7 must-read media tie in books like This is How You Make a Movie by Tim Grierson

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This is How You Make a Movie

By: Tim Grierson

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Learn movie-making techniques through the movies you know and love with This Is How You Make a Movi…

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1. The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

By: Stephen King

4.28

Format: 1050 pages, Mass Market Paperback

The seventh and final installment of Stephen King's The Dark Tower saga is perhaps the most anticip… read more

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"I don’t like people. They fuck me up"

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"Ending is just another word for goodbye."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

"he sat upon his throne, which is made of skulls..."

-Stephen King, The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

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2. Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)

By: Jim Butcher

4.14

Format: 378 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition with a different page count exists here. Harry Dresden - Wizard Lo… read more

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"Bob,"

-Jim Butcher, Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)

"Murphy,"

-Jim Butcher, Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)

"God save me from idealists."

-Jim Butcher, Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)

"Ease off the martyr throttle."

-Jim Butcher, Grave Peril (The Dresden Files, #3)

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3. Fool Moon (The Dresden Files, #2)

By: Jim Butcher

3.97

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

Harry Dresden--Wizard Lost Items Found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable R… read more

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4. The Wind Through the Keyhole

By: Stephen King , Jae Lee

5.00

Format: 160 pages,

Stephen King returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World, the spectacular territory of the Dark Towe… read more

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5. The Waste Lands

By: Stephen King , Ned Dameron

3.80

Format: 245 pages, Hardcover

Roland, The Last Gunslinger, moves ever closer to The Dark Tower of his dreams and nightmares--as h… read more

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6. The Piano Lesson

By: August Wilson

3.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black exper… read more

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7. 101 Things I Learned ® in Film School

By: Matthew Frederick , Neil Landau

4.17

Format: 78 pages, Hardcover

How to set a scene? What's the best camera angle? How does the new technology interact with scenes?… read more

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8. True Grit

By: Charles Portis

3.20

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Mattie Ross, 14, from Dardanelle, Arkansas, narrates half a century later, her trip in the winter o… read more

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9. Dandelion Wine

By: Ray Bradbury

4.08

Format: 239 pages, Paperback

The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawn… read more

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"No,"

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"and sleeping put an end to summer, 1928,"

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"And the sea moved her back down the shore."

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

"Those women like to see their tongues dance."

-Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

10. Making Movies

By: Sidney Lumet

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Paperback

From one of America's most acclaimed directors comes a book that is both a professional memoir and … read more

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11. Airport

By: Arthur Hailey

3.96

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

As a raging blizzard wreaks havoc at Lincoln International Airport outside Chicago, airport and air… read more

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12. 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

13. Wolves of the Calla

By: Stephen King , Bernie Wrightson

4.34

Format: 413 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Roland Deschain and his ka-tetare bearing southeast through the forests of Mid-World on their quest… read more

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14. Mothering Sunday

By: Graham Swift

4.25

Format: 179 pages, Hardcover

A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more

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15. You Like It Darker

By: Stephen King

4.32

Format: 502 pages, Hardcover

From legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary new coll… read more

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16. 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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"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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17. Foe

By: Iain Reid

3.71

Format: 261 pages, Hardcover

A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I’m Thinking of Ending Things. … read more

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"Good news for someone often means bad news for someone else"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’VE BECOME MORE AWARE OF MYSELF. BECAUSE OF THE SITUATION. NOW THAT I KNOW I’M LEAVING, I SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY. I’VE BEEN AWARE OF LITTLE THINGS THAT I WOULD HAVE MISSED BEFORE. “LIKE WHAT?"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I’ve been told these old barns are physical reminders of an older life, when things were different. They need upkeep. They need to be restored. It would be a tragedy if the one in this field is ablaz…"

-Iain Reid, Foe

"I can remember we were happy, I say. Happy to have our own house. ‘Can you recall anything specific, like a detail, or is it more a feeling you remember?’ Anybody can remember details if you ask them…"

-Iain Reid, Foe

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18. Bullet Train

By: Kōtarō Isaka

3.84

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of… read more

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"My buddy Thomas helped me survive."

-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

"Then Tangerine hangs up. Nanao leans against the window and gazes out, gripping his phone like he's waiting for a call from a lover."

-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

"Tangerine can't quite place how he felt about insects when he was younger. He has memories of killing them wholesale, but also remembers crying over dead ones and giving them miniature funerals"

-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

"Then he (Lemon) leans in to Little Minegishi's corpse and takes hold of the back of the head, nodding it up and down like he's operating a puppet. "Lemon, you are a useful train," he says, doing his …"

-Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

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19. Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

By: Kyle Buchanan

4.33

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A full-speed-ahead oral history of the nearly two-decade making of the cultural phenomenon Mad Max:… read more

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20. Devil House

By: John Darnielle

3.22

Format: 403 pages, Hardcover

Gage Chandler is descended from kings. That's what his mother always told him. Now, he is a true… read more

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"The past is charming and safe when you're skittering around on its surface. It's a nice place to linger a moment before seeking the lower depths."

-John Darnielle, Devil House

"I remember before I finally fell asleep feeling like there wasn't all that much to say about my life. I'd had several satisfying relationships, they hadn't amounted to much. I'd gotten better at my w…"

-John Darnielle, Devil House

"What would my work be like if I had to keep returning to the same story every time, I wondered. If, instead of hunting down sad places where people's lives had been ruined, there was only the one pla…"

-John Darnielle, Devil House

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21. Create Dangerously

By: Albert Camus

3.84

Format: 58 pages, Paperback

'To create today is to create dangerously' Camus argues passionately that the artist has a respo… read more

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"Artists, like everyone else, must take up their oars without dying, if possible."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"To paint a still life, a painter and an apple must confront and adjust to each other."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"Perhaps there is no peace for an artist other than the peace found in the heat of combat."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

"But now the artist is in the amphitheatre. Of necessity, his voice is not quite the same; it is not nearly so firm."

-Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

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22. 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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"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

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23. Solutions and Other Problems

By: Allie Brosh

4.21

Format: 519 pages, Hardcover

Allie Brosh returns with a new collection of comedic, autobiographical, and illustrated essays. … read more

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"If you can't win, start playing a different game and score just as many points."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

"Death can take away your friends and pets, but it can't take away the weird shit they did."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

"That's the scary thing about decisions: you don't know what they are when you're making them."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

"Woah there, Scooter...looks like you might be starting to veer towards nihilism...anyway, it's sand time now."

-Allie Brosh, Solutions and Other Problems

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24. I Left The House Today!

By: Cassandra Calin

4.03

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Hilarious and relatable comics about one young woman's life, relationships, and day-to-day humorous… read more

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25. She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

By: Jodi Kantor

4.35

Format: 310 pages, Hardcover

For many years, reporters had tried to get to the truth about Harvey Weinstein’s treatment of women… read more

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"Positive reputation management. I Googled your name, and a few obnoxious articles popu up. I work with the leading reputation management company that can backlink to the positive articles to make a "…"

-Jodi Kantor, She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement

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26. Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

By: Mikki Kendall

4.37

Format: 267 pages, Hardcover

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream femi… read more

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"Poverty is an apocalypse in slow motion, inexorable and generational."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"I tell you this story because sometimes the story of your life is the story of a lot of lives."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Mainstream, white-centered feminism hasn't just failed women of color, it has failed white women."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

"Ignoring the treatment of the most marginalized women doesn't set a standard that can protect any woman."

-Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot

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27. Don't Trust Your Gut: Using Data to Get What You Really Want in Life

By: Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

3.80

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz is as good a data storyteller as I have ever met.” — Steven Levitt, co-aut… read more

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28. The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story

By: Sam Wasson

3.80

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and The Big Goodbye returns with t… read more

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29. The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies

By: Ben Fritz

4.02

Format: 309 pages, Kindle Edition

The stunning metamorphosis of twenty-first-century Hollywood and what lies ahead for the art and co… read more

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30. Being Lolita: A Memoir

By: Alisson Wood

4.20

Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition

AS FEATURED IN THE HULU DOCUMENTARY KEEP THIS BETWEEN USA dark relationship evolves between a high … read more

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"Yes, "Lolita" is beautiful. But yes, it's also terrible. We can hold both in our hands."

-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir

"I wonder about things like fate, how sometimes things are just chosen for you, how women are chosen to endure suffering."

-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir

"That moment in my body when the teacher put his hand on my knee to comfort me was the understanding of all of that--that in order to be attractive, irresistible, to be worthy of notice, was to be bot…"

-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir

"He leaned down to my foot next to him and put his lips on my pink, swollen ankle. I felt his breath on my skin. And it was like every locked in the halls of my high school swung open at once, metal k…"

-Alisson Wood, Being Lolita: A Memoir

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31. This is How You Make a Movie

By: Tim Grierson

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Learn movie-making techniques through the movies you know and love with This Is How You Make a Movi… read more

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13 Best nonfiction books like This is How You Make a Movie by Tim Grierson

Transform Your Habits

101 Things I Learned ® in Film School

Matthew Frederick , Neil Landau

4.17

Transform Your Habits

Cinema Speculation

Quentin Tarantino

4.06

Transform Your Habits

Blood, Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max: Fury Road

Kyle Buchanan

4.33

Transform Your Habits

Create Dangerously

Albert Camus

3.84

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11 best-selling fiction books like The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7) by Stephen King

Transform Your Habits

Blaze

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.76

Transform Your Habits

Roadwork

Stephen King , Richard Bachman

3.60

Transform Your Habits

The Gunslinger Born (Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Beginnings, #1)

Stephen King , Peter David , Robin Furth , Richard Isanove , Jae Lee

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)

Stephen King

4.28

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