Last night's Oscar awards are the perfect excuse to catch up on this year's list of Academy Award-winning and nominated films, but for those who prefer to read the books first, several of the novels, biographies, and nonfiction books that inspired several of the best movies from 2023 are on sale at Amazon. The deals include the books that inspired four Best Adapted Screenplay nominees--Oppenheimer, Poor Things, The Zone of Interest, and American Fiction--as well as the nonfiction crime thriller that informed Martin Scorsese's latest film, Killers of the Flower Moon.

American Prometheus (Oppenheimer)

Oppenheimer is the big one. The movie took home seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (Christopher Nolan), Best Actor (Cillian Murphy), and Best Supporting Actor (Robert Downey Jr.), and was nominated for numerous other categories. The film was inspired by the New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin. The book covers J. Robert Oppenheimer's career, from his early years as a physicist and teacher to his work on the atomic bomb during World War II, and later his role during the Cold War. You can grab the biography from Amazon for $15 (was $25).

Erasure (American Fiction)

American Fiction ultimately won the Best Adapted Screenplay award. It was also nominated in four other categories, including Best Actor (Jeffrey Wright), Best Supporting Actor (Sterling K. Brown), Best Picture, and Best Original Score. The film is based on the superbly written novel Erasure by Percival Everett, which is just $12.79 at Amazon (normally $17).