7 best-selling film books like Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson

Cover of Boogie Nights by Paul Thomas Anderson

Boogie Nights

By: Paul Thomas Anderson

4.40

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Fabe…

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Cover of Oblivion: Stories by David Foster Wallace

1. Oblivion: Stories

By: David Foster Wallace

4.07

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity wi… read more

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  • fiction
"She smelled of talcum powder and Big Red."

-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories

"The great myth is that the bad ones don't last long."

-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories

"Am I happy? is one of those questions that, if it has got to be asked, more or less dictates its own answer."

-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories

"It is a fact of life that certain people are corrosive to others' self esteem simply as a function of who and what they are."

-David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories

Cover of The Sluts by Dennis Cooper

2. The Sluts

By: Dennis Cooper

3.79

Format: 263 pages, Paperback

Set largely on the pages of a website where gay male escorts are reviewed by their clients, and tol… read more

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  • fiction
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3. Election

By: Tom Perrotta

4.18

Format: None pages,

A suburban New Jersey high school teacher confronts a student-body election gone haywire in this da… read more

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  • fiction
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4. Scorsese on Scorsese

By: None , Ian Christie

3.97

Format: 250 pages, Paperback

The interviews with the director Martin Scorsese which make up this book reveal a man with an unbri… read more

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  • film
Cover of Gilead (Gilead, #1) by Marilynne Robinson

5. Gilead (Gilead, #1)

By: Marilynne Robinson

3.85

Format: 247 pages, Paperback

Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more

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  • fiction
"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."

-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)

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6. Poor Things

By: Alasdair Gray

3.94

Format: 318 pages, Paperback

One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more

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  • fiction
"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."

-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things

7. Manchester by the Sea: Screenplay

By: Kenneth Lonergan

3.92

Format: None pages,

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8. Lost in Translation

By: Sofia Coppola , None , None

3.97

Format: 68 pages, Hardcover

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9. Less Than Zero

By: Bret Easton Ellis

3.27

Format: None pages, Paperback

Set in Los Angeles in the early 1980's, this coolly mesmerizing novel is a raw, powerful portrait o… read more

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10. Diary Of An Oxygen Thief (The Oxygen Thief Diaries #1)

By: Anonymous

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolit… read more

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11. 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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12. Lie With Me

By: Philippe Besson

4.26

Format: 149 pages, Hardcover

The award-winning, bestselling French novel by Philippe Besson about an affair between two teenage … read more

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  • fiction
"Desire does not go out like a match, it extinguishes slowly as it burns into ash."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"I also know how much of yourself you have to leave behind in order to look like everyone else."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"You get used to everything, even the defection of those you thought you were bound to forever."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

"In the end, love was only possible because he saw me not as who I was, but as the person I would become."

-Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

Cover of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood by Quentin Tarantino

13. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

By: Quentin Tarantino

3.88

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Quentin Tarantino’s long-awaited first work of fiction — at once hilarious, delicious, and brutal —… read more

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  • fiction
  • film
"What’s the secret?"

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Sharon has such a sunny presence that whenever she blocks out the sun, the effect is chilling."

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Due to Cliff's good looks, he'd been manipulating women to do things against their best interests his whole life."

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

"Foreign films, Cliff thought, were more like novels. They didn't care if you liked the main character or not. And Cliff found that intriguing."

-Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Cover of Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley

14. Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll

By: Priscilla Beaulieu Presley

4.00

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir that reveals the intimate story of Elvis Presley and Prisc… read more

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"I loved babying Elvis"

-Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll

"He was a man, a very special man"

-Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll

"He was truly a master at manipulating people"

-Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll

"I was Elvis's doll, his own living doll, to fashion as he pleased"

-Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, Elvis and Me: The True Story of the Love Between Priscilla Presley and the King of Rock N' Roll

Cover of Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay by Jordan Peele

15. Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay

By: Jordan Peele

4.78

Format: 206 pages, Paperback

Jordan Peele’s celebrated screenplay combines horror and dark humor to reveal the terrifying realit… read more

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  • fiction
  • film
Cover of Lady Bird [Screenplay] by Greta Gerwig

16. Lady Bird [Screenplay]

By: Greta Gerwig

4.54

Format: 115 pages, None

A teenager navigates a loving but turbulent relationship with her strong-willed mother over the cou… read more

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  • film
Cover of The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh

17. The Banshees of Inisherin

By: Martin McDonagh

4.59

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

What is he, twelve? Why doesn't he want to be friends with you no more?1923. As shots ring out from… read more

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  • fiction
  • film
Cover of Frances Ha: A Noah Baumbach Picture by Noah Baumbach

18. Frances Ha: A Noah Baumbach Picture

By: Noah Baumbach

4.20

Format: 784 pages, Hardcover

Frances Ha is a modern comic fable that captures the trials and tribulations of a young woman tryin… read more

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"It's that thing when you are with someone, and you love them and they know it and they love you, you know it. But it's a party, you're both talking to other people and you're laughing and shining ...…"

-Noah Baumbach, Frances Ha: A Noah Baumbach Picture

"It's that thing when you're with someone, and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it... but it's a party... and you're both talking to other people, and you're laughing and…"

-Noah Baumbach, Frances Ha: A Noah Baumbach Picture

19. The Big Short: A Screenplay

By: Charles Randolph

4.40

Format: 171 pages, Screenplay

Based upon the award-winning non-fiction account by Michael Lewis, The Big Short tells the story of… read more

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"Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry."

-Charles Randolph, The Big Short: A Screenplay

Cover of Don't Worry, Darling by Carey Van Dyke

20. Don't Worry, Darling

By: Carey Van Dyke

3.97

Format: 95 pages, ebook

Don't Worry, Darling is a psychological thriller about a 1950s housewife whose reality begins to cr… read more

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  • fiction
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21. Boogie Nights

By: Paul Thomas Anderson

4.40

Format: 202 pages, Paperback

One of a hand-picked selection of some of the most popular and cult-worthy titles on Faber and Fabe… read more

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  • fiction
  • film

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David Foster Wallace

4.07

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The Sluts

Dennis Cooper

3.79

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Election

Tom Perrotta

4.18

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Gilead (Gilead, #1)

Marilynne Robinson

3.85

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Fleabag: The Original Play

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

3.95

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Midsommar

Ari Aster

4.31

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge

4.88

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Greta Gerwig

4.54

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