Starlit Books

Books recommended by Edgar Wright

Edgar Wright

  1. Rebel without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player (by Robert Rodriguez). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  2. Members Only: The Life and Times of Paul Raymond (by Paul Willetts). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  3. Hollywood Babylon: The Legendary Underground Classic of Hollywood's Darkest and Best Kept Secrets (by Kenneth Anger). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  4. Funny Girl: A Novel (by Nick Hornby). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  5. Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses: Roger Corman: King of the B-movie (by Chris Nashawaty). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  6. Them: Adventures with Extremists (by Jon Ronson). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  7. Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles (by Jon Lewis). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  8. Shock Value: How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror (by Jason Zinoman). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  9. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont (by Shawn Levy). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  10. Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 (by Lizzy Goodman). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  11. The Devil in the White City: A Saga of Magic and Murder at the Fair that Changed America (by Erik Larson). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  12. Jews Don’t Count: A Times Book of the Year 2021 (by David Baddiel). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  13. A Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far Away: My Fifty Years Editing Hollywood Hits―Star Wars, Carrie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Mission: Impossible, and More (by Paul Hirsch). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  14. Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood (by Karina Longworth). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  15. Grasshopper Jungle: (by Andrew Smith). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  16. 1971: Never A Dull Moment (by David Hepworth). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  17. Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors (by Peter Bogdanovich). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  18. Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome (by Shawn Levy). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  19. Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War (by Mark Harris). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  20. Perfect Sound Whatever: (by James Acaster). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  21. Little Deaths: A Novel (by Emma Flint). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  22. Black Hole: (by Charles Burns). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  23. Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol (by Steve Jones). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  24. Monty Python's Tunisian Holiday: My Life with Brian (by Kim "Howard" Johnson). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  25. Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood (by William J. Mann). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  26. Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey and the Last Great Show Biz Party (by Shawn Levy). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  27. Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley (by Jeffrey Spivak). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  28. The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy Of A Hollywood Fiasco (by Julie Salamon). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  29. A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator's Rise to Power (by Paul Fischer). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  30. Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story (by Chris Nashawaty). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  31. The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock (by David Weigel). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  32. Mike Nichols: A Life (by Mark Harris). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  33. The Sculptor: (by Scott McCloud). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  34. Less Than Zero: (by Bret Easton Ellis). Recommended by Edgar Wright
  35. Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich (by Norman Ohler). Recommended by Marc Andreessen , Edgar Wright
  36. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (by Stephen King). Recommended by Brian Koppelman , Jason Calacanis , Edgar Wright , Russell Moore
  37. David Bowie: A Life (by Dylan Jones). Recommended by Raoul Pal , Edgar Wright
  38. Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood (by Mark Harris). Recommended by Quentin Tarantino , Edgar Wright