Here are possible some possible reads for us to choose from by genre:
MODERN FICTION
"A Simple Favour" by Darcey Bell / A Simple Favour (Movie 2018) starring Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively -- SELECTION: June/July 2022
"Big Little Lies" by Liane Moriarty / Big Little Lies (TV Show 2017) starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Shailene Woodley
"Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng / Little Fires Everywhere (TV Mini Series 2020) starring Reese Witherspoon, Kerry Washington
"Where the Crawdads Sing" by Delia Owens / Where the Crawdads Sing (TV Mini Series 2022) starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Garret Dillahunt
“The Perks of Being A Wallflower” by Stephen Chbosky / The Perks of Being a Wallfower (Movie 2012) starring Logan Lerman, Emma Watson, Ezra Miller
“Daisy Jones &The Six” by Taylor Jenkins Reid / Daisy Jones & The Six (TV Mini Series 2022 ) starring Riley Keogh, Sam Claflin
“The Help” by Kathryn Stcokett / The Help (Movie 2011) starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer
“Conversations with Friends” by Sally Rooney / Conversations with Friends (TV Show 2022) starring Saha Lane, Joe Alwyn
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” by Jonathan Safran Foer / Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Movie 2011) starring Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock
“Girl, Interrupted” by Susanna Kayson / Girl, Interrupted (Movie 1999) starring Angelina Jolie, Winona Ryder, Clea Duvall
“The Kite Runner” by Khaled Hosseini / The Kite Runner (Movie 2007) starring Khalid Abdulla
“Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil” by John Berendt / Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Movie 1997) starring John Cusack, Kevin Spacey
“Olive Kitteridge” by Elizabeth Strout / Olive Kitteridge (Mini Series 2014) starring Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, Ann Dowd
“Push” by Sapphire / Precious (Movie 2009) starring Mo’Nique, Gabourey Sidibe
“The Secret Life of Bees” by Sue Monk Kidd / The Secret Life of Bees (Movie 2008) starring Dakota Fanning, Queen Latifah, Jennifer Hudson
“Trainspotting” by Irvine Welsh / Transporting (Movie 1996) starring Ewan McGregor, Ewan Bremner, Johnny Lee Miller
“White Oleander” by Janet Fitch / White Oleander (Movie 2002) starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Renee Zellweger, Robin Wright
“The Hate U Give” by Angie Thomas / The Hate U Give (Movie 2018) starring Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby
“If Beale Street Could Talk” by James Baldwin / If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie 2018) starring Regina King, Kiki Lane
“Fight Club” by Chuck Palahniuk / Fight Club (Movie 1999) starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meatloaf, Helena Bonham Carter
“Revolutionary Road” by Richard Yates / Revolutionary Road (Movie 2008) starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
“Pachinko” by Min Jin Lee / Pachinko (TV Show 2022) starring Lee Min Ho, Jin Ha
“The Sky is Everywhere” by Jandy Nelson / The Sky is Everywhere (Movie 2022) starring Grace Kaufman, Cherry Jones
“Mrs Harris Goes to Paris” by Paul Gallico / Mrs Harris Goes to Paris (Movie 2022) starring Jason Isaacs, Lesley Manville, Anna Chancellor
"The Outsiders" by S.E. Hinton / The Outsiders (Movie 1983) starring C. Thomas Howell, Matt Dillon, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez
"The Devil Wears Prada" Lauren Weisberger / The Devil Wears Prada (Movie 2006) starring Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Stanley Tucci
“Bridget Jones’ Diary” by Helen Fielding / Bridget Jones Diary (Movie 2001) starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
"Sex & the City" by Candace Bushnell / Sex & the City (TV Show 1998) starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon
"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson / Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Movie 1998) starring Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro
"Looking for Alaska" by John Green / Looking for Alaska (Mini Series 2019) starring Charlie Plummer, Kristine Froseth
"Forrest Gump" by Winston Groom / Forrest Gump (Movie 1994) starring Tom Hanks, Sally Fields, Gary Sinise
"Legally Blonde" by Amanda Brown / Legally Blonde (Movie 2001) starring Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair
"Madame Doubtfire" by Anne Fine / Mrs Doubtfire (Movie 1993) Robin Williams, Sally Fields
"Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King (Short Story) / The Shawshank Redemption(Movie 1994) starring Morgan Freeman, Tim Robbins
"The Body" by Stephen King (Short Story) / Stand By Me (Movie 1986) starring River Phoenix, Wil Wheaton
"Nine Perfect Strangers" by Liane Moriarty / Nine Perfect Strangers (Mini Series 2021) starring Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Shannon
"Lipstick Jungle" by Candace Bushnell / Lipstick Jungle (TV Show 2008) starring Brooke Shields, Kim Raver
"A Man Called Ove" by Fredrik Backman / A Man Called Otto (Movie 2022) starring Tom Hanks, Rachel Keller
"Blonde" by Joyce Carol Oates / Blonde (Movie 2022) starring Ana de Armas, Julianne Nicholson
"The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry" by Gabrielle Zevin / The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry (Movie 2023) starring Christina Hendricks, Kunal Nayyar, Lucy Hale
"The Stars at Noon" by Denis Johnson / The Stars at Noon (Movie 2022) starring Robert Pattinson, Joe Alwyn, Margaret Qualley
"White Noise" by Don DeLillo / White Noise (Movie 2022) starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Jodie Turner-Smith
"Firefly Lane" by Kristen Hannah / Firefly Lane (TV Show 2021) starring Katherine Heigl, Sarah Chalke
“Luckiest Girl Alive” by Jessica Knoll / Luckiest Girl Alive (Movie 2022) starring Mila Kunis, Jennifer Beales, Connie Britton
PLAYS/CLASSICS
"Treasure Island” by Robert Louis Stevenson/ Treasure Island (TV Movie 2012) starring Eddie Izzard, Rupert Penry-Jones -- SELECTION: July/August 2022
"Madam Bovary” by Gustave Flaubert/ Madam Bovary (Movie 2014) starring Mia Wachowski, Rhys Ifans, Ezra Miller
“Far From the Madding Crowd” by Thomas Hardy / Far From the Madding Crowd (Movie 2015) starring Carey Mulligan, Martin Sheen
"Moby Dick” by Herman Melville / Moby Dick (Mini Series 2011) starring William Hurt, Ethan Hawke, Charlie Cox
"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë / Wuthering Heights (Movie 2022) starring Bryan Ferriter, Jet Jandreau
“The Age of Innocence” by Edith Wharton/ The Age of Innocence (Movie 1993) starring Daniel Day Lewis, Winona Ryder, Michelle Pfeiffer
“The Golden Bowl” by Henry James / The Golden Bowl (Movie 200) starring Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Kate Beckinsale
“North and South” by Elizabeth Gaskell / North & South (TV Mini Series 2004) starring Daniela Denby-Ashe, Richard Armitage, Tim Pigott-Smith
“Mansfield Park” by Jane Austen / Mansfield Park (Movie 1999) starring Frances O’Connor, Johnny Lee Miller, Harold Pinter
“Sanditon” by Jane Austen, Anne Telscombe / Sanditon (TV Show 2019) starring Theo James, Rose Williams
"Persuasion" by Jane Austen / Persuasion (Movie 2022) starring Dakota Johnson, Cosmo Jarvis, Richard E. Grant
“Emma” by Jane Austen / Emma (Movie 1996) starring Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeremy Northam, Alan Cumming, Toni Collette
“David Copperfield” by Charles Dickens / The Personal History of Mr Copperfield (Movie 2019) starring Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde / Dorian Gray (Movie 2009) starring Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall
"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy / Anna Karenina (Movie 2012) starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law, and Domhnall Gleason
“A Room with a View” by E.M. Forster / A Room with a View (Movie 1985) starring Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Julian Sands
“Lady Chatterly’s Lover” by D.H. Lawrence / Lady Chatterly’s Lover (TV Movie 2019) starring Holliday Grainger, Richard Madden
“Vanity Fair” by William Thackeray / Vanity Fair (Movie 2014) starring Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy OR Vanity Fair (Mini Series 2018) starring Michael Palin, Olivia Cooke
“Dr Zhivago” by Boris Pasternak / Dr Zhivago (Mini Series 2002) starring Keira Knightley, Sam Neil, Hans Matheson
“The Prophet” by Gibran Khalil Gibran / The Prophet (Animated Movie 2014) starring Liam Neeson, Salma Hayek
“The Taming of the Shrew” by William Shakespeare / The Taming of the Shrew (Movie 1967) starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare / Romeo and Juliet (Movie 1968) starring Olivia Hussey, Leonars Whiting, Michael York OR Romeo + Juliet (Movie 1996) starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo, Pete Postlewaite
“The Importance of Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde / The Importance of Being Earnest (Movie 2002) starring Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O’Connor, Reese Witherspoon
“An Ideal Husband” by Oscar Wilde / An Ideal Husband (Movie 1999) starring Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Cate Blanchett, Julianne Moore
“Dracula” by Bram Stoker / Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Movie 1992) starring Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins
“To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee / To Kill a Mockingbird (Movie 1962) starring Gregory Peck
“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” by Ken Kesey / One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Movie 1975) starring Jack Nicholson, Danny DeVito, Christopher Lloyd
“The Great Gatsby” by F. Scott Fitzgerald / The Great Gatsby (Movie 2013) starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton
“The Scarlet Letter” by Nathaniel Hawthorne / The Scarlet Letter (Movie 1995) starring Gary Oldman, Demi Moore, Robert Duvall
"Les Miserables" by Victor Hugo / Les Miserables (TV Mini Series 2018) starring Lilly Collins, Dominic West, David Oyelowo
"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck / Of Mice and Men (Movie 1992) starring John Malkovich, Gary Sinise
"Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi / Pinocchio (Movie 2022) starring Tom Hanks, Jospeh Gordon-Levitt
DYSTOPIAN
“The Maze Runner” by James Dashner / The Maze Runner (Movie 2014) starring Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario -- SELECTION: August/September 2022
“Divergent” by Veronica Roth / Divergent (Movie 2014) by Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Kate Winslet
“Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline / Ready Player One (Movie 2018) starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance
“Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro / Never Let Me Go (Movie 2010) starring Keira Knightley, Andrew Garfield, Carey Mulligan
“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood / The Handmaid’s Tale (TV Show 2017) starring Elisabeth Moss, Joseph Fiennes, Elizabeth Strahovski, Ann Dowd
“Westworld” by Michael Crichton / Westworld (TV Show 2016) starring Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden
“The Giver” by Lois Lowry / The Giver (Movie 2014) starring Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Alexander Skarsgard
“The Host” by Stephenie Meyer / The Host (Movie 2013) starring Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons
“The Hunger Games” by Suzanne Collins / The Hunger Games (Movie 2012) starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth
“1984” by George Orwell / 1984 (Movie1984) starring John Hurt, Richard Burton
“Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley / Brave New World (TV Series 2020) starring Alden Ehrehnreich, Jessica Brown Findlay, Harry Lloyd, Demi Moore
"Children of Men” by P.D. James / Children of Men (Movie 2006) starring Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Chiwetel Eijefor
“Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury / Fahrenheit 451 (Movie 2018) starring Michael B. Jordan, Michael Shannon
"The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken / The Darkest Minds (Movie 2018) starring Amandla Stenberg, Mandy Moore, Gwendoline Christie
"Wool" by Hugh Howey / Wool (TV Show 2023) starring Rebecca Fergusson, Iain Glen
"Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand / Atlas Shrugged, Part I (Movie 2011) starring Taylor Schilling, Matthew Marsden & Atlas Shrugged II: The Strike (Movie 2012) starring Samantha Morton, Jason Beghe
"Battlefield Earth" by L Ron Hubbard / Battlefield Earth (Movie 2000) starring John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, Barry Pepper
"A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess / A Clockwork Orange (Movie 1971) starring Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee
"I Am Legend" by Richard Matheson / I Am Legend (Movie 2007) starring Will Smith
"Mortal Engines" by Philip Reeve / Mortal Engines (Movie 2018) starring Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving
"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy / The Road (Movie 2009) starring Viggo Mortenson, Charlize Theron, Kodi Smit-McPhee
"The Running Man" by Stephen King / The Running Man (Movie 1987) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Maria Conchita Alonso, Yaphet Kotto
"A Scanner Darkly" by Philip K Dick / A Scanner Darkly (Movie 2006) starring Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr
"The Stand" by Stephen King / The Stand (Mini Series 2020) starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, James Marsden
"Z for Zachariah" by Robert C O'Brien / Z for Zachariah (Movie 2015) starring Chris Pine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Margot Robbie
"Station Eleven" by Emily St John Mandel / Station Eleven (TV Mini Series 2021) starring Mackenzie Davis, Himesh Patel, Lori Petty
"The Power" by Naomi Alderman / The Power (TV Show 2023) starring Leslie Mann, John Leguizamo, Toni Collette
ROMANCE
“The Time Traveler’s Wife” by Audrey Niffenegger / The Time Traveler’s Wife (TV Mini Series 2022) starring Rose Leslie, Theo James -- SELECTION: September/October 2022
“Mr Malcolm’s List” by Suzanne Allain / Mr Malcolm’s List (Movie 2022) starring Theo Jackson, Zawe Ashton, Oliver Jackson-Cohen
“Outlander” by Diana Gabaldon / Outlander (TV Show 2014) starring Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heighan
“The Notebook” by Nicholas Sparks / The Notebook (Movie 2004) starring Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands, James Garner
"Virgin River" by Robyn Carr / Virgin River (TV Show 2019) starring Martin Henderson, Alexandra Breckenridge
“After” by Anna Todd / After (Movie 2019) starring Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes Tiffin
“Crazy Rich Asians” by Kevin Kwan / Crazy Rich Asians (Movie 2018) starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh
“Midnight Sun” by Stephanie Meyer / Twilight (Movie 2008) starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Taylor Lautner
“The Duke & I” by Julia Quinn / Bridgerton (TV Show 2020) starring Phoebe Dynevor, Rege-Jean Page
“To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” by Jenny Han / To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (Movie 2018) starring Lana Condor, Noah Centinio
“Dear John” by Nicholas Sparks / Dear John (Movie 2010) starring Amanda Seyfried, Channing Tatum
“Bridget Jones’ Diary” by Helen Fielding / Bridget Jones Diary (Movie 2001) starring Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant
“Romeo and Juliet” by William Shakespeare / Romeo and Juliet (Movie 1968) starring Olivia Hussey, Leonars Whiting, Michael York OR Romeo + Juliet (Movie 1996) starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo, Pete Postlewaite
“The Summer I Turned Pretty” by Jenny Han / The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV Show 2022) starring Lola Tung, Jackie Chung, Rachel Blanchard
"The Last Letter From Your Lover" by JoJo Moyes / The Last Letter From Your Lover (Movie 2021) starring Shailene Woodley, Joe Alwyn
"Text For You" by Sofie Cramer / It's All Coming Back to Me (Movie 2023) starring Priyanka Chopra, Sam Heughan
HISTORICAL FICTION
“The Color Purple” by Alice Walker / The Color Purple (Movie 1985) starring Whoopi Goldberg, Danny Glover, Oprah Winfrey -- SELECTION: October/November 2022
“12 Years a Slave” by Solomon Northup / 12 Years a Slave (Movie 2013) starring Chiwetel Ejiefor, Michael Fassbender
“The Underground Railroad” by Colson Whitehead / The Underground Railroad (TV Mini Series 2021) starring Chase Dillon, Joel Edgerton, Aaron Pierce, Peter Mullan
“The Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett / The Pillars of the Earth (TV Mini Series 2010) starring Matthew Macfadyen, Eddie Redmayne, Hayley Attwell, Ian McShane
“The Last Kingdom” by Bernard Cornwell / The Last Kingdom (TV Show 2015) starring Alexander Dreymon, David Dawson
“Alias Grace” by Margaret Atwood / Alias Grace (TV Mini Series 2017) starring Sarah Gadon, Edward Holcroft, Zachary Levi, Anna Paquin
“The Mists of Avalon” by Marion Zimmer Bradley / The Mists of Avalon (TV Mini Series 2001) starring Julianna Marguiles, Angelica Huston, Joan Allen, Michael Vartan
“The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan / The Joy Luck Club (Movie 1993) starring Tamlyn Tomita, Rosalind Chao
“Memoir of a Geisha” by Arthur Golden / Memoir of a Geisha (Movie 2005) starring Ziyi Zhang, Ken Watanabe
“Clan of the Cave Bear” by Jean M. Auel / Clan of the Cave Bear (Movie 1986) starring Daryll Hannah, James Remar, Pamela Reed
“The Hours” by Michael Cunningham / The Hours (Movie 2002) Starring Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore
“The House of the Spirits” by Isabelle Allende / The House of the Spirits (Movie 1993) starring Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas
“Like Water for Chocolate" by Laura Esquivel / Like Water for Chocolate (Movie 1992) starring Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos
“Love in the Time of Cholera” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez / Love in the time of Cholera (Movie 2007) starring Javier Bardem, Benjamin Bratt
“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” by Patrick Suskind / Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Movie )2006 starring Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman
“The Remains of the Day” by Kazuo Ishiguro / The Remain of the Day (Movie 1993) starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson
“The Son” by Philipp Meyer / The Son (TV Show 2017) starring Pierce Brosnan, Jacob Lofland
“Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Neale Thurston / Their Eyes Were Watching God (Movie 2005) starring Halle Berry, Ruben Santiago-Hudson
“The Thorn Birds” by Colleen McCullough / The Thorn Birds (TV Mini Series 1983) starring Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward
“True Grit” by Charles Portis / True Grit (Movie 2010) starring Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon
“Wolf Hall” by Hilary Mantel / Wolf Hall (TV Series 2015) starring Mark Rylance, Damien Lewis, Claire Foy
“The Cider House Rules” by John Irving / The Cider House Rules (Movie 1999) starring Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine
“Atonement” by Ian McEwan / Atonement (Movie 2007) Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Brenda Blethyn
“The Moon and the Sun” by Vonda N. McIntyre / The King’s Daughter (Movie 2022) starring Pierce Brosnan, Kaya Scodelario, Benjamin Walker
“Redeeming Love” by Francine Rivers / Redeeming Love (Movie 2022) starring Famke Jansen, Nina Dobrev, Eric Dane
“The Essex Serpent” by Sarah Perry / The Essex Serpent (TV Mini Series 2022) starring Claire Danes, Tom Hiddleston
“The Wonder” by Emma Donoghue / The Wonder (Movie 2022) starring Florence Pugh, Ciaran Hinds
“The Dovekeepers” by Alice Hoffman / The Dovekeepers (Mini Series 2015) starring Rachel Bresnahan, Sam Neill
“The Help” by Kathryn Stcokett / The Help (Movie 2011) starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Octavia Spencer
“Captain Corelli’s Mandolin” by Louis de Bernieres / Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Movie 2001) starring Nicholas Cage, Penelope Cruz
"Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier / Girl with a Pearl Earring (Movie 2003) starring Colin Firth, Scarlett Johannson, Tom Wilkinson
"The Nightingale" by Kristin Hannah / The Nightingale (Movie Dec 2022) starring Elle Fanning, Dakota Fanning
"Dangerous Liaisons“ by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos / Dangerous Liaisons (Movie 1988) starring John Malkovich, Glenn Close, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman
"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque / All Quiet on the Western Front (Movie 2022) starring Daniel Bruhl, Albrecht Schuch
"Kindred" by Octavia Butler / Kindred (TV Show 2022/2023) starring Brooke Bloom, Cherrie McRae
“My Policeman” by Bethan Roberts / My Policeman (Movie 2022) starring Harry Styles, Emma Corrin
“Tarzan of the Apes” by Edgar Rice Burroughs / The Legend of Tarzan (Movie 2016) starring Alexander Skarsgaard, Margot Robbie
CHILDREN
“The Secret Garden” by Frances Hodgson Burnett / The Secret Garden (Movie 2020) starring Dixie Egerickx, Richard Hansell, David Verrey -- SELECTION: November/December 2022
"Harry Potter & the Sorcerer’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling / Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Movie 2001) starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Maggie Smith, Richard Harris
"The Bad Beginning“ by Lemmy Snicket / A Series of Unfortunate Events (TV Series 2017) starring Neil Patrick Harris, Patrick Warburton
“Charlie & the Chocolate Factory” by Roald Dahl/ Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Movie 2005) starring Johnny Depp, Freddie Highmore
“The Lorax” by Dr Seuss / The Lorax (Animated Movie 2012) starring Zac Efron, Taylor Swift
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll / Alice in Wonderland (Movie 2010) starring Helena Bonham- Carter, Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska
“Anne of Green Gables” by L.M. Montgomery / Anne With An E (TV Show 2017) starring Amybeth McNulty, Geraldine James
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak / The Book Thief (Movie 2013) starring Geoffrey Rush, Emily Watson
“The Borrowers” by Mary Norton / The Borrowers (Movie 2011) starring Christopher Eccleston, Aisling Loftus
“Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White / Charlotte’s Web (Movie 2006) starring Dakota Fanning, Julia Roberts, Oprah Winfrey
“The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis / The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Movie 2005) starring Tilda Swinton, Georgie Henley
“The Golden Compass” by Philip Pullman / His Dark Materials (TV Series 2019) starring Dafne Keen Amir Wilson, Ruth Wilson, Lin Manuel-Miranda
“The Invention of Hugo Cabret” by Brian Selznick / Hugo (Movie 2011) starring Asa Butterfield, Chloe Grace Moritz, Christopher Lee
“The Jungle Book” by Rudyard Kipling / The Jungle Book (Movie 2016) starring Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley
“Little Women” by Louisa May Alcott / Little Women (Movie 2019) starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh
“A Wrinkle in Time” by Madeline L’Engle / A Wrinkle in Time (Movie 2018) starring Storm Reid, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon
“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” by Frank L. Baum / The Wizard of Oz (Movie 1939) starring Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
"Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children" by Ramson Riggs / Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Movie 2016) starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench, Allison Janney, Terence Stamp
“The Princess Bride” by William Goldman / The Princess Bride (Movie 1987) starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk
“Bridge to Terabithia” by Katherine Paterson / Bridge to Terabithia (Movie 2007) starring Josh Hutchinson, Zooey Deschanel
“The Tiger Rising” by Kate DiCamillo / The Tiger Rising (Movie 2022) starring Katherine McFee, Sam Trammel, Queen Latifah
"The Polar Express" by Chris Van Allsburg / The Polar Express (Movie 2004) starring Tom Hanks
"A Boy Called Christmas" by Matt Haig / A Boy Called Christmas (Movie 2021) starring Maggie Smith, Joel Fry
“The School for Good & Evil” by Sinan Chainani / The School for Good & Evil (Movie 2022) starring Charlize Theron, Rachel Bloom, Cate Blanchett, Michelle Yeogh
“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” by Judy Blume / Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Movie 2022/3) starring Rachel McAdams, Kathy Bates
CRIME/THRILLER
“Deep Water” by Patricia Highsmith / Deep Water (Movie 2022) starring Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas -- SELECTION: December 2022/January 2023
“The Old Man” by Thomas Perry / The Old Man (TV Show 2022) starring Jeff Bridges, John Lithgow
“The Black Echo” by Michael Connelly / Bosch (TV Show 2014) starring Titus Welliver, Amy Aquino
"The Lincoln Lawyer” by Michael Connelly / The Lincoln Lawyer (TV Show 2022) starring Manuel Garcia-Ruffo, Neve Campbell, Becki Newton
“Slow Horses” by Mick Herron / Slow Horses (TV Show 2022) starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas
“The Godfather” by Mario Puzo / The Godfather (Movie 1972) starring Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, James Caan
“The Woman in the Window” by A.J. Finn / The Woman in the Window (Movie 2021) starring Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Anthony Mackie
“And Then There Were None” by Agatha Christie / And Then There Were None (TV Mini Series 2015) starring Charles Dance, Toby Stephens, Aidan Turner
“Death on the Nile” by Agatha Christie / Death on the Nile (Movie 2022) starring Kenneth Branagh, Annette Benning, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer
“No Country for Old Men” by Cormac McCarthy / No Country for Old Men (Movie ) starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem
“Anatomy of a Scandal” by Sarah Vaughan / Anatomy of a Scandal (TV Mini Series 2022) starring Sienna Miller, Rupert Friend
“The Terminal List” by Jack Carr / The Terminal List (TV Show 2022) starring Chris Pratt, Taylor Kitsch
“Killing Floor” by Lee Child / Reacher (TV Show 2022) starring Alan Ritchson, Malcolm Goodwin, Willa Fitzgerald
“The Firm” by John Grisham / The Firm (Movie 1993) starring Tom Cruise, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Gene Hackman
“Luckiest Girl Alive” by Jessica Knoll / Luckiest Girl Alive (Movie 2022) starring Mila Kunis, Jennifer Beales, Connie Britton
“The Gray Man” by Mark Greaney / The Gray Man (Movie 2022) starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas
“The Night Manager” by John Le Carre / The Night Manager (TV Mini Series 2016) starring Tom Hiddleston, Hugh Laurie, Olivia Colman
“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Steig Larsson / The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Movie 2011) starring Daniel Craig, Rooney Mara
“Casino Royale” by Ian Fleming / Casino Royale (Movie 2006) starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green
"Pieces of Her" by Karin Slaughter / Pieces of Her (TV Show 2022) starring Toni Collette, Bella Heathcote
"No Exit" by Taylor Adams / No Exit (Movie 2022) starring Havana Rose Liu, Danny Ramirez
"One of Us Is Lying" by Karen M. McManus / One of Us Is Lying (TV Show 2021) starring Annalisa Cochrane, Melissa Collazo
URBAN FANTASY
"Interview with the Vampire” by Anne Rice / Interview with the Vampire (Movie 1994) starring Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst
“Dead Until Dark” by Charlaine Harris / True Blood (TV Show 2008) starring Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer
“A Discovery of Witches” by Deborah Harkness / A Discovery of Witches (TV Show 2018) starring Matthew Goode, Teresa Palmer, Alex Kingston
“Storm Front” by Jim Butcher / The Dresden Files (TV Show 2007) starring Paul Blackthorne, Valerie Cruz, Terrence Mann
“Blood Price” by Tanya Huff / Blood Ties (TV Show 2007) starring Christina Cox, Kyle Schmid, Dylan Neal
“Bitten” by Kelley Armstrong / Bitten (TV Show 2014) starring Laura Vendervoot, Greyson Holt, Greg Bryk
“City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare / Shadowhunters (TV Show 2016) starring Katherine McNamara, Dominic Sherwood, Alberto Rosende
“Fallen” by Lauren Kate / Fallen (Movie 2016) starring Joely Richardson, Addison Timlin
“Vampire Academy” by Richelle Mead / Vampire Academy (Movie 2014) starring Zoey Deutch, Lucy Fry
“The Lightning Thief” by Rick Riordan / Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (Movie 2010) starring Logan Lerman, Kevin McKidd, Pierce Brosnan
“Witches of East End” by Melissa de la Cruz / Witches of East End (TV Show 2013) starring Julia Ormond, Jenna Dewan
“The Awakening” by L.J. Smith / The Vampire Diaries (TV Show 2009) starring Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder
“American Gods” by Neil Gaiman / American Gods (TV Show ) starring Ian McShane, Emily Browning, Crispin Glover
“Midnight Sun” by Stephanie Meyer / Twilight (Movie 2008) starring Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Billy Burke, Taylor Lautner
“Beloved” by Toni Morrison / Beloved (Movie 1998) starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover
"Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch" by Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman / Good Omens (TV Show 2019) starring David Tennant, MIchael Sheen
"Salem's Lot" by Stephen King / Salem's Lot (Movie 2022)
SCIENCE FICTION
“Foundation” by Isaac Asimov / Foundation (TV Show 2021) starring Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Alfred Enoch
"Altered Carbon" by Richard K. Morgan / Altered Carbon (TV Show 2021) starring Joel Kinnaman, Will Yun Lee, James Purefoy
“Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline / Ready Player One (Movie 2018) starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg, Mark Rylance
“The Man Who Fell to Earth” by Walter Tevis / The Man Who Fell to Earth (TV Show 2022) starring Chiwetel Ejiefor, Naomie Harris
“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick / Blade Runner (Movie 1982) starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young
“The Minority Report” by Philip K. Dick / Minority Report (Movie 2002) starring Tom Cruise, Colin Farrell, Samantha Morton
“Westworld” by Michael Crichton / Westworld (TV Show 2016) starring Ed Harris, Evan Rachel Wood, Thandiwe Newton, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden
“Dune" by Frank Herbert / Dune (TV Mini Series 2000) starring William Hurt, Alec Newman, Saskia Reeves, Julie Cox
“The Host” by Stephenie Meyer / The Host (Movie 2013) starring Saoirse Ronan, Max Irons
“Cloud Atlas” by David Mitchell / Cloud Atlas (Movie 2012) starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugh Grant
“Leviathan Wakes’ by James S.A. Corey / The Expanse (TV Show 2015) starring Steven Strait, Shoreh Aghdashloo, Thomas Jane
"Battlefield Earth" by L Ron Hubbard / Battlefield Earth (Movie 2000) starring John Travolta, Forest Whitaker, Barry Pepper
"The Time Machine" by HG Wells / The Time Machine (Movie 2002) starring Gauy Pearce, Sienna Guillory, Mark Addy, Yancey Arias
"Mortal Engines" by Philip Reeve / Mortal Engines (Movie 2018) starring Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving
"Jurassic Park" by Michael Crichton / Jurassic Park (Movie 1993) starring Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Richard Attenborough
“A Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs / John Carter (Movie 2012) starring Taylor Kitsch, Lynn Collins
BIOGRAPHY / AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MEMOIR / NON-FICTION
"Masters of Sex: The Life and TImes of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love” by Thomas Maier / Masters of Sex (TV Show 2013) starring Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan
“Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen” by Jane Hawking / The Theory of Everything (Movie 2014) starring Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones
"The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” by Rebecca Skloot / The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Movie 2017) starring Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne
“Hidden Figures” by Margot Lee Shetterly / Hidden Figures (Movie 2016) starring Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer
"The Greatest: My Own Story" by Muhammad Ali / Ali (Movie 2001) starring Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voigt [not a direct adaptation]
“In with the Devil: A Fallen Hero, A Serial Killer and a Dangerous Bargain for Redemption” by James Keene, Hillel Levin / Black Bird (TV Show 2022) starring Taron Egerton, Ray Liotta, Greg Kinnear
“Marley & Me: Live & Love with the World’s Worst Dog” by John Grogan / Marley & Me (Movie 2008) starring Jennifer Aniston, Owen Wilson, Eric Dane
“On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker” by A’Leila Perry Bundles / Self Made (TV Mini Series 2020) starring Octavia Spencer. Tiffany Haddish
“The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour and Greed” by Sara Gay Forden / House of Gucci (Movie 2021) starring Adam Driver, Lady Gaga, Al Pacino
“The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal and Trial by Combat in Medieval France” by Eric Jager / The Last Duel (Movie 2021) starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer
“Angela’s Ashes” by Frank McCourt / Angela’s Ashes (Movie 1999) starring Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle
“Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s)” by Jennifer Worth / Call the Midwife(TV Show 2012) starring Vanessa Redgrave, Jenny Agutter
“The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon” by David Grann / The Lost City of Z (movie 2016) starring Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, Sienna Miller
“The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love” by Oscar Hijuelos / The Mambo Kings (Movie 1992) starring Armand Assante, Antonio Banderas
“The Pursuit of Happyness” by Chris Gardner / The Pursuit of Happyness (Movie 2006) starring Will Smith, Thandiwe Newton
“Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption” by Laura Hillenbrand / Unbroken (Movie 2014) starring Domhnall Gleeson, Miyavi
“Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” by Cheryl Strayed / Wild (Movie 2014) starring Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern
“The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls / The Glass Castle (Movie 2017) starring Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomie Watts
“The Lost Child of Philomena Lee: A Mother, Her Son and a 50 Year Search” by Martin Sixsmith / Philomena (Movie 2013) starring Judi Dench, Steve Coogan
“Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith” by John Krakauer / Under the Banner of Heaven (TV Mini Series 2022) starring Andrew Garfield, Sam Worthington, Daisy Edgar-Jones
“Everything I Know About Love” by Dolly Alderton / Everything I know About Love (TV Show 2022) starring Emma Appleton, Ben Powley
“Operation Mincemeat” How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory” by Ben Macintyre / Operation Mincemeat (Movie 2021) starring Colin Firth, Jason Isaacs, Matthew Macfadyen
“The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder” by Charles Graeber / The Good Nurse (Movie Oct 2022) starring Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Chasten, Kim Dickens
“She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassmnet Story That Helped Ignite a Movement” by Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey / She Said (Movie Nov 2022) starring Carey Mulligan, Samantha Morton
“This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor” by Adam Kay / This is Going to Hurt (TV Show 2022) starring Ben Whishaw
"Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory" by Mickey Rapkin / Pitch Perfect (Movie 2012) starring Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson
"Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family" by Nicholas Pileggi / Goodfellas (Movie 1990) starring Robert de Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci
"Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss & Love" by Matthew Logelin / Fatherhood (Movie 2021) Kevin Hart, Alfre Woodward
"Me" by Elton John / Rocketman (Movie 2019) starring Taron Edgerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden
"Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" by David Grann / Killers of the Flower Moon (Movie 2023) starring Leonardo diCaprio, Robert de Niro
“The Unbreakable Boy: A Father’s Fear, a Son’s Courage, and a Story of Unconditional Love” by Scott LeRette / The Unbreakable Boy (Movie 2023) starring Zachary Levi, Amy Ackerman
FANTASY
“Shadow and Bone” by Leigh Bardugo / Shadow and Bone (TV Show 2021) starring Jessie Mei Li, Ben Barnes
“Fire and Blood” by George R.R. Martin / House of the Dragon (TV Show 2022) starring Paddy Considine, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith
"A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin / Game of Thrones (TV Show) starring Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Kit Harrington
“The Eye of the World" by Robert Jordan / The Wheel of Time (TV Show 2021) starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Henney, Josha Stradowski
“Blood of Elves" by Andrzej Sapkowski / The Witcher (TV Show 2019) starring Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra
“The Gunslinger” by Stephen King / The Dark Tower (Movie 2017) starring Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba
“The Magicians” by Lev Grossman / The Magicians (TV Show 2015) starring Stella Maeve, Arjun Gupta, Jason Ralph
“The Golden Compass” by Philip Pullman / His Dark Materials (TV Series 2019) starring Dafne Keen Amir Wilson, Ruth Wilson, Lin Manuel-Miranda
"Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children" by Ramson Riggs / Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (Movie 2016) starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench, Allison Janney, Terence Stamp
“The Princess Bride” by William Goldman / The Princess Bride (Movie 1987) starring Cary Elwes, Robin Wright, Mandy Patinkin, Wallace Shawn, Peter Falk
“The Hobbit” by J.R.R. Tolkien / The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Movie 2012) starring Martin Freeman, Ian Mckellan, Richard Armitage
“Life of Pi” by Yann Martel / Life of Pi (Movie 2012) starring Suraj Sharma
“The Lost Girls” by Laurie Fox / The Lost Girls (Movie 2022) starring Vanessa Redgrave, Siobhan Hewlett, Tilly Marsan, Joely Richardson
"Stardust" by Neil Gaiman / Stardust (Movie 2007) starring Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Sienna Miller, Michelle Pfeiffer
“The School for Good & Evil” by Sinan Chainani / The School for Good & Evil (Movie 2022) starring Charlize Theron, Rachel Bloom, Cate Blanchett, Michelle Yeoh
“The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian” by Robert E. Howard / Conan the Barbarian (Movie 2011) starring Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman & Conan the Barbarian (Movie 1982) starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Earl Jones
THRILLER/HORROR
“Firestarter” by Stephen King / Firestarter (Movie 2022) starring Zac Efron, Ryan Kiera Armstrong, Sydney Lemmon, Kurtwood Smith
“Lisey’s Story” by Stephen King / Lisey’s Story (TV Mini Series 2021) starring Julianne Moore, Clive Owen
"The Stand" by Stephen King / The Stand (Mini Series 2020) starring Whoopi Goldberg, Alexander Skarsgard, James Marsden
"Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris / Red Dragon (Movie 2002) starring Ralph Fiennes, Edward Norton, Anthony Hopkins
"The Silence of the Lambs” by Thomas Harris / The Silence of the Lambs (Movie 1911) starring Anthony Hopkins, Jodie Foster
“The Girl with All the Gifts” by M.R. Carey / The Girl with All the Gifts (Movie 2016) starring Sennia Nanua, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine
“The Shining” by Stephen King / The Shining (Movie 1980) starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall
“The Shining Girls” by Lauren Beukes / Shining Girls (TV Show 2022) starring Elisabeth Moss, Jamie Bell
“The Black Phone” by Joe Hill / The Black Phone (Movie 2022) starring Ethan Hawke, Jeremy Davies
"Psycho" by Robert Bloch / Psycho (Movie 1998) starring Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore
"Let the Right One In" By John Ajvide Lindqvist / Let the Right One In (TV Show 2022) starring Demian Bichir, Anika Noni Rose
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