The most popular play books of 2025

A play is a story written for the stage. On the page you get the dialogue and the bare directions, and your imagination supplies the rest. Tragedies, comedies and modern dramas are all here, from the classics to work first staged last year. This list shows the ones first published in 2025.

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Beyond
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Beyond

Jennifer Engel

Published 2025

174 pages

The Merger
Cover of The Merger

The Merger

Adriana Locke

Published 2025

310 pages

Macbeth
Cover of Macbeth

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Published 2025

141 pages

Glass Hours
Cover of Glass Hours

Glass Hours

Susan Molyneaux

Published 2025

328 pages

Turned
Cover of Turned

Turned

Emma Bloor

Published 2025

366 pages

Medieval English Theatre 46
Cover of Medieval English Theatre 46

Medieval English Theatre 46

Elisabeth Dutton, Sarah Carpenter, Meg Twycross, Gordon Kipling

Published 2025

178 pages