5 best-selling media tie in books like Fat, Drunk, & Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House by Matty Simmons

Fat, Drunk, & Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House

By: Matty Simmons

4.80

Format: None pages,

In 1976 the creators of National Lampoon, America's most popular humor magazine, decided to make a …

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1. Liar's Poker

By: Michael Lewis

4.15

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

The time was the 1980s. The place was Wall Street. The game was called Liar’s Poker. Michael L… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"Buy potatoes,"

-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

"The difference between Strauss and Ranieri?"

-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

"In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king"

-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

"A commercial banker wasn’t any more a troublemaker than Dagwood Bumstead."

-Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker

2. Fat, Drunk, & Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House

By: Matty Simmons

4.80

Format: None pages,

In 1976 the creators of National Lampoon, America's most popular humor magazine, decided to make a … read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • film
  • humor
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
Cover of Bad Monkey by Carl Hiaasen

3. Bad Monkey

By: Carl Hiaasen

3.75

Format: 148 pages, Hardcover

Carl Hiaasen is back doing what he does best: spinning a wickedly funny, fiercely pointed tale in w… read more

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  • humor
Cover of Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher

4. Wishful Drinking

By: Carrie Fisher

3.82

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

In Wishful Drinking, Carrie Fisher tells the true and intoxicating story of her life with inimitabl… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • humor
  • biography
  • memoir
"I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two"

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"And not that it matters, but my mother is not a lesbian! She's just a really, really bad heterosexual."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

"No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away."

-Carrie Fisher, Wishful Drinking

5. Star Island (Skink, #6)

By: Carl Hiaasen

4.54

Format: 253 pages, Hardcover

Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (nee Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen--and … read more

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6. Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed the 1919 World Series

By: David Pietrusza

3.66

Format: 32 pages, Hardcover

History remembers Arnold Rothstein as the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, an underworld genius… read more

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7. The Score (Parker, #5)

By: Richard Stark

3.93

Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback

It was an impossible crime: knock off a huge plant payroll, all the banks, and all the stores in on… read more

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8. The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 4: Dark Web

By: Zeb Wells

2.76

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Marvel's two most infamous clones are back to take what's theirs! Ben Reilly and Madelyne Pryor hav… read more

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9. Long Island (Eilis Lacey, #2)

By: Colm Tóibín

3.82

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly movi… read more

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Cover of Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever by Nick de Semlyen

10. Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the iconic funnymen who ruled '80s Hollywood—Bill Murray, Steve Mart… read more

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  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • humor
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
"Sometimes you gotta say "What the fuck". If you can't say it, you can't do it."

-Nick de Semlyen, Wild and Crazy Guys: How the Comedy Mavericks of the '80s Changed Hollywood Forever

Cover of Led Zeppelin: The Biography by Bob Spitz

11. Led Zeppelin: The Biography

By: Bob Spitz

4.06

Format: 688 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the definitive New York Times bestselling history of the Beatles comes the autho… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • pop culture
Cover of Daredevil & Elektra, Vol. 1: The Red Fist Saga by Chip Zdarsky

12. Daredevil & Elektra, Vol. 1: The Red Fist Saga

By: Chip Zdarsky

3.94

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

After the Reign…comes the dawn! In the wake of Wilson Fisk’s violent and visceral last act, it’s a … read more

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"God knows the outcome of the play. But I still have to write the lines and live with their consequences on his stage."

-Chip Zdarsky, Daredevil & Elektra, Vol. 1: The Red Fist Saga

Cover of Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane! by David Zucker

13. Surely You Can't Be Serious: The True Story of Airplane!

By: David Zucker

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Surely You Can't Be Serious is an in-depth and hysterical look at the making of 1980's comedy class… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • pop culture
  • film
  • humor
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
Cover of Drowning by T.J. Newman

14. Drowning

By: T.J. Newman

4.16

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman—whose first book Falling was… read more

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Cover of Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Frontier Lawmen) by Tom Clavin

15. Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride from Hell (Frontier Lawmen)

By: Tom Clavin

4.03

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The true story of the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday, and the famous Battle at the OK Corral, by the N… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story by Chris Nashawaty

16. Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story

By: Chris Nashawaty

4.03

Format: 294 pages, Hardcover

“This is a tough, sharp history of comedy and competitiveness, of rising stars and brilliant upstar… read more

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  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • humor
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic by Daniel de Visé

17. The Blues Brothers: An Epic Friendship, the Rise of Improv, and the Making of an American Film Classic

By: Daniel de Visé

4.25

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The story of the epic friendship between John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, the golden era of improv, an… read more

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  • biography
  • pop culture
  • film
  • humor
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
Cover of Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock by Steven Hyden

18. Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

By: Steven Hyden

3.93

Format: 320 pages, ebook

The author of the critically acclaimed Your Favorite Band is Killing Me offers an eye-opening explo… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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"Just try to find an uncompelling photo of Fleetwood Mac taken at any point between 1975 and 1987. I've spent hours scouring Google Images in search of a single Fleetwood Mac band photo to which I am …"

-Steven Hyden, Twilight of the Gods: A Journey to the End of Classic Rock

Cover of Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction by Max Allan Collins

19. Spillane: King of Pulp Fiction

By: Max Allan Collins

4.01

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

The first-ever biography of the most popular and most influential pulp writer of all time, written … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
Cover of The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 3: Hobgoblin by Zeb Wells

20. The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 3: Hobgoblin

By: Zeb Wells

3.30

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Time for Spidey to don his glad-webs, because he is off to the Hellfire Gala! But something is abou… read more

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Cover of It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness by Seth Wickersham

21. It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness

By: Seth Wickersham

4.34

Format: 544 pages, ebook

Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL’s most dominant team,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography

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4.80

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Carl Hiaasen

3.75

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Carrie Fisher

3.82

Transform Your Habits

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Nick de Semlyen

4.06

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Geddy Lee

4.58

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James Kaplan

4.35

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Robby Krieger

4.41

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Dana Mattioli

4.10

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