Fight Club. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1996 book
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Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk, 1996
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David Fincher, 1999

Fight Club centers on an anonymous narrator, who works as a product recall specialist for an unnamed car company. When he seeks treatment, his doctor sarcastically tells him to visit a support group for testicular cancer victims to ‘see what real suffering is like’. While on a nude beach, the narrator meets Tyler Durden, a charismatic extremist of mysterious means.


Seven. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Seven
Anthony Bruno, 1995
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David Fincher, 1995

Soon-to-retire detective William Somerset is partnered with short-tempered but idealistic David Mills, who has recently moved to an unnamed large city with his wife Tracy. Somerset sympathizes, having had a similar situation with his ex-girlfriend many years earlier, and advises her to tell Mills only if she plans to keep the child.


The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the 1922 book
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
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David Fincher, 2008

On the day that Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, elderly Daisy Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud the diary of Daisy’s lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin’s diary recounts his entire extraordinary life, the primary unusual aspect of which was his aging backwards.


The Big Short. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 2010 book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis, 2010
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Adam McKay, 2015

In 2005, eccentric hedge fund manager Michael Burry discovers that the United States housing market, based on high-risk subprime loans, is extremely unstable. Anticipating the market’s collapse in the second quarter of 2007, as interest rates would rise from adjustable-rate mortgages, he proposes to create a credit default swap market, allowing him to bet against market-based mortgage-backed securities, for profit.


Ocean's Eleven. Poster of the 2001 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Ocean's 11
Dewey Gram, 2001
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Steven Soderbergh, 2001

Following his release from prison, Danny Ocean violates his parole by traveling to California to meet his partner-in-crime and friend Rusty Ryan to propose a heist. Because the casinos are required by the Nevada Gaming Commission to have enough cash on hand to cover all their patrons’ bets, the three predict that on the upcoming night of a highly anticipated boxing match, the Bellagio vault will contain more than $150,000,000.


Moneyball. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2003 book, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
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Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis, 2003
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Bennett Miller, 2011

Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, is hurt by the team’s loss to the New York Yankees in the 2001 American League Division Series. During a scouting visit to the Cleveland Indians, Beane meets Peter Brand, a young Yale economics graduate with radical ideas about how to assess player value.


Sleepers. Poster of the 1996 movie and cover of the 1995 book
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Sleepers
Lorenzo Carcaterra, 1995
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Barry Levinson, 1996

Lorenzo Carcaterra, Tommy Marcano, Michael Sullivan, and John Reilly are childhood friends in Hell’s Kitchen in the mid-1960s. However, they start running small errands for a local gangster, King Benny. There, the boys are physically and sexually abused by guards Sean Nokes, Henry Addison, Ralph Ferguson, and Adam Styler.


Legends of the Fall. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the 1979 book
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Legends of the Fall
Jim Harrison, 1979
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Edward Zwick, 1994

Sick of betrayals the United States government perpetrated on Native Americans, Colonel William Ludlow leaves the Army, moving to a remote part of Montana. Accompanying them are hired hand and former outlaw Decker, Decker’s Cree wife Pet, and daughter Isabel Two. William’s wife Isabel does not adapt to the harsh Montana winters and moves to the East Coast; Tristan vows never to speak of her.


Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Quentin Tarantino, 2021
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Quentin Tarantino, 2019

In February 1969, Hollywood actor Rick Dalton fears his career is fading. Dalton’s best friend and stunt double, Cliff Booth drives Dalton around Los Angeles because Dalton’s driver’s license has been suspended due to his DUI arrests. Booth struggles to find stunt work because of rumors he murdered his wife.


Fury. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1998 book, Death Traps
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Death Traps
Belton Y. Cooper, 1998
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David Ayer, 2014

In April 1945, during the Allies’ decisive advance in the European Theatre, Wardaddy, a seasoned army sergeant, leads a Sherman tank and its five-man crew on a perilous mission deep behind enemy lines.


Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the 1976 book, Interview with the Vampire
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Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, 1976
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Neil Jordan, 1994

In modern-day San Francisco, reporter Daniel Molloy interviews Louis de Pointe du Lac, who claims to be a vampire. Despondent following the death of his wife and unborn child, he drunkenly wanders the waterfront of New Orleans one night and is attacked by the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt. Thirty years pass, and Claudia matures psychologically but remains a little girl in appearance and continues to be treated as such by Lestat.


The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. Poster of the 2007 movie and cover of the 1983 book
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Ron Hansen, 1983
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Andrew Dominik, 2007

In 1881, young starstruck Robert Ford seeks out Jesse James when the James gang is planning a train robbery in Blue Cut, Missouri, making unsuccessful attempts to join the gang with the help of his older brother Charley, already a member. Bob becomes more admiring of Jesse before being sent away, where he stays at the farmhouse of his widowed sister, Martha Bolton, where he rejoins his brother Charley, Hite, and Liddil.