The Godfather. Poster of the 1972 movie and cover of the 1969 book
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The Godfather
Mario Puzo, 1969
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Francis Ford Coppola, 1972

The offspring of the head of New York’s most influential Mafia dynasty returns from war with a resolve to forge his own path, only to find himself drawn into a conflict between his father’s entrenched traditions and the encroaching rivals endangering the family’s enterprise.


Misery. Poster of the 1990 movie and cover of the 1987 book
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Misery
Stephen King, 1987
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Rob Reiner, 1990

Famed novelist Paul Sheldon is the author of a successful series of Victorian romance novels featuring a character named Misery Chastain. Wanting to focus on more serious stories, he writes a manuscript for a new novel that he hopes will launch his post-Misery career. Soon after, Annie reads the latest Misery novel, discovers that Misery dies at the end of the book, and flies into a rage.


Brian's Song. Poster of the 1971 movie and cover of the 1970 book, I Am Third
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I Am Third
Gale Sayers, 1970
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Buzz Kulik, 1971

The true story of a special relationship between two professional football players, Gale Sayers and Brian Piccolo. Both star players for the Chicago Bears, Sayers and Piccolo soon became roommates and best friends. When Sayers suffers a knee injury in mid-season, it is Piccolo who prods and inspires him to work toward a complete recovery. Then fate deals a cruel blow: Piccolo is stricken with malignant cancer.


A Bridge Too Far. Poster of the 1977 movie and cover of the 1974 book
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A Bridge Too Far
Cornelius Ryan, 1974
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Richard Attenborough, 1977

Operation Market Garden envisions 35,000 men being flown 300 miles from air bases in England and dropped behind enemy lines in the Netherlands. Although British officers note that the portable radios are not likely to work for the long distance from the drop zone to the Arnhem Bridge, they choose not to convey their concerns up a chain of command intent on silencing all doubt.


Thief. Poster of the 1981 movie and cover of the 1975 book, The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar
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The Home Invaders: Confessions of a Cat Burglar
Frank Hohimer, 1975
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Michael Mann, 1981

Frank, a straightforward former convict and expert safecracker, intends to retire from the criminal realm after executing one last diamond heist. However, he soon realizes that making a clean getaway is more challenging than he had anticipated.


Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the 1978 book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett, 1978
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Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, 2009

Flint Lockwood is an aspiring scientist who lives in Swallow Falls, a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that has sardines as the base of its economy, but the Baby Brent Sardines cannery has closed and gone bankrupt due to worldwide disgust of sardines as food, which was all the residents had to eat from then on. Flint lives with Tim, his widowed father, and his pet monkey, Steve. When Flint turns the machine back on, it ends up rocketing through town which accidentally destroys the town square of the Sardine Land before ultimately rocketing up into the sky.


Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs. Poster of the 2009 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Stacia Deutsch, 2009
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Phil Lord, Christopher Miller, 2009

Flint Lockwood is an aspiring scientist who lives in Swallow Falls, a tiny island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean that has sardines as the base of its economy, but the Baby Brent Sardines cannery has closed and gone bankrupt due to worldwide disgust of sardines as food, which was all the residents had to eat from then on. Flint lives with Tim, his widowed father, and his pet monkey, Steve. When Flint turns the machine back on, it ends up rocketing through town which accidentally destroys the town square of the Sardine Land before ultimately rocketing up into the sky.


Cinderella Liberty. Poster of the 1973 movie and cover of the 1973 book
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Cinderella Liberty
Darryl Ponicsan, 1973
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Mark Rydell, 1973

John Baggs Jr. is a US Navy sailor who falls in love with Maggie, an attractive woman hustling sailors at a pool table. John will becoming a surrogate father figure for Maggie’s bi-racial 10-year-old son Doug during an extended liberty due to his service records being lost.


Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
Stacia Deutsch, 2013
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Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn, 2013

Following the events of the first film, inventor Flint Lockwood and his friends celebrate their success in saving the world from the food storm created by the Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator. Chester shows Flint that the FLDSMDFR is still functioning and creating food-animal hybrids.


Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 1978 book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Judi Barrett, Ron Barrett, 1978
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Cody Cameron, Kris Pearn, 2013

Following the events of the first film, inventor Flint Lockwood and his friends celebrate their success in saving the world from the food storm created by the Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator. Chester shows Flint that the FLDSMDFR is still functioning and creating food-animal hybrids.


Fast Charlie. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 2001 book, Gun Monkeys
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Gun Monkeys
Victor Gischler, 2001
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Phillip Noyce, 2023

Charlie Swift, a devoted friend and professional hitman, is determined to take down the new rising crew responsible for the assassination of his elderly mafia boss.


Poodle Springs. Poster of the 1998 movie and cover of the 1989 book
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Poodle Springs
Raymond Chandler, Robert B. Parker, 1989
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Bob Rafelson, 1998

Marlowe, who is in his middle age, has gained a few pounds and a new wife named Laura, a wealthy heiress, in 1963. The couple resides in a home that Laura’s father gave them in Poodle Springs, California, near the Nevada line. Marlowe is released after being falsely accused of murder thanks to Laura, and he is then recruited to find a gambler who owes $100,000. Marlowe discovers a blackmail plot involving stripper Lola while looking into the lowlife photographer Larry Victor.