North of Normal. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2014 book
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North of Normal
Cea Sunrise Person, 2014
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Carly Stone, 2022

A young girl who was reared in the forest relocates to the city in the hopes of leading a typical life with her anything but typical mother. Based on Cea Sunrise Person’s memoir recounting the author’s tumultuous, unconventional childhood.


11.22.63. Poster of the 2016 TV series and cover of the 2011 book, 11/22/63
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11/22/63
Stephen King, 2011
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Bridget Carpenter, 2016

Jake Epping, a recently divorced English teacher from Lisbon, Maine, is presented with the chance to travel back in time to 1960 by his long-time friend Al Templeton. He is persuaded into going in an attempt to prevent the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy; however, he becomes attached to the life he makes in the past, which could be the mission’s undoing.


Alias Grace. Poster of the 2017 TV series and cover of the 1996 book
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Alias Grace
Margaret Atwood, 1996
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Margaret Atwood, 2017

Grace Marks, the convicted murderess, has been hired out from prison to serve as a domestic servant in the home of the Governor of the penitentiary. An arrangement is made so that Dr. Jordan will interview Grace during afternoons in the sewing room in the governor’s mansion.


All My Puny Sorrows. Poster of the 2021 movie and cover of the 2014 book
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All My Puny Sorrows
Miriam Toews, 2014
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Michael McGowan, 2021

The story of two Mennonite sisters who have left their strict religious upbringing behind. While one sibling struggles in love and life, the other is a world-famous concert pianist obsessed with ending her life.


Enemy. Poster of the 2013 movie and cover of the 2002 book, The Double
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The Double
José Saramago, 2002
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Denis Villeneuve, 2013

A man attends an erotic show featuring a man and a woman, at an underground club, which culminates with the woman naked and on the verge of crushing a live tarantula under her platform high-heel. Adam rents the other two films in which Anthony has appeared and becomes obsessed with the man, who appears to be his physical twin.


Most Dangerous Game. Poster of the 2020 TV series and cover of the 1924 book, The Most Dangerous Game
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The Most Dangerous Game
Richard Connell, 1924
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Phil Abraham, 2020-

Dodge Maynard accepts a proposal to take part in a deadly game where he quickly learns that he is not the hunter but the prey out of desperation to care for his pregnant wife before a terminal sickness can claim his life.


Indignation. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 2008 book
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Indignation
Philip Roth, 2008
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James Schamus, 2016

Marcus Messner is fighting in the Korean War. In the summer of 1951, before his first year of college, Marcus’s synagogue in Newark, New Jersey mourns the death in Korea of one of his classmates. His father, who runs a kosher butcher shop, is unnerved by the deaths in the war of boys like his son and becomes overwhelmed with paranoia.


Ferrari. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 1991 book, Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine
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Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine
Brock Yates, 1991
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Michael Mann, 2023

Set in the summer of 1957, amidst the glamour of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari faces a profound crisis. The looming threat of bankruptcy jeopardizes the factory he and his wife, Laura, painstakingly built from scratch a decade ago. Their turbulent marriage is further strained by the grief of losing their son, Dino. As Ferrari grapples with his emotions and the complexities of a relationship with Lina Lardi, his drivers’ fervent desire to triumph propels them to the brink during the perilous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.


A Dangerous Method. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 2002 book, The Talking Cure
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The Talking Cure
Christopher Hampton, 2002
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David Cronenberg, 2011

In August 1904, Sabina Spielrein arrives at the Burghölzli, the pre-eminent psychiatric hospital in Zürich, suffering from hysteria and begins a new course of treatment with the young Swiss doctor Carl Jung. The doctors correspond at length before they meet, and begin sharing their dreams and analysing each other, and Freud himself soon adopts Jung as his heir and agent.


A Dangerous Method. Poster of the 2011 movie and cover of the 1993 book, A Most Dangerous Method
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A Most Dangerous Method
John Kerr, 1993
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David Cronenberg, 2011

In August 1904, Sabina Spielrein arrives at the Burghölzli, the pre-eminent psychiatric hospital in Zürich, suffering from hysteria and begins a new course of treatment with the young Swiss doctor Carl Jung. The doctors correspond at length before they meet, and begin sharing their dreams and analysing each other, and Freud himself soon adopts Jung as his heir and agent.


The 9th Life of Louis Drax. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 2004 book, The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
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The Ninth Life of Louis Drax
Liz Jensen, 2004
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Alexandre Aja, 2016

A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.


Dracula Untold. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 1897 book, Dracula
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Dracula
Bram Stoker, 1897
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Gary Shore, 2014

In the 15th century, Vlad Drăculea is the Prince of Wallachia and Transylvania. As a child, he was a royal ward in the palace of the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and was trained to be a soldier in the Sultan’s elite Janissaries corps, where he became their most feared warrior. Now ruling his domains in peace, Vlad and his soldiers discover a helmet in a stream and fear that an Ottoman scouting party is preparing the way for invasion.