And the Oscar for best imaginary book in a movie goes to …

This was a big year for literacy in Oscar-nominated movies.

Survey the nominees and you’ll find a Little Free Library’s worth of books: In Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Things,” Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) studies Emerson while shipboard. (Mark Ruffalo’s character throws the thin volume into the ocean.) And in “Oppenheimer,” the scientist (Cillian Murphy) translates aloud from an especially revealing passage of the Bhagavad-Gita during an especially, uh, revealing moment.