Recs if you like No Country for Old Men...
Bleakness Is My Weakness
For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.
More to come!
Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!
Disturbing Novel Iceberg - Tier 1
Tier 1 from the disturbing novels iceberg. Iceberg was created in response to the disturbing movie iceberg. These are the 'beginner' books with difficult themes and some gore.
Everything’s Bigger in Texas
Books that take place in the Lone Star State
The 50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century
The New York Times published a list on August 5th, 2026, of the 50 best thrillers published since 2000 as voted on by hundreds of writers of every kind of crime fiction, from legal thrillers to spy novels to cozy mysteries, as well as librarians, editors, critics and Bookstagrammers.
Made for the Movies, Vol. II
a collection of recommendations from the Made for the Movies forum
Oscar Winning Books
These books have been turned into movies that went on to win an Oscar
Criterion Films Based on Novels
Because good movies appreciate good stories first. Adding more to this all the time!
R/Truelit's 100 Best Books of the Quarter Century
Reddit's R/Truelit user voted best books of 2000-2026. They included a full series as one pick, like the Neopolitan novels. I only include the first to keep it at 100.
your dad has most likely watched the live actions
(bonus points if he made you watch them with him!)
Read The States Challenge - Texas
This is a list of books for the Read The States Challenge. Read any on each of the state lists and be awarded the pride of knowing you have read all across the US!
academy award for best adapted screenplay books!
books that have been adapted into successful movies and have also won an oscar for their screenplay
Boy Dinner
this one's for the boys with the booming system top down a/c with the cooling system when we come up to the club we be blazing up Got stacks on deck like we saving up. Or for the boys who get it (reading). Trying to stay away from the 'commercial' boy books like the Dungeon Crawler Carl series and Project Hail Mary if you feel me.
now there's explosions and men yelling GO GO GO
books that capture the essence of quintessential dad movies; big grudges, big guns, big scores to settle, and possibly some big explosions and blood baths along the way. no one's safe on the quest for revenge or power. or both.
New York Times | 50 Best Thrillers
50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century | NYT List
Blank Check Podcast Adaptations
Every book that has been adapted into a movie covered by the Blank Check podcast
Top Rated Books of the 21st Century
Goodreads Published List of Consistently > 4 ⭐️(by year published)
2000: Plain Truth - House of Leaves ‘01: Other Boleyn Girl - Secret Life of Bees ‘02: Fingersmith - Lamb ‘03: Shutter Island - Time Traveler’s Wife ‘04: Shadow of the Wind - Cloud Atlas ‘05: No Country for Old Men - Book Thief ‘06: Sharp Objects - Road ‘07: Terror - Thousand Splendid Suns ‘08: City of Thieves - Hunger Games ‘09: Maze Runner - Cutting for Stone
Ran out of room.. See Comments for full list!
50 Best Thrillers of the 21st Century (NYT)
August 2026 List of the best thrillers of the 21st century as nominated by mystery/thriller authors
The Folio Society Collection
A list of all the books that the Folio Society has made special editions of.
The American Frontier🐴
Stories that take place in the American Frontier
Atmospheric Neo-Noir
The best of atmospheric, descriptive, setting-centred neo-noir. Some are better than others.
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