Have You “Seen” a Good Book Lately?
Books Made Into Movies

· Some movies may be R-rated, so get parent permission before selecting and viewing. Suggested by
Ms. Till, Ms. Haber, Ms. Hinkley and Ms. Britton

· Criticism and summaries of the novels and film adaptations: Novels into Film: the Encyclopedia of Movies Adapted from Books / Tibbetts, John. (791.43 TIB)

Book Titles. (Title of movie, if different.) Author, (Our Library’s Call Number)

20,000 Leagues under the Sea / Jules Verne (FIC VER)
2001: a Space Odyssey / Arthur Clarke (FIC CLA)
2010 / Arthur Clarke
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mark Twain (FIC TWA)
Age of Innocence / Edith Wharton (FIC WHA)
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Alice in Wonderland) / Lewis Carroll (FIC CAR)
All Quiet on the Western Front / Erich Maria Remarque (FIC REM)
Along Came a Spider. James Patterson / (FIC PAT)
Andromeda Strain / Michael Crichton (FIC CRI)
Angela's ashes : a memoir / Frank McCourt (929.2 MCC)
Anna Karenina / Leo Tolstoy (FICTOY)
Anne of Avonlea / Lucy Montgomery (FIC MON)
Anne of Green Gables / Lucy Montgomery (FIC MON)
Awakening / Kate Chopin (FIC CHO) (Bookroom)
A Beautiful Mind : the life of mathematical genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash / Sylvia Nasar (510 NAS)
Being there / Jerzy Kosinski (FIC KOS)
Beloved. Toni Morrison / (FIC MOR)
Bell Jar / Sylvia Plath (FIC PLA)
Ben-Hur / Lew. Wallace / (FIC WAL)
The best little girl in the world / Steven Levenkron. (FIC LEV)
Big Sleep. Raymond Chandler / (FIC CHA)
Black Stallion / Walter Farley (FIC FAR)
Body Snatchers / Finney, Jack.
Born on the Fourth of July / Ron Kovic (959.704 KOV)
Breakfast at Tiffany's / Truman Capote (FIC CAP)
The bridge over the river / Kwaitranslated by Xan Fielding. Boulle, Pierre (PB BOU)
The Bridges at Toko-ri / James A. Michener (FIC MIC)
The Bridges of Madison County / Robert James Waller (FIC WAL)
Captains Courageous. Kipling / Rudyard Kipling (PB KIP)
Carrie / Stephen King (FIC KIN)
Cat on a hot tin roof / Tennessee Williams (812 WIL)
Catch-22. / by Joseph Heller (FIC HEL) (Bookroom)
Flowers for Algernon / (Charly) Daniel Keyes
Chocolat / Harris, Joanne L
The cider house rules / John Irving (FIC IRV)
The client / John Grisham (PB GRI)
A clockwork orange / by Anthony Burgess (FIC BUR)
Cocoon / David Saperstein (PB SAP)
Cold Mountain / Charles Frazier (FIC FRA)
The color purple / Alice Walker (FIC WAL) (Bookroom)
Coma : a novel / by Robin Cook (FIC COO)
Congo. Crichton, Michael
Contact. Sagan, Carl.
The Count of Monte Cristo / Alexandre Dumas (FIC DUM)
Crash / Jerry Spinelli (FIC SPI)
Crime and punishment / Fyodor Dostoevsky (FIC DOS)
Cujo / Stephan King (FIC KIN)
The crucible / Arthur Miller (808.82 MIL) (Bookroom)
Cry, the beloved country / Alan Paton (FIC PAT)
Dances with wolves / Michael Blake (PB BLA)
Dangerous Liaisons / Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
David Copperfield. / Charles Dickens (FIC DIC)
Dead man walking : an eyewitness account of the death penalty in the United States / Helen Prejean. (364.6)
Death of a salesman / by Arthur Miller (812 MIL) (Bookroom)
Deliverance / James Dickey (FIC DIC)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Wells, Rebecca.
Do androids dream of electric sheep? (Blade Runner ) Philip K. Dick (FIC DIC)
Doctor Zhivago. Pasternak, Boris.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson (FIC STE)
Dr. Strangelove (Red Alert) George, Peter
Dracula. (Bram Stoker’s Dracula) Bram Stoker (FIC STO)
Dreamcatcher. / King, Stephen (FIC KIN)
Driving Miss Daisy : A Play. / Alfret Uhry. (812 UHR)
Dune / Frank Herbert. (FIC HER)
East of Eden / John Steinbeck. (PB STE)
Elmer Gantry / by Sinclair Lewis (FIC LEW)
Emma / Jane Austen (FIC AUS)
English Patient / Michael Ondaatje (FIC OND)
Eye of the Needle / Ken. Follett (FIC FOL)
Fahrenheit 451 / by Ray Bradbury (FIC BRA)
Far from the madding crowd / James Wright (FIC WRI)
The Far Pavilions / M. M. Kaye (FIC KAY)
A Farewell to Arms / Ernest Hemingway (FIC HEM)
Fellowship of the Rings / J.R.R. Tolkien
Frankenstein/ Dracula/ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Mary Shelly (FIC SHE)
Freak the Mighty / Rodman Philbrick (FIC PHI)
The French connection / Robin Moore (FIC MOO)
French Lieutenant’s Woman / John Fowles (FIC FOW)
Fried Green Tomatoes (…at the Whistle-Stop Café) Fannie Flagg (FIC FLA)
General’s Daughter / Nelson DeMille (FIC DEM)
Girl, Interrupted / Susanna Kaysen (616.89 KAY)
Glass Menagerie / Tennessee Williams (812 WIL) (Bookman)
Gone with the Wind / Margaret Mitchell (FIC MIT)
Goodbye Columbus / Phillip Roth (FIC ROT) (Bookroom)
Grapes of Wrath / John Steinbeck (FIC STE) (Bookroom)
Great Expectations / Charles Dickens (FIC DIC)
Great Gatsby / Scott Fitzgerald (FIC FIT)
Handmaid’s Tale / Margaret Atwood (FIC ATW)
Harry Potter / J.K. Rowling (FIC ROW)
Haunting of Hill House / Shirley Jackson (FIC JAC)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. / Carson McCullers (FIC MCC)
Heart of Darkness. (Apocalypse Now) Joseph Conrad (FIC CON)
The history of Tom Jones, a foundling (Tom Jones) / Henry Fielding (FIC FIE)
Horse Whisperer / Nicholas Evans (PB EVA)
Hound of the Baskervilles / Arthur Conan Doyle (FIC DOY)
How Stella Got Her Groove Back / Terry McMillan (FIC MCM)
Howard’s End / E.M Forster (FIC FOR)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Victor Hugo (FIC HUG)
Hunt for Red October / Tom Clancy (FIC CLA)
Hurricane. Hirsch, James. (364.15 HIR)
In Cold Blood / Truman Capote (364.1 CAP) (Bookroom)
In country : a novel / Bobbie Ann Mason (FIC MAS) (Bookroom)
In the Name of the Father. Conlon, Gerry. (921 CON))
Interview with a Vampire / by Anne Rice (FIC RIC)
Island of Dr. Moreau / H.G Wells (FIC WEL)
Jaws / Peter Benchley (PB BEN)
The Joy Luck Club / Amy Tan (FIC TAN) (Bookroom)
Jurassic Park / Michael Crichton (FIC CRI)
Kramer Versus Kramer / Avery Corman (FIC COR)
The last of the Mohicans / James Fenimore Cooper (FIC FEN)
Last Picture Show / Larry McMurtry (FIC MCM)
Last Temptation of Christ / Nikos Kazantzakis (FIC KAZ)
Les Miserables / Victor Hugo (FIC HUG)
Like Water for Chocolate / Laura Esquivel (FIC ESQ)
Little Big Man / Thomas Berger (FIC BER)
Little Women / by Louisa May Alcott (FIC ALC)
Lolita / Vladimir Nabokov (FIC NAB)
Lonesome dove / Larry McMurtry (FIC MCM)
Long Day's Journey into Night / Eugene O'Neill (812 ONE) (Bookroom)
Lord of the Fliesl / by William Golding (FIC GOL)
Maltese Falcon / Dashiell Hammett (FIC HAM)
Man for All Seasons / Robert Bolt.(822 BOL )
The Man in the Iron Mask / Alexandre Dumas (FIC DUM)
Message in a Bottle / Nicholas Sparks (PB SPA)
Midnight Express / Billy Hayes (365.6 H326m)
Milagro beanfield war / John Nichols (FIC NIC)
The Miracle Worker; a play for television / William Gibson (812 GIB)
Moby-Dick / Herman Melville
Mosquito Coast / Paul Theroux (PB THE) (Bookman)
Mrs. Dalloway / Virginia Woolf (FIC WOO)
Mutiny on the Bounty / Charles Nordhoff (FIC NOR)
Mystic River / Dennis Lehane (FIC LEH)
My Ántonia / Willa Cather (FIC CAT) (Bookroom)
Native Son / Richard Wright (813 WRI) (FIC WRI)
The Natural / Bernard Malamud (FIC MAL)
Never Cry Wolf / , Mowat Farley (FIC MOW)
O Pioneers! / Willa Cather (FIC CAT)
Of Mice and Men / John Steinbeck (FIC STE) (Bookroom)
Oliver Twist / Charles Dickens (FIC DIC)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich / Alexander Solzhenitsyn (FIC SOL)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest / Ken Kesey (FIC KES)
One who walked alone : Robert E. Howard, the final years (Whole Wide World—Movie) / Novalyne Price Ellis (813.5 ELL)
Ordinary people / Judith Guest (FIC GUE) (Bookroom)
Orlando; a biography / Virginia Wolfe (FIC WOL)
Our Town : a play in three acts / Thornton Wilder (812 WIL) (Bookroom)
Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen (FIC DIN)
Paper Moon (Addie Pray) Brown, Joe David L
Papillon / Henri Charriere (365 CHA)
Pelican Brief / John Grisham (FIC GRI)
Pet Sematary / Stephen King (FIC KIN)
Pianist / Wladyslaw Szpilman (940.53 SZP)
Presumed Innocent / Scott Turow (FIC TUR)
Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen (FIC AUT)
Primary Colors Anonymous (FIC ANO)
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie; a drama in three acts / Jay Presson Allen (PB SPA)
Prince of Tides / Pat Conroy (FIC CON)
The princess diaries / Meg Cabot (FIC CAB)
Rainmaker / John Grisham (FIC GRI)
Raisin in the Sun / Lorraine Hansberry (812 HAN) (Bookroom)
Rebecca / Daphne du Maurier (FIC DAP)
The return of the king / J.R.R. Tolkien (FIC TOL)
Rising sun : a novel / by Michael Crichton (FIC CRI)
River Runs through It / Norman Maclean (PB MAC)
Robin Hood of Sherwood Forest / Ann McGovern (FIC MCG)
Robinson Crusoe / by Daniel DeFore (FIC DEF)
A room with a view / E.M. Forster (FIC FOR)
Rumble fish / S. E. Hinton (FIC HIN) (Bookroom)
The scarlet letter / by Nathaniel Hawthorne (FIC HAW)
Schindler's list / Thomas Keneally (FIC KEN)
Sense and Sensibility / Jane Austen (FIC AUS)
Shane B L
Ship of Fools / Jack Schaefer (Bookroom)
Shoeless Joe (Field of Dreams) / W. Kinsella
Silence of the Lambs
Slaughterhouse-Five / Kurt Vonnegut (FIC VON)
A streetcar named Desire / Tennessee Williams (812 WIL)
Tex / S. E. Hinton (PB HIN) (Bookroom)
And then there were none (Ten Little Indians) / Agatha Christie (FIC CHR)
Thin Red Line / James Jones (FIC JON)
Thousand Clowns / Herb Gardner (812 G173t)
Three Faces of Eve / Corbett Thigpen (616.85 THI)
The three musketeers / Alexandre Dumas (FIC DUM)
To kill a mockingbird / by Harper Lee (FIC LEE) (Bookroom)
The treasure of the Sierra Madre / B. Traven (FIC TRA)
A tree grows in Brooklyn / Betty Smith (FIC SMI)
True Grit / Charles Portis (FIC POR)
The turn of the screw and other short fiction (Innocents) / Henry James (FIC JAM)
Under the Tuscan Sun / Frances Mayes (945.5 MAY)
A walk to remember / Nicholas Sparks (FIC SPA)
War of the Worlds / H.G. Wells (FIC WEL)
Where the heart is / Billie Letts (FIC LET)
White Oleander / Janet Fitch (FIC FIT)

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