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8 best books like North by Northwest (Ernest Lehman): The Housekeeper and the Professor, The Moon's a Balloon, Spies, The Fifth Child, Taxi Driver, Lost Highway, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay, Annie Hall: Screenplay

The Housekeeper and the Professor
AuthorYōko Ogawa
ISBN0312427808
He is a brilliant math Professor with a peculiar problem--ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.

She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him.

And every morning, as the Professor and...
The Moon's a Balloon
AuthorDavid Niven
ISBN0140239243
One of the bestselling memoirs of all time, David Niven's The Moon's a Balloon is an account of one of the most remarkable lives Hollywood has ever seen.

Beginning with the tragic early loss of his aristocratic father, then regaling us with tales of school, army and wartime hi-jinx, Niven shows...
Spies
AuthorMichael Frayn
ISBN0571212964
Another from the 2002 Booker longlist, this one is a quiet revelation and a masterly piece of storytelling.

The action is narrated by an old man revisiting the scene and remembering his childhood adventures in suburban England during the Second World War. The story is narrated from the childhood...
The Fifth Child
AuthorDoris Lessing
ISBN0679721827
Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.

Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the...
Taxi Driver
AuthorPaul Schrader
ISBN0571203159
1970s New York, and young Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle takes to driving a taxi in search of an escape from his insomnia, his barren apartment and his gnawing sense of self-disgust, which threatens to erupt in revenge against the sordid, unlovely world through which he travels. When his tentative efforts...
Lost Highway
AuthorDavid Lynch
ISBN0571191509
Sitting on Death Row, awaiting execution for the murder of his wife, Fred Madison experiences a shattering headache. The next day, a dazed and confused Pete Dayton is found in Madison's cell. Dayton has no memory of how he came to be there. Madison has gone missing. What follows may be reality or it may...
Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay
AuthorQuentin Tarantino
ISBN0786881046
Quentin Tarantino - director of "Reservoir Dogs" and writer of "True Romance" - won the Palme d'Or for best film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival for "Pulp Fiction, " his unique vision of the underworld, starring John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis, Samuel Jackson, and Harvey Keitel. Taking his...
Annie Hall: Screenplay
AuthorWoody Allen
ISBN0571202144
Source: http://www.sparknotes.com/film/annieh...

Largely considered Woody Allen’s greatest and best-loved film, Annie Hall was released in 1977 to wide critical and commercial success. The film, which Allen cowrote, directed, and starred in, tells the story of a failed romance...
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