10 Best drama books like Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett

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Kafka's Dick

By: Alan Bennett

3.64

Format: 2 pages, Audio CD

Richard Griffiths, Alison Steadman and Peter Woodthorpe star in this BBC Radio 4 version of Alan Be…

If you liked the drama plot in Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett , here is a list of 10 books like this:

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1. The Siege of Pleasure (Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky #2)

By: Patrick Hamilton

3.94

Format: 150 pages,

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  • fiction
Cover of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare, Louis B. Wright, Virginia A. LaMar

2. Troilus and Cressida

By: William Shakespeare , Louis B. Wright , Virginia A. LaMar

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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3. The Pillowman

By: Martin McDonagh

4.30

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

A writer in a totalitarian state is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories an… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
"It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention...I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop." - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

"Oh, I almost forgot to mention... I'm the good cop, he's the bad cop! - Tupolski"

-Martin McDonagh, The Pillowman

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4. The Chrysalids

By: John Wyndham

3.93

Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback

A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more

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  • fiction
"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"

-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

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5. Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

By: Aeschylus , Alan H. Sommerstein

3.85

Format: 320 pages, cloth

Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, th… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"My heart's a dance of fear."

-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

"Quando dorme la mente scintilla di mille occhi"

-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

"Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community."

-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

"ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Onc…"

-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

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6. She Stoops to Conquer

By: Oliver Goldsmith

3.91

Format: 20 pages,

This comic masterpiece mocked the simple morality of sentimental comedies. Subtitled The Mistakes o… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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7. A Kiss Before Dying

By: Ira Levin , Otto Penzler

3.99

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Dorothy meets a handsome young man with an eye for her inheritance while she is in her first year o… read more

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  • fiction

8. Present Laughter

By: Noël Coward

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

A topsy-turvy world of show biz in which star Garry Essendine copes with vamps, wife, producers who… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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9. Hay Fever

By: Noël Coward

4.04

Format: None pages, Paperback

Hoping for a quiet weekend in the country with some guests, David Bliss, a novelist and his wife Ju… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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10. Skylight

By: David Hare

4.20

Format: 406 pages,

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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11. The Changeling

By: Robin Jenkins

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Thirteen-year-old Tom Curdie, the product of a Glasgow slum, is on probation for theft. His teacher… read more

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  • fiction
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12. Blithe Spirit

By: Noël Coward

3.97

Format: 130 pages, Paperback

"An insane farce that is also uproarious."--NY Times "I will ever be grateful for the almost psych… read more

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  • fiction
  • comedy
  • plays
  • drama
"Time is the reef upon which all our mystic ships are wrecked."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

"It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit."

-Noël Coward, Blithe Spirit

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13. 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

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1) by Aeschylus, Patricia E. Easterling, John Harrison, Judith Affleck, None

14. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

15. Jellyfish

By: Janice Galloway

3.43

Format: 64 pages, Hardcover

A stunning short story collection by one of the UK's best contemporary fiction writers Janice Gallo… read more

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16. Hangover Square

By: Patrick Hamilton

3.89

Format: 704 pages, Paperback

Hamilton (1904-1962) captures the edgy, obsessive and eventually murderous mindset of a romanticall… read more

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17. The Day of the Triffids

By: John Wyndham

4.01

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffidsto moderate acclaim. Fifty-two year… read more

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18. The Midnight Bell (Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky #1)

By: Patrick Hamilton

4.15

Format: 222 pages,

The Midnight Bell tells the story of Bob, a sailor turned bar waiter who falls in love with Jenny, … read more

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19. The Slaves of Solitude

By: David Lodge , Patrick Hamilton

4.08

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

England in the middle of World War II, a war that seems fated to go on forever, a war that has beco… read more

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20. Private Lives

By: Noël Coward

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Private Lives is one of the most sophisticated, entertaining plays ever written. Elyot and Amanda, … read more

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21. Brighton Beach Memoirs

By: Neil Simon

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

The first in Neil Simon's "Eugene Trilogy," followed by Biloxi Bluesand Broadway Bound Winner of a… read more

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22. The Lady from the Sea

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.85

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Doktor Wangel ist Arzt in einer Kleinstadt an der Westküste Norwegens. Er lebt zusammen mit seinen … read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
"Å, forstår du da ikke, at forvandlingen kom, - at forvandlingen måtte komme - da jeg fik vælge i frihed."

-Henrik Ibsen, The Lady from the Sea

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23. The Kraken Wakes

By: John Wyndham

3.76

Format: 240 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ships are sinking for no apparent reason, carrying hundreds to a dark underwater grave. Strange fir… read more

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  • fiction
"I don't care. I don't mind working hard when there's hope. It was having no more hope that was too much for me."

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"Darling, whose book is this to be?" "Ostensibly yours, my sweet" "I see -- rather like my life since I met you?" "Yes darling"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get …"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

"What is more, nobody has ever actually proved him wrong. His chief trouble was that he usually provided such large, indigestible slabs that they stuck in all gullets—even mine, and I would class myse…"

-John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

24. Ghosts

By: Henrik Ibsen

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

"Ghosts" is the story of Helen Alving, a widow who is haunted by the many mistresses of her decease… read more

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25. Gas Light

By: Patrick Hamilton

4.35

Format: None pages, Paperback

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26. Macbeth

By: William Shakespeare

3.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

What he hears will change everything. Egged on by his wife, he decides to kill in order to gain the… read more

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  • fiction
  • plays
"What, you egg?"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done, is done"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What's done cannot be undone."

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

"What, you egg? / [He stabs him.]"

-William Shakespeare, Macbeth

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27. Alan Partridge: Big Beacon

By: Alan Partridge

4.27

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

In Big Beacon, Norwich's favourite son and best broadcaster, Alan Partridge, triumphs against the o… read more

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  • fiction
  • comedy
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28. Good Pop, Bad Pop

By: Jarvis Cocker

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display? We all have a … read more

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29. Старуха = The Old Woman

By: Daniil Kharms

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Edition in Russian and English. read more

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  • fiction
  • comedy
"Она: Вы любите пиво? Я: Нет, я больше люблю водку. Она: Я тоже люблю водку. Я: Вы любите водку? Как это хорошо! Я хотел бы когда-нибудь с вами вместе выпить. Она: И я тоже хотела бы выпить с вами вод…"

-Daniil Kharms, Старуха = The Old Woman

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30. Hills Like White Elephants

By: Ernest Hemingway

3.85

Format: 6 pages, Kindle Edition

A conversation in a Spanish cafe between a man and a woman that is not as simple as it seems. Hi… read more

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  • fiction
Cover of Kafka's Dick by Alan Bennett

31. Kafka's Dick

By: Alan Bennett

3.64

Format: 2 pages, Audio CD

Richard Griffiths, Alison Steadman and Peter Woodthorpe star in this BBC Radio 4 version of Alan Be… read more

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  • fiction
  • comedy
  • plays
  • drama

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3.94

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3.75

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4.30

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Edward Albee

4.06

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Nick Payne

4.07

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3.58

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