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#4 A Book seen in a movie or on a TV show We've had a lot of questions about this one. The internet comes to the rescue! Here are some web sites with lots of suggestions for this category.Rory Gilmore reading challenge
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The last picture show
by Larry McMurtry
The youth of a small town in mid-twentieth-century Texas search for ways to escape boredom and experience life and love
SEEN ON: Mad Men
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A wrinkle in time
by Madeleine L'Engle
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government
SEEN ON: Lost
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The Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan
Encompassing two generations and a rich blend of Chinese and American history, the story of four struggling, strong women also reveals their daughter's memories and feelings
SEEN ON: The Simpsons
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The fault in our stars
by John Green
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life
SEEN ON: Orange is the new Black
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American gods : a novel
by Neil Gaiman
On the plane home to attend the funerals of his wife and best friend, Shadow, just released from prison, encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him, and when Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world, where the soul of America is at stake.
SEEN ON: Good Omens
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Cujo : a novel
by Stephen King
A family's two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard is transformed by rabies and the insidious guidance of demonic forces into a terrifying monster
SEEN ON: Stranger Things
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Atonement : a novel
by Ian McEwan
The Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam creates a richly textured coming-of-age novel, set in 1935 England, that follows thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis, who witness an event involving her sister Cecilia and her childhood friend Robbie Turner, as she becomes the victim of her own imagination, which tears her family apart and leads her on a lifelong search of truth and absolution.
SEEN ON: Gilmore Girls
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The time traveler's wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
Passionately in love, Clare and Henry vow to hold onto each other and their marriage as they struggle with the effects of Chrono-Displacement Disorder, a condition that casts Henry involuntarily into the world of time travel
SEEN ON: Doctor Who
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