Tarzan. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1912 book, Tarzan of the Apes
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Tarzan of the Apes
Edgar Rice Burroughs, 1912
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Chris Buck, Kevin Lima, 1999

In the mid-1860s, an English couple and their infant son are shipwrecked off the Congolese coast. Kala, a female gorilla who recently lost her own child to Sabor, finds the human infant and takes him back to the jungle to raise as her own, despite the disapproval of her mate, Kerchak, who is also their group’s leader.


Truman. Poster of the 1995 movie and cover of the 1992 book
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Truman
David McCullough, 1992
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Frank Pierson, 1995

This biography chronicles the life of America’s President during the latter part of World War II, detailing Truman’s journey from an unknown resident of a small town to becoming the leader of the United States. The book also explores his pivotal decision to authorize the use of the Atomic Bomb against Japan, as well as his subsequent election as the country’s post-war President.


Divergent. Poster of the 2014 movie and cover of the 2011 book
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Divergent
Veronica Roth, 2011
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Neil Burger, 2014

In the futuristic city of dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions: When children reach the age of 16, they undergo a serum-induced psychological aptitude test which indicates their best-suited faction, but they are allowed to choose any faction as their permanent group at the subsequent Choosing Ceremony.


The Pelican Brief. Poster of the 1993 movie and cover of the 1992 book
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The Pelican Brief
John Grisham, 1992
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Alan J. Pakula, 1993

After two Supreme Court justices, Jensen and Rosenberg, are killed by an assassin named Khamel, Tulane University law student Darby Shaw writes a legal brief detailing her theory on why they were killed. An informant calling himself Garcia contacts Washington Herald reporter Gray Grantham with information about the assassinations, but suddenly disappears.


Kiss the Girls. Poster of the 1997 movie and cover of the 1995 book
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Kiss the Girls
James Patterson, 1995
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Gary Fleder, 1997

Washington, D.C. detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross heads to Durham, North Carolina when his niece Naomi, a college student, is reported missing. When she awakens from a drugged state, Kate discovers that she is being held by a masked man calling himself Casanova, and she is one of several prisoners trapped in his lair.


Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House. Poster of the 2017 movie and cover of the 2006 book
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House
Mark Felt, John O'Connor, 2006
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Peter Landesman, 2017

The movie starts on April 11, 1972. Nixon’s advisers at the White House ask Mark Felt how to ask J. Edgar Hoover to step aside as the FBI director. Some days later, Hoover dies. Pat Gray becomes the acting FBI director. In June 1972, the several ex-CIA and FBI agent burglarize Watergate hotel to bug the DNC headquarters.


Someone Like You. Poster of the 2001 movie and cover of the 1997 book, Animal Husbandry
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Animal Husbandry
Laura Zigman, 1997
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Tony Goldwyn, 2001

Jane Goodale has everything going for her. She’s a producer on a popular daytime talk show, and is in a hot romance with the show’s dashing executive producer Ray. But when the relationship goes terribly awry, Jane begins an extensive study of the male animal, including her womanizing roommate Eddie. Jane puts her studies and romantic misadventure to use as a pseudonymous sex columnist.


The People We Hate at the Wedding. Poster of the 2022 movie and cover of the 2017 book
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The People We Hate at the Wedding
Grant Ginder, 2017
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Claire Scanlon, 2022

In this brilliantly bawdy comedy, dysfunctional American siblings Alice and Paul, together with their perpetually upbeat mother, are invited to their estranged half-sister Eloise’s wedding in Britain as a chance to reunite as – more or less – adults and rediscover their old love for one another.