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Readers who finished DNA by Dennis Kelly and wanted more will find 24 strong picks here, all connected by Playwriting, Theater, Drama, and English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

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Top related books to DNA

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Angela — Mark Ravenhill

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Conversations After Sex and Trade — Mark O’Halloran

Conversations After Sex and Trade — Mark O’Halloran

Mark O'Halloran

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Human Nurture — Ryan Calais Cameron

Ryan Calais Cameron

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

The Lovely Bones — Alice Sebold

The Lovely Bones

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays — Luigi Pirandello

Six Characters in Search of an Author and Other Plays

Luigi Pirandello

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Isla — Tim Price

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Anatomy of a Suicide — Alice Birch

Anatomy of a Suicide

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Hamlet — William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Liberation — Ntombizodwa Nyoni

Ntombizodwa Nyoni

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

The Playboy of the Western World—A New Version A Critical Edition — Bisi Adigun

The Playboy of the Western World—A New Version A Critical Edition

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Howard Barker: Plays Twelve At Her Age and Hers; Landscape with Cries; Womanly; Four Dialogues; True Condition — Howard Barker

Howard Barker: Plays Twelve At Her Age and Hers; Landscape with Cries; Womanly; Four Dialogues; True Condition

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Beckett’s Happy Days A Manuscript Study — S. E. Gontarski

Beckett’s Happy Days A Manuscript Study

S. E. Gontarski

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Life of Pi — Yann Martel

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

About Friel The Playwright and the Work — Tony Coult

About Friel The Playwright and the Work

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Not Now — David Ireland

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

The Fir Tree — Hannah Khalil

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Beginning — David Eldridge

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

The Wonderful World of Dissocia — Anthony Neilson

The Wonderful World of Dissocia

Anthony Neilson

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Alfred Fagon Selected Plays — Alfred Fagon

Alfred Fagon Selected Plays

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change Activist Aesthetics — Emer O’Toole

Contemporary Irish Theatre and Social Change Activist Aesthetics — Emer O’Toole

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Cock — Mike Bartlett

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Conversations with Pinter — Harold Pinter

Conversations with Pinter

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Immigration and Contemporary British Theater Finding a Home on the Stage — Victoria Sams

Immigration and Contemporary British Theater Finding a Home on the Stage

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

Baby Reindeer — Richard Gadd

Themes: Playwriting • Theater • Drama

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Playwriting, Theater, Drama — the same threads that run through DNA by Dennis Kelly. Among the authors featured: Mark Ravenhill, Mark O'Halloran, Ryan Calais Cameron, Alice Sebold, and others.

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