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The Choral (a short story) (Plays, #34) was the most recently released book by Alan Bennett, on December 16th, 2025.

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Alan Bennett Stats: The highest rated book by Alan Bennett on Book Notification is The Uncommon Reader, a Novella.

The most read book by Alan Bennett on Book Notification is The Uncommon Reader, a Novella. The second most read book is Writing Home, a Collection.

Below is a complete list of Alan Bennett books in publication and chronological order, broken down by series.

List of Standalone Novels in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Killing Time
2024
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List of Short Stories/Novellas in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
8
The Clothes They Stood Up In
1998
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2
8.4
The Uncommon Reader
2006
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List of Collections in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top collections are Writing Home, The Laying on of Hands: Stories, and Telling Tales.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Complete Beyond the Fringe
1963
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2
Me, I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
1978
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3
Office Suite
1981
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4
Objects Of Affection
1982
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5
Two Kafka Plays
1987
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6
Double Bill: Forty Years On & A Woman of No Importance
1988
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7
Intensive Care
1989
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8
10
Single Spies and Talking Heads
1990
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9
7.5
Writing Home
1994
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10
10
The Complete Talking Heads
1998
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11
Alan Bennett at the BBC
1998
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12
A Box Of Alan Bennett
2000
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13
Telling Tales
2000
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14
Untold Stories
2001
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15
6
The Laying on of Hands: Stories
2001
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16
The Clothes They Stood Up In & The Lady in the Van
2002
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17
Three Stories
2003
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18
Rolling Home
2003
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19
Untold Stories - The Diaries
2005
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20
Four Stories
2006
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21
Triple Bill (With: Patricia Routledge, Thora Hird, Imelda Staunton, Hugh Lloyd, Brian Wilde)
2007
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22
Alan Bennett's: On The Margin (With: John Fortune, John Sergeant, Virginia Stride)
2009
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23
Smut
2011
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List of Plays in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top plays are The History Boys, The Lady in the Van, and The Madness of George III.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
Beyond the Fringe
1963
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2
Getting On
1972
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3
The Old Country
1978
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4
Enjoy
1980
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5
A Visit From Miss Prothero
1981
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6
Say Something Happened
1982
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7
Forty Years On
1985
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8
The Writer In Disguise
1985
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9
Kafka's Dick
1986
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10
Talking Heads
1988
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11
Green Forms
1988
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12
Prick Up Your Ears
1988
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13
The Madness of George III
1992
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14
A Woman of No Importance
1994
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15
A Chip in the Sugar
1994
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16
Power Windows
1997
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17
A Cream Cracker Under The Settee
1998
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18
Her Big Chance
1998
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19
Bed Among the Lentils
1998
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20
Talking Heads 2
1998
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21
8
The Lady in the Van
1999
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22
An Englishman Abroad (With: Michael Gambon, Penelope Wilton)
2001
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23
Hymn (With: George Fenton)
2002
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24
8
Two in Torquay
2003
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25
6
The History Boys
2004
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26
The Habit of Art
2009
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27
Hymn and Cocktail Sticks
2012
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28
The Wind in the Willows
2014
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29
Habeas Corpus
2014
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30
Soldiering On
2015
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31
A Lady Of Letters
2015
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32
A Private Function
2016
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33
Allelujah!
2018
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34
The Choral
2025
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List of Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

Ranked by popularity, the top non-fiction books are Keeping On Keeping On, House Arrest, and Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
A Working Life
1990
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2
Red Baron's Last Flight: A Mystery Investigated (With: Norman L.R. Franks)
1997
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3
A Life Like Other People's
2009
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4
Home to Roost: And Other Peckings (With: Deborah Mitford)
2009
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5
Captain Roy Brown, A True Story of the Great War, 1914-1918
2014
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6
Keeping On Keeping On
2017
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7
Two Besides: A Pair of Talking Heads
2020
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8
House Arrest
2022
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9
Alan Bennett: Untold Stories
2022
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10
Alan Bennett: Diaries
2022
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List of Faber Stories Books in Publication Order

A collection of stories by renowned authors, offering diverse and engaging tales.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
A Good Man Is Hard To Find (By: Flannery O'Connor)
1955
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2
The Inner Room (By: Robert Aickman)
1968
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3
Daughters of Passion (By: Julia O'Faolain)
1982
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4
Giacomo Joyce (By: Richard Ellmann)
1983
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5
7
Homeland (By: Barbara Kingsolver)
1989
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6
Shanti (By: Vikram Chandra)
1997
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7
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (By: Thom Jones)
1998
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8
An Elegy for Easterly (By: Petina Gappah)
2009
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9
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
2011
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10
The Cheater's Guide to Love (By: Junot Díaz)
2012
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11
10
Mrs Fox (By: Sarah Hall)
2014
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12
Mostly Hero (By: Anna Burns)
2014
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13
7
Mr Salary (By: Sally Rooney)
2016
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14
5
Come Rain or Come Shine (By: Kazuo Ishiguro)
2019
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15
9.3
The Victim (By: P.D. James)
2019
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16
Dante and the Lobster (By: Samuel Beckett)
2019
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17
Paradise (By: Edna O'Brien)
2019
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18
Cosmopolitan (By: Akhil Sharma)
2019
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19
The Lydia Steptoe Stories (By: Djuna Barnes)
2019
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20
9
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom (By: Sylvia Plath)
2019
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21
Terrific Mother (By: Lorrie Moore)
2019
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22
The Country Funeral (By: John McGahern)
2019
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23
6
The Forester's Daughter (By: Claire Keegan)
2019
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24
Three Types of Solitude (By: Brian W. Aldiss)
2019
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25
A River in Egypt (By: David Means)
2019
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26
Fairy Tales (By: Marianne Moore)
2019
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27
Ghostly Stories (By: Celia Fremlin)
2019
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28
Intruders (By: Adrian Tomine)
2019
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List of Faber Drama Books in Publication Order

A selection of plays, both classic and contemporary.

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
7
The Suppliant Women (By: Aeschylus )
464
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2
The Complete Dramatic Works (By: Samuel Beckett)
1961
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3
Faith Healer (By: Brian Friel)
1980
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4
Translations (By: Brian Friel)
1981
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5
The Cure at Troy (By: Seamus Heaney)
1991
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6
Skylight (By: David Hare)
1995
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7
Theatre for Children (By: David Wood - UK, Janet Grant)
1999
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8
10
The Shape of Things (By: Neil LaBute)
2001
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9
The Pillowman (By: Martin McDonagh)
2003
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10
The History Boys
2004
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11
Attempts on Her Life (By: Martin Crimp)
2007
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12
Midsummer (By: David Greig)
2009
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13
Dunsinane (By: David Greig)
2010
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14
Black Watch (By: Gregory Burke)
2010
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15
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (By: David Greig)
2011
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16
Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays (By: Samuel Beckett)
2012
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17
Theatre Craft (By: John Caird)
2013
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18
Betrayal (By: Harold Pinter)
2013
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19
Impro for Storytellers (By: Keith Johnstone)
2014
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20
Shakespeare in Love (By: Tom Stoppard, Lee Hall, Marc Norman)
2014
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21
Marina Carr Plays 1 (By: Marina Carr)
2014
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22
Everyman (By: Carol Ann Duffy)
2015
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23
6
The Hard Problem (By: Tom Stoppard)
2015
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24
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (By: Lee Hall)
2015
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25
The Moderate Soprano (By: David Hare)
2015
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26
This Restless House (By: Zinnie Harris)
2016
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27
Labyrinth (By: Beth Steel)
2016
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28
Dedication (By: Nick Dear)
2016
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29
Donegal (By: Frank McGuinness)
2016
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30
The Red Barn (By: David Hare)
2016
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31
The Sewing Group (By: E.V. Crowe)
2016
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32
Mametz: with a Welsh-language translation (By: Owen Sheers, Ceri Wyn Jones)
2017
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33
My Country; A Work In Progress (By: Carol Ann Duffy, Rufus Norris)
2017
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34
The Mentor (By: Christopher Hampton, Daniel Kehlmann)
2017
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35
Winter Hill (By: Timberlake Wertenbaker)
2017
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36
The Sum (By: Lizzie Nunnery)
2017
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37
Arcadia ( By: Tom Stoppard)
2017
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38
Meet Me at Dawn (By: Zinnie Harris)
2017
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39
The Lie (By: Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller)
2017
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40
On Blueberry Hill ( By: Sebastian Barry)
2017
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41
Christmas Eve (By: Christopher Hampton, Daniel Kehlmann)
2017
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42
Wind Resistance (By: Karine Polwart Ltd)
2017
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43
Box of Delights (By: John Masefield)
2017
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44
The Jungle (By: Joe Murphy, Joe Robertson)
2017
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45
Julie (By: Polly Stenham)
2018
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46
The Rockingham Shoot And Other Dramatic Writings (By: John McGahern)
2018
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47
Unicorns, Almost (By: Owen Sheers)
2018
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48
Greek and Decadence (By: Steven Berkoff)
2018
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49
The Meeting (By: Charlotte Jones)
2018
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50
Alan Ayckbourn ( By: Alan Ayckbourn)
2018
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51
The Short Plays of Harold Pinter (By: Harold Pinter)
2018
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52
Touching the Void (By: David Greig)
2018
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53
The Height of the Storm (By: Christopher Hampton, Florian Zeller)
2018
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54
The Village (By: April De Angelis)
2018
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55
I'm Not Running (By: David Hare)
2018
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56
A Very Very Very Dark Matter (By: Martin McDonagh)
2018
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57
When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other (By: Martin Crimp)
2019
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58
The Hamburg Plays (By: Martin Crimp)
2019
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59
Writing for Nothing (By: Martin Crimp)
2019
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60
The Inheritance (By: Matthew Lopez)
2020
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List of Plays, Collections & Works Books in Publication Order

ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
The Wind In The Willows
1908
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List of Alan Bennett Anthologies in Publication Order

#ReadTitle Avg.YearBook Link
1
London Review of Books: Anthology 1
1981
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2
8
The Library Book
2012
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Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett was born on May 9th, 1934 and is currently 92 years old. Alan Bennett was born in Leeds, Yorkshire.

Alan Bennett is the author of the Alan Bennett Plays series which currently consists of 34 novels. The Alan Bennett Plays series started in 1963 with the novel Beyond the Fringe. The most recently released novel in the Alan Bennett Plays series was The Choral which was released in 2025. There are no upcoming novels for the Alan Bennett Plays series.

Alan Bennett has also written the Collections series which has 23 books including The Complete Beyond the Fringe and Me, I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

Alan Bennett: Awards & Accolades

Alan Bennett has won multiple awards including: The British Book Awards Outstanding Achievement, in 2003 and the British Book Awards UK Author of the Year, in 2006.

Bennett's book, Writing Home won the British Book Awards, Book of the Year, in 1995.

Alan Bennett: Lists & Other Mentions

  • Writing Home: The Sunday Times: The Top 100 Bestsellers Selection in 2024.

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Alan Bennett: F.A.Q

When was Alan Bennett Born? How old is Alan Bennett?

Alan Bennett was born on May 9th, 1934. Alan Bennett is currently 92 years old.

Where was Alan Bennett Born?

Alan Bennett was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, .

What awards has Alan Bennett won?

Alan Bennett has won the following awards: Outstanding Achievement at the British Book Awards (2003) and the UK Author of the Year at the British Book Awards (2006).

What book awards has Alan Bennett won?

Writing Home: British Book Awards: Book of the Year (1995).

What was the first book Alan Bennett wrote?

The first book written by Alan Bennett was The Wind In The Willows, published in 1908.

What was the most recent book Alan Bennett wrote?

Their most recently released work was The Choral (a short story) on December 16th, 2025.

What is the most popular book by Alan Bennett?

Based on the number of readers on Book Notification, the most popular Alan Bennett book is The Uncommon Reader. Here are their most popular books and their average ratings:
  1. The Uncommon Reader (8.36)
  2. Writing Home (7.50)
  3. The Laying on of Hands: Stories (6.00)
  4. The Clothes They Stood Up In (8.00)
  5. The History Boys (6.00)

Are there upcoming new books by Alan Bennett?

Alan Bennett does not have any upcoming books with a set publication date within the next few months at this time.

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How many books has Alan Bennett written?

Alan Bennett has written 73 books excluding contributions to anthologies. 1 Standalone Novel, 2 Short Stories/Novellas, 23 Collections, 34 books in the Plays, 10 Non-Fiction Books, 1 book in the Faber Stories Series, 1 book in the Faber Drama Series, 1 book in the Plays, Collection & Works Series.

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