The Batman. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the comic book novelization
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The Batman
David Lewman, 2022
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Matt Reeves, 2022

During his second year of fighting crime, Batman pursues the Riddler, a serial killer who targets elite Gotham City citizens. He uncovers corruption that connects to his own family during the investigation, and is forced to make new allies to catch the Riddler and bring the corrupt to justice.


The Batman. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 1940 comic book, Batman
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Batman
Bob Kane, Bill Finger, 1940
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Matt Reeves, 2022

During his second year of fighting crime, Batman pursues the Riddler, a serial killer who targets elite Gotham City citizens. He uncovers corruption that connects to his own family during the investigation, and is forced to make new allies to catch the Riddler and bring the corrupt to justice.


The Devil All the Time. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 2011 book
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The Devil All the Time
Donald Ray Pollock, 2011
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Antonio Campos, 2020

During World War II, while serving in the Solomon Islands, Marine Willard Russell finds the barely alive Gunnery Sergeant Miller Jones skinned and crucified by Japanese soldiers. After the war, on his way home to Coal Creek, West Virginia, Willard passes through Meade, Ohio, where he meets Charlotte, a waitress at a diner.


Water for Elephants. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2006 book
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Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen, 2006
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Francis Lawrence, 2011

Charlie O’Brien, Circus Vargas’ owner, encounters an elderly man named Jacob Jankowski, who is separated from his nursing home group. The two strike up a conversation and Jacob reveals he had a career in the circus business and was present during one of the most infamous circus disasters of all time, equal in seriousness to the 1944 Hartford circus fire and the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus wreck.


The Lost City of Z. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 2009 book
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The Lost City of Z
David Grann, 2009
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James Gray, 2016

In 1905 Percy Fawcett is a young British officer participating in a stag hunt on an Irish baronial estate for the benefit of the visiting Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Fawcett meets the renowned biologist James Murray, who agrees to back Fawcett’s expedition to the Amazon to find what Fawcett calls the Lost City of Z. Fawcett attempts to convince the members of the RGS to back the expedition, but is publicly ridiculed.


Maps to the Stars. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 2012 book, Dead Stars
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Dead Stars
Bruce Wagner, 2012
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David Cronenberg, 2014

A contemporary tale exploring the demons of our celebrity-obsessed society. Stafford Weiss is a psychotherapist and life coach who made his fortune with self-help books. His wife is the overbearing mother-manager of their 13-year-old son, a TV star recently out of drug rehab. Their estranged daughter has just been released from a psychiatric hospital and befriended a limo driver who is also an aspiring actor.


Waiting for the Barbarians. Poster of the 2019 movie and cover of the 1980 book
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Waiting for the Barbarians
J.M. Coetzee, 1980
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Ciro Guerra, 2019

At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate who manages an outpost on the frontiers of an unnamed Empire, suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.


The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 2008 book, Breaking Dawn
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Breaking Dawn
Stephenie Meyer, 2008
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Bill Condon, 2012

Bella, who has just given birth, awakens from her human-to-vampire transformation and is introduced to her daughter Renesmee. The rest of the Cullens and Jacob stay nearby, and when Jacob acts possessively towards Renesmee, Bella learns he has imprinted on her, making her furious until Jacob explains what imprinting is.


Twilight. Poster of the 2008 movie and cover of the 2005 book
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Twilight
Stephenie Meyer, 2005
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Catherine Hardwicke, 2008

Bella Swan, a seventeen-year-old outcast, leaves Phoenix, Arizona and moves to Forks, a small town located on Washington state’s Olympic Peninsula, to live with her father, Charlie, the town’s police chief. Bella becomes re-acquainted with Jacob Black, a Native American teen who lives with his father, Billy, on the Quileute Indian Reservation near Forks.


Cosmopolis. Poster of the 2012 movie and cover of the 2003 book
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Cosmopolis
Don DeLillo, 2003
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David Cronenberg, 2012

Twenty-eight-year-old billionaire currency asset manager Eric Packer rides slowly across Manhattan amid traffic jams, in his state-of-the-art luxury stretch limousine office, to his preferred barber. The traffic jams are caused by a visit of the President of the United States and the funeral of Eric’s favorite musician, a rap artist whose music he plays in one of his two private elevators.


The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Poster of the 2010 movie and cover of the 2007 book, Eclipse
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Eclipse
Stephenie Meyer, 2007
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David Slade, 2010

In Seattle, not far from Forks, Victoria attacks Riley Biers, so she can begin to create an army of newborns with him in order to get her revenge on Edward Cullen for killing her true love James. At eighteen years old, one year older than the age Edward was when he became a vampire, Bella expresses her aversion to the idea of marrying so young, though Edward refuses to turn her into a vampire until they are married, his argument that she should have various human experiences she would otherwise miss.


The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2008 book, Breaking Dawn
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Breaking Dawn
Stephenie Meyer, 2008
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Bill Condon, 2011

Bella Swan is preparing for her wedding. While dancing with Jacob in the woods, away from everyone else, Bella admits that she and Edward plan to consummate their marriage on their honeymoon while she is still human. They fly back home to Forks, Washington.