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2010

Date	Movie	Book	IMDB
Dec
Nov
Oct
Sept
Aug
July
June
May
Apr	American Splendor	American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar by Harvey Pekar	IMDB
Mar	The Cider House Rules	The Cider House Rules by John Irving	IMDB
Feb	Harrison Bergeron	Harrison Bergeron (Short story in Welcome to the Monkey House) by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.	IMDB
Jan	2010: The Year We Make Contact	2010: Odyssey Two by by Arthur C. Clarke	IMDB

2009

Date	Movie	Book	IMDB
Dec	The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe	The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis	IMDB
Nov	Oliver	Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens	IMDB
Oct	Watchmen	Watchmen by Alan Moore	IMDB
Sept	Million Dollar Baby	Million Dollar Baby by F. X. Toole Originally titled Rope Burns	IMDB
Aug	Big Fish	Big Fish by Daniel Wallace	IMDB
July	Episode of Twilight Zone	An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by H. by Ambrose Pierce
June	Call of Cthulhu	Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft	IMDB
May	Cold Comfort Farm	Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons	IMDB
Apr	Children of Men	Children of Men by P. D. James	IMDB
Mar	The Stuntman	The Stuntman by Paul Brodeur	IMDB
Feb	From Russia with Love	From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming	IMDB
Jan	They Live	Eight O'Clock in the Morning by Ray Nelson Short story available online here.	IMDB

2008

Date	Movie	Book	IMDB
Dec	Hogfather	Hogfather by Terry Pratchett	IMDB
Nov	Ninth Gate	The Club Dumas by Arturo Pérez-Reverte	IMDB
Oct	Misery	Misery by Stephen King	IMDB
Sept	Simon Birch	A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving	IMDB
Aug	Mary Reilly	Mary Reilly by Valerie Martin	IMDB
July	Slaughterhouse Five	Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut	IMDB
June	Thank You for Smoking	Thank You for Smoking by Christopher Buckley	IMDB
May	The Illusionist	Eisenheim the Illusionist (short story found in Barnum Museum: Stories) by Steven Millhauser	IMDB
Apr	The Prestige	The Prestige by Christopher Priest	IMDB
10th Anniversary of the Book/Movie Club!
Mar	The Abyss	The Abyss by Orson Scott Card	IMDB
Feb	Stardust	Stardust by Neil Gaiman (graphic novel)	IMDB
Jan	The Great Escape	The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill	IMDB

2007

Date	Movie	Book	IMDB
Dec	Rebecca	Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier	IMDB
Nov	Bourne Identity	Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum	IMDB
Oct	Carrie	Carrie by Stephen King	IMDB
Sept	The Searchers	The Searchers by Alan Le May	IMDB
Aug	The Andromeda Strain	The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton	IMDB
July	The Godfather	The Godfather by Mario Puzo	IMDB
June	The Silence of the Lambs	The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris	IMDB
May	Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen	Adventures of Baron Von Munchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe and Gustave Dore	IMDB
Apr	A Scanner Darkly	A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick	IMDB
Mar	Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil	Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil by John Berendt	IMDB
Feb	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard	IMDB
Jan	Roxanne	Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand	IMDB

2006

Date	Movie	Book	IMDB
Dec	The Last Emperor	The Last Manchu: Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi by Henry Pu Yi	IMDB
Nov	V for Vendetta	V for Vendetta by Alan Moore & David Lloyd	IMDB
Oct	In Cold Blood	In Cold Blood by Truman Capote	IMDB
Sept	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams	IMDB
Aug	Stand By Me	The Body by Stephen King in Different Seasons	IMDB
Jul	Jurassic Park	Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton	IMDB
Jun	Fog of War	In Retrospect by Robert S. McNamara	IMDB
May	Fatherland	Fatherland by Robert Harris	IMDB
Apr	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre	IMDB
Mar	Jaws	Jaws by Peter Benchley	IMDB
Feb	The Caine Mutiny	The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk	IMDB
Jan	Smilla's Sense of Snow	Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg	IMDB

2005

Date	Movie	Book	IMDB
Dec	Kristin Lavransdatter	Kristin Lavransdatter: The Bridal Wreath by Sigrid Unset	IMDB
Nov	The Motorcycle Diaries	The Motorcycle Diaries by Che Guevara	IMDB
Oct	Finding Neverland	J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys by Andrew Birkin	IMDB
Sept	Bell, Book & Candle	Bell, Book & Candle by John Van Druten	IMDB
Aug	The Illustrated Man	The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury	IMDB
July	Master and Commander	The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian	IMDB
June	From Hell	From Hell by Alan Moore	IMDB
May	The African Queen	The African Queen by C. S. Forester	IMDB
Apr	Yojimbo	Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett	IMDB
Mar	The People vs. Larry Flynt	An Unseemly Man by Larry Flynt	IMDB
Feb	American Psycho	American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis	IMDB
Jan	Who Framed Roger Rabbit?	Who Censored Roger Rabbit by Gary K. Wolf	IMDB

2004

Date	Movie	Book
Dec	The Company of Wolves	The Company of Wolves by Angela Carter (short story) & Little Red Riding Hood (Grimm's version)
Nov	The Right Stuff	The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Oct	Psycho	Psycho by Robert Bloch
Sept	Neverwhere	Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Aug	League of Extraordinary Gentlemen	The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1 by Alan Moore
July	Runaway Jury	Runaway Jury by John Grisham
June	The Guns of Navarone	The Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLane
May	Double Indemnity	Double Indemnity by James M. Cain
April	Seabiscuit	Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand
Mar	Frankenstein	Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Feb	Noir-a-Thon Movies: Dark Passage, Touch of Evil, Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid & Dark City
Feb	Star Wars (Laserdisc)	Original Shooting Script by George Lucas
Jan	To Kill A Mockingbird	To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

2003

Date	Movie	Book
Dec	Holes	Holes by Louis Sachar
Nov	Road to Perdition	Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins
Oct	Watership Down	Watership Down by Richard Adams
Sept	The Handmaid's Tale	The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Aug	The Chosen	The Chosen by Chaim Potok
July	Crime & Punishment (1935)	Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
June	Minority Report	Minority Report by Philip K. Dick
May	The Day of the Triffids	The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
April	The First Wives Club	The First Wives Club by Olivia Goldsmith
Mar	The Pelican Brief	The Pelican Brief by John Grisham
Feb	The Lost World (1925)	The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
Jan	Ran	King Lear by William Shakespeare

2002

Date	Movie	Book
Dec	Lolita (1997)	Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Nov	Contact	Contact by Carl Sagan
Oct	The Haunting (1963)	The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
Sept	The Name of the Rose	The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Aug	Ghost World	Ghost World by Daniel Clowes
July	Interview with the Vampire	Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
June	A Midsummer Night's Dream	A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare
May	The Joy Luck Club	The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
April	The Thin Man	The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
Mar	How Green was my Valley	How Green was my Valley by Richard Llewellyn
Feb	The Puppet Masters	The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein
Jan	Apocalypse Now	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

2001

Date	Movie	Book
Dec	Fellowship of the Ring	Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
Nov	And Then There Were None	Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
Oct	Brazil	1984 by George Orwell
Sept	Gettysburg	The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
Aug	The Lair of the White Worm	The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker
July	Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)	Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
June	High Fidelity	High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
May	The Color Purple	The Color Purple by Alice Walker
April	The Phantom of the Opera	The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Mar	The Wizard of Oz	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum (Annotated)
Feb	The Hound of the Baskervilles	The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Jan	2001: A Space Odyssey	2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

2000

Date	Movie	Book
Dec	The Iron Giant	The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes
Nov	Batman	Batman
Oct	The Time Machine	The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Sept	The Last Man on Earth	I am Legend by Richard Matheson
Aug	The Hobbit	The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
July	The Maltese Falcon	The Maltese Falcon by Daschiel Hammet
July	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
June	The 13th Warrior	Eaters of the Dead by Michael Chrichton
May	Dracula (1931 Bela Lugosi Version)	Dracula by Bram Stoker
April	The Hunt for Red October	The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
Mar	A Conneticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Bing Crosby version)	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
Feb	Farenheit 451	Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Jan	The Man Who Would Be King	The Man Who Would Be King and Other Short Stories by Rudyard Kipling

1999

Date	Movie	Book
Dec	A Christmas Carol (Starring George C. Scott)	A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Nov	Emma and Clueless	Emma by Jane Austen
Oct	Starship Troopers	Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein
Sept	Apollo 13	Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
Aug	The Forbidden Planet	The Tempest by Williams Shakespeare
July	Field of Dreams	Shoeless Joe by WP Kinsella
June	The Shawshank Redemption	Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King from Different Seasons
May	The Princess Bride	The Princess Bride by William Goldman
April	Blade Runner	Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick
Mar	The Abyss	The Abyss by Orson Scott Card

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