The Ringer Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life
Sean Payton
Netflix’s new movie ‘Home Team’ is more than just a bizarrely timed feel-good movie tied to Bountygate. It’s the code to decoding Sean Payton’s future. @rodger: https://t.co/EU1R0fm9rR
Paperback, 2011
$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blackbird
David Stone
Developed by the crime writer Dennis Lehane, a novelist recruited into TV by David Simon of ‘The Wire’, Apple TV’s #BlackBird is worth watching for reasons beyond its high-profile casting. @aherman2006: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/7/8/23199193/black-bird-apple-tv-plus-review-ray-liotta-taron-egerton?utm_campaign=theringer&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Paperback, 2020
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Fire & Blood: 300 Years Before a Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin
With the first season of ‘House of the Dragon’ complete, ‘Fire & Blood’ reader @zachkram reviews some of the show’s biggest deviations from George R.R. Martin’s source text, grades the book’s historians, and makes predictions for Season 2: https://t.co/L1ZkooLTwA
Paperback, Mass Market, 2021
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It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him
Justin Tinsley
In exclusive excerpt from his new book ‘It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him,’ @JustinTinsley explores the early days after the legendary MC first blew up: https://t.co/CTaSt2vhn5
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Conversations with Friends
Sally Rooney
‘Conversations With Friends,’ the second adaptation of a Sally Rooney novel, starts from a similar place as ‘Normal People,’ but soon veers in a different direction—one that is an inherently harder sell. @aherman2006: https://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/5/16/23074160/sally-rooney-conversations-with-friends-hulu-show?utm_campaign=theringer&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Paperback, 2018
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American Born Chinese
Gene Luen Yang
In its TV version, ‘American Born Chinese’ gets the Disney treatment without losing most of the message of Gene Luen Yang’s acclaimed graphic novel. @dchin25: https://t.co/CsivhXGaut
Paperback, 2021
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Kindred
Octavia Butler
‘Kindred,’ the FX series and the first of several planned adaptations of Octavia Butler’s work, aims to introduce her ideas to a new generation of fans—and prove their enduring relevance. @aherman2006: https://t.co/t8tSAfU8jo
Paperback, 2004
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Super Bowl
Kenny Abdo
Introducing Super Bowl Bingo! @Fanduel created a FREE bingo card featuring Super Bowl and pop culture moments. Every card is automatically updated throughout the game, so you literally have to do nothing. Grab your card for a shot at $100,000 in prizes: https://www.fanduel.com/superbowlbingo https://t.co/H0cdNH9T0e
Hardcover, 2018
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White Noise
Don Delillo
Before #WhiteNoise was a Noah Baumbach movie about a crumbling society and postmodern anxiety, it was a Don DeLillo novel about a crumbling society and postmodern anxiety. @RossScarano: https://t.co/WZLMPgk5Bl
Paperback, 1986
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Gone Girl
Gillian Flynn
Ten years to the month that Gillian Flynn’s ‘Gone Girl’ was first published, the novel still looms over contemporary literature and the broader publishing industry. @ScarlettEHarris: https://www.theringer.com/2022/6/8/23158396/gone-girl-novel-10th-anniversary-gillian-flynn-impact-legacy?utm_campaign=theringer&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
Paperback, 2014
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