13 best-selling plays books like Crave by Sarah Kane

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Crave

By: Sarah Kane

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Cravecharts the disintegration of a hum…

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Cover of A Season in Hell by Michel Butor, Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Mapplethorpe, None

1. A Season in Hell

By: Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None

4.07

Format: 95 pages, Hardcover

Written by Rimbaud at age 18 in the wake of a tempestuous affair with fellow poet, Paul Verlaine, A… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"Cela s'est passé. Je sais aujourd'hui saluer la beauté."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"Elle est retrouvée — Quoi? — l’Éternité. C’est la mer mêlée Au soleil."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

"¡Perpetua farsa! Mi inocencia podría hacerme llorar. La vida es la farsa en que participamos todos."

-Michel Butor, A Season in Hell

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2. Constellations

By: Nick Payne

4.07

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

One relationship. Infinite possibilities. 'Let's go for a drink. I don't know what I'm doing here a… read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautréamont, Guy Wernham

3. Les Chants de Maldoror

By: Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

Format: 342 pages, Paperback

The macabre but beautiful work Les Chants de Maldoror has achieved a considerable reputation as one… read more

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  • poetry
  • classics
  • fiction
"...the police, that shield of civilization..."

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

"I received life like a wound and I have forbidden suicide to heal the scar."

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

"Qui donc, sur la tête, me donne des coups de barre de fer, comme un marteau frappant l'enclume?"

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

"I will state in a few lines that Maldoror was good during his first year, when he lived happily; that is a fact. Then he realised he was born malicious: an extraordinary fate! ... Who would have thou…"

-Comte de Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror

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4. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
"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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5. Phaedra

By: Seneca

4.31

Format: 110 pages, Paperback

Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. Wi… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Ravishing of Lol Stein by Marguerite Duras, None, Diệp Anh

6. The Ravishing of Lol Stein

By: Marguerite Duras , None , Diệp Anh

3.33

Format: None pages, Paperback

Lol Stein is a beautiful young woman, securely married, settled in a comfortable life--and a voyeur… read more

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  • classics
  • fiction
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7. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
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8. The Master Builder

By: Henrik Ibsen

4.82

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

First performed in 1892, this psychological drama is one of the great Norwegian playwright's most s… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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9. Shopping and Fucking

By: Mark Ravenhill

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

This ground-breaking drama was Mark Ravenhill's first full-length play and part of a movement in th… read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • fiction
  • drama
Cover of Crave by Sarah Kane

10. Crave

By: Sarah Kane

3.48

Format: 93 pages, Paperback

Set in an unnamed city from which voices and images spring, Cravecharts the disintegration of a hum… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Kane's Crave book and Sarah Kane's Crave

  • poetry
  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • plays
  • drama
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11. Endgame

By: Samuel Beckett

4.67

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969; his literary output of plays, no… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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12. Betrayal

By: Harold Pinter

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Betrayalis Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play b… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
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13. 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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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • 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

14. The Ghost Sonata

By: August Strindberg , None

3.59

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

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15. Hamletmachine

By: Heiner Müller

2.62

Format: None pages,

In Muller's fragmented eight-page text, Shakespeare's masterpiece struggles to survive amidst the m… read more

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16. Circle Mirror Transformation

By: Annie Baker

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Thanks, you guys. I think this was a really, really great start. Five lost people come together at … read more

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17. Phèdre

By: Jean Racine

3.69

Format: 55 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Andromacha Brytanik Berenika Ifigenia Fedra read more

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • classics
  • fiction
"Maintenant je me cherche et ne me trouve plus."

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Présente je vous fuis; absente, je vous trouve; Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

"Hélas! de vos malheurs innocente ou coupable, / De quoi pour vous sauver n'étais-je point capable?"

-Jean Racine, Phèdre

18. The Birthday Party

By: Harold Pinter

3.23

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Stanley Webber is visited in his boarding house by strangers, Goldberg and McCann. An innocent-seem… read more

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19. Transformations

By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Anne Sexton , None

3.53

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The fairy tale-based works of the tortured confessional poet, whose honesty and wit in the face of … read more

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20. Saved

By: Edward Bond

4.15

Format: None pages,

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21. Dark Spring

By: Unica Zürn

4.23

Format: 690 pages, Paperback

Fiction. DARK SPRING is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism th… read more

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22. Far Away

By: Caryl Churchill

3.69

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"Chilling... Churchill's play seems to reinvent drama with every other line." - Village Voice "A ma… read more

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23. The Flick

By: Annie Baker

3.98

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In a rundown movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees sweep up popcorn in … read more

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24. Stag's Leap: Poems

By: Sharon Olds

4.07

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Stag's Leapis stunningly poignant sequence of poems that tells the story of a divorce, embracing st… read more

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25. The Glass Menagerie

By: Tennessee Williams

4.90

Format: None pages, Paperback

The story of a mother, her son and daughter, and her daughter's suitor that brings to life human be… read more

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26. Salomé

By: Oscar Wilde , Aubrey Beardsley , Robert Baldwin Ross , Alfred Bruce Douglas

4.10

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

Outraged by the sexual perversity of this one-act tragedy, Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain banned … read more

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27. X

By: Alistair McDowall

4.40

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

It's a tax write-off. This is where they send the new, the under-qualified, the old. And most of al… read more

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28. The Necrophiliac

By: Gabrielle Wittkop , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

For more than three decades, Lucien -- one of the most notorious characters in the history of the n… read more

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29. Can the Monster Speak? A Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts

By: Paul B. Preciado

4.26

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Éco… read more

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30. hang (NHB Modern Plays)

By: debbie tucker green

3.74

Format: 75 pages, Kindle Edition

His life. In her hands. A shattering play about one woman's unspeakable decision. hang premiered at… read more

Similar categories in debbie tucker green's hang (NHB Modern Plays) book and Sarah Kane's Crave

  • theatre
  • plays
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31. Roberto Zucco suivi de Tabataba - Coco

By: Bernard-Marie Koltès

3.50

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Un trajet invraisemblable, un personnage mythique, un héros comme Samson ou Goliath, monstres de fo… read more

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  • classics
  • plays

14 must-read fiction books like Crave by Sarah Kane

Transform Your Habits

A Season in Hell

Michel Butor , Arthur Rimbaud , Robert Mapplethorpe , None

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Les Chants de Maldoror

Comte de Lautréamont , Guy Wernham

4.15

Transform Your Habits

The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh

4.30

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19 best-selling fiction books like Betrayal by Harold Pinter

Transform Your Habits

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

4.06

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Constellations

Nick Payne

4.07

Transform Your Habits

Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

Transform Your Habits

John

Annie Baker

4.20

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