Episode 210 || Oscar Season Reading Recs 2019

It's the most wonderful time of the year: Oscar Season! Annie and Chris are back for their annual roundup of the Academy's favorite films and the books you should read if you're a fan, too.

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Book-to-Movie Nominations

+ Boy Erased by Garrard Conley

+ Beautiful Boy by David Sheff

+ First Man by James R. Hansen

+ Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee Israel

+ If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

+ My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

+ Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

+ The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

Our Recs Based on Best Picture

If you liked Black Panther, try:

+ Black Panther, Vol. 1: A Nation Under Our Feet by Ta-Nehisi Coates

+ Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James

If you liked BlacKkKlansman or Green Book, try:

+ Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth

+ Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

If you liked Bohemian Rhapsody or A Star is Born, try:

+ Moonage Daydream by Davie Bowie

+ Just Kids by Patti Smith

+ Life by Keith Richards

+ Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

If you liked The Favourite, try:

+ The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory

+ The Many Lives and Secret Sorrows of Josephine B. by Sandra Gulland

If you liked Vice, try:

+ Sisters First by Jenna Bush Hager and Barbara Pierce Bush

+ Days of Fire by Peter Baker

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