The Catcher Was a Spy. Poster of the 2018 movie and cover of the 1994 book
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The Catcher Was a Spy
Nicholas Dawidoff, 1994
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Ben Lewin, 2018

Moe Berg, a 15-year baseball veteran, joins the war effort as a spy to beat Nazi Germany in the race to build the first atomic bomb. Werner Heisenberg, who won the Nobel Prize in 1932 for pioneering quantum physics, is now in charge of the Nazis’ attempts to create an atom bomb. If so, it will fall to Berg to assassinate the brilliant physicist.


Eileen. Poster of the 2023 movie and cover of the 2015 book
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Eileen
Ottessa Moshfegh, 2015
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William Oldroyd, 2023

Set in cold Boston in the 1960s, Eileen moves between her father’s gloomy, emotionally scarred home and the prison where she is an employee, but is isolated by her colleagues. She becomes infatuated with a charismatic woman who joins the prison staff, but before their relationship can fully blossom, her newfound companion leads her into a shocking criminal act that changes everything.


Barry Munday. Poster of the 2010 movie and cover of the 2003 book, Life Is a Strange Place
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Life Is a Strange Place
Frank Turner Hollon, 2003
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Chris D'Arienzo, 2010

Barry Munday, a lonely womanizer, wakes up after being attacked to realize that he’s missing his family jewels. To make matters worse, he learns he’s facing a paternity lawsuit filed by a woman, Ginger, he can’t remember having sex with. Though unintentional, the two discover that their meeting and subsequent accidents opened up new opportunities for personal growth and relationships.


Radio Free Albemuth. Poster of the 2010 movie and cover of the 1985 book
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Radio Free Albemuth
Philip K. Dick, 1985
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John Alan Simon, 2010

The story is set in an alternate reality America circa 1985 under the authoritarian control of President Fremont. Berkeley record store clerk Nick Brady lives modestly with his wife Rachel and their infant son. Nick has been experiencing strange visions and dreams. He confides in Rachel and his best friend, science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick. Nick calls the source of his visions.


Term Life. Poster of the 2016 movie and cover of the 2011 comic book
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Term Life
A. J. Lieberman, Nick Thornborrow, 2011
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Peter Billingsley, 2016

Nick plans and sells heists to the highest bidder but is forced to take his daughter Cate, who he hasn’t had a relationship with her whole life, on the lam when a job goes bad. Cate has had to fend for herself because her mother Lucy is an alcoholic. Cate gives her father a hard time because of the hideout that has no food, him trying to assert himself in her life.


The Quarry. Poster of the 2020 movie and cover of the 1995 book
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The Quarry
Damon Galgut, 1995
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Scott Teems, 2020

A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man’s unorthodox sermons, but so is a police chief who has his suspicions.