Oscars 2024 — Books that Inspired the Movies

1) Erasure: A Novel

Author

Everett, Percival

Notes

The 2023 movie American Fiction directed by Cord Jefferson is an adaptation of Percival Everett's 2001 novel Erasure.

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Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as the Academy Award-winning AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of

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2) AMERICAN FICTION (Blu-ray)

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Monk is a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment that profits from Black entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, he uses a pen name to write an outlandish Black book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

3) Killers of the flower moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI

Author

Grann, David

Notes

Killers of the Flower Moon is the nonfiction book that the movie directed by Martin Scorsese is based on.

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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. Her relatives were shot and poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more...

4) American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Author

Bird, Kai

Notes

American Prometheus is the book that served as the inspiration for the film Oppenheimer.

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THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the...

5) American Prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Author

Bird, Kai

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THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER • "A riveting account of one of history’s most essential and paradoxical figures.”—Christopher Nolan
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • The definitive biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the...

6) Oppenheimer

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The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.

7) Frankenstein

Author

Shelley, Mary

Series

Kid classics

Notes

Poor Things starring Emma Stone is based on a novel of the same name that is also a satire of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

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Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
At the age of eighteen, Mary Shelley, while staying in the Swiss Alps with her lover Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and others, conceived the tale of Dr. Victor Frankenstein and the monster he brings to life. The resulting book, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, is a dark parable warning against the risks of scientific...

8) Poor things: episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M. D. Scottish public health officer

Author

Gray, Alasdair

Notes

The movie Poor Things starring Emma Stone is based on the book Poor Things by Alasdair Gray.

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"In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter. Supposedly the product of the fiendish scientist Godwin Baxter, Bella was resurrected for the sole purpose of fulfilling the whims of her benefactor. As his desire turns to obsession, Archibald's motives to free Bella are revealed to be as selfish as Godwin's, who claims her body and soul. But Bella has...

9) Poor things: episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M. D. Scottish public health officer

Author

Gray, Alasdair

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"In the 1880s in Glasgow, Scotland, medical student Archibald McCandless finds himself enchanted with the intriguing creature known as Bella Baxter. Supposedly the product of the fiendish scientist Godwin Baxter, Bella was resurrected for the sole purpose of fulfilling the whims of her benefactor. As his desire turns to obsession, Archibald's motives to free Bella are revealed to be as selfish as Godwin's, who claims her body and soul. But Bella has...

10) The zone of interest: a novel

Author

Amis, Martin

Notes

Zone of Interest directed by Jonathan Glazer is based on the novel of the same name written by Martin Amis.

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"From one of England's most renowned authors, an unforgettable new novel that provides a searing portrait of life-and, shockingly, love-in a concentration camp. Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This mirror didn't show you your reflection. It showed you your soul-it showed you who you really were. The wizard couldn't look at it without turning away. The king couldn't look at...