19 must-read plays books like Infinite Life by Annie Baker

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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…

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1. 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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  • plays
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2. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

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3. A Number

By: Caryl Churchill

3.79

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Caryl Churchill, hailed by Tony Kushner as "the greatest living English language playwright," has t… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays

4. Uncle Vanya

By: Anton Chekhov

3.78

Format: None pages, Paperback

Famous play by the Russian short story writer and playwright. His major plays are frequently revive… read more

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5. The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession

By: David Grann

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Acclaimed New Yorkerwriter and author of the breakout debut bestseller The Lost City of Z, David Gr… read more

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6. 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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7. 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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8. The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

By: Olivia Laing

4.07

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual pla… read more

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"One of the operations by which capitalism perpetuates itself is displacement, the determined and absolute separation of the product from the site of production, so that when we buy petrol or peat fro…"

-Olivia Laing, The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise

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9. Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

By: Kathleen Hanna

4.46

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An electric, searing memoir by the original rebel girl and legendary front woman of Bikini Kill and… read more

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"She was the only woman on the whole record and hearing her gave me the first thought that someday I could be in a band."

-Kathleen Hanna, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk

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10. It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

By: Zoe Thorogood

4.21

Format: 196 pages, Paperback

Cartoonist Zoe Thorogood records 6 months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt … read more

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"And maybe that 'something' is a piece of my stupid little soul trapped in a book with very divisive reviews on Goodreads!"

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

"You're going to spend infinitely more time being dead than alive, so it's probably best to make peace with it while you can."

-Zoe Thorogood, It's Lonely at the Centre of the Earth

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

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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12. Indecent

By: Paula Vogel

4.46

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire… read more

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  • plays
"I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

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13. Fat Ham

By: James Ijames

4.06

Format: None pages, None

No publication details yet read more

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  • plays
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14. The Wolves

By: Sarah DeLappe

4.27

Format: 175 pages, None

Left quad. Right quad. Lunge. A girls indoor soccer team warms up. From the safety of their suburba… read more

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  • plays
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15. Pew

By: Catherine Lacey

3.70

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In a small unnamed town in the American South, a church congregation arrives to a service and finds… read more

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"The human mind is so easily bent, and so uneasily smoothed."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Why did living feel so invisibly brief and unbearably long at once?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"Did you have parents or just some people who thought they should own somebody?"

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

"What a terror a body must live through. It’s a wonder there are people at all."

-Catherine Lacey, Pew

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16. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

By: Judi Dench

4.56

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more

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  • plays
"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"

-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent

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17. Parade

By: Rachel Cusk

3.70

Format: 198 pages, Hardcover

From the exhilarating mind of Rachel Cusk, author of the Outline trilogy, Parade disturbs and defin… read more

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"He knew that [his work] embodied change, and he wasn’t interested in change. He was interested in the fragments that change leaves behind in its storming passage toward the future."

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Not to be understood is effectively to be silenced, but not understanding can in its turn legitimise that silence, can illuminate one’s own unknowability. Art is the pact of individuals denying socie…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"Sanity and insanity were not opposites but rather were the two faces of inanimate matter, the point at which the existence of consciousness can get no further in breaking down the existence of substa…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

"The impulse to have a child is very often a response to the woman’s own childhood, as though her childhood has left her incomplete, or has taken a part of her that she is driven to find again. The st…"

-Rachel Cusk, Parade

Cover of Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A. by Lili Anolik

18. Hollywood's Eve: Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.

By: Lili Anolik

3.58

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Los Angeles in the 1960s and 70s was the pop culture capital of the world—a movie factory, a music … read more

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19. Who's Afraid of Gender?

By: Judith Butler

4.02

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politi… read more

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"Imagine if you were Jewish and someone tells you that you are not. Imagine if you are lesbian and someone laughs in your face and says you are confused since you are really heterosexual. Imagine if y…"

-Judith Butler, Who's Afraid of Gender?

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20. Intermezzo

By: Sally Rooney

4.34

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.… read more

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21. The Sound Inside

By: Adam Rapp

3.96

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

"The closest thing that the American theater currently has to a David Foster Wallace, Rapp can give… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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22. The Minutes

By: Tracy Letts

4.06

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Beneath the deadpan back-and-forth of a seemingly typical city council board meeting lies the whiff… read more

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  • plays
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23. Clyde's

By: Lynn Nottage

4.04

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

A funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage. In this r… read more

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  • plays
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24. English

By: Sanaz Toossi

4.53

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

Winner! 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama Winner! 2023 Obie Award for Best New American Play It's 2008,… read more

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  • plays
Cover of The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth

25. The Hills of California

By: Jez Butterworth

3.83

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in two hundred years. The beaches are packed. The hotels are hea… read more

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  • plays
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26. 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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  • plays
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27. Dear England (Modern Plays)

By: James Graham

3.89

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

It's time to change the game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painf… read more

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28. 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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  • plays
Cover of Infinite Life by Annie Baker

29. 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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  • plays
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30. The Comeuppance

By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A hauntingly surreal play that plumbs the depths of a group of close friends reuniting for the firs… read more

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31. The Human Body

By: Lucy Kirkwood

4.00

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

None read more

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13 Best theatre books like Infinite Life by Annie Baker

Transform Your Habits

Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Lysistrata

Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Transform Your Habits

A Number

Caryl Churchill

3.79

Transform Your Habits

Indecent

Paula Vogel

4.46

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Transform Your Habits

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Topdog/Underdog

Suzan-Lori Parks

4.11

Transform Your Habits

How I Learned to Drive

Paula Vogel

3.85

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