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Faber Drama Books in Order
Below you'll find the complete list of Faber Drama books in publication order. This is generally the recommended reading order for the series.
Reading order verified: March 2026
Quick Answer
What order should I read the Faber Drama series? Start with "The Suppliant Women (By: Aeschylus) (-463)" (1961) and follow publication order through all 62 books.
The complete Faber Drama reading order is listed below in publication sequence.
Publication Order

The Suppliant Women (By: Aeschylus) (-463)
1961

The Suppliant Women (By: Aeschylus)
0

The Complete Dramatic Works (By: Samuel Beckett)
1961

Faith Healer (By: Brian Friel)
1980

Translations (By: Brian Friel)
1981

The Cure at Troy (By: Seamus Heaney)
1991

Skylight (By: David Hare)
1995

Theatre for Children (By: David Wood - UK,Janet Grant)
1999

The Shape of Things (By: Neil LaBute)
2001

The Pillowman (By: Martin McDonagh)
2003

The History Boys (By: Alan Bennett)
2004

Attempts on Her Life (By: Martin Crimp)
2007

Midsummer (By: David Greig)
2009

Dunsinane (By: David Greig)
2010

Black Watch (By: Gregory Burke)
2010

The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (By: David Greig)
2011

Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays (By: Samuel Beckett)
2012

Theatre Craft (By: John Caird)
2013

Look Back in Anger (By: John Osborne)
2013

Betrayal (By: Harold Pinter)
2013

Impro for Storytellers (By: Keith Johnstone)
2014

Shakespeare in Love (By: Tom Stoppard,LeeHall,Marc Norman)
2014

Marina Carr Plays 1 (By: Marina Carr)
2014

The Hard Problem (By: Tom Stoppard)
2015

Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour (By: LeeHall)
2015

The Moderate Soprano (By: David Hare)
2015

This Restless House (By: Zinnie Harris)
2016

Labyrinth (By: Beth Steel)
2016

Dedication (By: Nick Dear)
2016

Donegal (By: Frank McGuinness)
2016

The Red Barn (By: David Hare)
2016

The Sewing Group (By: E.V. Crowe)
2016

Mametz: with a Welsh-language translation (By: Owen Sheers,Ceri Wyn Jones)
2017

My Country; A Work In Progress (By: Carol Ann Duffy,Rufus Norris)
2017

The Mentor (With: Christopher Hampton)
2017

Winter Hill (By: Timberlake Wertenbaker)
2017

The Sum (By: Lizzie Nunnery)
2017

Arcadia (By: Tom Stoppard)
2017

Meet Me at Dawn (By: Zinnie Harris)
2017

The Lie (By: Christopher Hampton,Florian Zeller)
2017

On Blueberry Hill (By: Sebastian Barry)
2017

Christmas Eve (With: Christopher Hampton)
2017

Wind Resistance (By: Karine Polwart Ltd)
2017

Box of Delights (By: John Masefield)
2017

The Jungle (By: Joe Murphy,Joe Robertson)
2017

Julie (By: August Strindberg)
2018

The Rockingham Shoot And Other Dramatic Writings (By: John McGahern)
2018

Unicorns, Almost (By: Owen Sheers)
2018

Greek and Decadence (By: Steven Berkoff)
2018

The Meeting (By: Charlotte Jones)
2018

Alan Ayckbourn (By: )
2018

The Short Plays of Harold Pinter (By: Harold Pinter)
2018

Touching the Void (By: David Greig)
2018

The Height of the Storm (By: Christopher Hampton,Florian Zeller)
2018

The Village (By: April De Angelis)
2018

I'm Not Running (By: David Hare)
2018

A Very Very Very Dark Matter (By: Martin McDonagh)
2018

When We Have Sufficiently Tortured Each Other (By: Martin Crimp)
2019

The Hamburg Plays (By: Martin Crimp)
2019

Writing for Nothing (By: Martin Crimp)
2019

The Inheritance (By: Matthew Lopez)
2020

Alan Ayckbourn (By: Alan Ayckbourn)
2018
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