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This mix of fiction and nonfiction books all inspired the creation of a play or musical.
Updated March 5, 2024
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Fun home : a family tragicomic
Bechdel, Alison
Paper Book
DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked...
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Alexander Hamilton
Chernow, Ron.
Ebook
You've seen the show, you've sung the songs, now read the full story of America's most misunderstood founding father. 'I was swept up by the story. I thought it 'out-Dickens' Dickens in the unlikeliness of this man's rise from his humble beginnings in Nevis in the Caribbean, to...
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Crime and punishment : a novel in six parts with epilogue
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Paper Book
'Dostoyevsky's finest masterpiece' John Bayley Dostoyevsky's great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur. It tells the story of Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, who wanders...
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American Psycho
Ellis, Bret Easton.
Paper Book
Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time. A multi-million-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic, it is a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature. With an introduction by...
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The curious incident of the dog in the night-time
Haddon, Mark.
Paper Book
OVER TEN MILLION COPIES SOLD The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about...
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To kill a mockingbird
Lee, Harper.
Paper Book
___________________________________ 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man falsely charged...
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis
Paper Book
In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Henry Jekyll discovers a monster. Developing a serum with the intent of separating his good side from his darker impulses, he periodically transforms into Edward Hyde, a brutal creature, free of any conscience. The scientist's strange behaviour...
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The color purple
Walker, Alice
Paper Book
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The Devil wears Prada
Weisberger, Lauren
Paper Book
The classic multi-million-copy bestseller that inspired the film and the musical! *NOW A WEST END MUSICAL, written by Elton John and starring Vanessa Williams* High fashion, low cunning - and the boss from hell ... When Andrea first...
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