Trainspotting. Poster of the 1996 movie and cover of the 1993 book
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Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh, 1993
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Danny Boyle, 1996

26-year-old Mark Renton is an unemployed heroin addict living with his parents in the suburbs of Edinburgh, Scotland. After several unsuccessful attempts to reintegrate into society, Renton, Sick Boy and Spud relapse into heroin use. Upon returning home after revival at a hospital, Renton’s parents lock him in his childhood bedroom and force him to go cold turkey.


Inspector Morse. Poster of the 1987 TV series and cover of the 1975 book, Last Bus to Woodstock
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Last Bus to Woodstock
Colin Dexter, 1975
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John Madden, Peter Hammond, Herbert Wise, Adrian Shergold, Alastair Reid, 1987-2000

Chief Inspector Morse is a senior officer within the Criminal Investigation Department of the Oxford Police. He investigates heavy crimes in and around Oxford with his sidekick, Detective Sergeant Lewis. Morse is a grumpy classical music aficionado who loves beer, and who frequently loses patience with the earnest, but somewhat slow, Lewis.


Slumdog Millionaire. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the 2005 book, Q & A
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Q & A
Vikas Swarup, 2005
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Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan, 2008

Eighteen-year-old Jamal Malik, an Indian Muslim from the Dharavi slum, is a contestant on Kaun Banega Crorepati, and is one question away from the grand prize. However, before the $20 million question,he is detained and tortured by the police, who suspect him of cheating.


127 Hours. Poster of the 2010 movie and cover of the 2004 book, Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Aron Ralston, 2004
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Danny Boyle, 2010

In April 2003, avid mountaineer Aron Ralston goes hiking at Utah’s Canyonlands National Park; he did not tell anyone where he was going. He shortly begins recording a video diary using his camcorder to maintain morale, as he chips away parts of the boulder with a pocket knife.


Steve Jobs. Poster of the 2015 movie and cover of the 2011 book
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Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson, 2011
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Danny Boyle, 2015

In 1984, the Apple Macintosh 128K’s voice demo fails less than an hour before its unveiling at Flint Center. Apple co-founder Steve Jobs demands engineer Andy Hertzfeld to fix it, threatening to publicly implicate him in the presentation’s credits if he does not. Jobs bonds with Lisa over her MacPaint art and agrees to provide more money and a house.


T2 Trainspotting. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 1993 book, Trainspotting
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Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh, 1993
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Danny Boyle, 2017

Twenty years after stealing £8,000 in drug money from his friends and making a new life in Amsterdam, 46-year old Mark Renton suffers a heart attack in a gym. Daniel Spud Murphy has returned to a cycle of heroin addiction after separating from his wife, Gail, and losing access to his teenage son, Fergus, whom he fathered shortly after Renton left.


T2 Trainspotting. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 2002 book, Porno
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Porno
Irvine Welsh, 2002
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Danny Boyle, 2017

Twenty years after stealing £8,000 in drug money from his friends and making a new life in Amsterdam, 46-year old Mark Renton suffers a heart attack in a gym. Daniel Spud Murphy has returned to a cycle of heroin addiction after separating from his wife, Gail, and losing access to his teenage son, Fergus, whom he fathered shortly after Renton left.


Pistol. Poster of the 2022 TV series and cover of the 2016 book, Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol
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Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol
Steve Jones, 2016
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Danny Boyle, 2022-

She story of the Sex Pistols, a punk band of spotty, noisy, working-class kids with “no future” who shook the boring, corrupt Establishment to its core, threatened to bring down the government and changed music and culture forever in the mid-1970s.


The Beach. Poster of the 2000 movie and cover of the 1996 book
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The Beach
Alex Garland, 1996
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Danny Boyle, 2000

Richard, a young American seeking adventure in Bangkok, stays in a drab travelers’ hotel in Khao San Road where he meets a young French couple, Françoise and Étienne, and he immediately becomes attracted to Françoise. Daffy explains that he and other travelers settled there in secret several years earlier, but difficulties arose and he chose to leave. Daffy commits suicide, leaving Richard a map to the island.