13 best-selling plays books like Three Sisters by Inua Ellams

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Three Sisters

By: Inua Ellams

4.15

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Chekhov's iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation.Owerri, 1967, on t…

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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. On the Road

By: Jack Kerouac

3.61

Format: 307 pages, Paperback

A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more

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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."

-Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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3. The Passion

By: Jeanette Winterson

2.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Jeanette Winterson's novels have established her as one of the most important young writers in worl… read more

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4. Between the Acts

By: Virginia Woolf

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

In Woolf's last novel, the action takes place on one summer's day at a country house in the heart o… read more

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5. Stupid Fucking Bird

By: Aaron Posner

4.01

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

An aspiring young director rampages against the art created by his mother's generation. A nubile yo… read more

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6. Nine Stories

By: J.D. Salinger

3.67

Format: 346 pages, Paperback

"A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) "Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut" (1948) "Just Before the War wi… read more

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7. 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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8. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

By: Raymond Carver

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Alternate-cover edition can be found  In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more

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9. Midnight’s Children

By: Salman Rushdie

3.98

Format: 647 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more

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"Life again refused to remain lifesized"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

10. Franny and Zooey

By: J.D. Salinger

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Paperback

The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergradu… read more

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11. 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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12. Peace Like a River

By: Leif Enger

4.09

Format: 315 pages,

Once in a great while, we encounter a novel in our voluminous reading that begs to be read aloud. L… read more

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13. 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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14. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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15. Cock

By: Mike Bartlett

3.16

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

When John takes a break from his boyfriend, he accidentally meets the girl of his dreams. Filled wi… read more

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16. The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry

By: Jon Ronson

4.19

Format: 45 pages,

They say one out of every hundred people is a psychopath. You probably passed on on the street toda… read more

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17. Middlemarch

By: Michel Faber , George Eliot

4.02

Format: 912 pages, Mass Market Paperback

"People are almost always better than their neighbours think they are" George Eliot’s most ambit… read more

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"After all, the true seeing is within."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I shall do everything it becomes me to do."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"I protest against any absolute conclusion."

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"

-Michel Faber, Middlemarch

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18. The Magic Mountain

By: Thomas Mann , John E. Woods

4.13

Format: 706 pages, Paperback

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devot… read more

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"Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"A harmful truth is better than a useful lie."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."

-Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain

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19. Indecent

By: Paula Vogel

4.46

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

“Revelatory…As intimate and immediate as a whispered secret. Vogel’s play thrums with music, desire… read more

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"I too have lost audience members. Six million have left the theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"How do we as artists question our sins in front of a greater audience? How do we as Jews show ourselves as flawed and complex human beings?"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"God forbid the goyim think ladies who work the street are human beings! God forbid the goyim think that Jewish ladies love each other as human beings!"

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

"As you know, six nights a week we gather together to sing songs we know and love, to dance, to escape our daily lives. But on the seventh night … God created Yiddish theater."

-Paula Vogel, Indecent

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20. Mayflies

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more

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"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

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21. Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

By: Katherine Angel

4.08

Format: 160 pages, Hardcover

A provocative, elegantly written analysis of female desire, consent, and sexuality in the age of Me… read more

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"The fantasy of total autonomy, and of total self-knowledge, is not only a fantasy; it’s a nightmare."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Any model of consent can prove itself worthless if a man is not open to his sexual partner's no, or her changing desires, and if he responds to either of these with a rage borne of humiliation."

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Why not aim for sex itself as being deeply mutually pleasurable? Why not aim for a culture that embraces and enables women’s sexual pleasure, in all its complexity, and admits the complexity of male …"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

"Instead of resigning ourselves to the inevitability of bad sex, and even romanticizing it as merely youthful misadventure, we should subject it to sustained scrutiny. Bad sex emerges from gender norm…"

-Katherine Angel, Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent

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22. 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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23. The Wife of Willesden

By: Zadie Smith

3.74

Format: 208 pages, Paperback

Zadie Smith's first time writing for the stage, a riotous twenty-first century translation of Geoff… read more

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24. Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.

By: Alice Birch

3.96

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Alice Birch examines the language, behavior and forces that shape women in the 21st century and ask… read more

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Cover of Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties by Jen Silverman

25. Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties

By: Jen Silverman

3.95

Format: 136 pages, Kindle Edition

In Collective Rage, the lives of five very different New York women named Betty collide at the inte… read more

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Cover of Mies Julie: Based on August Strindberg's Miss Julie (Oberon Modern Plays) by Yael Farber

26. Mies Julie: Based on August Strindberg's Miss Julie (Oberon Modern Plays)

By: Yael Farber

3.93

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

South African born internationally acclaimed director and playwright, Yaël Farber, sets her explosi… read more

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27. Maryland

By: Lucy Kirkwood

4.56

Format: 19 pages, ebook

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Cover of Trade & Generations (Nick Hern Books) by debbie tucker green

28. Trade & Generations (Nick Hern Books)

By: debbie tucker green

3.35

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In Trade, Debbie Tucker Green puts an intriguing spin on the unease we feel as tourists in a countr… read more

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29. Peeling

By: Kaite O'Reilly

4.29

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

"Peeling" was commissioned by Graeae Theatre Company and premiered at The Door, Birmingham Repertor… read more

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30. Three Sisters

By: Inua Ellams

4.15

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Chekhov's iconic characters are relocated to Nigeria in this bold new adaptation.Owerri, 1967, on t… read more

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  • nigeria
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31. Family Tree (Modern Plays)

By: Mojisola Adebayo

4.25

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the 2021 Alfred Fagon AwardIt's a play, a performance, a ritual, about human farming, far… read more

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Nick Payne

4.07

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Caryl Churchill

3.58

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4.20

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