What books do the characters of your favourite movies read?

How many times did we hear someone say that "the book was better than the movie"? Well, now there's another option that's better than anything else: books in movies. It all started with some social accounts, on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and now books are back in fashion and are driving the web crazy. Their mission is loud and clear: they aim to find all the books that make enrich the storytelling of films.

One of the most famous accounts is @books.in.films, an Instagram account - founded by a girl named Galine in 2017 - that collects all the movie scenes where a character is holding a book. There's room for everybody: from Timothée Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name, the guys from Friends, then Cameron Diaz in The Holiday, Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Gilmore Girls. The list goes on and on and it includes some recent successes as well as films that have made the history of cinema. 

“I went on a Bergman, Allen, Truffaut and Rohmer movie-thon and loved that a common theme in the films were books, books, and more books. It grew from there!” said Galine. That's why she posted the first photo of her page: a still from the 1967 film La Collectionneuse by Éric Rohmer, featuring Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Oeuvres Completes.

The rest of the social media has its pages dedicated to this new obsession, as well: on Facebook, there's Bookspotting in movies (@bookspotting), while Cinematic Literature is a Tumblr page (yes, they still exist) supported by a Twitter profile (@cine_magique). These pages try to make the next step: first, they spot the books, then they manage to find out the title and the author of that text, with the aim to give their fans a real reading advise (even when that information seem impossible to find). You never know when you could want to read the book that Louis Garrel is reading. 

"Tell me what you read, and I will tell you who you are." There's nothing else to do but scroll our feeds.