18 Best plays books like One For Sorrow by Cordelia Lynn

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One For Sorrow

By: Cordelia Lynn

3.58

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

During an attack on London, Imogen joins a social media campaign offering refuge to victims. Before…

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1. Top Girls

By: Caryl Churchill

3.58

Format: 87 pages, Paperback

Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal play of the modern theatre, revealing a wor… read more

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2. 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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"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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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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4. DNA

By: Dennis Kelly

3.50

Format: 824 pages, Paperback

A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But whe… read more

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5. The Three Sisters

By: Anton Chekhov

3.06

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

First performed at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1901, The Three Sistersprobes the lives and dreams of … read more

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6. Boys

By: Ella Hickson

4.82

Format: 174 pages, Paperback

A thrilling exploration of the gray area between childhood and adulthood, from one of playwriting's… read more

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7. Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #24)

By: Agatha Christie

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Amyas Crale, un peintre celebre, a ete assassine, et sa femme, condamnee pour ce meurtre. Seize ans… read more

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8. Breathing Corpses (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Laura Wade

4.33

Format: 268 pages, Paperback

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9. As You Like It

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

3.59

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more

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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. Look Back in Anger

By: John Osborne

3.80

Format: 25 pages, Paperback

The text of the play, first performed in London in 1956, depicts the despair of post-war youth. read more

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12. Lungs

By: Duncan Macmillan

3.68

Format: None pages, Paperback

In a time of global anxiety, terrorism, erratic weather, and political unrest, a young couple wants… read more

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13. The Blind Assassin

By: Margaret Atwood

5.00

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Margaret Atwood takes the art of storytelling to new heights in a dazzling novel that unfolds layer… read more

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14. 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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"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

15. Geekerella

By: Ashley Poston

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

Anything can happen once upon a con... When geek girl Elle Wittimer sees a cosplay contest sponsore… read more

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16. Home Fire

By: Kamila Shamsie

4.09

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's de… read more

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17. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more

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18. Black Beauty

By: Gail Carson Levine , Anna Sewell

3.99

Format: 245 pages, Mass Market Paperback

As a young horse, Black Beauty is well-loved and happy. But when his owner is forced to sell him, h… read more

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"It is good people who make good places."

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

"Los hombres siempre creen poder mejorar a la Naturaleza y corregir la obra de Dios."

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

"I have heard men say that seeing is believing; but I should say that feeling is believing;"

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

"he thought people did not value their animals half enough, nor make friends of them as they ought to do"

-Gail Carson Levine, Black Beauty

19. Punk Rock

By: Simon Stephens

5.00

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Based on the playwright's experience as a teacher, this play explores the underlying tensions and p… read more

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20. The Miseducation of Cameron Post

By: Emily M. Danforth

4.07

Format: 485 pages, Kindle Edition

When Cameron Post's parents die suddenly in a car crash, her shocking first thought is relief. Reli… read more

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"Let's rock this shit."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

"It felt really good to do something that made no sense at all."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

"The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

"But I couldn't ever make that dream happen. It just came on its own, the way dreams do."

-Emily M. Danforth, The Miseducation of Cameron Post

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21. 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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"All I know is that somewhere. Some time. Somehow. Something has to change."

-Suzie Miller, Prima Facie

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22. The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

By: Deborah Levy

4.18

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-tim… read more

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"Sometimes we want to unbelong as much as we want to belong."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"It was a big release from the terror of death to finally acknowledge that it is also always absurd."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"I might one day risk falling in love again, but I was not going to lose my heart to the cardiologist."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

"To unfold any number of ideas through all the dimensions of time is the great adventure of the writing life."

-Deborah Levy, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography

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23. The Writer

By: Ella Hickson

4.08

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

‘I want the world to change shape.’ ‘I'm not sure theatre can do that.’ ‘Well then where am I me… read more

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24. The Falling in Love Montage

By: Ciara Smyth

3.81

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Saoirse doesn’t believe in love at first sight or happy endings. If they were real, her mother woul… read more

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"I love you. But I’m not in love with you."

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"When you truly love someone, it doesn't go away,"

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"It’s a pet peeve of mine that straight women call their friends “girlfriends."

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

"YOU'RE A WANKER, NUMBER NINE!" I yelled the famous line from Imagine Me & You"

-Ciara Smyth, The Falling in Love Montage

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25. For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy (Modern Plays)

By: Ryan Calais Cameron

4.65

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

I found a king in me and now I love you I found a king in you and now I love me Father figures and… read more

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26. [BLANK]

By: Alice Birch

4.17

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

A new theatrical provocation by Alice Birch, co-commissioned by NT Connections and theatre company … read more

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27. Rotterdam (Modern Plays)

By: Jon Brittain

3.86

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

No, Alice, I don't want to become a man, I just want to stop trying to be a woman. It's New Year i… read more

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28. Meat (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Gillian Greer

3.57

Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition

When Ronan's former girlfriend Max turns up at his fashionable Dublin restaurant, he's determined t… read more

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29. Shakespeare in Love

By: Lee Hall

4.05

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Plagued by debt, tormented by writer’s block and in desperate need of a new hit, promising new play… read more

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30. One For Sorrow

By: Cordelia Lynn

3.58

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

During an attack on London, Imogen joins a social media campaign offering refuge to victims. Before… read more

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31. A Hundred Words for Snow

By: Tatty Hennessy

3.96

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

Depicting a teenage girl’s solo journey to the North Pole with her father’s ashes, A Hundred Words … read more

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14 best-selling fiction books like The Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov

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3.79

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3.87

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