5 must-read theatre books like Age is a Feeling (NHB Modern Plays) by Haley McGee

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Age is a Feeling (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Haley McGee

4.56

Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition

Your life from the day you turn twenty-five through to your death. All the chances you get to chang…

If you liked the theatre plot in Age is a Feeling (NHB Modern Plays) by Haley McGee , here is a list of 5 books like this:

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1. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

By: Edward Albee

4.06

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

"Twelve times a week," answered Uta Hagen when asked how often she'd like to play Martha in Who's A… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
"Honey: I know these people ..."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"You want to dance with me, angel tits?"

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"Musical beds is the faculty sport around here."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

"George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am."

-Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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2. What I Know for Sure

By: Oprah Winfrey

4.14

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

As a creative force, student of the human heart and soul, and champion of living the life you want,… read more

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"Our beliefs can move us forward in life - or they can hold us back."

-Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

"The enjoyment comes from knowing the receiver understands the spirit of the gift."

-Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

"You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself; when you're aware of all you have"

-Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

"Say "Thank You" because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that what ever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God…"

-Oprah Winfrey, What I Know for Sure

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3. 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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4. Brand New Ancients

By: Kae Tempest

3.73

Format: None pages, Paperback

Winner of the Ted Hughes Prize for innovation in poetry. read more

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  • plays
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5. 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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6. Kew Gardens

By: Virginia Woolf

3.51

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In 1927, at The Hogarth Press, Virginia Woolf produced and published a limited edition of what was … read more

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7. I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey on the Road to Peace and Human Dignity

By: Izzeldin Abuelaish

3.73

Format: None pages,

By turns inspiring and heart-breaking, hopeful and horrifying, I Shall Not Hateis Izzeldin Abuelais… read more

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8. Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

3.70

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five bril… read more

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9. Valley of the Dolls

By: Jacqueline Susann

3.42

Format: 8 pages,

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10. 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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11. Shy

By: Max Porter

3.63

Format: 136 pages, Hardcover

A novel about guilt, rage, imagination, and boyhood, about being lost in the dark and learning you’… read more

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"He could learn to speak this language: night-end."

-Max Porter, Shy

"He feels colossally sad. Blisteringly sad. Almost ecstatically sad."

-Max Porter, Shy

"Shy said It's our music, coming out of our shit towns, it's not from Staten Island or Seattle or Detroit, it's from Walsall and Watford. Shaun and his mate Andy burst out laughing and Andy did a sque…"

-Max Porter, Shy

"He smells of pond. Everything smells of pond. He feels like he could sniff his way into individual microbes, earthy worming growgreen liquid stink, newts and shoots, silty, fruity, and as he walks he…"

-Max Porter, Shy

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12. Day

By: Michael Cunningham

3.57

Format: 273 pages, Hardcover

As the world changes around them, a family weathers the storms of growing up, growing older, fallin… read more

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"Here, then, is the answer. A degree of cruelty is necessary because Garth, like most men, can only deposit his needs at her feet, can only declare his love—that romantic hallucination, which would be…"

-Michael Cunningham, Day

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13. A Heart That Works

By: Rob Delaney

4.62

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New York Times  Bestseller *  The New Yorker   Best Books of 2022 *  Entertainment Weekly  Best Boo… read more

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"I felt like I was being asked to find an individual lentil in a warehouse that a tornado had just torn through"

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

"Why don't you just leave open the possibility that others love you, whether you like it or not, and that the people who'd like you to stick around aren't, to a man, wrong."

-Rob Delaney, A Heart That Works

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14. The Lying Life of Adults

By: Elena Ferrante

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

“Two years before leaving home my father said to my mother that I was very ugly. The sentence was u… read more

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"I'm not wise, but I read a lot of novels."

-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

"As coisas feias que você não conta se tornam cães que comem a sua cabeça enquanto você dorme."

-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

"...the dead are objects that have broken, a television, the radio, the mixer, and the best thing is to remember them as they were when they were working, because the only acceptable tomb is memory."

-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

"I’m still fascinated by how our brains elaborates strategies and carries them out without revealing them. To say that it’s a matter of the unconscious seems to me approximate, maybe even hypocritical."

-Elena Ferrante, The Lying Life of Adults

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15. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

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16. Open Throat

By: Henry Hoke

4.01

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A lonely, lovable, queer mountain lion narrates this star-making fever dream of a novel. A quee… read more

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17. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

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18. Motherhood

By: Sheila Heti

3.66

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From the author of How Should a Person Be? (“one of the most talked-about books of the year”—Time M… read more

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"Maybe motherhood means honoring one's mother."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"To fit oneself into the smallest spaces in the hopes of being loved -that is entirely womanly"

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

"The Jewish religion says it's not a child until it's two-thirds out of the woman's body--until the head has completely emerged."

-Sheila Heti, Motherhood

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19. The Bittlemores

By: Jann Arden

3.87

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt, comic, and deeply satisfying debut novel from the #1 bestselling author, singer-songwr… read more

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20. Denison Avenue

By: Christina Wong

4.17

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

A moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vuln… read more

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21. Deaf Utopia: A Memoir—And a Love Letter to a Way of Life

By: Nyle DiMarco

4.25

Format: 317 pages, Hardcover

A heartfelt and inspiring memoir and Deaf culture anthem by Nyle DiMarco, actor, producer, two-time… read more

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22. 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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23. 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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24. Arrangements in Blue

By: Amy Key

3.84

Format: 223 pages, Hardcover

Arrangements in Blue elegantly honors the life lived completely by—and for—oneself. Inspired by Jon… read more

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25. Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai

By: Nina Mingya Powles

4.23

Format: 92 pages, Paperback

Tiny Moons is a collection of essays about food and belonging. Nina Mingya Powles journeys between … read more

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"Home sickness comes in waves, sometimes leaving me reeling."

-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai

"It is June. I am in Shanghai and I am not tired. June in Shanghai is for cold bubble tea, for kissing, for three-yuan ice creams and misty rain mixing with sweat on skin."

-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai

"I often end up biking home with a paper bag in my basket, a warm boluo bao inside. Whatever the time of year, they remind me of sun, tropical heat, being with family. Mooncakes, the little cakes eate…"

-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai

"It is tiring to be a woman who loves to eat in a society where hunger is something not to be satisfied but controlled. Where a long history of female hunger is associated with shame and madness. The …"

-Nina Mingya Powles, Tiny Moons: A Year of Eating in Shanghai

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26. Long Island Compromise

By: Taffy Brodesser-Akner

3.88

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating novel about one American family, the dark moment that shatter… read more

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27. The Hypocrite

By: Jo Hamya

3.55

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a nove… read more

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"No stories are entirely imaginary, cherub, he'd said then. Everything is always a little bit real. Sometimes you steal things from other stories and change them until they work how you like."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"The contradiction of the time had been the heightened moral obligation to consider other people as a means to keeping one's own self-interest afloat. Showing other people care meant avoiding them."

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

"In the theatre's dark, he weighs up what to do out of love. There have been enough divergences so far for him to believe that Sophia's play is a self-contained thing that may only tangentially concer…"

-Jo Hamya, The Hypocrite

Cover of 2:22: A Ghost Story (NHB Modern Plays) by Danny Robins

28. 2:22: A Ghost Story (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Danny Robins

4.47

Format: 119 pages, Kindle Edition

'I'd get freaked out here, alone in the dark. Wondering what's lurking at the bottom of the bed, re… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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29. Peggy

By: Rebecca Godfrey

3.67

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling novel about Peggy Guggenheim—a story of art, family, love, and becoming oneself—by the a… read more

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30. Age is a Feeling (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Haley McGee

4.56

Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition

Your life from the day you turn twenty-five through to your death. All the chances you get to chang… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
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31. After Life

By: Jack Thorne

4.00

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

If you could spend eternity with just one precious memory, what would it be? A group of strangers … read more

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  • plays

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4.06

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Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

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Kae Tempest

3.73

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Sam Steiner

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Eliza Clark

3.90

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Miranda July

3.81

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Deborah Levy

3.68

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Coco Mellors

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