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It's a podcast about filmographies! Directors who have massive success early on and are given a series of blank checks. Sometimes those checks clear, and sometimes the bounce baybeeeeeee.
This is a list for books:
-Written by hosts or guests of the podcast
-That were adapted into films covered by the podcast
This is a list for books:
-Written by hosts or guests of the podcast
-That were adapted into films covered by the podcast
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Vacationland: True Stories from Painful Beaches
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4.03 avg rating — 19,076 ratings
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The Ice Storm
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3.65 avg rating — 6,139 ratings
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#VERYFAT #VERYBRAVE: The Fat Girl's Guide to Being #Brave and Not a Dejected, Melancholy, Down-in-the-Dumps Weeping Fat Girl in a Bikini
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4.10 avg rating — 3,010 ratings
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Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture That Shapes Me
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3.81 avg rating — 1,574 ratings
score: 182,
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All We Can Do Is Wait
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Richard Lawson (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 2,298 ratings
score: 173,
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The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon
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Dana Schwartz (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 583 ratings
score: 168,
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Cloud Atlas
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4.01 avg rating — 266,042 ratings
score: 152,
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Terms of Endearment
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4.13 avg rating — 26,434 ratings
score: 139,
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Brokeback Mountain
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4.02 avg rating — 51,409 ratings
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Life of Pi
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James and the Giant Peach
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score: 119,
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Bong Joon Ho: Dissident Cinema
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3.92 avg rating — 87 ratings
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Lose Well
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4.06 avg rating — 1,330 ratings
score: 98,
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Medallion Status: True Stories from Secret Rooms
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4.15 avg rating — 5,499 ratings
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Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road
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4.32 avg rating — 4,982 ratings
score: 97,
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The Adventure Zone Vol.1: Here There Be Gerblins
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4.33 avg rating — 26,717 ratings
score: 97,
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Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
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4.19 avg rating — 1,628 ratings
score: 96,
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A Field Guide to Internet Boyfriends: Meme-Worthy Celebrity Crushes from A to Z
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3.86 avg rating — 92 ratings
score: 95,
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Monsters of the Week: The Complete Critical Companion to The X-Files
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4.04 avg rating — 272 ratings
score: 94,
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The BFG
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4.23 avg rating — 523,012 ratings
score: 94,
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Beyond the Best Dressed: A Cultural History of the Most Glamorous, Radical, and Scandalous Oscar Fashion
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3.71 avg rating — 78 ratings
score: 93,
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Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor (Anatomy of an Actor, #6)
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Amy Nicholson (Contributor)
3.96 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 92,
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Raw Dog: The Naked Truth About Hot Dogs
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3.88 avg rating — 8,580 ratings
score: 91,
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Faking It: The Lies Women Tell about Sex--And the Truths They Reveal
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Lux Alptraum (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 427 ratings
score: 90,
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Right Body, Wrong Junk
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4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 88,
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The Old Place
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3.56 avg rating — 6,311 ratings
score: 87,
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A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure
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3.86 avg rating — 2,371 ratings
score: 86,
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The Areas of My Expertise: An Almanac of Complete World Knowledge Compiled with Instructive Annotation and Arranged in Useful Order
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3.81 avg rating — 13,736 ratings
score: 85,
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Horse Meets Dog
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3.82 avg rating — 468 ratings
score: 84,
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Maniac of New York: The Death Train (Volume 1)
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3.81 avg rating — 445 ratings
score: 83,
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Flash Gordon Holiday Special: Digital Exclusive Edition
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 81,
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Everybody Has a Podcast (Except You): A How-to Guide from the First Family of Podcasting
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4.18 avg rating — 1,469 ratings
score: 80,
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Goldie's Guide to Grandchilding
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3.68 avg rating — 77 ratings
score: 79,
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Approaching the End: Imagining Apocalypse in American Film
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3.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
score: 78,
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All Due Respect . . . The Sopranos Changes Everything: A Chapter From The Revolution Was Televised by Alan Sepinwall
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Alan Sepinwall (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 76,
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The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever
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Alan Sepinwall (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,789 ratings
score: 75,
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TV (the Book): Two Experts Pick the Greatest American Shows of All Time
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Alan Sepinwall (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 1,909 ratings
score: 74,
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Anatomy: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology, #1)
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Dana Schwartz (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 106,466 ratings
score: 73,
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And We're Off
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Dana Schwartz (Goodreads Author)
3.20 avg rating — 2,465 ratings
score: 72,
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Aliens Vs Parker
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2.98 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 70,
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It Never Ends: A Memoir with Nice Memories!
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4.21 avg rating — 1,677 ratings
score: 69,
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Taking Woodstock: The Shooting Script
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3.61 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 68,
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The Hulk: The Illustrated Screenplay (Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook)
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3.13 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 67,
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Age of Cage
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3.75 avg rating — 1,260 ratings
score: 66,
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On BTS: Pop Music, Fandom, Sincerity
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4.47 avg rating — 217 ratings
score: 65,
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I Hate You, Old Man: Film Nerd 2.0 vs Friday The 13th
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score: 64,
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You're Watching It Wrong: The Film Nerd 2.0 Guide To Star Wars
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3.34 avg rating — 32 ratings
score: 63,
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An Angel at My Table: The Complete Autobiography (Autobiography, #1-3)
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4.21 avg rating — 2,545 ratings
score: 62,
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The Power of the Dog
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4.17 avg rating — 15,729 ratings
score: 61,
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Sense and Sensibility
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4.09 avg rating — 1,285,195 ratings
score: 60,
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Spider-Man: Far From Home: Peter and Ned's Ultimate Travel Journal
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Preeti Chhibber (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 261 ratings
score: 59,
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A Jedi You Will Be
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Preeti Chhibber (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 567 ratings
score: 58,
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The Lost World (Jurassic Park, #2)
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3.88 avg rating — 178,713 ratings
score: 56,
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Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake
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4.04 avg rating — 62,032 ratings
score: 55,
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 346,992 ratings
score: 54,
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War Horse (War Horse, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 58,709 ratings
score: 53,
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The Prestige
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3.92 avg rating — 24,498 ratings
score: 52,
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The Devil Wears Prada (The Devil Wears Prada, #1)
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3.81 avg rating — 931,259 ratings
score: 51,
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
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3.71 avg rating — 160,674 ratings
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We Can Remember It for You Wholesale
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3.95 avg rating — 9,581 ratings
score: 49,
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Starship Troopers
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4.01 avg rating — 244,828 ratings
score: 48,
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Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
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Judith C. Brown (Author, Series Editor)
3.68 avg rating — 944 ratings
score: 47,
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"Oh..."
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3.27 avg rating — 810 ratings
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The Invisible Man
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3.63 avg rating — 215,259 ratings
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,287,594 ratings
score: 44,
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The Iron Giant
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3.86 avg rating — 12,641 ratings
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Lust, Caution
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3.70 avg rating — 2,084 ratings
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Woe to Live On
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4.19 avg rating — 1,938 ratings
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Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
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3.79 avg rating — 31,003 ratings
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Lottie and Lisa (Puffin Story Books)
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Dad on Pills: Fatherhood and Mental Illness
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For Love of the Game
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3.93 avg rating — 1,751 ratings
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A Simple Plan
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3.91 avg rating — 34,036 ratings
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Sweet Charity
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3.69 avg rating — 115 ratings
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Goodbye to Berlin
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3.93 avg rating — 21,624 ratings
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Death of a Playmate: A True Story of a Playboy Centerfold Killed by her Jealous Husband (The Stacks Reader Series)
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3.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Lenny: A Play, Based on the Life and Words of Lenny Bruce (Evergreen Black Cat B-355)
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3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Coraline
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 775,412 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
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Lolita
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Spartacus
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Red Alert
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3.87 avg rating — 1,236 ratings
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2001: A Space Odyssey (Space Odyssey, #1)
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4.18 avg rating — 334,228 ratings
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 1,686,480 ratings
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Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 293,219 ratings
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Paths of Glory
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Clean Break
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3.94 avg rating — 285 ratings
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The Luck of Barry Lyndon
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3.62 avg rating — 2,845 ratings
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The Short-Timers
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Traumnovelle
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3.76 avg rating — 20,804 ratings
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Dark Town (Dark Town, #1)
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Kaja Blackley (Goodreads Author)
3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Millions
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Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
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The Beach
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Q & A
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
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Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,349,833 ratings
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Porno (Mark Renton, #3)
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