13 Books You Need to Read As Soon As Possible
2018 is another great year full of TV shows and movies that are inspired by the best source (in our humble opinion)—books! Now’s your chance to read the books below before everyone starts talking about them.
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Add to BookshelfCrazy Rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan
There’s plenty of excitement surrounding this movie, based on the bestselling novel by Kevin Kwan about over-the-top lives of rich Asians in Singapore. Rachel Chu, an NYU professor of economics, is shocked when she finds out that her long-time boyfriend Nick Young is from an extremely wealthy family. Rachel and Nick travel to Singapore to attend his friend’s wedding, but will Nick’s old money family approve of his middle-class girlfriend?
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Sharp Objects
by Gillian Flynn
Reporter Camille Preaker must return to her hometown to cover the murders to two preteen girls while trying to escape her own demons in this thriller/suspense novel from Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl). Amy Adams stars in the HBO eight part miniseries based on this book.
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The Underground Railroad
by Colson Whitehead
With multiple accolades under its belt (including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, The Underground Railroad is now set to be a limited series on Amazon, directed by Barry Jenkins. In this story, the Underground Railroad isn’t a metaphorical escape route—it’s a literal network of tunnels and trains underneath the earth. Cora is a young slave who partners up with Caesar, a new slave to her plantation, to escape via the railroad.
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The Girl in the Spider’s Web
by David Lagercrantz
This fourth book in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series was written by David Lagercrantz and continues the story of genius hacker Lisbeth Salander and journalist Mikael Blomkvist as they descend once more into the criminal underworld.
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
After being charmed by a letter from a man she’s never met, writer Juliet Ashton finds the subject of her next book: the residents of Guernsey island, who formed the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society during World War II and German occupation.
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The Alienist (TNT Tie-in Edition)
by Caleb Carr
Set during the Gilded Age in New York, The Alienist follows reporter John Schuyler Moore and his friend Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, an “alienist” or psychologist, as they attempt to track down the murderer of an adolescent boy by creating the first psychological profile of the criminal. The TNT miniseries stars Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans, and Daniel Brühl.
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The Jungle Book
by Rudyard Kipling
Andy Serkis directs Mowgli, a live-action retelling of The Jungle Book, about the human boy who is raised by wolves in the jungles of India. Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, and Benedict Cumberbatch are set to star in motion capture performances. If Cate Blanchett commits to her role as Kaa with any of the same sly exuberance she dedicated to her performance as the villainess in Thor: Ragnarok, this is bound to be an amazing film.
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The Magician’s Land
by Lev Grossman
The stunning conclusion to the #1 New York Times bestselling Magicians trilogy, now an original series on SYFY. Quentin Coldwater has been thrown out of Fillory, the secret magical land of his dreams. But he can’t hide from his past, and it’s not long before it comes looking for him.
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