Oscars Recommendations 

Get ready for the Academy Awards this year with these book recommendations! We have paired each Best Picture Nominee with three books we think you’ll like if you loved the movie! 

Bugonia 

Earthlings by Sayaka Murata 

Under the Skin by Michel Faber (Also a movie) 

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks 

F1 

Throttled by Lauren Asher 

Crash Test by Amy James 

Formula 1 75 years: at Speed With the World’s Greatest Motor Sport by Stuart Codling 

Frankenstein 

The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson 

Never Whistle at Night edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.  

Where the Dead Brides Gather by Nuzo Onoh 

Hamnet 

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks 

A Mercy by Toni Morrison 

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 

Marty Supreme 

Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead 

Rabbit, Run by John Updike 

The Queen’s Gambit by Walter S. Tevis 

One Battle After Another 

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon 

Brown Dog by Jim Harrison 

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank 

The Secret Agent 

The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth 

In Patagonia by Bruce Chatwin 

The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer  

Sentimental Value 

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng 

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls  

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid 

Sinners 

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab 

Ours by Phillip B. William 

Ring Shout P. Djeli Clark 

Train Dreams 

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson 

The Overstory by Richard Powers 

Wastelands: A True Story of Farm Country on Trial by Corban Addison 

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