21 Top fiction books like The Contingency Plan by Steve Waters

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The Contingency Plan

By: Steve Waters

3.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in April 2009.

If you liked the fiction plot in The Contingency Plan by Steve Waters , here is a list of 21 books like this:

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1. Wide Sargasso Sea

By: Jean Rhys

3.59

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Wide Sargasso Sea, a masterpiece of modern fiction, was Jean Rhys’s return to the literary center s… read more

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  • fiction
"When trouble comes, close ranks"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought I'd try to write her a life"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"Have all beautiful things sad destinies?"

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

"I thought if I told no one it might not be true."

-Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

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2. 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

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  • fiction
  • 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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3. 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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  • fiction
  • plays
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4. The Fat Man

By: Maurice Gee

4.16

Format: 76 pages,

Herbert Muskie is The Fat Man. When he catches skinny, hungry Colin Potter stealing a chocolate bar… read more

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  • fiction
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5. The Heretic

By: Richard Bean

4.43

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A black comedy to tackle the divisive issue of climate change, The Hereticquestions the position of… read more

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  • plays
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6. Black Watch

By: Gregory Burke

3.60

Format: 404 pages,

Viewed through the eyes of those on the ground, Black Watchreveals what it means to be part of the … read more

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  • plays
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7. Orlando

By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert

3.87

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more

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  • fiction
"Life and a lover"

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Thoughts are divine."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."

-Virginia Woolf, Orlando

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8. The Memory Keeper's Daughter

By: Kim Edwards

3.97

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His so… read more

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  • fiction
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9. Enron

By: Lucy Prebble

3.80

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case st… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
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10. This House

By: James Graham , James Graham

4.43

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

This country doesn't need a constitution, never has, never will. We have History as our guide. In t… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
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11. Stuff Happens

By: David Hare

3.57

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"Stuff happens . . . And it's untidy, and freedom's untidy, and free people are free to make mistak… read more

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  • plays
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12. We Need to Talk About Kevin

By: Lionel Shriver

4.08

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry.Eva never really wanted to be a m… read more

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  • fiction
"He wasn't mad, he was sad."

-Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

"A boy is a dangerous animal."

-Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

"My own apathy is bone chilling."

-Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

"Beware of what "everybody says"."

-Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin

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13. Arcadia

By: Tom Stoppard

3.80

Format: None pages, Paperback

Arcadiatakes us back and forth between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, ranging over the nat… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays

14. Photograph 51

By: Anna Ziegler , Matthew Arkin , Maxwell Caulfield

4.40

Format: None pages, Audio CD

Rosalind Franklin was a gifted research scientist who was part of the race to uncover the secrets o… read more

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15. Washington Square

By: Henry James , Michael Cunningham

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

The plot of Washington Squarehas the simplicity of old-fashioned melodrama: a plain-looking, good-h… read more

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16. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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17. The Road

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.99

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and … read more

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  • fiction
"Carry the fire."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"If only my heart were stone."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"You have my whole heart. You always did."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

"There is no God and we are his prophets."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Road

18. How to Be Both

By: Ali Smith

4.10

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like … read more

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19. Potiki

By: Patricia Grace

3.00

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A Maori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purcha… read more

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20. Iris Kelly Doesn't Date (Bright Falls, #3)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.14

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love. Her best friends are all coupled up, her siblings have partn… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

By: Ashley Herring Blake

4.05

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

An interior designer learns to rebuild her love life from the ground up with zero blueprints in thi… read more

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  • fiction
"Sexuality is complicated. It’s not static. People change and sexuality can change too."

-Ashley Herring Blake, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

"Astrid Parker was loved, no matter what her mother thought of her. No matter what choices she made. And that love gave her the courage to choose herself."

-Ashley Herring Blake, Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail (Bright Falls, #2)

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22. And Away...

By: Bob Mortimer

4.33

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a hear… read more

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"Always enter your shoes before wearing them."

-Bob Mortimer, And Away...

Cover of Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1) by Chloe Gong

23. Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)

By: Chloe Gong

4.23

Format: 528 pages, Kindle Edition

The first book in a captivating new duology following an ill-matched pair of spies posing as a marr… read more

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  • fiction
"Lie first; figure out the rest later."

-Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)

"Do you think of me as some all-controlling harpy wife?"

-Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)

"Beautiful. Arrogant. Conniving. In this decade, who wasn't?"

-Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)

"What is family for if not to love us and then break our hearts?"

-Chloe Gong, Foul Lady Fortune (Foul Lady Fortune, #1)

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24. Elena Knows

By: Claudia Piñeiro

4.08

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individ… read more

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  • fiction
"¿Seguirá siendo madre ahora que no tiene hija?"

-Claudia Piñeiro, Elena Knows

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25. Girl, Woman, Other

By: Bernardine Evaristo

4.28

Format: 453 pages, Kindle Edition

Teeming with life and crackling with energy — a love song to modern Britain and black womanhood … read more

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  • fiction
"she's got what she needs, not the same as what she wants"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"Life is about taking risks, not about burying your head in the sand"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"Who needs enemies when your life partner undermines you on a regular basis?"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

"very small children don’t care about skin colour, Rachel, until they’re brainwashed by their parents"

-Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other

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26. Fleabag: The Scriptures

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

4.88

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fleabag: The Scriptures includes new writing from Phoebe Waller-Bridge alongside the filming script… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
"I think you know how to love better than any of us. That's why you find it all so painful."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"The funeral liturgy says that life is changed and not ended. I've always loved that, if that's of any help."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"I just think I want someone to tell me how to live my life, Father, because so far, I think I've been getting it wrong."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

"[Love] is all any of us want and it's hell when we get there. So no wonder it's something we don't want to do on our own."

-Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Fleabag: The Scriptures

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27. Mika in Real Life

By: Emiko Jean

3.92

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

One phone call changes everything. At thirty-five, Mika Suzuki’s life is a mess. Her last relat… read more

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  • fiction
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28. Last Violent Call (Secret Shanghai, #3.5)

By: Chloe Gong

4.24

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Chloe Gong comes two captivating new novellas surrounding… read more

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  • fiction
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29. The Burning River

By: Lawrence Patchett

3.49

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

In a radically changed Aotearoa New Zealand, Van’s life in the swamp is hazardous. Sheltered by Rau… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of The Contingency Plan by Steve Waters

30. The Contingency Plan

By: Steve Waters

3.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Premiered at the Bush Theatre, London, in April 2009. read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
Cover of Guantanamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom' by Victoria Brittain

31. Guantanamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom'

By: Victoria Brittain

3.53

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Weaving together personal stories, legal opinion and political debate, Honor Bound to Defend Freed… read more

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  • plays

11 Top plays books like The Contingency Plan by Steve Waters

Transform Your Habits

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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

3.95

Transform Your Habits

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.63

Transform Your Habits

The Heretic

Richard Bean

4.43

Transform Your Habits

Black Watch

Gregory Burke

3.60

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8 best-selling plays books like Guantanamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom' by Victoria Brittain

Transform Your Habits

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Black Watch

Gregory Burke

3.60

Transform Your Habits

Enron

Lucy Prebble

3.80

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