Reservoir Dogs

10 best books like Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino): Pulp, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, The Big Lebowski, Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh), Goodfellas: Screenplay, American Beauty: The Shooting Script, Fargo, Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script, Little Miss Sunshine: The Shooting Script

Pulp

Author	Charles Bukowski
ISBN	0876859260

Pulp (novel), Charles Bukowski
Pulp is the last completed novel by Los Angeles poet and writer Charles Bukowski. It was published in 1994, shortly before Bukowski's death. Pulp is a pulp fiction novel which acts also as a meta-pulp. Pulp comments on the obsessions of the pulp fiction genre, making...

The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller

Author	John Truby
ISBN	0865479518

John Truby is one of the most respected and sought-after story consultants in the film industry, and his students have gone on to pen some of Hollywood's most successful films, including Sleepless in Seattle, Scream, and Shrek. The Anatomy of Story is his long-awaited first book, and it shares all...

The Big Lebowski

Author	Joel Coen
ISBN	0571193358

The Big Lebowski begins with a case of mistaken identity which escalates when Jeffrey Lebowski-alias The Dude-attempts to seek recompense for the despoliation of his ratty-ass little rug, and then finds himself entangled in a kidnapping caper as a bagman-a situation that goes from bad to worse due...

Trainspotting: A Screenplay (Based on the Novel by Irvine Welsh)

Author	John Hodge
ISBN	0786882212

Trainspotting, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh


Trainspotting is a phenomenal work that has achieved cult status, provocative, challenging, intriguing, creative, humorous, edgy as it is, the motion picture that has launched the career of a few excellent performers, from Ewan McGregor...

Goodfellas: Screenplay

Author	Nicholas Pileggi
ISBN	0571162657

'As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster.'

Henry Hill grows up in the 1950s, in a Brooklyn neighbourhood where Italian-American gangsters walk tall in the streets, commanding the respect of their peers. Young Henry dreams that one day he too might be a professional...

American Beauty: The Shooting Script

Author	Alan Ball
ISBN	1557044236

On a typical suburban street in a typical suburban town, there is an ordinary family living the American dream. But look closer. Lester Burnham's wife, Carolyn, regards him with contempt, his daughter, Jane, thinks he's a loser, and his boss is positioning him for the ax.

Captivated by Jane's...

Fargo

Author	Joel Coen
ISBN	0571179630

Fargo (Fargo, Script), Ethan Coen
Jerry Lundergaard is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into serious debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs to kidnap his wife. Jerry plans to get his rich father-in-law to pay the ransom--half of the money will be used to pay the...

Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange

Author	Stanley Kubrick
ISBN	1901680479

The screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s disturbing and exhilarating masterpiece, featuring 800 film stills chosen by the director.

This unique illustrated screenplay features 800 still images from “A Clockwork Orange,” selected by Stanley Kubrick when the film was first released...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script

Author	Charlie Kaufman
ISBN	1557046107

In this illuminating script book, Charlie Kaufman, the Academy Award®-nominated screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, shares the logistical challenges of writing Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in a fascinating interview.

Kaufman also provides commentary on...

Little Miss Sunshine: The Shooting Script

Author	Michael Arndt
ISBN	1557047707

Here is the official screenplay book tie-in to the uproarious American family road comedy. Brazenly satirical yet deeply human, Little Miss Sunshine introduces audiences to one of the most endearingly fractured families in recent cinema history. Meet the Hoovers, a motley six-member family who...

Taxi Driver

Author	Paul Schrader
ISBN	0571203159

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...