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lildrafire (Tammy G.)



Subject: Novels Made into Movies List
Date Posted: 11/17/2007 12:53 AM ET
Member Since: 11/10/2007
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Books Made Into Movies

 
  • Now Playing and Coming Attractions
  • 3:10 To Yuma - Elmore Leonard (short story)
  • Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J.K. Rowling
  • Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer
  • Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
  • Stardust - Neil Gaiman
  • Action and Adventure
  • Casino Royale - Ian Fleming
  • D-Tox (Book Title: Jitter Joint) - Howard Swindle
  • Diamonds are forever - Ian Fleming
  • Die Hard (Original Book Title: Nothing Lasts Forever) - Roderick Thorp
  • Dr. No - Ian Fleming
  • Flight of the Intruder - Stephen Coonts
  • From Russia with Love - Ian Fleming
  • Gangs of New York - Herbert Asbury
  • Get Carter - Ted Lewis
  • Goldfinger - Ian Fleming
  • Hostage - Robert Crais
  • Live and let die - Ian Fleming
  • Man on Fire - A.J. Quinnell
  • Mercury Rising (Book Title: Simple Simon ) - Ryne Douglas Pearson
  • Moonraker - Ian Fleming
  • On Her Majesty's Secret Service - Ian Fleming
  • Patriot Games - Tom Clancy
  • Rabbit-proof fence - Doris Pilkington
  • The Bourne Ultimatum - Robert Ludlum
  • The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton
  • The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
  • The Man with the Golden Gun - Ian Fleming
  • The Prince of Central Park - Evan H. Rhodes
  • The Spy Who Loved Me - Ian Fleming
  • The Sum Of All Fears - Tom Clancy
  • Thunderball - Ian Fleming
  • Under Siege - Stephen Coonts
  • You only live twice - Ian Fleming
  • Classics
  • A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  • A Passage to India - E.M. Forster
  • A Room With a View - E.M. Forster
  • Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
  • Ben Hur - Lew Wallace
  • Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
  • Clueless (book title: Emma) - Jane Austen
  • Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  • Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
  • East of Eden - John Steinbeck
  • Emma - Jane Austen
  • For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
  • Good Woman (Play Title: Lady Windermere's Fan) - Oscar Wilde
  • Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  • House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
  • Howard's End - E.M. Forster
  • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  • Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  • Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  • Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
  • Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
  • Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  • Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  • Persuasion - Jane Austen
  • Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  • The Claim (Book Title: The Mayor of Casterbridge) - Thomas Hardy
  • The African Queen - C.S. Forestser
  • The Europeans - Henry James
  • The Golden Bowl - Henry James
  • The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  • The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
  • The Musketeer (Book Title : The Three Musketeers) - Alexandre Dumas
  • The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  • To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  • To Sir With Love - Edward Braithwaite
  • Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
  • War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
  • Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
  • Comedies
  • A Merry War (Book Title: Keep the Aspidistra Flying) - George Orwell
  • About a Boy - Nick Hornby
  • Adaptation (book title: The Orchid Thief) - Susan Orlean
  • Be Cool - Elmore Leonard
  • Big Bounce - Elmore Leonard
  • Big Trouble - Dave Barry
  • Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
  • Cheaper by the Dozen - Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
  • Chocolat - Joanne Harris
  • Christmas with the Kranks (Book Title: Skipping Christmas) - John Grisham
  • Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen - Dyan Sheldon
  • Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells
  • Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine
  • Everything you always wanted to know about sex but were afraid to ask - David Reuben (Very loosely based on this book)
  • Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Cameron Crowe
  • Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
  • Freaky Friday - Mary Rodgers
  • Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg
  • Heartburn - Nora Ephron
  • High fidelity - Nick Hornby
  • Matchstick Men - Eric Garcia
  • Myra Breckinridge - Gore Vidal
  • Postcards From the Edge - Carrie Fisher
  • Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
  • Shopgirl - Steve Martin
  • Striptease - Carl Hiassen
  • Thank you for smoking - Christopher Buckley
  • The Commitments - Roddy Doyle
  • The First Wives Club - Olivia Goldsmith
  • The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
  • The Snapper - Roddy Doyle
  • The Van - Roddy Doyle
  • The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
  • Thumbsucker - Walter Kirn
  • What's The Worst That Could Happen? - Donald Westlake
  • Courtroom
  • A Time to Kill - John Grisham
  • Just Cause - John Katzenbach
  • The Chamber - John Grisham
  • The Client - John Grisham
  • The Firm - John Grisham
  • The Pelican Brief - John Grisham
  • The Rainmaker - John Grisham
  • The Runaway Jury - John Grisham
  • Drama
  • A Love Song for Bobby Long (Book title: Off Magazine Street) - Ronald Everett Capps
  • A Map of the World - Jane Hamilton
  • A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories - Norman MacLean
  • A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley
  • About Schmidt - Louis Begley
  • An Unfinished Life - Mark Spragg
  • Antwone Fisher (Book title: Finding fish) - Antwone Quenton Fisher
  • Ask the Dust - John Fante
  • Asylum - Patrick McGrath
  • Atonement - Ian McEwan
  • Away From Her (Short Story: Bear Came Over The Mountain) - Alice Munro
  • Being there - Jerzy Kosinski
  • Beloved - Toni Morrison
  • Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
  • Cavedweller - Dorothy Allison
  • Children of Men - P.D. James
  • Crash - J.G. Ballard
  • Disappearing Acts - Terry McMillan
  • Door in the Floor (Book title: A Widow for One Year) - John Irving
  • Emperor's Club (Book Title: The Palace Thief) - Ethan Canin
  • Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
  • Eyes Wide Shut (Book Title: Rhapsody - a dream novel) - Arthur Schnitzler
  • Falling Angels
  • Fear and Trembling - Amelie Nothomb
  • Field of Dreams (Book Title: Shoeless Joe) - W.P. Kinsella
  • Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
  • Focus - Arthur Miller
  • Four Feathers - A.E.W. Mason
  • Friday Night Lights - H.G. Bissinger
  • Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
  • Hearts in Atlantis - Stephen King
  • House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus III
  • How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto
  • I am David - Anne Holm
  • In the Bedroom (Book Title: Dancing After Hours or Selected Stories) - Andre Dubus
  • Intimacy - Hanif Kureishi
  • Last King of Scotland - Giles Foden
  • Last Orders - Graham Swift
  • Lost and Delirious (Book Title: The Wives of Bath) - Susan Swan
  • Mysterious Skin - Scott Heim
  • Mystic Masseur - V. S. Naipaul
  • O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
  • One True Thing - Anna Quindlen

  • Ordinary People - Judith Guest
  • Original Sin (Book Title: Waltz into darkness) - Cornell Woolrich
  • Painted Veil - W. Somerset Maugham
  • Pay It Forward - Catherine Ryan Hyde
  • Personal Velocity - Rebecca Miller
  • Quiet American - Graham Greene
  • Red Dust - Gillian Slovo
  • Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby
  • Secretary (short story in Bad Behavior) - Mary Gaitskill
  • Shawshank Redemption (Book Title: Different Seasons - short story "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption") - Stephen King
  • Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx
  • Simon Birch (Book Title: A Prayer for Owen Meany) - John Irving
  • Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
  • Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra
  • Some Things That Stay - Sarah Willis
  • Sundays' Children - Ingmar Bergman
  • Sweet hereafter - Russell Banks
  • The 25th hour - David Benioff
  • The Bear - James O. Curwood
  • The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey - Thornton Wilder
  • The Caveman's Valentine - George Dawes Green
  • The Cider House Rules - John Irving
  • The City of Joy - Dominique Lapierre
  • The Feast of Love - Charles Baxter
  • The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans
  • The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
  • The Invisible Circus - Jennifer Egan
  • The Jane Austen Book Club - Karen Joy Fowler
  • The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
  • The Legend of Bagger Vance - Steven Pressfield
  • The Piano - Jane Campion
  • The Spanish Gardener - A.J. Cronin
  • The Tailor of Panama - John le Carré
  • The Three Faces of Eve - Thigpen & Cleckley
  • The Weekend - Peter Cameron
  • The World According to Garp - John Irving
  • Tim - Colleen McCullough
  • Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
  • Under the Tuscan Sun - Frances Mayes
  • Waiting to Exhale - Terry McMillan
  • What Girls Learn - Karin Cook
  • White Oleander - Janet Fitch
  • Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
  • Zigzag - Landon J. Napoleon
  • Family
  • A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
  • Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery
  • Babe (Book Title: Babe : The Gallant Pig; UK Book Title: The Sheep-pig) - Dick King-Smith
  • Bee Season - Myla Goldberg
  • Bridge To Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
  • Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
  • Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Ian Fleming
  • Eragon - Christopher Paolini
  • Five Children and It - E. Nesbit
  • Freak the Mighty - Rodman Philbrick
  • Garfield - Jim Davis
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J.K. Rowling
  • Heidi - Johanna Spyri
  • Holes - Louis Sachar
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Dr. Seuss
  • In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner
  • James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
  • Jumanji - Chris Van Allsberg
  • Little children - Tom Perrotta
  • Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  • Mary Poppins - P. L. Travers
  • Matilda - Roald Dahl
  • Mean Girls (Book Title: Queen bees & wannabes) - Rosalind Wiseman
  • Old Yeller - Fred Gipson
  • Pinocchio - Collodi, Carlo
  • Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg
  • Ramona - Beverly Cleary
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Wiggin
  • Shiloh - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  • Sounder - William Armstrong
  • Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
  • Stuart Little - E.B. White
  • The Incredible Journey - Sheila Burnford
  • The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynn Reid Banks
  • The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling


Last Edited on: 11/17/07 11:12 PM EST - Total times edited: 1
sevenspiders (Vanessa V.)


Date Posted: 11/25/2007 7:10 PM ET
Member Since: 11/13/2007
Posts: 1,002
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wow, what a list.  but you seem to have forgotten some biggies:

Fantasy:  The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien), & Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis) , and now they're making The Golden Compass (Philip Pullman) & the Spiderwick Chronicles (Holly Black)

Horror: Dracula (Bram Stoker), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), The Exorcist (William Peter Bleatty), Carrie, [insert any other King movie here], A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess), The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux), Rosemary's Baby (Ira Levin) many others

Also: Schindler's List (Thomas Keneally), The Princess Bride (William Golding), The Maltese Falcon & The Thin Man (both by Dashiell Hammet), and Silence of the Lambs (Thomas Harris)

And coming in December: I Am Legend (Richard Mattheson)
blueroses (Rachel C.)


Date Posted: 11/27/2007 6:17 PM ET
Member Since: 11/27/2007
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Awesome list...but I must add:

The Turn of the Screw (Henry James) This probably fits under horror/classics. The novella has been turned into a film over 15 times...best version known as The Innocents.

The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory.
mccoffield (Charlene C.)


Date Posted: 5/13/2011 8:56 PM ET
Member Since: 3/18/2011
Posts: 3
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Fantastic list! Have you heard that the recent bestseller, THE HELP, is being made into a major morion picture?


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