Books Adapted into Movies
(You CAN have seen the movie, but CAN’T
have read the book before)
I didn’t include rated R movies or
books that I knew or suspected had a lot of objectionable material. I am still not vouching for all of the books
below. Be discerning and if you run into material that you are not
comfortable with, choose a different book. Also, if one of the “books” below
turns out to be a short story, choose a novel instead and forgive me.
If you want to choose a different
book, you must simply approve it with me
first. DO NOT choose another book without talking to me first. (This is by no means a comprehensive list.)
“Age of Innocence” Edith
Wharton
“All the President’s Men” Carl
Bernstein
“The Boy in the Striped
Pajamas” John Boyne
“The Bridge Over the River
Kwai” Pierre Boulle
“A Civil Action” Jonathan
Harr
“The Color Purple” Alice
Walker
“Dances with Wolves” Michael
Blake
“The Deep End of the Ocean” Jacquelyn
Mitchard
“The Diving Bell and the
Butterfly” Jean-Dominique Bauby
“A Dog Named Skip” Willie
Morris
“Dr. Strangelove” Peter
George
“Shoeless Joe” W.P. Kinsella
“Forrest Gump” Winston Groom
“Flash of Genius” John
Seabrook
“Gone With the Wind” Margaret
Mitchell
“The Great Gatsby” F. Scott
Fitzgerald
“Raisin in the Sun” Lorraine
Hansberry
“Guns of Navarone” Alistair
MacLean
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide to
the Galaxy” Douglas Adams
“I Am Legend” Richard
Matheson
“Little Women” Louisa May
Alcott
“To Kill a Mockingbird” Harper
Lee
“Matchstick Men” Eric Garcia
“Marley and Me” John Grogan
“The Martian Child” David
Gerrold
“Memoirs of a Geisha” Arthur
Golden
“The Namesake” Jhumpa Lahiri
“The Other Boleyn Girl” Philippa
Gregory
“Out of Africa” Isak Dinesen
“The Phantom of the Opera”
Gaston Leroux
“A Little Princess” Frances
Hodgson Burnett
“Psycho” Robert Bloch
“The Secret Life of Bees” Sue
Monk Kidd
“The Soloist” Steve Lopez
“Spartacus” Howard Fast
“What Dreams May Come” Richard Matheson
“The Wizard of Oz” L. Frank
Baum
Jane Austen’s Works
“Sphere” Michael Crichton
Charles Dickens’ Works
“The Count of Monte Cristo”
Alexandre Dumas
“The Three Musketeers”
Alexandre Dumas
“The Man in the Iron Mask”
Alexandre Dumas
“Of Mice and Men” John Steinbeck
“The Time Machine” H.G. Wells
“East of Eden” John Steinbeck
“The Importance of Being
Earnest” Oscar Wilde
“The Maltese Falcon” Dashiell
Hammett
“All the Pretty Horses”
Cormac McCarthy
“Howard’s End” E.M. Forster
“Rabbit-Proof Fence” Doris
Pilkington
“Les Miserables” Victor Hugo
“Chocolat” Joanne Harris
“Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya
Sisterhood” Rebecca Wells
“Fried Green Tomatoes” Fannie
Flagg
“Finding Fish” Antwone
Quenton Fisher
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
Truman Capote
“Doubt” John Patrick Shanley
“Friday Night Lights” H.G.
Bissinger (a lot of bad language)
“Hearts in Atlantis” Stephen
King
“Girl With a Pearl Earring”
Tracy Chevalier
“The Legend of Bagger Vance”
Steven Pressfield
“White Oleander” Janet Fitch
“Big Fish” Daniel Wallace
“Master and Commander”
Patrick O’Brian
“Cry, the Beloved Country”
Alan Paton
“Jaws” Peter Benchley
“The Mothman Prophecies” John
A. Keel
“The Manchurian Candidate”
Richard Condon
“Bringing Down the House: . .
.Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions” Ben Mezrich
“A Beautiful Mind” Sylvia
Nasar
“Catch Me if You Can” Frank
W. Abagnale and Stan Redding
“Seabiscuit” Laura
Hillenbrand
“The Hours” Michael
Cunningham
“The Perfect Storm” Sebastian
Junger
“Possession” A.S. Byatt
“Contact” Carl Sagan
“K-Pax” Gene Brewer
“Solaris” Stanislaw Lem
“War of the Worlds” H.G.
Wells
Shakespeare’s Works
“The Winslow Boy” Terrence
Rattigan
“The Prestige” Christopher
Priest
The Lord of the Rings Seri
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