern Plays) by Simon Stephens

2. Pornography (Modern Plays)

By: Simon Stephens

3.66

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Pornography is Simon Stephens' stark and shattering new play that powerfully captures a portrait of… read more

Similar categories in Simon Stephens's Pornography (Modern Plays) book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

  • 21st century
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare, Barbara A. Mowat, Paul Werstine, Catherine Belsey

3. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

3.95

Format: 298 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare's intertwined love polygons begin to get complicated from the start--Demetrius and Lysa… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

  • plays
"My soul is in the sky."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Farewell, sweet playfellow."

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"Lord, what fools these mortals be!"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

"How now, spirit! Whither wander you?"

-William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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4. Blasted

By: Sarah Kane

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Blastedis Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that ye… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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5. Random

By: debbie tucker green

4.44

Format: None pages, Paperback

Written with a vivid immediacy that captures the wonderfully observed idiosyncrasies of an ordinary… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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6. 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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  • plays
  • drama
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7. 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

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's King Lear book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

  • plays
"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

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8. 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

Similar categories in Mark Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

  • plays
  • drama
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9. The End We Start From

By: Megan Hunter

4.12

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

In the midst of a mysterious environmental crisis, as London is submerged below flood waters, a wom… read more

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10. Jerusalem

By: Jez Butterworth

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Paperback

"[A] startlingly brilliant new play. . . . A tragic and hilarious vision of life in an English coun… read more

Similar categories in Jez Butterworth's Jerusalem book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

  • plays
  • drama
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11. Betrayal

By: Harold Pinter

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Betrayalis Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play b… read more

Similar categories in Harold Pinter's Betrayal book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

  • plays
  • drama
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12. The Homecoming

By: Harold Pinter

3.70

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in Lo… read more

Similar categories in Harold Pinter's The Homecoming book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

  • plays
  • drama
"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

13. Lungs

By: Duncan Macmillan

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a time of global anxiety, terrorism, erratic weather, and political unrest, a young couple wants… read more

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14. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By: Angela Carter

3.92

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more

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"Her hair falls down like tears"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"ordered me a sky from a florist"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My spite was sharp as broken glass"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"

-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

15. 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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16. Spring's Awakening

By: Eric Bentley , Frank Wedekind

4.03

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

Spring's Awakening is a tragi-comedy of teenage sex. Its fourteen-year-old heroine, Wendla, is kill… read more

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17. Far Away

By: Caryl Churchill

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"Chilling... Churchill's play seems to reinvent drama with every other line." - Village Voice "A ma… 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. Água Viva

By: Clarice Lispector , Benjamin Moser , Stefan Tobler

4.29

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Lispector at her most philosophically radical. A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Vi… read more

Similar categories in Clarice Lispector's Água Viva book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

"I always give names to things"

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"Suddenly I was crying. It was already love."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

"To write you I first cover myself with perfume."

-Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

20. Escaped Alone

By: Caryl Churchill

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

"I'm walking down the street and there's a door in the fence open and inside there are three women … read more

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21. The Cherry Orchard

By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more

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22. Goodbye to Berlin

By: Christopher Isherwood

3.95

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Here, meine Damen und Herren, is Chrisopther Isherwood's brilliant farewell to a city which was not… read more

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Cover of Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1) by Emma R. Alban

23. Don't Want You Like a Best Friend (Mischief & Matchmaking, #1)

By: Emma R. Alban

3.82

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A swoon-worthy debut queer Victorian romance in which two debutantes distract themselves from havin… read more

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24. 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 Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

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

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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25. Cost of Living

By: Martyna Majok

4.14

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

Eddie, an unemployed truck driver, reunites with his ex-wife Ani after she suffers a devastating ac… read more

Similar categories in Martyna Majok's Cost of Living book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

  • plays
  • drama
"That's not a thing I'll ever know. Everything's started over for me—"

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"Self-pity has little currency in these characters' worlds. Humor, however, has much."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"It matters who you are. Family. Connections. If there's gonna be a net when you fall. Cuz everybody falls."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

"The shit that happens is not to be understood. That's from the Bible. The shit that happens to you is Not To Be Understood."

-Martyna Majok, Cost of Living

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26. Thirst for Salt

By: Madelaine Lucas

3.84

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

A Bustle, LitHub, Debutiful, and NYLON Most Anticipated Book of 2023 A Goodreads Buzziest Book of t… read more

Similar categories in Madelaine Lucas's Thirst for Salt book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

"As if it were possible to circumnavigate memory."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"I like you as you are, he said. Even if you're going to wear me out."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"As lovers learn, when love ends, you lose the future as well as the past."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

"The trouble is that our dreams, like our memories, are not immune to revision."

-Madelaine Lucas, Thirst for Salt

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27. Further Than the Furthest Thing

By: Zinnie Harris

3.63

Format: 173 pages, Paperback

On a remote volcanic island in the middle of the Atlantic, a community has lived undisturbed for ce… read more

Similar categories in Zinnie Harris's Further Than the Furthest Thing book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

  • plays
  • drama
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28. Little Rabbit

By: Alyssa Songsiridej

3.74

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

When the unnamed narrator of Little Rabbit first meets the choreographer at an artists' residency i… read more

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29. The Antipodes

By: Annie Baker

4.13

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Endlessly fascinating … The Antipodes leaves you glowing with a wondering satisfaction. I mean the… read more

Similar categories in Annie Baker's The Antipodes book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

  • plays
  • drama
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30. Strategic Love Play

By: Miriam Battye

4.39

Format: None pages, ebook

And when you see what’s out there. What do you want with it. Do you want to fuck it. Like, weekly?… read more

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31. How to Hold Your Breath

By: Zinnie Harris

3.62

Format: 205 pages, Kindle Edition

Because we live in Europe. Because nothing really bad happens. The worst is a bit of an inconvenien… read more

Similar categories in Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath book and Zinnie Harris's How to Hold Your Breath

  • 21st century
  • plays
  • drama

16 must-read plays books like How to Hold Your Breath by Zinnie Harris

Transform Your Habits

The Sugar Syndrome

Lucy Prebble

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Pornography (Modern Plays)

Simon Stephens

3.66

Transform Your Habits

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Catherine Belsey

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Blasted

Sarah Kane

3.81

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

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Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

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Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

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John

Annie Baker

4.20

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