14 Best nonfiction books like The Making of Alien by J.W. Rinzler

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The Making of Alien

By: J.W. Rinzler

4.72

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Comprehensive and definitive volume telling the complete story of how Alien was made, featuring new…

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1. Jim Henson: The Biography

By: Brian Jay Jones

4.01

Format: 585 pages, Hardcover

For the first time ever-a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century's most innovative… read more

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  • art
  • nonfiction
"Please watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It's a good life, enjoy it.' - Jim"

-Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography

"It is our responsibility to keep telling these tales--to tell them in a way that they teach and entertain and give meaning to our lives,' he [Jim] said later. 'This is not merely an obligation, it's …"

-Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography

"Indeed, [Jimmy] Dean believed in Rowlf so completely that he would sometimes genuinely break up when Rowlf delivered one-liners, laughing so hard that he was unable to sing. "I treated Rowlf like he …"

-Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography

"One viewer - a Mr. Dionne from California... fired off an angry, rambling letter, complaining haughtily that "the most disciplined attention I could give [The Cube] was a belch from the grave of Marc…"

-Brian Jay Jones, Jim Henson: The Biography

Cover of Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4) by Ian Fleming

2. Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

By: Ian Fleming

3.64

Format: 230 pages, Paperback

"Listen, Bond," said Tiffany Case. "It’d take more than Crabmeat Ravigotte to get me into bed with … read more

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"Ir ļoti skumji mazgāt ve­ļu, ja tajā nav neviena vīrieša krekla."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

"Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings."

-Ian Fleming, Diamonds Are Forever (James Bond, #4)

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3. Rising Sun

By: Michael Crichton

3.65

Format: 399 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In a novel set within the arena of volatile Japanese-American relations, business moguls compete fo… read more

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4. Alien

By: Alan Dean Foster

3.33

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Based on the screenplay by Dan O'Bannon. The crew of the spaceship Nostromo wake from cryogenic sle… read more

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  • horror
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5. My Word is My Bond

By: Roger Moore , Gareth Owen

5.00

Format: 303 pages, Hardcover

One of the most recognizable big-screen stars of the past half-century, Sir Roger Moore played the … read more

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  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • film

6. Alien: Out of the Shadows (Canonical Alien trilogy, #1)

By: Tim Lebbon

4.12

Format: None pages, Paperback

As a child, Chris Hooper dreamed of monsters. But in deep space, he found only darkness and isolati… read more

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  • horror

7. Steven Spielberg: A Life in Films

By: Molly Haskell

4.00

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

A film-centric portrait of the extraordinarily gifted movie director whose decades-long influence o… read more

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8. 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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  • art
  • nonfiction
  • 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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9. Frank Herbert's Dune: The Graphic Novel, Book 2: Muad’Dib

By: Brian Herbert

4.07

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

The second of three volumes of the graphic novel adaptation of Dune, the groundbreaking science fic… read more

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10. The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film

By: W.K. Stratton

4.10

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For the fiftieth anniversary of the film, W.K. Stratton’s definitive history of the making of The W… read more

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  • film
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11. The Last Action Heroes: The Triumphs, Flops, and Feuds of Hollywood's Kings of Carnage

By: Nick de Semlyen

4.12

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

The behind-the-scenes story of the action heroes who ruled 1980s and ’90s Hollywood and the beloved… read more

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  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • film
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12. MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios

By: Joanna Robinson

4.22

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A superb chronicle of how Marvel Studios conquered Hollywood…. T… read more

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  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • film
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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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  • 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

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14. Alien, Vol. 2: Revival

By: Phillip Kennedy Johnson

3.54

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Fresh horror from a galaxy full of nightmares! An off-world terraforming station manned by an Appal… read more

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  • horror
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15. Alien III

By: William Gibson

3.45

Format: 136 pages, Audible Audio

Audible is bringing William Gibson’s uncovered Alien III script to life in audio for the first time… read more

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  • horror
Cover of Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn

16. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage

By: Jeff Guinn

4.06

Format: None pages, Audiobook

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is th… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Black Monday Murders, Vol. 2: A Story of Human Sacrifice by Jonathan Hickman

17. The Black Monday Murders, Vol. 2: A Story of Human Sacrifice

By: Jonathan Hickman

4.27

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Thomas Dane goes looking for a man who doesn't want to be found. From JONATHAN HICKMAN (EAST OF … read more

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  • horror
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18. The Human Target: Volume 2

By: Tom King

4.36

Format: 232 pages, Hardcover

Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed art… read more

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19. The Human Target, Volume 1

By: Tom King

4.35

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Christopher Chance has 12 days to solve his own murder! Superstar writer Tom King and acclaimed art… read more

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20. A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune—An Oral History

By: Max Evry

4.17

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

LIMITED FIRST EDITION contains red foil gilded page edges and a black satin ribbon marker. As featu… read more

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Cover of Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever by Matt Singer

21. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever

By: Matt Singer

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Once upon a time, if you wanted to know if a movie was worth seeing, you didn’t check out Rotten To… read more

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Cover of Alien, Vol. 3: Icarus by Phillip Kennedy Johnson

22. Alien, Vol. 3: Icarus

By: Phillip Kennedy Johnson

3.60

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Man, machine and the most terrifying creature in the universe! It's an express elevator to hell, an… read more

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  • horror
Cover of The Making of Alien by J.W. Rinzler

23. The Making of Alien

By: J.W. Rinzler

4.72

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Comprehensive and definitive volume telling the complete story of how Alien was made, featuring new… read more

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  • art
  • film
  • media tie in
  • nonfiction
  • horror
Cover of The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson

24. The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood

By: Sam Wasson

4.09

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of Fifth Avenue, Five A.M. and Fosse comes the revelator… read more

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Cover of Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World by Matt Alt

25. Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World

By: Matt Alt

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Godzilla: The Ultimate Illustrated Guide by Graham Skipper

26. Godzilla: The Ultimate Illustrated Guide

By: Graham Skipper

4.34

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Discover the complete history of Godzilla in this definitive, official guide to the King of the Mon… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • film
Cover of Alien³: The Unproduced First-Draft Screenplay by William Gibson by Pat Cadigan

27. Alien³: The Unproduced First-Draft Screenplay by William Gibson

By: Pat Cadigan

3.51

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The first-draft Alien screenplay by William Gibson, the founder of cyberpunk, turned into a novel b… read more

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28. The Art and Soul of Dune: Part Two

By: Tanya Lapointe

4.56

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Journey into the making of Denis Villeneuve’s Part Two and discover the incredible creative proces… read more

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Cover of Alien, Vol. 1: Thaw by Declan Shalvey

29. Alien, Vol. 1: Thaw

By: Declan Shalvey

3.31

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

Declan Shalvey and Andrea Broccardo take the ALIEN franchise to bone-chilling new depths! Talbot En… read more

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Cover of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The Making of the Classic Film by John Tenuto

30. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: The Making of the Classic Film

By: John Tenuto

4.66

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

An in-depth look at the making of Star Trek The Wrath of Khan , featuring rare and previously unse… read more

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Cover of Alien, Vol. 2: Descendant by Declan Shalvey

31. Alien, Vol. 2: Descendant

By: Declan Shalvey

3.25

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Everyone will hear you scream! In deep space spins a world infected by the universe’s greatest k… read more

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3.54

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