5 must-read theatre books like Normal by Anthony Neilson

Normal

By: Anthony Neilson

4.08

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If you liked the theatre plot in Normal by Anthony Neilson , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. To the Lighthouse

By: Virginia Woolf

3.80

Format: 209 pages, Paperback

The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more

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"I have had my vision."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"Well, we must wait for the future to show."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."

-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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2. A Room of One’s Own

By: Virginia Woolf

4.21

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October,… read more

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"Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems."

-Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Cover of The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Elaine R. Hedges, Elaine Hedges

3. The Yellow Wall-Paper

By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman , Elaine R. Hedges , Elaine Hedges

4.08

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Diagnosed by her physician husband with a “temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendenc… read more

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"Its time we woke up,"

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"This was not life, this was a nightmare."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

"It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so."

-Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

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4. Serjeant Musgrave's Dance

By: John Arden

3.31

Format: 150 pages, Paperback

Written in 1959 and premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on October 22 of that year. In Ar… read more

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Cover of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

5. Waiting for Godot

By: Samuel Beckett

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

Cuando en 1953 se estreno en Paris Esperando a Godot, casi nadie sabia quien era Samuel Beckett, sa… read more

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Cover of American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

6. American Psycho

By: Bret Easton Ellis

4.16

Format: 76 pages, Paperback

Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming … read more

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7. 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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Cover of Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson

8. Sexing the Cherry

By: Jeanette Winterson

3.94

Format: 456 pages, Paperback

In a fantastic world that is and is not seventeenth-century England, a baby is found floating in th… read more

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9. Dorian

By: Will Self

4.10

Format: 290 pages, Paperback

Will Self's DORIAN is a "shameless imitation" of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray that reim… read more

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10. The Arrival

By: Shaun Tan

4.30

Format: 237 pages, Hardcover

In a heartbreaking parting, a man gives his wife and daughter a last kiss and boards a steamship to… read more

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Cover of Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

11. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

By: Alison Bechdel

4.08

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Distant… read more

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"Who embalms the Undertaker when he dies?"

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Feminism is the theory. Lesbianism is the practice."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"Mom, how come you never go outside?" "I told you, I'm a vampire."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

"It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone."

-Alison Bechdel, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

12. The Hairy Ape

By: Eugene O'Neill

3.75

Format: None pages,

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) was a Nobel prize winning American playwright. More than any o… read more

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13. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

By: Tennessee Williams

4.06

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof first heated up Broadway in 1955 with its gothic American story of brothers v… read more

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"BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"We mustn't scream at each other, the walls in this house have ears..."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"Maggie, we're through with lies and liars in this house. Lock the door."

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

"A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing"

-Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

14. The Lieutenant of Inishmore

By: Martin McDonagh

4.15

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

A farcical look at political violence as it's played out during The Troublesin Northern Ireland aga… read more

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15. Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

By: Chinua Achebe

3.73

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is wr… read more

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"Let us not reason like cowards,"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"There is no story that is not true."

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"عندما يضئ القمر يشعر الكسيح برغبة قوية إلى المشي"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

"إذا نظر امرؤ إلى فم ملك, ظن أنه لم يرضع قط من ثدي أمه"

-Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

16. No Country for Old Men

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.07

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate Cover Edition for ISBN # - 9780375706677 In his blistering new novel, Cormac McCarthy ret… read more

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17. Bir Dinozorun Anıları

By: Mîna Urgan

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Paperback

Ingiliz edebiyati 'duayenimiz' Mina Urgan, bu kez anilariyla, bir yasama ustasi olarak karsimizda. … read more

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Cover of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca

18. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

By: Eric LaRocca

2.96

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more

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19. Fight Club

By: Chuck Palahniuk

4.19

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more

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"I am nothing, and not even that."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"I don't want to die without any scars."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

"Maybe we should always assume the worst."

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Cover of Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

20. Notes on Grief

By: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

4.22

Format: 86 pages, Hardcover

Notes on Grief is an exquisite work of meditation, remembrance, and hope, written in the wake of Ch… read more

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"I liked to call him 'a gentle man and a gentleman'."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"I am afraid of tomorrow, and all the tomorrows after..."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"It was not supposed to happen like this, not like a malicious surprise.."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

"Je vais parfaitement bien. Et c'était vrai. Jusqu'à ce que cela cesse de l'être."

-Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes on Grief

21. Normal

By: Anthony Neilson

4.08

Format: None pages, None

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