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Books Made Into Movies
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101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith
21 (book: “Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who
300 by Frank Miller (graphic novel)
Took Vegas for Millions by Ben Mezrich”)
Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Alive by Piers Paul Read
All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
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 (novela: “Heart of Darkness”)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Battlefield Earth by L. Ron Hubbard
Beaches by Iris Rainer Dart
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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 Dahlia by James Ellroy
Black Robe by Brian Moore
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley
The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Born Free by Joy Adamson
Born on the 4th of July by Ron Kovic
The Bostonians by Henry James
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Bridge Over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
Bridge Too Far by Cornelius Ryan
Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
Carpe Demon: Adventures of a Demon-Hunting Soccer Mom by Julie Kenner
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield
Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Children of Men by P.D. James
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Circle of Friends by Maeve Binchy
The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
A Clockwork Orange by Antony Burgess
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
A Cry in the Night by John Bryson
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button by F. Scott Fitzgerald (based on the short story)
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
Dangerous Minds by Louanne Johnson (book: My Posse Don't Do Homework”)
Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Death and Life of Bobby Z by Don Winslow
December Boys by Michael Noonan
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Defiance by Nechama Tec (book "Defiance: the Bielski Partisans")
Deliverance by James Dickey
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
The Dirty Dozen by E.M. Nathanson
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
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
A Dry White Season by Andre Brink
Duchess by Amanda Foreman (book "Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire")
Dune by Frank Herbert
Eddie Dickens and the Awful End by Philip Ardagh
The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian
Election by Tom Perrotta
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
Escape to Witch Mountain by Alexander Key
Exodus by Leon Uris
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Extreme Measures by Michael Palmer
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Falcon and the Snowman by Robert Lindsey
Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter
Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R.  Tolkein
Field of Dreams by W.P. Kinsella (book: “Shoeless Joe”)
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The First Wives Club by Olivia Goldsmith
Flash of Genius by John Seabrook
Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts
Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille
Gettysburg by Michael Shaara
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
A Good Year by Peter Mayle
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
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Hanging Up by Delia Ephron
He’s Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison by Charles Shaw
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hoax by Clifford Irving
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
How About You by Maeve Binchy (short story: “The Hard Core”)
How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llwellyn
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
How to Make an American Quilt by Whitney Otto
The Hurricane by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann
The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips
In a Dark Place by Henry James
The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford
The Indian in the Cupboard by Lynne Reid Banks
Inkheart by Cornelia Funke
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
The Iron Giant by Ted Hughes (book: “The Iron Man”)
It’s a Wonderful Life by Philip Van Doren Stern (based on the story: "The Greatest Gift")
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
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
Kill the Poor by Joel Rose
Kiss the Girls by James Patterson
The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini
The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Last Sinner Eater by Francine Rivers
Laura by Vera Caspary
Layer Cake by J.J. Connolly
Lawrence of Arabia by T.E. Lawrence  (book: “The 7 Pillars of Wisdom”)
Life with Father by Clarence Day (memoir)
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Little Traitor by Amos Oz
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
Malcolm X (based on the "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Malcolm X and Alex Haley)
Marley & Me by John Grogan
The Martian Child by David Gerrold
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
MASH by Richard Hooker
Matchstick Men by Eric Garcia
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards
Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Mommie Dearest by Christina Crawford
Moulin Rouge by Pierre La Mure
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordoff
My Left Foot by Christy Brown
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Nanny McPhee by Christianna Brand (based on the “Nurse Matilda” book series)
The Narrows by Tim McLoughlin (book: “Heart of the Old Country”)
National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory
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
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind (original novel title: "Das Parfum".  Also published in English as “Perfume”)
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Pilot’s Wife by Anita Shrieve
Pimpernel Smith by Baroness Emmuska Orczy (based on the book: “The Scarlet Pimpernel”)
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Point Blank by Donald E. Westlake
Shooter by Stephen Hunter (novel: “Point of Impact”)
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Poseidon Adventure by Paul Gallico
Postcards from the Edge by Carrie Fisher
The Postman by David Brin
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis
Primal Fear by William Diehl
Primary Colors by Anonymous
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
P.S. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern
Psycho by Robert Bloch
Race to Witch Mountain by Alexander Key (based on the novel: “Escape to Witch Mountain”)
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Wiggin
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Relic by Robert Preston
Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr.
The Return of the King by J.R.R.  Tolkein
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
The Road to Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L.Beach
Saving Grace by Natalie Robins & Steven M.L. Aronson
Saving Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Scarface by Armitage Trail
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
Seahawk by Rafael Sabatini
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Kidd
The Secret of NIMH by Robert O'Brien (book also known as: “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh”)
The Seeker: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper (book: “The Dark is Rising”)
The Sentinel by Gerald Petievich
Shadowlands by William Nicholson
Shane by Jack Schaefer
She-Devil by Fay Weldon (book: “The Lives and Loves of a She-devil”)
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Shrek by William Steig
Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
A Simple Plan by Scott B. Smith
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra
Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
Smila's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
The Soloist by Steve Lopez
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Spartacus by Howard Fast
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Starter for 10 by David Nicholls
Stealing Heaven by Marion Meade
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
Stuart Little by E.B. White
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke
The 39 Steps by John Buchan
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
The Three Faces of Eve by Corbett Thigpen
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
Tsotsi by Athol Fugard
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
The Two Towers by J.R.R.  Tolkein
The Untouchables by Oscar Fraley
Two Solitudes by Hugh McLennan
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann
Vertigo by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (novel title: "D'Entre Les Morts")
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Watchmen (based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore, et al.)
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
White Dog by Romain Gary
Who Has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Graham
Wings of the Dove by Henry James
The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon
Yes Man by Danny Wallace
Zathura: A Space Adventure by Chris van Allsburg

Jane Austen
            Emma
            Mansfield Park
            Northanger Abbey
            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
            Without Remorse

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”)

Clive Cussler
            Raise the Titanic
            Sahara

Roald Dahl
            James and the Giant Peach
Matilda
            Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (book: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”)
            The Witches

Philip K. Dick
The Blade Runner (novel: “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”)
Imposter (based on the short story)
Minority Report (based on the short story)
Next (based on the short story "The Golden Man")
Paycheck (based on the short story)
A Scanner Darkly
Total Recall (based on the short story "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale")

Charles Dickens
            A Christmas Carol
            Great Expectations
            Nicholas Nickleby
            Oliver Twist

Alexandre Dumas
            The Count of Monte Cristo
            The Man in the Iron Mask
            The Three Musketeers

Bret Easton Ellis
            American Psycho         
The Informers by Bret Easton Ellis

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 (film title: 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

Neil Gaiman
            Coraline
            MirrorMask
Stardust

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

Nathaniel Hawthorne
            The House of Seven Gables
            The Scarlet Letter

Nick Hornby
            About a Boy
            Fever Pitch
            High Fidelity

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 (film title:  "Simon Birch")

Stephen King
Apt Pupil
            Carrie
Cat's Eye
            Christine
Cujo
Dolores Claiborne
Firestarter
The Green Mile
It
Lawnmower Man
            Misery
            The Mist
            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)

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 Bourne Supremacy
            The Bourne Ultimatum
The Holcroft Covenant
The Osterman Weekend

George MacDonald
            The Princess and the Goblin

W. Somerset Maugham
            Of Human Bondage
            The Painted Veil
            The Razor's Edge
            Theatre (film title: “Being Julia”)
            Up at the Villa

Cormac McCarthy
All the Pretty Horses
No Country for Old Men
Outer Dark
The Road

Larry McMurtry
            Terms of Endearment

George Orwell
            1984
            Animal Farm

Mario Puzo
            The Godfather
            The Sicillian

Philip Roth
            Elegy (book: “The Dying Animal”)
            Goodbye, Columbus
            The Human Stain
            Portnoy’s Complaint

J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (aka Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabahn
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

 

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

Oscar Wilde
            The Canterville Ghost
            The Picture of Dorian Gray

John Wyndham
            Day of the Trifids
The Midwich Cuckoos (film title: Village of the Damned”)

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