It’s Oscar season!! If you are interested in movies, this is the time to dig in and watch the nominees.

Where do those movie ideas come from? A bunch of them come from books! (Taking a bow, because libraries are full of books and movies; so we are clearly awesome!!)

Each year, there is a category at the Oscars for Writing (Adapted Screenplay), and usually these are screenplays adapted from books. If all these millions are being spent to make and promote the movie, probably the underlying book was pretty good too!

So this week we will be admiring the books that serve as the inspiration for the 2020 Oscar nominations in this award. You have time to check out one or two – or to set up a cool display on movie material – before you find out the winner!

Each week we assemble a collection – a bouquet, if you will – of books you can read for yourself, or use to build into a display in your library. As always, the books we link to have info from Amazon.com. If you click a link and then buy anything at all from Amazon, we get a small percent of their profits from your sale. Yay!!! Thanks!!! We really appreciate the assistance! 💕😊

I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran & Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa, by Charles Brandt. This is the basis of the movie The Irishman.

Caging Skies, by Christine Leunens This book is the basis of the movie JoJo Rabbit.

Batman: The Killing Joke Delux, by Alan Moore. This graphic novel is loosely the basis of the movie Joker.

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott. Unsurprisingly, the movie Little Women is based on this classic book!

The Pope (Oberon Modern Plays), by Anthony McCarten . This play is the basis for the movie The Two Popes.