20 must-read plays books like The P Word by Waleed Akhtar

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The P Word

By: Waleed Akhtar

4.44

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Zafar flees homophobic persecution in Pakistan to seek asylum in the UK. Londoner Bilal (or Billy a…

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1. Linda

By: Penelope Skinner

4.02

Format: 219 pages, Kindle Edition

I'm an award-winning business woman. I'm happily married with two beautiful daughters and I still f… read more

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  • plays
Cover of Yerma by Federico García Lorca, Gwynne Edwards, Chris Megson

2. Yerma

By: Federico García Lorca , Gwynne Edwards , Chris Megson

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Paperback

Yerma (meaning 'Barren') is one of three tragic plays about peasants and rural life that make up Lo… read more

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  • plays
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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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  • plays
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4. 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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  • 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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  • plays
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6. The History Boys

By: Alan Bennett

0.00

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

An unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university… read more

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  • plays

7. 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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8. Exit West

By: Mohsin Hamid

3.00

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

In a country teetering on the brink of civil war, two young people meet--sensual, fiercely independ… read more

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9. The Uncommon Reader

By: Alan Bennett

3.74

Format: 120 pages, Hardcover

Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminster traveling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen… read more

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"Книгите подпалват въображението."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"Archbishop. Why do I never read the lesson?"

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"At eighty, things do not occur; they recur."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

"A book is a device to ignite the imagination."

-Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

10. Submarine

By: Joe Dunthorne

2.00

Format: 28 pages, Hardcover

The dryly precocious, soon-to-be-fifteen-year-old hero of this engagingly offbeat debut novel, Oliv… read more

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11. Trainspotting

By: Irvine Welsh , None

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more

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12. 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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13. Mr Salary

By: Sally Rooney

3.78

Format: 33 pages, Paperback

My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him cl… read more

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"My love for him felt so total and so annihilating that it was often impossible for me to see him clearly at all."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"He watched me at first but then looked away. "Would it be a major bereavement for you if I died?" I said. "The most major one I can think of, yeah." "Nobody else would grieve."

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river, ignoring the real living bodies all around m…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

"Nothing inside my body was trying to kill me. Death was, of course, the most ordinary thing that could happen, at some level I knew that. Still, I had stood there waiting to see the body in the river…"

-Sally Rooney, Mr Salary

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14. Conversations on Love

By: Natasha Lunn

4.25

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A celebration of love in all its forms, featuring conversations with: Philippa Perry on falling in … read more

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"And I grew to understand that the grief I felt equalled the love. - Greg Wise"

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"The things I flew past in the race to get what I didn't have were actually the gifts all along."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"I'm here for the good and the bad and everything in between". True friends see through any level of performance or denial or avoidance."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

"It's important when you've good news to tell the right people. People who understand the dream or have a dream of their own. Otherwise, you end up feeling deflated."

-Natasha Lunn, Conversations on Love

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15. Nueva Amazonia

By: Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

3.50

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

New A Foretaste of the Future (1889) is a novel by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett. In June 1889, Briti… read more

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16. The Inheritance

By: Matthew López

4.51

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

You have to wonder why there isn't a word in the English language for the fireworks that go off in … read more

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  • plays
  • queer
"Enamorarse es coger cita con el sufrimiento"

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

"Leer no es suficiente, Leo. Tienes que poseer tus propios libros."

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

"If we are to learn what we mean to each other, we must first examine what we mean to ourselves. And we must be fearless and honest in that attempt —"

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

"A muchos de nosotros no nos han dado nunca un ejemplo sano de lo que significa ser homosexual. Lo que significa, por supuesto, que nunca nos han enseñado a serlo. A amar. A aceptar el amor."

-Matthew López, The Inheritance

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17. The Hills of California

By: Jez Butterworth

3.83

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Blackpool, 1976. The driest summer in two hundred years. The beaches are packed. The hotels are hea… read more

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  • plays
Cover of Sound of the Underground (Modern Plays) by Travis Alabanza

18. Sound of the Underground (Modern Plays)

By: Travis Alabanza

4.09

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Ladies, Gentlemen, and then all the legends that have realised gender is a trap – introducing the S… read more

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  • plays
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19. Infinite Life

By: Annie Baker

4.20

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

'I said no one should ever try to recreate this. This is agony in its purest form.' Five women i… read more

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  • plays
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20. Sorry, You're Not a Winner

By: Samuel Bailey

3.85

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Liam and Fletch grew up together. Born on the same street. Best mates since primary. Inseparable. T… read more

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21. "Daddy": A Melodrama (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Jeremy O. Harris

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

Franklin, a young black artist on the eve of his first show, meets Andre, an older white art collec… read more

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  • plays
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22. Dixon and Daughters (Nick Hern Books)

By: Deborah Bruce

4.00

Format: 104 pages, Paperback

Mary has just been released from prison. She wants to come home and forget all about it – but Brian… read more

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Cover of When Winston Went To War With The Wireless by Jack Thorne

23. When Winston Went To War With The Wireless

By: Jack Thorne

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In May 1926, Britain grinds to a halt, as workers down tools for the General Strike. With the print… read more

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  • plays
"I serve my castle, Mr Bevin, you serve yours. You think I am dangerous for your castle, and I think you are dangerous to mine."

-Jack Thorne, When Winston Went To War With The Wireless

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24. The P Word

By: Waleed Akhtar

4.44

Format: 72 pages, Paperback

Zafar flees homophobic persecution in Pakistan to seek asylum in the UK. Londoner Bilal (or Billy a… read more

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  • plays
  • queer
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25. Animal (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Jon Bradfield

4.25

Format: 147 pages, Kindle Edition

David is gay, disabled and profoundly horny. He can't eat, drink or shower by himself – or wank. To… read more

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26. Black Superhero (NHB Modern Plays)

By: Danny Lee Wynter

3.82

Format: 114 pages, Kindle Edition

David is in love with King. But King is a superhero. After an unexpected encounter, David plunges … read more

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  • plays
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27. A Sudden Violent Burst of Rain

By: Sami Ibrahim

3.91

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

We all live under the same sky. It's just that, beneath that sky, there's some arsehole saying "do… read more

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  • plays
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28. Chasing Hares

By: Sonali Bhattacharyya

4.29

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

Set between 2000s Kolkata and contemporary Leicester, Chasing Hares tells the story of one family's… read more

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29. Four Play

By: Jake Brunger

3.87

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

Rafe and Pete have hit a rut. After seven and a half blissfully happy years, their lack of sexual e… read more

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30. Patricia Gets Ready [For a Date with the Man That Used to Hit Her]

By: Martha Watson Allpress

4.63

Format: 46 pages, Paperback

Patricia has spent a year recovering from an abusive relationship. But when she bumps into her ex o… read more

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  • plays
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31. Backstairs Billy

By: Marcelo Dos Santos

3.69

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

1979. Clarence House, London. The Queen Mother's receptions are in full swing and the champagne is … read more

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  • plays

19 Top plays books like The Hills of California by Jez Butterworth

Transform Your Habits

The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh

4.30

Transform Your Habits

Yerma

Federico García Lorca , Gwynne Edwards , Chris Megson

3.55

Transform Your Habits

The History Boys

Alan Bennett

0.00

Transform Your Habits

The Homecoming

Harold Pinter

3.70

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