12 must-read classics books like Endgame by Samuel Beckett

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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…

If you liked the classics plot in Endgame by Samuel Beckett , here is a list of 12 books like this:

Cover of The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco, Martin Crimp

1. The Chairs

By: Eugène Ionesco , Martin Crimp

3.85

Format: 60 pages, Paperback

In a house on an island a very old couple pass their time with private games and half-remembered st… read more

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  • classics
  • literature
  • theatre
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  • plays
  • drama
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2. Blasted

By: Sarah Kane

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

Blastedis Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that ye… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Fear and Misery of the Third Reich by Bertolt Brecht, John Willett, Tom Kuhn

3. Fear and Misery of the Third Reich

By: Bertolt Brecht , John Willett , Tom Kuhn

3.50

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

Also known as The Private Life of the Master Race, this is a sequence of twenty-four realistic sket… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
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  • drama
Cover of The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot, Michael North

4. The Waste Land

By: T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

The text of Eliot's 1922 masterpiece is accompanied by thorough explanatory annotations as well as … read more

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  • literature
  • classics
  • fiction
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5. Six Characters in Search of an Author

By: Luigi Pirandello , Edward Storer

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

One of the major figures of modern theater, Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) wrote dramas and satires t… read more

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  • classics
  • theatre
  • fiction
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  • drama
Cover of Mother Courage and Her Children by David Hare, Bertolt Brecht

6. Mother Courage and Her Children

By: David Hare , Bertolt Brecht

3.78

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Widely considered one of the great dramatic creations of the modern stage, "Mother Courage and Her … read more

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  • theatre
  • fiction
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  • drama
Cover of The Playboy of the Western World by J.M. Synge

7. The Playboy of the Western World

By: J.M. Synge

4.33

Format: None pages,

Riots greeted the first performance of The Playboy of the Western World at Dublin's Abbey Theatre o… read more

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  • irish literature
  • plays
  • drama
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8. 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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  • drama
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9. 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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"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

10. Ubu Roi

By: Barbara Wright , Alfred Jarry , Franciszka Themerson

3.55

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Championed by Dadaists and Surrealists as the first absurdist drama, the play features a main chara… read more

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11. A Dream Play

By: August Strindberg , Caryl Churchill

3.56

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In Strindberg's A Dream Play, written in 1901, characters merge into each other, locations change i… read more

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12. East is East

By: None

4.31

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

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13. Les Bonnes

By: Jean Genet

3.60

Format: 222 pages, Pocket Book

The Maids (Les Bonnes) is Jean Genet's most oft-revived work for the stage. First performed in Pari… read more

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  • theatre
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"I, his mistress, mad with grief, shall follow him...I shall share his glory. You speak of widowhood and deny me the white gown - the mourning of queens."

-Jean Genet, Les Bonnes

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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. 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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16. La Leçon

By: Eugène Ionesco , Emmanuel Jacquart

3.20

Format: None pages,

La Lecon est l'une des pieces les plus jouees et les plus lues d'Eugene Ionesco. Elle commence comm… read more

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17. The Cherry Orchard

By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more

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18. North

By: Seamus Heaney

4.00

Format: 204 pages, Paperback

In NorthSeamus Heaney found a myth which allowed him to articulate a vision of Ireland - its people… read more

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19. Savannah Bay

By: Marguerite Duras

3.34

Format: 144 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Tu ne sais plus qui tu es, qui tu as été, tu sais que tu as joué, tu ne sais plus ce que tu as joué… read more

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  • drama
Cover of Ce qui arriva quand Nora quitta son mari ou les piliers de la société by Elfriede Jelinek

20. Ce qui arriva quand Nora quitta son mari ou les piliers de la société

By: Elfriede Jelinek

3.30

Format: 79 pages, Paperback

Théâtre avec treize personnages principaux: cinq femmes, huit hommes et des ouvrières. read more

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  • plays
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Cover of Roberto Zucco suivi de Tabataba - Coco by Bernard-Marie Koltès

21. 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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  • plays

11 best-selling fiction books like Endgame by Samuel Beckett

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The Chairs

Eugène Ionesco , Martin Crimp

3.85

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Blasted

Sarah Kane

3.81

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Fear and Misery of the Third Reich

Bertolt Brecht , John Willett , Tom Kuhn

3.50

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The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot , Michael North

3.80

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Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

3.80

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Top Girls

Caryl Churchill

3.58

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Dangling Man

Salman Rushdie , Saul Bellow

3.51

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The Pillowman

Martin McDonagh

4.30

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