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Coming from Hollywood? Start with Trio, The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece, Beautiful Ruins. 45 more below, each with why it fits.
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The Making of Another Major Motion Picture Masterpiece
Tom Hanks 2023
A reader shelved it with yours in Novels about making a movie, mess and all
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It makes you laugh · it restores your faith in people
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It makes you laugh · it leaves you with a warm feeling
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Funny and sad at once · tender and sad at once
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It makes you laugh · the life of someone made, not born
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Trio
William Boyd 2020
A reader shelved it with yours in Novels about making a movie, mess and all
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Mary Ann Shaffer 2008
Funny and sad at once · sad, but it leaves you hopeful
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Gail Honeyman 2017
Funny and sad at once · it hurts, and then it heals
Guncle
Steven Rowley 2021
Funny and sad at once · it makes you cry, in a good way
A Grand Old Time
Judy Leigh 2018
Funny and sad at once · it hurts, and then it heals
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Beautiful Ruins
Jess Walter 2012
Grouped with yours in Novels about making a movie, mess and all
Heartburn
Nora Ephron 1983
Funny and sad at once · love hurts sometimes
Prater Violet
Christopher Isherwood 1945
Readers put them together in Novels about making a movie, mess and all
The Group
Mary McCarthy 1968
Funny and sad at once · a small, intimate story
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus 2022
Sharp and very funny · it leaves you with a warm feeling
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Helen Simonson 2010
Funny and sad at once · a love story that hurts
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Funny, and it bites · it stirs you up inside
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Funny, and it bites · love in the middle of danger
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Jerome Klapka Jérôme 2003
Sharp and very funny · comforting, like coming home
True Grit
Charles Portis 1969
Sharp and very funny · outlaws and guns in the West
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Helen Fielding 1996
Comedy with teeth · a love story that hurts
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John Kennedy Toole 1982
Sharp and very funny · odd and endearing
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Meg Mason 2022
Funny and sad at once · tender and sad at once
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Curtis Sittenfeld 2023
Comedy with teeth · a tender love story
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Kingsley Amis 1998
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Amy Tan 2003
Funny and sad at once · tender and sad at once
Forrest Gump
Winston Groom 1999
Funny and sad at once · comforting, like coming home
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Funny and sad at once · odd and endearing
Empire Falls
Richard Russo 2001
Funny and sad at once · tender and sad at once
The Shampoo Effect
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Funny and sad at once · it raises the temperature
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Funny and sad at once · tender and sad at once
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Funny and sad at once · a small, intimate story
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Funny and sad at once · sad, but it leaves you hopeful
Gospel of Loki
Joanne Harris 2014
Comedy with teeth · a myth or a classic told anew
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It gets under your skin · properly strange
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