6 best-selling media tie in books like Raising Arizona by Joel Coen

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Raising Arizona

By: Joel Coen

4.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

It's easy to see why Raising Arizona is one of the best and most beloved films that Ethan and Joel …

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1. Suttree

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.20

Format: 471 pages, Paperback

This compelling novel has as its protagonist Cornelius Suttree, living alone and in exile in a disi… read more

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"Somebody has been fuckin my watermelons."

-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

"But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse"

-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

"What could a child know of the darkness of God's plan? Or how flesh is so frail it is hardly more than a dream"

-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

"You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes."

-Cormac McCarthy, Suttree

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2. Juno: The Shooting Script

By: Diablo Cody , Ivan Reitman

4.08

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Meet Juno MacGuff (Ellen Page), a confidently frank teenage girl who calls the shots with a nonchal… read more

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  • comedy
  • film
"He is the cheese to my macaroni."

-Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script

"Juno: WOOOAH! ....Dreeeaaam BIG!"

-Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script

"Juno MacGuff: I don't know what kind of girl I am. "

-Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script

"Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level."

-Diablo Cody, Juno: The Shooting Script

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3. Fleabag: The Original Play

By: Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

Format: 768 pages,

'I sit on the loo and think about all the people I can have sex with now. I'm not obsessed with sex… read more

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4. Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting

By: Syd Field

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

A generation of screenwriters has used Syd Field's bestselling books to ignite successful careers i… read more

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  • media tie in
  • film
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5. Rushmore

By: Wes Anderson , Owen Wilson

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Rushmoreis the second work from the team of Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson following the success of t… read more

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  • media tie in
  • film

6. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

By: Tom Stoppard , None

3.48

Format: None pages,

Hamlettold from the worm's-eye view of two minor characters, bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenster… read more

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7. Zombie

By: Joyce Carol Oates

3.37

Format: 297 pages, Paperback

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8. The Martian Chronicles

By: Ray Bradbury

3.97

Format: 480 pages,

The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonis… read more

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9. White Noise

By: Don DeLillo

3.86

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra, now a Netflix film… read more

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"The vast and terrible depth." “Of course,"

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"You are the happy one. I am the doomed fool."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

"...the half-concealed disasters that constitute a life."

-Don DeLillo, White Noise

Cover of Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

10. Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

By: Cormac McCarthy

4.16

Format: 351 pages, Paperback

Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expa… read more

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"See the child."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"If war is not holy man is nothing but antic clay."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"Here beyond men's judgments all covenants were brittle."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

"There is no such joy in the tavern as upon the road thereto."

-Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West

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11. The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

By: Cormac McCarthy

3.58

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of… read more

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"All of history [is] a rehearsal for its own extinction."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"...do you think if you died drunk you’d sober up before you met Jesus?"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"The evil has no alternate plan. It is simply incapable of assuming failure"

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

"She asked the girl what she wanted to be when she grew up and she said dead."

-Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger (The Passenger #1)

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12. Cinema Speculation

By: Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Format: 391 pages, Hardcover

The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more

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  • film
"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."

-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation

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13. No One Is Talking About This

By: Patricia Lockwood

3.55

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

A book that asks: Is there life after the internet? As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a… read more

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"Couldn't he see her arms all full of the sapphires of the instant?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"The Flat Earth Society announced it had members all over the globe."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"Every fiber in her being strained. She was trying to hate the police."

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

"What do you mean you've been spying on me, with this thing in my hand that is an eye?"

-Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This

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14. An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

4.28

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more

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"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

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15. My Annihilation

By: Fuminori Nakamura

3.34

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

What transforms a person into a killer? Can it be something as small as a suggestion? Turn this … read more

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"Aristotle, the scholar from ancient times, supposedly said "Even gods cannot change the past." In which case, the gods are useless."

-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

"Take a look around the internet. The ditches into which all evil is eventually swept. People hide their faces and type away without a care, no self-awareness for how their words will be picked up by …"

-Fuminori Nakamura, My Annihilation

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16. The Last Word

By: Taylor Adams

3.71

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

After posting a negative book review, a woman living in a remote location begins to wonder if the a… read more

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"Being seen burdens you with an image you have to maintain."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

"Far worse things can happen to you than some stranger hurting your feelings on the internet."

-Taylor Adams, The Last Word

Cover of From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir (Turner Classic Movies) by Alain Silver

17. From the Moment They Met It Was Murder: Double Indemnity and the Rise of Film Noir (Turner Classic Movies)

By: Alain Silver

3.60

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the quintessential film noir and cult classic, Billy Wilder’s Double… read more

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  • film
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18. You Know You Want This

By: Kristen Roupenian

3.62

Format: 225 pages, Hardcover

A compulsively readable collection of short stories that explore the complex—and often darkly funny… read more

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"I'm a nice guy, I swear to fucking God."

-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

"She wants what she wants," Kath says. Don't we all?"

-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

"Frankly, the whole concept was a little too New Age—y for me."

-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

"He had no faith in love's capacity to cause him anything but pain."

-Kristen Roupenian, You Know You Want This

Cover of Raising Arizona by Joel Coen

19. Raising Arizona

By: Joel Coen

4.23

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

It's easy to see why Raising Arizona is one of the best and most beloved films that Ethan and Joel … read more

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  • comedy
  • film

6 Best film books like Raising Arizona by Joel Coen

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4.08

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4.18

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4.00

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4.06

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4.06

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4.00

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Fyodor Dostoevsky , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky

4.37

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3.45

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