11 must-read plays books like Dinner by Moira Buffini

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Dinner

By: Moira Buffini

3.87

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

An artist, a scientist and a sexpot are coming for dinner. Paige, hostess extraordinaire, is celebr…

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1. Trout Fishing in America

By: Richard Brautigan

3.76

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Richard Brautigan was a literary idol of the 1960s and 1970s whose comic genius and iconoclastic vi… read more

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"His eyes were like the shoelaces of a harpsichord."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"USED TROUT STREAM FOR SALE. MUST BE SEEN TO BE APPRECIATED."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"We were all silent except for blink, blink, blink, blink, blink."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

"You're not fooling anyone by taking your clothes off when you go to bed."

-Richard Brautigan, Trout Fishing in America

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2. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

By: Raymond Chandler

3.95

Format: 231 pages, Paperback

When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more

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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."

-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)

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3. Americanah

By: None , Jashar Awan

3.75

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Fearless, gripping, at once darkly funny and tender, spanning three continents and numerous lives, … read more

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4. 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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  • plays
  • drama
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5. Come Closer

By: Sara Gran

3.65

Format: 194 pages, Paperback

A recurrent, unidentifiable noise in her apartment. A memo to her boss that's replaced by obscene i… read more

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"What we think is impossible happens all the time."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

"In January I had a proposal due to my boss, Leon Fields, on a new project."

-Sara Gran, Come Closer

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6. Animal Farm / 1984

By: George Orwell , Christopher Hitchens

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

This edition features George Orwell's best known novels - 1984and Animal Farm- with an introduction… read more

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7. 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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  • plays
  • drama
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8. The Caretaker

By: Harold Pinter

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdow… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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9. The Homecoming

By: Harold Pinter

3.70

Format: 82 pages, Paperback

When Teddy, a professor in an American university, brings his wife Ruth to visit his old home in Lo… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

"Look what I'm lumbered with. One load of cast-iron crap after another." --Harold Pinter: The Homecoming."

-Harold Pinter, The Homecoming

10. The Effect

By: Lucy Prebble

4.57

Format: 270 pages, Paperback

You're on a placebo, Tristan. Least I've got an excuse. She told me: you're nothing, you're a contr… read more

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11. Festen

By: David Eldridge

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Helge, the patriarch of a chain of restaurants, is celebrating his sixtieth birthday and everyone i… read more

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12. Les Bonnes

By: Jean Genet

3.60

Format: 222 pages, Pocket Book

The Maids (Les Bonnes) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. First performed in Pari… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him...I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens."

-Jean Genet, Les Bonnes

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13. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

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14. The Merchant of Venice

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , None

3.78

Format: 247 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the … read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"He will fence with his own shadow."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"You speak an infinite deal of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"The fiend gives the more friendly counsel."

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

"i buy a thousand pound a year! i buy a rope!"

-William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

15. 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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16. 'Art'

By: Yasmina Reza , Christopher Hampton

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The Tony Award-winning play that focuses on the meaning of art (in the form of a solid white painti… read more

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17. Closer: A Play

By: Patrick Marber

3.97

Format: 123 pages, Paperback

In Closer, Patrick Marber has created a brilliant exploration into the brutal anatomy of modern rom… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
"I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

"Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance."

-Patrick Marber, Closer: A Play

18. The River

By: Jez Butterworth

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

'And the next day I went back to the river, and I took off my clothes and I dived in the water, and… read more

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19. As Bees in Honey Drown

By: Douglas Carter Beane

0.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Book annotation not available for this title. read more

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20. Trifles

By: Susan Glaspell

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Trifles is a one-act play by Susan Glaspell. Her short story, "A Jury of Her Peers", was adapted fr… read more

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21. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)

By: Gregory Maguire , Douglas Smith

4.34

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard o… read more

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22. Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

By: Reni Eddo-Lodge

3.67

Format: 542 pages, Hardcover

'One of the most important books of 2017' Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant A powerful an… read more

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23. The Sea

By: John Banville

4.00

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville i… read more

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24. 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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25. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

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26. Western Lane

By: Chetna Maroo

3.51

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, a… read more

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27. The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

By: Joanna Cannon

3.65

Format: 369 pages, Kindle Edition

Part coming-of-age story, part mystery, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep is a quirky and utterly ch… read more

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"The most important thing a garden needs is the shadow of a gardener."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"I thought I would like a job where inquiring about everyone else's private business was considered perfectly routine."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"And I decided it really was true after all. You only really need two people to believe in the same thing, to feel as though you just might belong."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

"The only problem was, when your whole existence is something you have to cope with, you look back one day and find that your strategy has become a way of life."

-Joanna Cannon, The Trouble with Goats and Sheep

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28. Quichotte

By: Salman Rushdie

3.81

Format: 393 pages, Paperback

In a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiec… read more

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"AS I PLAN MY QUEST,"

-Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

"If you die and go to Hell" the Braves fan said, "you have to change places in Atlanta."

-Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

" Our president looks like a Christmas ham and talks like Chucky. We're America, bitch. "

-Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

"Normal doesn't feel so normal to me," I tell him. "It's normal to feel that way," he replies."

-Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

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29. Exciting Times

By: Naoise Dolan

3.23

Format: 243 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, bracingly intelligent debut novel about a millennial Irish expat who becomes entangled… read more

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"Eunice Fong said: “Miss, are you sick?"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"My wanting to cry was a reflection mainly of my social conscience"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"It's normal to miss your family,' he said. I said that was why I didn't"

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

"I wondered which other phrases he´d plucked. I felt like a bird he kept for quills."

-Naoise Dolan, Exciting Times

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30. POTUS

By: Selina Fillinger

4.31

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

One four-letter word is about to rock 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. When the President unwittingly spin… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
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31. Dinner

By: Moira Buffini

3.87

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

An artist, a scientist and a sexpot are coming for dinner. Paige, hostess extraordinaire, is celebr… read more

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  • plays
  • drama

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3.51

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3.55

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Mulk Raj Anand

3.80

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Paul Lynch

4.10

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