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101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Alive by Peirs Paul Read
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein
All's Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Anna and the King by Margaret Landon (novel: Anna and the King of Siam)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Apocalypse Now by Joseph Conrad (book: Heart of Darkness)
Battle Field Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace
The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov (Book also known as "The Positronic Man")
Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctrow
The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
The Blade Runner by Philip K. Dick (novel: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Born Free by Joy Adamson
Born on the 4th of July by Ron Kovic
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
A Clockwork Orange by Antony Burgess
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Cry in the Night by John Bryson
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
Dangerous Minds by Louanne Johnson (book: My Posse Don't Do Homework)
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Deliverance by James Dickey
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
The Dirty Dozen by E.M. Nathanson
Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
A Dog Named Skip by Willie Morris
Donny Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone
Dr. Strangelove by Peter George
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dune by Frank Herbert
The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian
Election by Tom Perrotta
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Exodus by Leon Uris
The Exocist by William Peter Blatty
Extreme Measures by Michael Palmer
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Falcon and the Snowman by Robert Lindsey
Field of Dreams by W.P. Kinsella (book: Shoeless Joe)
The First Wives Club by Olivia Goldsmith
Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts
Forest Gump by Winston Groom
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Freak Friday by Mary Rodgers
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir by R.A. Dick
The Ghost and the Darkness by Col. Patterson (book: The Man Eaters of Tsavo)
Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
Goodfellas by Nicholas Pileggi
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gorillas in the Mist by Diane Fossey
Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith
The Graduate by Charles Webb
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Guns of Navarone by Alistair MacLean
Hanging Up by Delia Ephron
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llwellyn
How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
The Hurricane by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes (book: The Iron Man)
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Just Cause by John Katzenbach
Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Laura by Vera Caspary
Lawrence of Arabia by T.E. Lawrence (book: The 7 Pillars of Wisdom)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
The Lord of Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Lost Horizon by James Hilton
The Love Letter by Cathleen Schine
Love Story by Erich Segal
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
MASH by Richard Hooker
Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordoff
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Out of Africa by IsakDinesen (aka Karen Blixen)
Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Parent Trap by Erich Kastner
Patton by Ladislas Farago
A Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher
The Postman by David Brin
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Primal Fear by William Diehl
Primary Colors by Anonymous
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
The Relic by Robert Preston
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Wiggin
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
A River Runs Through It by Norman MacLean
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
The Secret of NIMH by Robert O'Brien (book also known as: Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh)
She-Devil by Fay Weldon (book: The Lives and Loves of a She-devil)
Shadowlands by William Nicholson
Shane by Jack Schaefer
Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
A Simple Plan by Scott B. Smith
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Smila's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Spartacus by Howard Fast
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Stuart Little by E.B. White
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Tom's Midnight Garden by Phillipa Pearce
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by Bernard Traven
True Crime by Andrew Klavan
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Untouchables by Oscar Fraley
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Watership Down by Richard Down
What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson
What the Deaf Man Heard by G.D. Gearino
Whatever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell
Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Wings of the Doves by Henry James
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Jane Austen
 Emma
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Little Lord Fauntleroy
The Little Princess
The Secret Garden
James M. Cain
Double Indemnity
Mildred Pierce
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Raymond Chandler
The Big Sleep
The Lady in the Lake
Agatha Christie
Death on the Nile
Evil under the Sun
Murder on the Orient Express
Ten Little Indians (aka And Then There Were None)
The Mirror Crack'd
Tom Clancy
The Hunt for Red October
Patriot Games
Clear and Present Danger
Arthur C. Clarke
2001
2010
Robin Cook
Coma
Sphinx
Virus (book: Outbreak) NOTE: This book is marginally included on this list. Premise was used,
not entire storyline
Michael Crichton
The Andromeda Strain
Carrie
Congo
Disclosure
The Great Train Robbery
Jurassic Park
The Lost World
Sphere
The Terminal Man
The 13th Warrior (novel: The Eaters of the Dead)
Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach
Matilda
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (book: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
Charles Dickens
Christmas Carol
Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Three Musketeers
Ian Fleming's James Bond
Casino Royale
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Diamonds are Forever
Dr. No
From Russia with Love
Goldfinger
Live and Let Die (made as Licence to Kill)
Moonraker
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Man With the Golden Gun
The Spy Who Loved Me
Thunderball
You Only Live Twice
E.M. Forester
Howard's End
A Passage to India
A Room With a View
Graham Greene
The End of the Affair
The Third Man
John Grisham
The Client
The Chamber
The Firm
The Gingerbread Man (short story)
The Pelican Brief
A Time to Kill
Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon
The Thin Man
Victor Hugo
Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables
John Irving
Cider House Rules
The Hotel New Hampshire
The World According to Garp
A Prayer for Owen Meany (made as "Simon Birch")
Stephen King
Apt Pupil
Carrie
Cat's Eye
Christine
Cujo
Delores Caliborne
Firestarter
The Green Mile
It
Lawnmower Man
Misery
Needful Things
Pet Cemetery
The Running Man (as Richard Bachman)
Salem's Lot
Shawshank Redemption
The Shining
Sleepwalkers
The Stand
Stand By Me
Thinner (as Richard Bachman)g
John Le Carre
Little Drummer Girl
The Russia House
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Jack London
The Call of the Wild
The Sea Wolf
White Fang
Robert Ludlum
The Bourne Identity
The Holcroft Covenant
The Osterman Weekend
George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin
W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage
The Razor's Edge
Larry McMurtry
Terms of Endearment
George Orwell
1984
Animal Farm
John Steinbeck
East of Eden
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Around the World in 80 Days
H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Time Machine
E.B. White
Charlotte's Web
Stuart Little
Leonard Wibberley
The Mouse on the Moon
The Mouse that Roared
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