The Royal Tenenbaums

9 best books like The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson): The Day of the Triffids, Red Harvest, The Lake, Fargo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: The Shooting Script, Adaptation.: The Shooting Script, Satan's World, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel, Naruto, Vol. 02: The Worst Client

The Day of the Triffids

Author	John Wyndham
ISBN	0812967127

In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel The Day of the Triffids to moderate acclaim. Fifty-two years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by The Times (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.”

Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded...

Red Harvest

Author	Dashiell Hammett
ISBN	0752852612

I’ll give you three good reasons—from least to most—why you should read Red Harvest: 1) it made possible the fine Leone film A Fistful of Dollars, 2) it inspired the Kurosawa masterpiece Iojimbo which influenced A Fistful of Dollars, and 3) it is an old school hard boiled, hardcore novel,...

The Lake

Author	Banana Yoshimoto
ISBN	1933633778

A major literary sensation is back with a quietly stunning tour de force.

While The Lake shows off many of the features that have made Banana Yoshimoto famous—a cast of vivid and quirky characters, simple yet nuanced prose, a tight plot with an upbeat pace—it’s also one of the most darkly...

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...

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...

Adaptation.: The Shooting Script

Author	Charlie Kaufman
ISBN	1557045119

"One of the most talked about scripts of the year, Adaptation is the story of an orchid collector (Chris Cooper), a journalist (Meryl Streep, as author Susan Orlean), and the screenwriter (Charlie Kaufman, played by Nicolas Cage) who, in adapting Orlean's bestselling book The Orchid Thief writes...

Satan's World

Author	Poul Anderson
ISBN	0425058514

A rogue planet...frozen for a billion years by the cold of interstellar space, now boiling with titanic energies. Mysterious beings had kidnapped David Falkhayn, the celbrated explorer of new worlds. Why were they trying to prevent him, at all costs, from exploiting the devil planet's resources?...

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children: The Graphic Novel

Author	Ransom Riggs
ISBN	0316245283

When Jacob Portman was a boy, his grandfather regaled him with stories of his fantastic life at Miss Peregrine's home during the Second World War, even sharing photos of the remarkable children with whom he resided. As Jacob grew up, though, he decided that these photos were obvious fakes, simple forgeries...

Naruto, Vol. 02: The Worst Client

Author	Masashi Kishimoto
ISBN	1591161789

Naruto Volume 2 Review

Manga Rating: 5 stars out 5.

Story Line: 5 stars out of 5. I really do love going back to the beginning. It's so much fun reading it! I'm not going to go detail crazy like I did with the first volume. I'm going to try to keep my reviews short now. Also I forgot to mention...