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NHB Modern Plays Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of NHB Modern Plays books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: April 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the NHB Modern Plays series? Start with "Great Expectations (By: Charles Dickens)" (1861) and follow publication order through all 105 books.
The complete NHB Modern Plays reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order
Great Expectations (By: Charles Dickens)
1861
Mary Queen of Scots Got her Head Chopped Off (By: Liz Lochhead)
1987
Mrs Klein (By: Nicholas Wright)
1988
Honour (By: Joanna Murray-Smith)
1995
Hotel (By: Caryl Churchill)
1997
Scotland Plays (By: Philip Howard)
1998
Anna Weiss (By: Mike Cullen)
1998
Blue Heart (By: Caryl Churchill)
1998
My Boy Jack (By: David Haig)
1998
Jane Eyre (By: Charlotte Brontë,Polly Teale)
1999
Howie the Rookie (By: Mark O'Rowe)
1999
Passing Places (By: Stephen Greenhorn)
1999
Be My Baby (By: Amanda Whittington)
2000
Kes (By: Barry Hines,Lawrence Till)
2000
Love Upon the Throne (By: Patrick Barlow)
2000
Far Away (By: Caryl Churchill)
2000
Push Up (By: Roland Schimmelpfennig,Maja Zade)
2002
His Dark Materials (By: Philip Pullman,Nicholas Wright)
2005
When You Cure Me (By: Jack Thorne)
2005
The Winterling (By: Jez Butterworth)
2006
5/11 (By: Edward Kemp)
2006
Cruising (By: Alecky Blythe)
2007
How To Disappear Completely and Never Be Found (By: Fin Kennedy)
2007
Iron (By: Rona Munro)
2008
Never So Good (By: Howard Brenton)
2008
Happy Now? (By: Lucinda Coxon)
2008
Cherry Blossom (By: Catherine Grosvenor)
2009
Tuesdays at Tesco's (By: Emmanuel Darley,Matthew Hurt,Sarah Vermande)
2009
When the Rain Stops Falling (By: Andrew Bovell)
2009
BUNNY (By: Jack Thorne)
2010
So You Want To Go To Drama School? (By: Helen Freeman)
2011
The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping and other plays (By: Fin Kennedy)
2011
Sex with a Stranger (By: Stefan Golaszewski)
2012
Love & Information (By: Caryl Churchill)
2012
The Haunting (By: Charles Dickens)
2012
The Acting Book (By: John Abbott)
2012
Goodbye to All That (By: Luke Norris)
2012
Herding Cats (By: Lucinda Coxon)
2012
The River (By: Jez Butterworth)
2012
The Last of the Haussmans (By: Stephen Beresford)
2012
NSFW (By: Lucy Kirkwood)
2012
East is East (By: Ayub Khan Din)
2012
Mary Shelley (By: Helen Edmundson)
2012
Once: The Musical (By: Enda Walsh)
2013
The Browning Version (By: Terence Rattigan)
2013
random (By: debbie tucker green)
2013
Jez Butterworth Plays: One (By: Jez Butterworth)
2013
Mogadishu (By: Vivienne Franzmann)
2013
The Weir (By: Conor McPherson)
2013
#Aiww: The Arrest of AI Weiwei (By: Weiwei Ai)
2013
Chimerica (By: Lucy Kirkwood)
2013
Ciphers (By: Dawn King)
2013
Godchild (By: Deborah Bruce)
2013
Let the Right One In (With: Jack Thorne)
2013
The Deep Blue Sea (By: Dan Rebellato,Terence Rattigan)
2014
Parlour Song (By: Jez Butterworth)
2014
The Night Heron (By: Jez Butterworth)
2014
Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin (By: Enda Walsh)
2014
The Improvisation Book: How to Conduct Successful Improvisation Sessions (By: John S.C. Abbott)
2014
A Hard Rain (By: Jon Bradfield)
2014
Love in Idleness / Less Than Kind (By: Terence Rattigan)
2014
Cressida (By: Nicholas Wright)
2014
Blood and Ice (By: Liz Lochhead)
2014
All the Way HomeBook 0) (By: Ayub Khan Din)
2014
Notes on Falling LeavesBook 0) (By: Ayub Khan-Din)
2014
Coram Boy (By: Jamila Gavin)
2014
The Clearing (By: Helen Edmundson)
2015
The Lioness (By: Rebecca Lenkiewicz)
2015
Clybourne Park (By: Bruce Norris)
2015
Joanne (By: Deborah Bruce)
2015
Elephants (By: Rose Heiney)
2016
Kiss Me Quickstep (By: Amanda Whittington)
2016
Russian Dolls (By: Kate Lock)
2016
This is Living (By: Liam Borrett)
2016
F*ck the Polar Bears (By: Tanya Ronder)
2016
Mr Incredible (By: Camilla Whitehill)
2016
Plasticine (By: Sasha Dugdale,Vassily Sigarev)
2016
What Shadows (By: Chris Hannan)
2016
Nice Fish (By: Louis Jenkins,Mark Rylance)
2016
Us/Them (By: Carly Wijs)
2017
Run (By: Stephen Laughton)
2017
Consent (By: Nina Raine)
2017
Mighty Atoms (By: Amanda Whittington)
2017
Sugar Baby (By: Alan Harris)
2017
Saying Yes (By: Griselda Gambaro,Sebastian Doggart)
2017
Comment is Free (By: James Fritz)
2017
Goats (By: Liwaa Yazji,Katharine Halls)
2017
Jekyll & Hyde (By: Robert Louis Stevenson,Evan Placey)
2017
Solemn Mass for a Full Moon in Summer (By: Michel Tremblay,Martin Bowman,Bill Findlay)
2017
The Strongbox (By: Stephanie Jacob)
2018
Woman Caught Unaware (By: Annie Fox)
2018
Glitter Punch (By: Lucy Burke)
2018
Again (By: Stephanie Jacob)
2018
Battlefield (By: Peter Brook)
2018
Nine Night (By: Natasha Gordon)
2018
The Road to Huntsville (By: Stephanie Ridings)
2018
Blackthorn (By: Charley Miles)
2018
The Prisoner (By: Peter Brook,Marie-Hélène Estienne)
2018
The Clink (By: Stephen Jeffreys)
2018
Fast Labour (By: Steve Waters)
2019
Downstate (By: Bruce Norris)
2019
Beached (By: Melissa Bubnic)
2019
Night Time (By: Selma Dimitrijevic)
2019
Jez Butterworth Plays: Two (By: Jez Butterworth)
2020
Family: Three Plays (By: Iain Crichton Smith,Linda McLean,Riccardo Galgani)
2020
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