1000 books that made it to the screen

Let me ask you a question.

Are you a bookworm or a film addict?

There is a lot of debate across the web as if one is better than the other. If you ask me, books and films are equally good because they’re both the result of some great minds that will never fail to amaze us. I hope they never will cause in a world without books or films I’d choose not to get out of bed in the morning.

I put together a pretty big list of books that made it to movies. Now, not all the movies are Award Academy winners, some aren’t even nominations, just like not every book is a bestsellers, but I can assure you they are all worth reading/ watching.

In no particular order.

Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (2006)
The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (2013)
Summer in February, Jonathan Smith (2013)
Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier (1940) and (2020)
My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier (2017)
Don’t Look Now, Daphne du Maurier (1973)
The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje (1996)
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote (1961)
In Cold Blood, Truman Capote, (2005)
Shadowlands, Brian Sibley (1993)
The Time Traveller’s Wife, Audrey Niffenegger (2009)
Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin (2012)
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (1962)
The Scent of a Woman, Giovanni Arpino (1992)
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden (2005)
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway (1943)
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway (1958)
To Have and Have Not, Ernest Hemingway (1944)
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (1932) (1957)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway (1952)
The Romantics, Galt Niederhoffer (2010)
Dune, Frank Herbert (1984)
The Dressmaker, Rosalie Ham (2015)
Cloud Atlas, David Mitchell (2012)
The Bone Collector, Jeffrey Deaver (1999)
Mary Poppins, P. L. Travers (1964)
Mary Poppins Returns, P. L. Travers (2018)
Towelhead, Alicia Erian (2007)
Irena Sendler. Mother of the Children of the Holocaust, Anna Mieszkowska (2009)
Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (2018)
The Hours, Virginia Wolf (2002)
Water for Elephants, Sara Gruen (2011)
A Room with a View, E.M. Forster (1985)
A Passage to India, E.M. Forster (1984)
Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (2018)
Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert (2010)
A River Runs Through It, Norman Maclean (1992)
In Her Shoes, Jennifer Weiner (2005)
Middlemarch, Mary Anne Evans pen name George Eliot (1994)
The Last Station, Jay Parini (2009)
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon (2000)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Wang Du Lu (2000)
The Pianist, Wladyslaw Szpilman (2002)
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Caroll, (2010)
Alice Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Caroll, (2016)
Metropolis, Thea von Harbou (1927)
The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (2012)
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins (2013)
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Suzanne Collins (2014-2015)
The Breadwinner, Deborah Ellis (2017)
About a Boy, Nick Hornby (2002)
We Need to Talk about Kevin, Lionel Shriver (2011)
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner, F. X. Toole. The movie is Million Dollar Baby (2004)
The Hoods, Harry Grey. The movie is Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
I am Legend, Richard Matheson (2007)
What Dreams May Come, Richard Matheson (1998)
Somewhere in Time, Richard Matheson (1980)
Murder in Orient Express, Agatha Christie (1974) and (2017)
Crooked House, Agatha Christie (2017)
The Mirror Crack’d, Agatha Christie (1980)
Death on the Nile, Agatha Christie (1978) (2020)
Witness for the Prosecution, Agatha Christie (1957)
Evil Under the Sun, Agatha Christie (1982)
Poirot, Agatha Christie (1989-2013)
And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie (1945)
Miss Marple: A Murder is Announced, Agatha Christie (1985)
A Night of Terror, Agatha Christie (1937)
Thirteen at Dinner, Agatha Christie (1985)
Murder She Said, Agatha Christie (1961)
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery, Agatha Christie (1989)
Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple: 4:50 from Paddington, Agatha Christie (1987)
Ten Little Indians, Agatha Christie (1965)
Appointment with Death, Agatha Christie (1988)
The Legend Of Bagger Vance: A Novel of Golf and the Game of Life, Steven Pressfield (2000)
The Greatest Game Ever Played, Mark Frost (2005)
Love’s Abiding Joy, Janette Oke (2006)
The Willoughbys, Lois Lowry (2020)
Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan (2018)
Bastard out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison (1996)
Anne of Green Gables, L. M. Montgomery (1985)
Normal People, Sally Rooney (2020)
Before Sunrise, Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan (1995)
Before Sunset, Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan (2004)
Before Midnight, Richard Linklater & Kim Krizan (2013)
Rum Punch, Elmore Leonard. The movie is Jackie Brown (1997)
Out of Sight, Elmore Leonard (1998)
Three-Ten to Yuma, Elmore Leonard (1957) (2007)
Brokeback Mountain, E. Annie Proulx (2005)
The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx (2001)
Little Big Man, Thomas Berger (1970)
Meeting Evil, Thomas Berger (2012)
365 Days, Blanka Lipinska (2020)
The Mountain Between Us, Charles Martin (2017)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (2011)
Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer (2005)
Mean Girls, Micol Ostow (2004)
Cidade de Deus, Paulo Lins (2002)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Ron Hansen (2007)
Beastly, Alex Flinn (2011)
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Jenny Han (2018)
Sideways, Rex Pickett (2004)
Slumdog Millionaire, Vikas Swarup (2008)
The Oxford Murders, Guillermo Martinez (2008)
The Prestige, Christopher Priest (2006)
Eisenheim the Illusionist, Steven Millhauser. The movie is The Illusionist (2006)
Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas, Nicholas Pileggi (1995)
The Dinner, Herman Koch (2017)
The Quiz Show, Su Holmes (1994)
Twelve Years a Slave, Solomon Northup (2013)
In the Name of the Father, Gerry Conlon (1993)
Kill Your Friends, John Niven (2015)
The Vikings, Edison Marshall (1958)
The Color Purple, Alice Walker (1985)
Cousin Bette, Honore de Balzac (1998)
Le Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac (2004)
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows (2018)
The Zookeeper’s Wife, Diane Ackerman (2017)
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team and a Dream, H. C. Bissinger (2004)
Psycho, Robert Bloch (1960)
I Know This Much is True, Wally Lamb (2020)
Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain (2014)
Out of Africa, Karen Blixen (1985)
The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown (2006)
Angels and Demons, Dan Brown (2009)
Inferno, Dan Brown (2016)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe (1927) (1965) (1987)
Matchstick Men, Eric Garcia (2003)
Possession, A. J. Cronin (1981)
Hatter’s Castle, A. J. Cronin (1942)
The Odyssey, Homer (1997)
The Iliad, Homer. The movie is Troy (2004)
Helen of Troy, Margaret George (1956) and (2003)
Ithaca: A Novel of Homer’s Odyssey, Patrick Dillon (2015)
The Blue Lagoon, Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1980)
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams (1951)
The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone, Tennessee Williams (2003)
Suddenly, last summer, Tennessee Williams (1959)
Sweet Bird of Youth, Tennessee Williams (1989)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams (1958)
Baby Doll, Tennessee Williams (1956)
Candyman, Virginia Madsen (1992)
Body of Lies, David Ignatius (2008)
One True Thing, Anna Quindlen (1998)
Life of Pi, Yann Martel, (2012)
Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess (1971)
Kramer vs. Kramer, Avery Corman (1979)
The Reader, Bernhard Schlink (2008)
Ensemble, c’est tout [English: Hunting and Gathering], Anna Gavalda (2007)
Closely Observed Trains, Bohumil Hrabal (1966)
The Bourne Legacy, Eric Van Lustbader (2012)
Die Weisse Massai [English: The White Masai], Corinne Hoffman (2006)
The Deep End of the Ocean, Jacquelyn Mitchard (1999)
The Leopard, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1963)
The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank (1959)
Schindler’s List, Thomas Keneally (1993)
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak (1965)
Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (1998) and (2012)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo (1939) and (1997)
L’homme qui rit, Victor Hugo (2012)
Quo Vadis, Henry Sienkiewicz (1951)
Dracula, Bram Stoker (According to Guinness Attraction, Dracula is featured in more than 161 movies)
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens (2005)
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens (1999) and (2019)
House of Dark Shadows, Charles Dickens (1970)
A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (Over the years there have been more than 20 different adaptations of A Christmas Carol)
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens (1946) and (2012)
Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens (1987)
Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens (1947) and (2002)
Moby Dick, Herman Melville (1956) (2010) (In the Heart of the Sea – 2015)
Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier (2003)
Happy Dan, The Cynical Dog (Later known as Lady and the Tramp), Ward Greene (1955) (2019)
The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy (1990)
Clear and Present Danger, Tom Clancy (1994)
Rob Roy, Sir Walter Scott (1995)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (2011)
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson (2012)
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, Stieg Larsson (2013)
The Time Machine, Herbert George Wells (1960) (2002)
The War of the Worlds, Herbert George Wells (2005)
The Charterhouse of Parma, Stendhal (1948) and (2012)
The Red and the Black, Stendhal (1954) and (1997)
War and Peace, Lev Tolstoi (1966)
Anna Karenina, Lev Tolstoi (1948) (1997) and (2012)
The Caine Mutiny, Herman Wouk (1954)
Paths of Glory, Humphrey Cobb (1957)
Bitter Moon, Pascal Bruckner (1992)
Goldfinger (the third of James Bond novels), Ian Fleming (1964)
Forrest Gump, Winston Groom (1994)
Evita Peron: The True Story, Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber (1996)
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, Mike Stangle & Dave Stangle (2016)
The Californio, Robert MacLeod. The movie is called 100 Rifles (1969)
The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco (1986)
The Pelican Brief, John Grisham (1993)
A Time to Kill, John Grisham (1996)
The Firm, John Grisham (1993)
The Client, John Grisham (1993)
The Runaway Jury, John Grisham (2003)
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (1939)
Scarlett, Alexandra Ripley (1994)
American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis (2000)
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, J. R. R. Tolkien (2012)
Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (2001)
Lord of the Rings. The Two Towers, J. R. R. Tolkien (2002)
Lord of the Rings. The Return of the King, J. R. R. Tolkien (2003)
Rosemary’s Baby, Ira Levin (1968)
The Stepford Wives, Ira Levin (1975) (2004)
The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Brian Selznick. The movie is called Hugo (2011)
1984, George Orwell (1984)
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte (1939)
Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy (1998) and (2015)
Tess of the d’Ubervilles, Thomas Hardy (1979)
The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy (2003)
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy (1971) (1996)
House of Spirits, Isabel Allende (1993)
Daughter of Fortune, Isabel Allende (2012)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, John Boyne (2008)
Papillon, Henry Charriere (1973)
Angels and Insects, A. S. Byatt (1995)
Atonement, Ian McEwan (2007)
The Good Son, Ian McEwan (1993)
The Children Act, Ian McEwan (2017)
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2007)
The Graduate, Charles Webb (1967)
The Woman in the Window, A. J. Finn (2020)
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck (1992)
East of Eden, John Steinbeck (1955)
Cannery Row, John Steinbeck (1982)
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck (1940)
Rain Man, Leonore Fleischer (1988)
Green Zone, Brian Helgeland (2010)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, B. Traven (1948)
Perfume: The Story of a Murder, Patrick Suskind (2006)
P.S. I love you, Cecilia Ahern (2007)
Where Rainbows End, Cecilia Ahern. The movie is Love Rosie (2014)
Chocolat, Joanne Harris (2000)
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby (2007)
One Day, David Nicholls (2011)
The Vow, Kim Carpenter (2012)
The One and Only Ivan, Katherine Applegate (2020)
Shawshank Redemption, Stephen King (1994)
The Shining, Stephen King (1980)
Misery, Stephen King (1990)
Sleepwalkers, Stephen King (1992)
Silver Bullet, Stephen King (1985)
The Green Mile, Stephen King (1999)
Room 1408, Stephen King (2007)
Carrie, Stephen King (2013)
1922, Stephen King (2017)
IT, Stephen King (2017)
Secret Window, Stephen King (2004)
Pet Sematary, Stephen King (2019)
Cujo, Stephen King (1983)
Firestarter, Stephen King (1984)
The Running Man, Stephen King (1987)
The Body, Stephen King. The movie is Stand by Me (1986)
The Dark Tower, Stephen King (2017)
Salem’s Lot, Stephen King (1979)
Dream Catcher, Stephen King (2003)
Gerald’s Game, Stephen King (2017)
The Outsider, Stephen King (2020)
2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke (1968)
Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie (1904) (2015). There are more than 7 adaptations of Peter Pan.
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (1966) and (2018)
The Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain (1946)
Blindness, Jose Saramago (2008)
All My Sons, Arthur Miller (1948)
The Crucible, Arthur Miller (1996)
The Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller (1952)
A Street Cat Named Bob, James Bowen (2016)
A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood (2008)
Brush with Fate, Susan Vreeland (2003)
Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates (2008)
Lolita, Vladimir Nabukov (1962)
Naked Lunch, William Burroughs (1991)
An Education, Lynn Barber (2009)
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque (1930)
The Trial, Franz Kafka (1993)
Love Story, Erich Segal (1970)
The Adventures of Soldier Svejk, Jaroslav Hasek (1957)
Vanity Fair, William M. Thackeray (2004)
Sophie’s Choice, William Styron (1982)
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert (1949) and (2014)
Munich, Robert Harris (2005)
Winter’s Bone, Daniel Woodrell (2010)
A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar (2001)
Buddenbrooks, Thomas Mann (2008)
The Magic Mountain, Thomas Mann (1982)
Lotte in Weimar, Thomas Mann (1975)
Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Maurice Leblanc (2004)
I, Robot, Issac Asimov (2004)
Bicentennial Man, Issac Asimov (1999)
Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher (2017-2020)
The Godfather, Mario Puzo (1972)
The Sicilian, Mario Puzo (1987)
The Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold (2009)
Shogun, James Clavell (1980)
The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler (1988)
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting (2020)
The Emperor’s New Clothes, Hans Christian Andersen (2001)
The Little Match Girl, Hans Christian Andersen (1974) (2006)
The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen (1989) (2000) (2008)
The Princess and the Pea, Hans Christian Andersen (2002)
The Snow Queen, Hans Christian Andersen (1995) (2002) (2012)
The Ugly Duckling, Hans Christian Andersen (1959)
The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Hans Christian Andersen (1992) (2008)
Thumbelina, Hans Christian Andersen (1994)
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, Howard Pyle (1991) (2018)
Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng (2020)
The Guns of Navarone, Alistair MacLean (1961)
Before I Fall, Lauren Oliver (2017)
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, Winifred Watson (2008)
Eyes Wide Shut, Arthur Schnitzler (1999)
Live by Night, Dennis Lehane (2016)
Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane (2010)
Gone Baby Gone, Dennis Lehane (2007)
Mystic River, Dennis Lehane (2003)
The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1997) (2020)
Sea Wolf, Jack London (1941)
White Fang, Jack London (1991) (1973) (2018)
Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly (2016)
The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1993)
Beauty and the Beast, Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve (2017)
Wonder, R. J. Palacio (2017)
World War Z, Max Brooks (2013)
The Verdict, Nick Stone (1982)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Irving Washington (1999)
The Russian House, John le Carre (1990)
On the Road, Jack Kerouak (2012)
Lord of the flies, William Golding (1963) (1990)
The Queen of South, Arturo Perez-Reverte (2016)
The Club Dumas, Arturo Perez-Reverte. The movie is The Ninth Gate (1999)
The Princess Bride, William Goldman (1987)
Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison (1994)
Scarface, Armitage Trail (1983)
City of Life and Dead, Lu Chuan (2009)
Jaws, Peter Benchley (1975)
A Year of Living Dangerously, Christopher J. Koch (1982)
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton (1993)
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (2000)
Nerve, Jeanne Ryan (2015)
How to be single, Liz Tuccillo (2016)
The Martian, Andy Weir (2015)
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See (2011)
Z for Zachariah, Robert C O’Brien (2015)
The Descent, Jeff Long (2005)
American Pastoral, Philip Roth (2016)
Arsenic and Old Lace, Joseph Otto Kesselring (1944)
M.A.S.H, Richard Hooker (1970)
Silence, Shūsaku Endō (2016)
The Circle, Dave Eggers (2017)
Mrs Doubtfire, Anne Fine (1993)
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2007)
The Silence of the North, Olive Frederickson (1981)
Into the Forest, Anthony Browne (2015)
The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson (2016)
Brain on Fire, Susannah Cahalen (2016)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith (2016)
Coraline, Neil Gaiman (2009)
Stardust, Neil Gaiman (2007)
American Gods, Neil Gaiman (2020)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain (2011)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain (1939) (1960) (1995)
The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain (1937) (2000)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain (1949) (1989)
Catch 22, Joseph Heller (1970)
The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells (2020)
A Dog’s Purpose, W. Bruce Cameron (2017)
Maigret Sets a Trap, Georges Simenon (2016)
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot (2017)
Matilda, Ronald Dahl (1996)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Ronald Dahl (1971) and (2005)
The Big Friendly Gigant, Ronald Dahl (2016)
The Witches, Ronald Dahl (2020)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Ronald Dahl (1968)
Jack and the Beanstalk, Gary J. Tunnicliffe (2009)
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (1950) (2012)
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights is a Middle Eastern folk tales collection with more than 12 movie adaptations.
Aladdin, Middle East tale (2019)
Girl Boss, Sophia Amoruso (2017)
Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami (2010)
How the Grinch Stole the Christmas, Dr Seuss (1966) (2000) (2018)
Leaving Las Vegas, John O’Brien (1995)
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (2008)
Public Enemies, Bryan Burrough (2009)
The Accidental Billionaires, Ben Mezrich. The movie is The Social Network (2010)
The Town, Conrad Richter (2010)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne (1954)
Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne (2004)
Ordinary People, Judith Guest (1980)
The Room, Emma Donoghue (2015)
A Very Long Engagement, Sebastien Jaspisot (2004)
Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow (1981)
Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig (1985)
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Patrik O’Brian (2003)
Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle (1968)
Diarios de Motocicleta, Gabriel Garcia Bernal (also known as Che Guevara) (2004)
Carol, Patricia Highsmith (2015)
The Spook’s Apprentice, Joseph Delaney (2016)
Book 1: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J. K. Rowling (1997)
Book 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J. K. Rowling (1998)
Book 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling (1999)
Book 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, J. K. Rowling (2000)
Book 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, J. K. Rowling (2003)
Book 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J. K. Rowling (2005)
Book 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J. K. Rowling (2007)
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, J. K. Rowling (2016)
A Monster Calls, Patrick Ness (2016)
The Girl on the Train, Paula Hawkins (2016)
Queen of Katwe, Tim Crothers (2016)
The Choice, Edith Eger (2016)
Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon (2000)
The Lost City of Z, David Grann (2016)
The 5th Wave, Rick Yancey (2016)
The Beach, Alex Garland (2016)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt (1997)
Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay (1975)
Hannibal, Thomas Harris (2013)
The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris (1991)
Red Dragon, Thomas Harris (2002)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Ann Brashares (2005)
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith (2012)
A Night to Remember, Walter Lord (1958)
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore (2003)
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls (2003)
The Vampire Chronicles: Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice (1994)
The Vampire Chronicles: The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice (2002)
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (2016)
Fallen, Lauren Kate (2016)
The Maze Runner, James Dashner (2014)
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, James Dashner (2015)
Maze Runner: The Death Curve, James Dashner (2018)
Child 44, Tom Rob Smith (2015)
The Magus, John Fowles (1968)
The Collector, John Fowles (1965)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles (1981)
Paper Towns, John Green (2015)
Looking for Alaska, John Green (2019)
The Fault in our Stars, John Green (2014)
Divergent, Veronica Ruth (2014)
Insurgent, Veronica Ruth (2015)
Allegiant, Veronica Ruth (2016)
Serena, Ron Rash (2014)
Mortdecai, Kyril Bonfiglioli (2015)
A Bear Called Paddington, Michael Bond (2014)
Tuesdays with Morrie, Mitch Albom (1999)
Peaceful Warrior, Dan Millman (2006)
My Sassy Girl, Ho Sik Kim (2001)
Journal d’une femme de Chambre, Octave Mirbeau (2015)
A Hologram for the King, Dave Eggers (2016)
Me Before You, Jojo Moyes (2016)
The Last Letter from Your Lover, Jojo Moyes (2021)
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling (2016)
The Man Who Would Be King, Rudyard Kipling (1975)
The Revenant, Michael Punke (2015)
The Old Guard, Greg Rucka (2020)
I Know What You Did Last Summer, Lois Duncan (1997)
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, Michael Lewis (2015)
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Jesse Andrews (2015)
The Physician, Noah Gordon (2013)
Ce Que le Jour Doit a la Nuit, Yasmina Khadra (2012)
The Hundred-Foot Journey, Richard C Morais (2014)
The Bridge over the River Kwai, Pierre Boulle (1957)
Mildred Pierce, James M. Cain (1945)
Midnight Express, Billy Hayes (1978)
Shoeless Joe, William P. Kinsella. The movie is Field of Dreams (1989)
Drive, James Sallis (2011)
The Babby-Sitter’s Club, Ann M. Martin (2020)
Circle of Friends, Maeve Binchy (1995)
The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger (2000)
The Quiet American, Graham Greene (2002)
Born Free, Joy Adamson (1966)
Empire of the Sun, J. G. Ballard (1987)
The Railway Children, Edith Nesbit (2000)
The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory (2008)
The Constant Gardener, John le Carre (2005)
The Last King of Scotland, Giles Foden (2006)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, Fannie Flagg (1991)
Charlotte’s Web, E. B. White (2006)
The Day of the Jackal, Frederick Forsyth (1973)
The Warriors, Sol Yurick (1979)
The French Connection, Robin Moore (1971)
Blow, Bruce Porter (2001)
Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes (2018)
The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper (1992)
Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business, Joe Pistone (1997)
All the President’s Men, Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein (1976)
Cool Hand Luke, Donn Pearce (1967)
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett (1941)
The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris (1991)
Chicago, Brian Doyle (2002)
L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy (1997)
There Will be Blood, Upton Sinclair (2007)
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket (2004)
Midnight Cowboy, James Leo Herlihy (1969)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey (1975)
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson (2007)
King Kong, Christopher Golden (2005)
One Missed Call, Yasushi Akimoto (2006)
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving. The movie is Simon Birch (1998)
The World According to Garp, John Irving (1982)
Requiem for a Dream, Hubert Selby Jr. (2000)
Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine (2004)
Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History, Antonio J. Mendez & Matt Baglio (2012)
White Oleander, Janet Fitch (2002)
Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak (2009)
Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt (2002)
We Bought a Zoo, Benjamin Mee (2011)
The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (2007)
Fifty Shades of Grey, E. L. James (2015)
Fifty Shades Darker, E. L. James (2017)
Fifty Shades Freed, E. L. James (2018)
Hector and the Search for Happiness, Francois Lelord (2014)
Stonehearst Asylum, Joseph Gangemi (2014)
Winter’s Tale, Mark Helprin (2014)
I am David, Anne Holm (2003)
The Beheaded Rooster, Eginald Norbert Schlattner (2007)
Red Gloves, Eginald Norbert Schlattner (2010)
The Truth About Dracula, Eginald Norbert Schlattner (2010)
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James (1996)
The American, Henry James (2010)
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James (2020)
One for the Money, Janet Evanovich (2012)
The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald (2013)
Tender is the Night, Scott Fitzgerald (1962)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Scott Fitzgerald (2008)
I am Number Four, Pittacus Lore (2011)
North and South, Elizabeth Gaskell (2004)
Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell (1999)
Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell (2007-2010)
The Talented Mr Ripley, Patricia Highsmith (1999)
A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley (1997)
High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (2000)
Spartacus, Howard Fast (1960)
Jesus, based on the Bible’s New Testament (1979) (1999)
Exodus: Gods and Kings, based on the Bible’s Old Testament (2014)
The Ten Commandments, based on the Bible’s Old Testament (1923) (2006)
The Nutcracker, E.T.A. Hoffmann. Famous ballet in two acts in 1892 and movies in 2009 and 2018.
The Honest Courtesan, Margaret Rosenthal (1999)
Pay it Forward, Cathrine Ryan Hyde (2000)
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1931) (1994) (2015)
Gangs of New York, Herbert Ashbury (2002)
Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton (1993)
Congo, Michael Crichton (1995)
Sphere, Michael Crichton (1998)
Eaters of the Dead, Michael Crichton. The movie is The 13th Warrior (1999)
Westworld, Michael Crichton (2016)
The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (2002)
The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas (1973) (2011)
The Black Tulip, Alexandre Dumas (1964)
The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexandre Dumas (1998)
The Lady with the Camellias, Alexandre Dumas Son (1981)
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs (1991)
War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells (2005)
A Home at the End of the World, Michael Cunningham (2004)
The Hours, Michael Cunningham (2002)
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne (1911) and (1995)
Sahara, Clive Clusser (2005)
The Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy (1991)
Charlie Wilson’s War, George Crile (2007)
The Neverending Story, Michael Ende (1984)
My Sister’s Keeper, Jodi Picoult (2009)
The Pact: A Love Story, Jodi Picoult (2002)
Midnight Bayou, Nora Roberts (2009)
Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Word, Johnny Cash (2005)
Cash: The Autobiography, Johnny Cash. The movie is called Walk the Line (2005)
Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis (1964)
Christ Recrucified, Nikos Kazantzakis (1969)
The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis (1988)
The Descendants, Kaui Hart Hemmings (2011)
Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card (2013)
Oscar and Lucinda, Peter Carey (1997)
His Dark Materials Trilogy, Philip Pullman (2019)
The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman (2007)
The Host, Robin Cook (2013)
Dangerous Liaisons, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1988)
Romancing the Stone, Joan Wilder (1984)
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler (1946) (1978)
Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding (2001)
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Helen Fielding (2004)
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, Helen Fielding (2016)
Lorna Doone, Richard Doddridge Blackmore (2000)
Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh (1996)
If I Stay, Gayle Forman (2014)
The Manchurian Candidate, Richard Condon (1962) (2004)
Prizzi’s Honour, Richard Condon (1985)
A Walk to Remember, Nicholas Sparks (2002)
Dear John, Nicholas Sparks (2010)
The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks (2004)
The Last Song, Nicholas Sparks (2010)
The Lucky One, Nicholas Sparks (2012)
Safe Haven, Nicholas Sparks (2013)
Nights in Rodanthe, Nicholas Sparks (2008)
Message in a Bottle, Nicholas Sparks (1999)
The Sea Hawk, Rafael Sabatini (1940)
Captain Blood: His Odyssey, Rafael Sabatini (1935)
Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace (1959)
Desert Flower, Waris Dirie & Cathleen Miller (2009)
Twilight, Stephanie Meyer (2008)
Twilight: New Moon, Stephanie Meyer (2009)
Twilight: Eclipse, Stephanie Meyer (2010)
Twilight: Breaking Dawn, Stephanie Meyer (2011-2012)
The Host, Stephanie Meyer (2013)
The Damned United, David Peace (2009)
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan (2010)
The Perks of Being a Wildflower, Stephen Chbosky (2012)
The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller (1995)
Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia & Margaret Sthol (2013)
Flash Forward, Robert J. Sawyer (2009-2010)
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2010)
Born on the Fourth of July, Ron Kovic (1989)
Silk, Alessandro Baricco (2007)
Sphinx, Robin Cook (1981)
Rashomon, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1950)
The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks (1997)
Sleepers, Lorenzo Carcaterra (1996)
The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum (2002)
The Bourne Supremacy, Robert Ludlum (2004)
The Bourne Legacy, Robert Ludlum (2012)
The Outsiders, Susan Eloise Hinton (1983)
Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt (1999)
A Simple Plan, Scott Bechtel Smith (1998)
The Ruins, Scott Bechtel Smith (2008)
Random Hearts, Warren Adler (1999)
Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow (1990)
The Death and Life of Dith Pran, Sydney Schanberg (1984)
Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1939 – 1946) (2009)
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1939)
The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1960)
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Rudolph Erich Raspe (1988)
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser (1931)
Pearl Harbor, Randall Wallace (2001)
Discworld: Hogfather, Sir Terry Pratchett (2006)
Discworld: The Color of Magic, Sir Terry Pratchett (2008)
Discworld: Soul Music, Sir Terry Pratchett (1997)
Discworld: Going Postal, Sir Terry Pratchett (2010)
Discworld: Wyrd Sisters, Sir Terry Pratchett (1997)
The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe (1983)
Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier (2003)
Up in the Air, Walter Kirn (2010)
Under the Tuscan Sun, Frances Mayesis (2003)
Solaris, Stanislaw Lem (2002)
Zodiac, Robert Graysmith (2007)
The Minority Repor, Philip K. Dick (2002)
Total Recall, Philip K. Dick (1990)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick. The movie is Blade Runner (1982)
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, Philip K. Dick (2014)
V for Vendetta, Alan Moore (2005)
Veronika Decides to Die, Paulo Coelho (2009)
The Painted Veil, W. Somerset Maugham (2006)
The Mosquito Coast, Paul Theroux (1986)
300, Frank Miller (2006)
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (1990)
No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy (2007)
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy (2000)
The Road, Cormac McCarthy (2009)
Inkheart, Cornelia Funke (2008)
Dragon Rider, Cornelia Funke (2020)
The Vampire Diaries. The Awakening: Volume I (13 volumes), L. J. Smith (2009-2017)
The Vampire Diaries. The Struggle: Volume II
The Vampire Diaries. The Fury: Volume III
The Vampire Diaries. Dark Reunion: Volume IV
The Vampire Diaries. The Return: Nightfall V
The Vampire Diaries. The Return: Shadow Souls VI
The Vampire Diaries. The Return: Midnight VII
The Vampire Diaries. The Hunters: Phantom VIII
The Vampire Diaries. The Hunters: Moonsong IX
The Vampire Diaries. The Hunters: Destiny Rising X
The Vampire Diaries. The Salvation: Unseen XI
The Vampire Diaries. The Salvation: Unspoken XII
The Vampire Diaries. The Salvation: Unmasked XIII
Flipped, Wendelin Van Draanen (2010)
Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson (2004)
Tangled, Brothers Grimm (2010)
Horseman, Pass By, Larry McMurtry (2008)
Unknown, Didier van Cauwelart (2011)
The Rite, Matt Baglio (2011)
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (1940) (1996) (2005)
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (1996)
Emma, Jane Austen (1996) (2020)
Persuasion, Jane Austen (2007)
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (2007)
Mansfield Park, Jane Austen (2007)
The Lincoln Lawyer, Michael Connelly (2011)
The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger (2006)
Push, Sapphire (Ramona Lofton) (2009)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis (2005)
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, C. S. Lewis (2008)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C. S. Lewis (2010)
The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum (1940)
Snow Angels, Stewart O’Nan (2007)
The Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett (2010)
Ironweed, William Joseph Kennedy (1987)
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (1994) (2019)
The Inheritance, Louisa May Alcott (1997)
Killing Me Softly, Nicci French (2002)
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (1954) (1973) (1997)
Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe (1996)
The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans (1998)
Awakening, Oliver Sacks (1990)
Notes on a Scandal, Zoë Kate Hinde Heller (2006)
Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love, Matthew Logelin (2020)
Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare (1996). Over the years there have been about 400 adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays.
Macbeth, William Shakespeare (1971) (2006)
The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare (2004)
Hamlet, William Shakespeare (1969)
Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare (1968)
Twelfth Night or What You Will, William Shakespeare (1996)
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare (1993) (2012)
Othello, William Shakespeare (1972)
King Lear, William Shakespeare (1983) (2018)
Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare (1972)
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare (1953) (2011)
The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare (1963) (1967)
Richard III, William Shakespeare (1955)
As You Like It, William Shakespeare (1936) (2006)
Henry V, William Shakespeare (1944) (1989)
The Tales of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter (2018)
The Tales of Peter Rabbit: The Runaway, Beatrix Potter (2020)
Dances with Wolves, Michael Blake (1990)
Bridge of Spies: A True Story of the Cold War, Giles Whittell (2015)
The Watcher in the Woods, Florence Engel Randall (1980)
Headhunters, Jo Nesbø (2011)
Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley (1995)
Grifters, Jim Thompson (1990)
The Blue Lagoon, Henry De Vere Stacpoole (1980)
A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones), George R. R. Martin (2012)
Wag the Dog, Larry Beinhart (1997)
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (There have been at least 30 film adaptations between 1909 and 2015)
The Idiot, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (1958) (2003)
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (1958)
The Gambler, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (1949) (1997)
Notes from the Underground, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (1995) (2011)
The Double, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (1968) (2014)
A Gentle Creature, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (1969)
White Nights, Fyodor M. Dostoevsky (1957) (Four Nights of a Dreamer – 1971)
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (2020)
Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, astronaut Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger (1995)
Apollo 11, David Whitehouse (2019)
Terms of Endearment, Larry McMurtry (1983)
The Nanny Diaries, Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus (2007)
Goodfellas, Nicholas Pileggi (1990)
Never Cry Wolf, Farley Mowat (1983)
The Natural, Bernard Malamud (1984)
A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs (2009)
The Color of Money, Walter Tevis (1986)
Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence (1960)
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence (1955) (2015)
Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence (1969)
The White Peacock, D. H. Lawrence (2011)
The Diggstown Ringers, Leonard Wise (1992)
Phantom of the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe (1954)
The Masque of the Red Death, Edgar Allan Poe (1964)
The Fly, George Langelaan (1986)
Cool Hand Luke, Donn Pearce (1967)
The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, Oscar Hijuelos (1992)
The Spanish Prisoner, David Mamet (1997)
Glengarry Glen Ross, David Mamet (1992)
The Winslow Boy, David Mamet (1999)
The Picture of Dorian Grey, Oscar Wilde (1945) (1973) and (2009)
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde (2002)
The Happy Prince, Oscar Wilde (2018)
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson (2000)
The Twelve Chairs, Ilya Ilf & Evgeny Petrov (1970)
Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk (1999)
Choke, Chuck Palahniuk (2008)
Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk (2014)
Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk (2010)
Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey (1988)
Odette Toulemonde, Eric Emmanuel Schmitt (2006)
Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Eric Emmanuel Schmitt (2003)
The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (2002)
When Nitzsche Wept, Irvin D. Yalom (2007)
Cosmopolis, Donald DeLillo, (2012)
Game 6, Donald DeLillo (2005)
Never Ever, Donald DeLillo (2016)
Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella (2009)
Midnight Texas, Charlaine Harris (2017-2018)
Dead Until Dark, Charlaine Harris. The movie is True Blood (2008)
The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty (1973)
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries, Charlaine Harris (2015)
True Grit, Charles McColl Portis (1968)
Eragon, Christopher Paolini (2006)
Mortal Engines, Philip Reeve (2018)
The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1979) (2015)
The Dark of the Sun, Wilbur Smith. The movie is The Mercenaries (1968)
The Diamond Hunters, Wilbur Smith (2001)
Primal Fear, William Diehl (1996)
Must Love Dogs, Claire Cook (2005)
Unbroken: A WW II Story of Survival, resilience and redemption, Laura Hillenbrand (2014)
Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand (2003)
The Two Popes, Anthony McCarten (2020)
Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought Us Back from the Brink, Anthony McCarten (2017)
Artemis Fowl, Eoin Coffer (2020)
News of the World, Paulette Jiles (2020)
The Devil All the Time, Donald Ray Pollock (2020)
Into the Wild, John Krakauer (2007)
Chaos Walking, Patrick Ness (2020)
Paul, Apostle of Christ, Tom Wright (2018)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Bryan Maeler & William Kamkwamba (2019)
Just Mercy, Brian Stevenson (2020)
The Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley, Peter Guralnick (1995)
The 25th Hour, David Benioff (2020)
Le Divorce, Diane Johnson (2003)
Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo (2020)
In Valeria’s Shoes, Elisabet Benavent (2020)
Private Parts, Howard Stern (1997)
Anywhere but Here, Mona Simpson (1999)
The Dollmaker, Harriette Arnow (1984)
Holes, Louis Sachar (2003)
Unorthodox, Deborah Feldman (2020)
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson (2013) (2015)
Riding in Cars with Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good, Beverley Donofrio (2001)
Aquamarine, Alice Hoffman (2006)
Practical Magic, Alice Hoffman (1998)
House of Sand and Fog, Andre Dubus III (2003)
Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady, Charles Moore (2011)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Rebecca Wells (2002)
Babe: The Gallant Pig, Dick King-Smith (1995)
Diana: Her True Story-In Her Own Words, Andrew Morton (2013)
The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides (1999)
Wild: From Lost to Found in the Pacific Crest Trail, Cheryl Strayed (2014)
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (2015)
Me, Elton John. The movie is Rocketman (2019)
The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor (1989)
Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy and Hard Times, Jennifer Worth (2012)
Little Big Lies, Lianne Moriarty (2017-2019)
Beloved, Toni Morrison (1998)
Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean M. Auel (1986)
Everything, Everything, Nicola Yoon (2017)
Fingersmith, Sarah Water (2005)
From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs Basil E. Frankweiler, E. L. Konigsburg (1995)
Ghost in the Shell, Shirow Masamune (2017)
Ghost World, Daniel Clowes (2001)
The Girl with All the Gifts, M. R. Carey (2016)
Silence, Shusaku Endo (2016)
The Son, Philipp Meyer (2017-2019)
Girl Interrupted, Susana Kaysen (1999)
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (1968)
A High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes (1965)
Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson (1987)
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susana Clarke (2015)
Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist (2008)
Night of the Twisters, Ivy Ruckman (1996)
Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey pen name Daniel Abraham. The movie is Expanse (2015)
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel (1992)
Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog, John Grogan (2008)
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry (1985)
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri (2006)
Olive Kitteridge, Elizabeth Strout (2014)
The Pursuit of Happiness, Douglas Kennedy (2006)
A Rage in Harlem, Chester Himes (1991)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred D. Taylor (1978)
Roots: The Saga of an American Family, Alex Haley (1977)
Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston (2005)
The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough (1983)
Tim, Colleen McCullough (1979)
Sunshine, Norma Klein (2007)
The Girl in White Gloves: A Novel of Grace Kelly, Kerry Maher. The Movie is Grace of Monaco (2014)
Peaky Blinders: The Real Story, Carl Chinn (2013)
Unstrung Heroes: My Improbable Life with Four Impossible Uncles, Franz Lidz (1995)
The Corfu Trilogy, Gerald Durrell. The movie is The Durrells (2019)
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait, Carlos Fuentes (2002)
The Crown: The Inside History, Robert Lacey (2016)
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Barbara Leaming. The movie is Jackie (2016)
Orange Is the New Black, Piper Kerman (2013)
American Sniper, Chris Kyle (2014)
Stan and Ollie: The Roots of Comedy, Simon Louvish (2018)
Gandhi: An Autobiography, Mahatma K. Gandhi (1982)
The Lover, Marguerite Duras (1992)
Daughter of the Desert: The Extraordinary Life of Gertrude Bell, Georgina Howell (2015)
Young Victoria, A. N. Wilson (2009)
Alan & Naomi, Myron Levoy (1992)
The Man Without a Country, Kurt Vonnegut (1973)
Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, Donald Miller (2012)
Coco Chanel, Justine Picardie (2009)
The Aftermath, Rhidian Brook (2019)
Homecoming, Cynthia Voigt (1996)
In the end, I Beat Hitler, Rubino Romeo Salmonì. The movie is called Life Is Beautiful (1997)
A. A. Milne-His Life, Ann Thwaite. The Movie is Goodbye, Christopher Robin (2017)
The Healer, Jack Temple (2017)
First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung (2017)
Miracle at St. Anna, James McBride (2008)
The Complete History of Jack the Ripper, Philip Sugden (2016)
Catherine the Great, Robert K. Massie (1934) (1995)
Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh (1996)
Tolkien and the Great War, John Garth (2019)
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad (1993)
Julie & Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously, Julie Powell (2009)
My Life in France, Alex Prud (2009)
The Horse’s Mouth, Joyce Cary (1958)
Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man, Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, (2017)
Suite Française, Irene Nemirovksy (2015)
Hideaway, Dean Koontz (1995)
The Irishman: I’ve Heard You Paint Houses, Charles Brandt (2019)
Adrift, Tami Oldham Ashcraft (2018)
Chester, I Love You: The Thanksgiving Promise, Blaine & Brenton Yorgason (1986)
The Lighthouse of the Orcas, Roberto Bubas (2016)
Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause (2007)
Attila the Hun: A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome, John Man (1954 2001)
The First Wifes Club, Olivia Goldsmith (1996)
Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz (2006)
The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher (1987)
Evening, Susan Minot (2007)
Little Children, Tom Perrotta (2006)
Bee Season, Myla Goldberg (2005)
21: The Inside Story of Sic MIT Students who Took Las Vegas for Millions, Ben Mezrich (2008)
Amistad, Alex Pate (1997)
Angie, I Says, Avra Wing (1994)
How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell (2006)
The Butterfly Effect, James Swallow (2004)
A Civil Action, Jonathan Harr (1998)
A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood, Fred Rogers (2020)
Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1996)
Shiloh Season, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (1999)
Saving Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (2006)
One-Shot, Lee Child. The movie is Jack Reacher (2012)
Sounder, William H. Armstrong (1972)
National Velvet, Enid Bagnold (1944)
The Feast of Love, Charles Baxter (2007)
Because of Winn-Dixie, Kate DiCamillo (2005)
The Tale of Desperaux, Kate DiCamillo (2008)
Pictures of Hollis Woods, Patricia Reilly Giff (2007)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Terry McMillan (1998)
The Incredible Journey: A Tale of Three Animals, Sheila Bunford (1963)
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, Mark Bowden (2001)
Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts (2000)
Hell Hath No Fury, Bryna Taubman (1991)
The Valley of Decision, Maricia Davenport (1945)
D’entre les morts [English: The Living and the Dead], Boileau-Narcejac. The movie is Vertigo (1958)
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (2006)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Aron Ralston. The movie is called 127 Hours (2010)
Winchester Mistery House, Matt Doeden (2018)
The Woman in Black, Susan Hill (2012)
First Blood, David Morell (1982)
The Fly, George Langlaan (1986)
Enzo Ferrari: The Man and the Machine, Brock Yates (2003)
Tulip Fever, Deborah Moggach (2017)
A Most Dangerous Method, John Kerr (2011)
Antony and Cleopatra, Adrian Goldsworthy (1972)
Augustus, Adrian Goldsworthy (2003)
The Memoirs of Cleopatra, Margaret George (1963)
The Astronaut Wives Club, Lily Koppel (2015)
The Danish Girl, David Ebershoff (2015)
The Snowden Files, Luke Harding (2016)
Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, A. N. Wilson. The movie is Creation (2009)
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark (1969)
Gone Girl, Gillian Flynn (2014)
Sharp Object, Gillian Flynn
The Help, Kathryn Stockett (2011)
Wicked, George Maguire (1998)
Outlander, Diana Gabaldon (2014)
Warm Bodies, Issac Marion (2013)
The Siler Lininfs of Playbook, Matthew Quick (2012)
Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda (1948)
Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City, Nelson Johnson (2010-2014)
The Black Dahlia, James Ellroy (2006)
Pretty Little Liars, Sara Shepard (2010-2017)
This is Where I Leave You, Jonathan Tropper (2014)
The Jane Austen Book Club, Karen Joy Fowler (2007)
Austenland, Shannon Hale (2013)
Codename Villanelle, Luke Jenning. The movie is Killing Eve (2018)
Flower in the Attic, V. C. Andrews (2014)
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson (1999)
Masters of Sex: The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, Thomas Maier (2013)
Iron Will, [A true story written by John Michael Hayes] (1994)
Salah al-Din, Tariq Ali (1963)
Fresh Off the Boat, Eddie Huang (2015-2020)
Brighton Rock, Graham Greene (1947)
The 39 Steps, John Buchan (1935)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Le Carre (2011)
A Kestrel for a Knave, Barry Hines (1969)
Poldark. A Novel of Cornwall – Ross Poldark, Winston Graham (2015-2019)
Poldark. A Novel of Cornwall – Demelza
Poldark. A Novel of Cornwall – Jeremy Poldark
Poldark. A Novel of Cornwall – Warleggan
Poldark. A Novel of Cornwall – The Black Moon
Poldark. A Novel of Cornwall – The Four Swans
Poldark. A Novel of Cornwall – The Angry Tide
Poldark. A Novel of Cornwall – The Stranger from the Sea
Poldark. A Novel of Cornwall – The Miller’s Dance
Poldark. A Novel of Cornwall – The Loving Cup
Poldark. A Novel of Cornwall – The Twisted Sword
Poldark. A Novel of Cornwall – Bella Poldark
Bodies Are Where You Find Them, Brett Halliday. The movie is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
The Thing, John W. Campbell Jr. (1982)
Das Boot, Lothar Gunther Buchheim (1981)
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Peter Biskind. The movie is Raging Bull (1980)
9 1/2 Weeks, Francine Prose (1986)
The Untouchables, Eliot Ness & Oscar Fraley (1987)
Children of Men, P. D. James (2006)
Memento, Radek John (2000)
The Destroyer, Richard Sapir. The movie is by Remo Williams. The Adventure Begins (1985)
Drugstore Cowboy, James Fogle (1989)
All the light we cannot see, Anthony Doerr (2023)
Dr Strangelove, Peter George (1964)
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Cameron Crowe (1982)
The Secret of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brian (1982) (1998)
The Kingdom of Heaven, The Ridley Scott Film and the History Behind the Story (2005)
Call Me by Your Name, André Aciman (2017)
Pirates of the Caribbean, based on Stranger Tides, Tim Powers (2003 – 2017)

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