The 52 Book Club: 2025 / 2026 Challenge discussion

22 - Spotted In A TV Series Or Movie

Have you seen a character in a movie or TV series reading a book? Let’s read what they’re reading! For this prompt, we’re looking for books that make an appearance in any TV series or movie. This may be a character who mentions the book, a character actually seen reading the book, a book as a prop in the background, etc.

For a list of the 408 (!!) books appearing in the TV show Gilmore Girls, click here: https://bookriot.com/rory-gilmore-rea...!

And, if you’re watching a movie or TV series and happen to catch a book in there somewhere, don’t forget to add it to our Goodreads list or snap a picture and share it in our Facebook group!



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In one of the Lake Placid movies that I watched earlier this year, one of the main characters reads Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad for school. Her mum was supposed to get Apocalypse Now for them to watch.

Excited for this one. I watch Roswell, New Mexico constantly and other than the Twilight and Vampire Diaries books in Liz Ortecho's bedroom, this week I find myself still noticing things.

Like I saw that she had 3 of the Left Behind books on another of her bookshelves so I'll probably go with one of the 3 she had:

Tribulation Force

Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides

Apollyon

John Travota's character in Pulp fiction reads a Modesty Blaise novel

It was a motif on LOST that the character Sawyer was always reading a book that had a hint about where the narrative was going: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/4...

There are a lot of books on The White Lotus