8 must-read lgbt books like The Pride (Royal Court) by Alexi Kaye Campbell

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The Pride (Royal Court)

By: Alexi Kaye Campbell

3.95

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Most Promising Playwright, Critics Circle Awards 2008 Alternating between 1958 and 20…

If you liked the lgbt plot in The Pride (Royal Court) by Alexi Kaye Campbell , here is a list of 8 books like this:

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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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  • theatre
  • plays
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2. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
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3. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
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4. A Single Man

By: Christopher Isherwood

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

When A Single Man was originally published, it shocked many by its frank, sympathetic, and moving p… read more

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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5. Old Times

By: Harold Pinter

4.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Like Pinter's earlier plays, Old Timesdeals with bare essentials. There are only three characters: … read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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6. Crush

By: Richard Siken

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Richard Siken's Crush, selected as the 2004 winner of the Yale Younger Poets prize, is a powerful c… read more

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
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7. Bent

By: Martin Sherman

4.82

Format: None pages, Paperback

(Applause Books). Martin Sherman's worldwide hit play Bent took London by storm in 1979 when it was… read more

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  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • queer

8. The 39 Steps

By: John Buchan , Patrick Barlow

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps was the novel that introduced readers to the cunning Richard Ha… read more

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9. Proof

By: David Auburn

3.63

Format: 256 pages,

"One of the most acclaimed plays of recent seasons, Proof explores the unknowability of love as muc… read more

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10. Fathers and Sons

By: Ivan Turgenev , None , None

3.99

Format: 244 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Bazarov—a gifted, impatient, and caustic young man—has journeyed from school to the home of his fri… read more

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  • historical fiction
"He has no faith in principles, only in frogs."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"Death's an old story, but new for each person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"I look up to heaven only when I want to sneeze."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

"However, I know myself as a very unhappy person."

-Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

11. Rabbit Hole

By: David Lindsay-Abaire

4.15

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

"David Lindsay-Abaire has crafted a drama that's not just a departure but a revelation--an intensel… read more

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12. 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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13. Shining City

By: Conor McPherson

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Shining Cityhas been an unqualified critical success and quite possibly Conor McPherson's finest wo… read more

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14. Death of a Naturalist

By: Seamus Heaney

4.03

Format: 325 pages,

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15. Lamb

By: Bernard MacLaverty

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

When Brother Michael inherits a small legacy, he defies his elders and runs away from the Home, tak… read more

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16. 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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17. Spike Heels

By: Theresa Rebeck

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Comedy / 2 male, 2 femaleScenery: Interior Pygmalion goes awry in this contemporary comedy of manne… read more

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18. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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19. Night Sky with Exit Wounds

By: Ocean Vuong

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

Ocean Vuong's first full-length collection aims straight for the perennial "big"--and very human--s… read more

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20. Mothering Sunday

By: Graham Swift

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more

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21. Crimes of the Heart

By: Beth Henley

3.72

Format: 294 pages, Paperback

This drama in three acts won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1981. Set in a small Mississippi town,… read more

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22. Motherthing

By: Ainslie Hogarth

3.67

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husba… read more

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"Too much human touching will change a thing."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"A Good Woman butchers her meat properly, without cruelty."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I bubble again with blinding-hot, spine-severing cumshitkill."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

"I can save you. With Secrets of a Famous Chef I can save you."

-Ainslie Hogarth, Motherthing

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23. 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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24. Swimming in the Dark

By: Tomasz Jedrowski

4.26

Format: 191 pages, Hardcover

Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story o… read more

Similar categories in Tomasz Jedrowski's Swimming in the Dark book and Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride (Royal Court)

  • historical fiction
  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"Little sparks cause fires too."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"I avoided you, so that you couldn’t avoid me."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"Selfish. Growing into yourself is nothing but that."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

"See it as a game– everyone knows the rules. And if you can’t change them, there’s no point in worrying."

-Tomasz Jedrowski, Swimming in the Dark

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25. 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

Similar categories in Sarah DeLappe's The Wolves book and Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride (Royal Court)

  • theatre
  • plays
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26. Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life

By: Miriam Margolyes

4.08

Format: 321 pages, Hardcover

'Oh Miriam! risks the curse of the sequel, and pulls it off . . . A force of nature, a tour de farc… read more

Similar categories in Miriam Margolyes's Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life book and Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride (Royal Court)

  • queer
  • lgbt
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27. Lie With Me

By: Philippe Besson

4.26

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more

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  • queer
  • gay
  • lgbt
"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

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28. Recitatif

By: Toni Morrison

4.31

Format: 19 pages, Audiobook

A beautiful, arresting short story by Toni Morrison—the only one she ever wrote—about race and the … read more

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  • historical fiction
"Difficult to “move on"

-Toni Morrison, Recitatif

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29. Couplets

By: Maggie Millner

3.76

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A woman lives an ordinary life in Brooklyn. She has a boyfriend. They share a cat. She writes poems… read more

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  • queer
  • lgbt
"Change is constant and inexorable. You will fall in love. The relationship will end, though not at the same instant as the love. Some version of this will continue, maybe forever, happening to you. D…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

"And when I held her cheek against my cheek, I was drawing from the well of love he filled. So I became after all not him exactly but a kind of conduit between them: a conversation they conducted with…"

-Maggie Millner, Couplets

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30. Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

By: Michaela Coel

4.15

Format: 128 pages, ebook

A powerful manifesto on how speaking your truth and owning your differences can transform your life… read more

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31. The Pride (Royal Court)

By: Alexi Kaye Campbell

3.95

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Winner of the Most Promising Playwright, Critics Circle Awards 2008 Alternating between 1958 and 20… read more

Similar categories in Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride (Royal Court) book and Alexi Kaye Campbell's The Pride (Royal Court)

  • gay
  • lgbt
  • theatre
  • historical fiction
  • plays
  • queer

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A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood

4.12

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Richard Siken

3.67

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Tomasz Jedrowski

4.26

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Philippe Besson

4.26

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Nick Payne

4.07

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Lynn Nottage

4.06

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Paula Vogel

3.85

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Sarah Ruhl

4.10

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