Recs if you like You Wanna Be on Top?: A Memoir of Makeovers, Manipulation, and Not Becoming America's Next Top Model...

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pop culture non-fiction

... or pop culture leaning.

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution

You Couldn't Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation

House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films

Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live

Behind the scenes 📺

Non-Fiction about film and tv productions.

Suggestions welcome

I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We Are Still So Obsessed with It)

No Crying in Baseball: The Inside Story of A League of Their Own: Big Stars, Dugout Drama, and a Home Run for Hollywood

Directed by James Burrows: Five Decades of Stories from the Legendary Director of Taxi, Cheers, Frasier, Friends, Will & Grace, and More

I'll Be There for You: The One about Friends

So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (and Why We Are Still So Obsessed with It)

behind the screen

by endless_tbr_list

books that give you a peek into how some of the most popular television shows came to be

recommendations welcome!

Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show That Kicked Its Way into Our Hearts

Ghosts: Brought to Life

An Absolute Casserole: The Taskmaster Compendium

Parks and Rec: The Underdog TV Show That Lit'rally Inspired a Vision for a Better America

Believe: The Untold Story Behind Ted Lasso, the Show That Kicked Its Way into Our Hearts

Ghosts: Brought to Life

reality tv curriculum

by readingintoreality

or what would happen if the bravoverse met a philosophy class

Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us

How to Win The Bachelor: The Secret to Finding Love and Fame on America's Favorite Reality Show

Bachelor Nation: Inside the World of America's Favorite Guilty Pleasure

Cue the Sun!: The Invention of Reality TV

PossessedByHorror's BookTube

A list of books Sarah Hawkinson (aka PossessedByHorror on YT) has reviewed/talked about on her channel! Excludes DNFs. You can see her book videos here!

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Our Wives Under the Sea

None of This Is True

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History of Entertainment

Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past

Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

Red Dead's History: A Video Game, an Obsession, and America's Violent Past

Box Office Poison: Hollywood's Story in a Century of Flops

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