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All About Books: Books to Screens

WARNING:

Don't judge a book by its movie!

BOOKS vs. FILMS

Harry Potter Books VS. Films

Comedy

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

ROMANTIC

All This Time by Mikki Daughtry; Rachael Lippincott
The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff
The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks
Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

MYSTERY

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
The Girl in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Nerve by Jeanne Ryan

FANTASY

Across the Universe by Beth Revis
Armada by Ernest Cline
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Frozen by Melissa De la Cruz
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater
Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
World War Z by Max Brooks

DRAMATIC

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein; Bob Woodward
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Argo by Antonio J. Mendez
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins
Before I Go To Sleep by S.J. Watson
Body of Lies by David Ignatius
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott; Mikki Daughtry (As told to); Tobias Iaconis (As told to)
Foxcatcher by Mark Schultz
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
The Hate U Give Movie Tie-In Edition by Angie Thomas; Nikki Giovanni (Foreword by)
I Am Number Four by Pittacus Lore
If I Stay by Gayle Forman
It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Last Temptation Of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
Paper Towns by John Green
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Precious by Sapphire
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick Dewitt
The Snowden Files by Luke Harding
Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
Water For Elephants by Sara Gruen
We Bought A Zoo by Benjamin Mee

ACTION & ADVENTURE

American Sniper by Chris Kyle
Between a Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
The Final Warning by James Patterson
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand
Wild by Cheryl Strayed

BOOKS TO TV SERIES

Big Little Lies by Liane Moriarty
A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
Orange Is the New Black by Piper Kerman
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
The Walking Dead by Robert Kirkman

SCIENCE FICTION / DYSTOPIA

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
Divergent by Veronica Roth
Dune by Frank Herbert
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
The Ghost Files by Apryl Baker
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Martian by Andy Weir
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel