Hidden Figures. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 2016 book
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Hidden Figures
Margot Lee Shetterly, 2016
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Theodore Melfi, 2016

In 1961, Katherine Johnson works as a human computer in the West Area Computers division of the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, alongside aspiring engineer Mary Jackson and their unofficial acting-supervisor Dorothy Vaughan. Encouraged by her team leader Karl Zielinski, a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor, Mary applies for an official NASA engineer position.


Spider-Man. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the 1963 comic book, The Amazing Spider-Man
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The Amazing Spider-Man
Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, 1963
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Sam Raimi, 2002

On a school trip, high school senior Peter Parker visits a Columbia University genetics laboratory, where he is bitten by a genetically engineered super spider that escaped from containment and seemingly falls ill after returning home.


Spider-Man. Poster of the 2002 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Spider-Man
Peter David, 2002
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Sam Raimi, 2002

On a school trip, high school senior Peter Parker visits a Columbia University genetics laboratory, where he is bitten by a genetically engineered super spider that escaped from containment and seemingly falls ill after returning home.


Spider-Man 2. Poster of the 2004 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Spider-Man 2
Peter David, 2004
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Sam Raimi, 2004

Two years after Norman Osborn’s death, Peter Parker, a.k.a. Harry, who is now head of Oscorp’s genetic and scientific research division, is sponsoring a fusion power project by nuclear scientist Otto Octavius, who befriends and mentors Peter.


Little Women. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the 1868 book
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Little Women
Louisa May Alcott, 1868
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Gillian Armstrong, 1994

In 1868, Jo March, a teacher in New York City, goes to Mr. Dashwood, an editor who agrees to publish a story she has written. In New York, Jo becomes hurt when Friedrich Bhaer, a professor infatuated with her, constructively criticizes her writing, causing her to end their friendship.


Little Women. Poster of the 1994 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Little Women
Laurie Lawlor, 2012
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Gillian Armstrong, 1994

In 1868, Jo March, a teacher in New York City, goes to Mr. Dashwood, an editor who agrees to publish a story she has written. In New York, Jo becomes hurt when Friedrich Bhaer, a professor infatuated with her, constructively criticizes her writing, causing her to end their friendship.


The Virgin Suicides. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1993 book
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The Virgin Suicides
Jeffrey Eugenides, 1993
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Sofia Coppola, 1999

In the suburbs of Grosse Pointe, Michigan, a group of neighborhood boys—now grown men—reflect upon their memories of the five Lisbon sisters, ages 13 to 17, in the late 1970s. Unattainable due to their overprotective parents, math teacher Ronald Lisbon and his homemaker wife Sara, the girls—Therese, Mary, Bonnie, Lux, and Cecilia—are enigmas who fill the boys’ conversations and dreams.


Wag the Dog. Poster of the 1997 movie and cover of the 1993 book, American Hero
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American Hero
Larry Beinhart, 1993
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Barry Levinson, 1997

The president is caught making advances on an underage girl inside the Oval Office, less than two weeks before the election. Inspired by the idea that he was discarded like an old shoe, Brean and Motss ask the Pentagon to provide a special forces soldier with a matching name around whom a POW narrative can be constructed.


Jumanji. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the 1981 book
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Jumanji
Chris Van Allsburg, 1981
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Joe Johnston, 1995

In 1969, Brantford, New Hampshire, Alan Parrish lives with his parents, Sam and Carol-Anne, in a large mansion. Alan then inadvertently rolls the dice after being startled by the chiming clock; a message tells him to wait in a jungle until someone rolls a five or eight, and he is sucked into the game.


Jumanji. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the book novelization
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Jumanji
Todd Strasser, 1995
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Joe Johnston, 1995

In 1969, Brantford, New Hampshire, Alan Parrish lives with his parents, Sam and Carol-Anne, in a large mansion. Alan then inadvertently rolls the dice after being startled by the chiming clock; a message tells him to wait in a jungle until someone rolls a five or eight, and he is sucked into the game.


The Power of the Dog. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 1967 book
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The Power of the Dog
Thomas Savage, 1967
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Jane Campion, 2021

The year is 1925. The Burbank brothers are wealthy ranchers in Montana. At the Red Mill restaurant on their way to market, the brothers meet Rose, the widowed proprietress, and her impressionable son Peter. Phil, one of the brothers, will end up launching a campaign against the young widow when she unexpectedly marries his brother and comes to live on the ranch.


Marie Antoinette. Poster of the 2006 movie and cover of the 2001 book, Marie Antoinette: The Journey
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Marie Antoinette: The Journey
Antonia Fraser, 2001
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Sofia Coppola, 2006

Fourteen-year-old Maria Antonia is the beautiful, charming, and naïve Archduchess of Austria, youngest of Empress Maria-Theresa’s daughters. In 1770, the only one left unmarried among her sisters, she is sent by her mother to marry the Dauphin of France, the future Louis XVI, to seal an alliance between the two rival countries.