January 2013

Booklists · Books and Movies

In honor of the Academy Awards, we're spotlighting books made into movies, recent biographies about movie stars, and titles about the colorful history of Hollywood!

Books Into Movies (Adults)

cover of The Wettest County in the World

The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story (movie title: Lawless)

Matt Bondurant

20 Times a Lady (movie title: What's Your Number?)

Karyn Bosnak

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

One Shot: A Jack Reacher Novel

Lee Child

The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins

The Lincoln Lawyer

Michael Connelly

The Paperboy

Pete Dexter

One for the Money

Janet Evanovich

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Jonathan Safran Foer

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Seth Grahame-Smith

The Woman in Black

Susan Hill

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

John Le Carre

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Michael Lewis

Life of Pi

Yann Martel

Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History

Antonio J. Mendez

Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal (movie title: The Social Network)

Ben Mezrich

Cloud Atlas

David Mitchell

I Don’t Know How She Does It: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother

Allison Pearson

The Silver Linings Playbook

Matthew Quick

Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho

Stephen Rebello

Drive

James Sallis

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkein

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Paul Torday

Books Into Movies (Kids)

Mr. Popper's Penguins

Richard Atwater

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Judi Barrett

Nurse Matilda: The Collected Tales

Christianna Brand

Beezus and Ramona

Beverly Cleary

How to Train Your Dragon

Cressida Cowell

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Roald Dahl

Rodrick Rules (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Jeff Kinney

Judy Moody and the Bummer Summer

Megan McDonald

Winnie the Pooh

A.A. Milne

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Brian Selznick

The Lorax

Dr. Seuss

Biographies

Robert Redford: The Biography

Michael Feeney Callan

Michael Douglas: A Biography

Marc Elio

I, Rhoda: A Memoir

Valerie Harper

I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down

Jennifer Hudson

The Longest Way Home: One Man's Quest for the Courage to Settle Down

Andrew McCarthy

The Man Who Saw a Ghost: The Life and Work of Henry Fonda

Devin McKinney

Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand

William J. Mann

My Mother was Nuts: A Memoir

Penny Marshall

Both of Us: My Life with Farrah

Ryan O'Neal; with Jodee Blanco and Kent Carroll

I Hate Everyone--Starting with Me

Joan Rivers

Marilyn & Me: A Photographer's Memories

Lawrence Schiller

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Along the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez

My Extraordinary Ordinary Life

Sissy Spacek with Maryanne Vollers

MOVIES & MISCELLANEA

Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob (and Sex)

Peter Bart

MGM: Hollywood's Greatest Backlot

Steven Bingen

Queue Tips: Discovering Your Next Great Movie

Robert Christopher

The Great Movies III

Roger Ebert

The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors on Their Epiphanies in the Dark

Robert K. Elder

The Academy Awards: The Complete Unofficial History

Gail Kinn and Jim Piazza

George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-By-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies, Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success

Leonard Maltin's 151 Best Movies You've Never Seen

Leonard Maltin

Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties from the Editors of Vanity Fair

Graydon Carter and David Friend

The Rough Guide to Cult Movies

Taschen's 100 All-Time Favorite Movies

Weird Hollywood: Your Travel Guide to Hollywood's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets

Joe Oesterle

Need more suggestions? Contact your local library and a reference librarian will be happy to assist you.