Books-to-Movies 2016
Hollywood loves to transform books into movies, with mixed results. Sometimes films based on books enrich a reader's experience by bringing to life beloved characters, while other times, fans are disappointed by movie adaptations that fail to deliver. Most of have said it at one time or another I liked the book better than the movie!
You can judge for yourself whether the film adaptation did the book justice when you read any of these books, which have either been recently adapted for the screen or whose movie versions are in development or production.
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
362.82 WAL
Walls, who spent years trying to hide her childhood experiences, now shares the poverty, hunger, jokes, and bullying she and her siblings endured.
Movie: 2017 Brie Larson, Naomi Watts
Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice Found There
Lewis Carroll
FIC CAR
In this sequel to "Alice in Wonderland," Alice goes through the mirror to find a strange world where curious adventures await her.
Movie: 2016 Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
FIC CHR
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
FIC CLI
Set in the futuristic world of 2044, Wade Watts finds refuge in the online world of OASIS, a virtual-reality game network that most of humanity plays. As an orphan, he resides in the slums of the Stacks, which is comprised of trailer homes piled on top of one another. Wade enters into a quest to solve the puzzles that the creator of OASIS, James Halliday, built into the system before he died, which will yield massive power and wealth to whoever solves them.
Movie: 2018 Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
FIC GRA
When a mysterious plague falls upon an English village, the dead begin returning to life. While attempting to eliminate the zombie menace, Elizabeth Bennet encounters the arrogant Mr. Darcy.
Movie: 2016 Lily James, Sam Riley
Into the Forest
Jean Hegland
FIC HEG
When a mysterious plague falls upon an English village, the dead begin returning to life. While attempting to eliminate the zombie menace, Elizabeth Bennet encounters the arrogant Mr. Darcy.
Movie: 2015 Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood
The Gunslinger
Stephen King
FIC KIN
Movie: The Dark Tower 2017 Matthew McConaughey, Katheryn Winnick
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
FIC LEN, GF LEN
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Movie: In development, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Oprah Winfrey
What Alice Forgot
Liane Moriarty
FIC MOR
Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last ten years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is thirty-nine years old, a mother of three children, and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves.
Movie: in development, Jennifer Aniston
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
FIC NES
Ever since his mother began treatment for cancer and his father remarried, 13-year-old Conor O'Malley struggles to cope with the bullies at school and the monster that visits him nightly. The monster tells Conor three stories, all with disappointing endings, and forces Conor to tell stories of his own -- requiring him to tell the truth.
Movie: 2016 Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
FIC NIV
High school senior Theodore Finch thinks about death every day, dreaming up ways he could commit suicide—and each time some small good thing stops him. Senior Violet Markey does not want to kill herself, but after her sister is killed in a car accident, her grief makes her wonder what it would be like to jump off the school's bell tower—which is where Violet and Finch meet. Somehow they save each other from jumping, and Finch makes it his unstated goal to make Violet happy again. They pair up for a school project that takes them to important landmarks in Indiana, and the two slowly begin to fall in love—but not without cost.
Movie: 2018 Elle Fanning
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Katherine Paterson
FIC PAT
An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.
Movie: 2016 Sophie Nelisse, Kathy Bates
Every Exquisite Thing
Matthew Quick
FIC QUI
Nanette O'Hare: Dutiful daughter, grade-A student, star athlete, unassuming teen. These are the things she was before a beloved teacher gives her an out-of-print cult classic, "The Bubblegum Reaper," which awakens Nanette's rebellious side. She quits the soccer team, retreats from her classmates and instead befriends Booker, the book's elderly author. Nanette then falls for Alex, another "Bubblegum Reaper" fan and budding poet. As her life spins out of control, Nanette seriously questions whether rebellion or conformity is the path to happiness.
Movie: in development ?
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
FIC RIG, GF RIG
Due in large part to his belief that a monster only he could see killed his grandfather, 16-year-old Jacob becomes overwhelmed by fear. When his paranoia finally prevents him from going outside, his therapist recommends a trip to Welsh island where his grandfather grew up. Once known as Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, the school now lays tattered after being destroyed in World War II. As Jacob wanders the ruins and begins to unearth the secrets it holds, he discovers that the children who once lived there may have been separated from the rest of society for a reason and they may be still alive and very dangerous.
Movie: 2016 Eva Green, Asa Butterfield
Allegiant
Veronica Roth
FIC ROT
When Tris and Tobias enact a daring plan to go outside of the fence, they hope for a simpler life but instead encounter new truths and sacrifices that must be made for the good of all.
Movie: Divergent series 2014-2017, Shailene Woodley
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan
FIC RYA
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
Movie: in development, Maisie Williams
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
FIC VAN
Four scientists, all female--an anthropolotgist, a surveyor; a psychologist who is the leader; and a biologist, the narrator--infiltrate Area X, the twelfth expedition into this Edenic paradise that has claimed the lives of the previous eleven expedition members. However, it is the secrets these four women take in, rather than what they find there, that will likely be their downfall.
Movie: 2017 Natalie Portman
The 5th Wave
Richard Yancy
FIC YAN
Aided by an artificially engineered plague and the “Silencers” (humans placed under alien control as fetuses), aliens were able to eliminate more then seven billion people on Earth, leaving the survivors to try and pick up the pieces. Author Yancey's new sci-fi epic chronicles humanity's last stand as seen from two perspectives: 16-year-old Cassie, whose solitary life is interrupted when a mysterious figure saves her, and 17-year-old “Zombie,” who is training to become a member of the planet's last resistance against the invaders. In the beginning, the aliens carried out their genocide in four waves, beginning with an electromagnetic pulse that rendered all technology inert. Now, survivors fear the aliens' dreaded fifth wave—which might eliminate the final holdouts of humanity for good.
Movie: 2016 Chole Moretz
Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon
FIC YOO
Biracial 18-year-old Madeline has severe combined immunodeficiency, or “bubble baby disease,” an extremely rare condition that makes her allergic to the world. Her only human contact for her whole life has been her mother and her nurse Carla. All that changes when Olly and his troubled family move in next door. Madeline is drawn to Olly from the moment she first sees him, but how can she ever get to know him if going outside could kill her? Is Olly worth the risk? Even if he isn't, Madeline decides to take her life into her own hands for a change.
Movie: in production, Taylor Hickson
Go to Destiny.
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The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
362.82 WAL
Walls, who spent years trying to hide her childhood experiences, now shares the poverty, hunger, jokes, and bullying she and her siblings endured.
Movie: 2017 Brie Larson, Naomi Watts
Through the Looking Glass: And What Alice Found There
Lewis Carroll
FIC CAR
In this sequel to "Alice in Wonderland," Alice goes through the mirror to find a strange world where curious adventures await her.
Movie: 2016 Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp
Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie
FIC CHR
Just after midnight, a snowdrift stopped the Orient Express in its tracks. The luxurious train was surprisingly full for the time of the year. But by the morning there was one passenger fewer. An American lay dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the inside.
With tension mounting, detective Hercule Poirot comes up with not one, but two solutions to the crime.
Movie: 2017 Daisey Ridley, Johnny DeppReady Player One
Ernest Cline
FIC CLI
Set in the futuristic world of 2044, Wade Watts finds refuge in the online world of OASIS, a virtual-reality game network that most of humanity plays. As an orphan, he resides in the slums of the Stacks, which is comprised of trailer homes piled on top of one another. Wade enters into a quest to solve the puzzles that the creator of OASIS, James Halliday, built into the system before he died, which will yield massive power and wealth to whoever solves them.
Movie: 2018 Ben Mendelsohn, Simon Pegg
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
FIC GRA
When a mysterious plague falls upon an English village, the dead begin returning to life. While attempting to eliminate the zombie menace, Elizabeth Bennet encounters the arrogant Mr. Darcy.
Movie: 2016 Lily James, Sam Riley
Into the Forest
Jean Hegland
FIC HEG
When a mysterious plague falls upon an English village, the dead begin returning to life. While attempting to eliminate the zombie menace, Elizabeth Bennet encounters the arrogant Mr. Darcy.
Movie: 2015 Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood
The Gunslinger
Stephen King
FIC KIN
Movie: The Dark Tower 2017 Matthew McConaughey, Katheryn Winnick
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
FIC LEN, GF LEN
Meg Murry and her friends become involved with unearthly strangers and a search for Meg's father, who has disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government.
Movie: In development, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Oprah Winfrey
What Alice Forgot
Liane Moriarty
FIC MOR
Suffering an accident that causes her to forget the last ten years of her life, Alice is astonished to discover that she is thirty-nine years old, a mother of three children, and in the midst of an acrimonious divorce from a man she dearly loves.
Movie: in development, Jennifer Aniston
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness
FIC NES
Ever since his mother began treatment for cancer and his father remarried, 13-year-old Conor O'Malley struggles to cope with the bullies at school and the monster that visits him nightly. The monster tells Conor three stories, all with disappointing endings, and forces Conor to tell stories of his own -- requiring him to tell the truth.
Movie: 2016 Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones
All the Bright Places
Jennifer Niven
FIC NIV
High school senior Theodore Finch thinks about death every day, dreaming up ways he could commit suicide—and each time some small good thing stops him. Senior Violet Markey does not want to kill herself, but after her sister is killed in a car accident, her grief makes her wonder what it would be like to jump off the school's bell tower—which is where Violet and Finch meet. Somehow they save each other from jumping, and Finch makes it his unstated goal to make Violet happy again. They pair up for a school project that takes them to important landmarks in Indiana, and the two slowly begin to fall in love—but not without cost.
Movie: 2018 Elle Fanning
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Katherine Paterson
FIC PAT
An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.
Movie: 2016 Sophie Nelisse, Kathy Bates
Every Exquisite Thing
Matthew Quick
FIC QUI
Nanette O'Hare: Dutiful daughter, grade-A student, star athlete, unassuming teen. These are the things she was before a beloved teacher gives her an out-of-print cult classic, "The Bubblegum Reaper," which awakens Nanette's rebellious side. She quits the soccer team, retreats from her classmates and instead befriends Booker, the book's elderly author. Nanette then falls for Alex, another "Bubblegum Reaper" fan and budding poet. As her life spins out of control, Nanette seriously questions whether rebellion or conformity is the path to happiness.
Movie: in development ?
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Ransom Riggs
FIC RIG, GF RIG
Due in large part to his belief that a monster only he could see killed his grandfather, 16-year-old Jacob becomes overwhelmed by fear. When his paranoia finally prevents him from going outside, his therapist recommends a trip to Welsh island where his grandfather grew up. Once known as Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, the school now lays tattered after being destroyed in World War II. As Jacob wanders the ruins and begins to unearth the secrets it holds, he discovers that the children who once lived there may have been separated from the rest of society for a reason and they may be still alive and very dangerous.
Movie: 2016 Eva Green, Asa Butterfield
Allegiant
Veronica Roth
FIC ROT
When Tris and Tobias enact a daring plan to go outside of the fence, they hope for a simpler life but instead encounter new truths and sacrifices that must be made for the good of all.
Movie: Divergent series 2014-2017, Shailene Woodley
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan
FIC RYA
Through twists and turns of fate, orphaned Mary seeks knowledge of life, love, and especially what lies beyond her walled village and the surrounding forest, where dwell the Unconsecrated, aggressive flesh-eating people who were once dead.
Movie: in development, Maisie Williams
Annihilation
Jeff VanderMeer
FIC VAN
Four scientists, all female--an anthropolotgist, a surveyor; a psychologist who is the leader; and a biologist, the narrator--infiltrate Area X, the twelfth expedition into this Edenic paradise that has claimed the lives of the previous eleven expedition members. However, it is the secrets these four women take in, rather than what they find there, that will likely be their downfall.
Movie: 2017 Natalie Portman
The 5th Wave
Richard Yancy
FIC YAN
Aided by an artificially engineered plague and the “Silencers” (humans placed under alien control as fetuses), aliens were able to eliminate more then seven billion people on Earth, leaving the survivors to try and pick up the pieces. Author Yancey's new sci-fi epic chronicles humanity's last stand as seen from two perspectives: 16-year-old Cassie, whose solitary life is interrupted when a mysterious figure saves her, and 17-year-old “Zombie,” who is training to become a member of the planet's last resistance against the invaders. In the beginning, the aliens carried out their genocide in four waves, beginning with an electromagnetic pulse that rendered all technology inert. Now, survivors fear the aliens' dreaded fifth wave—which might eliminate the final holdouts of humanity for good.
Movie: 2016 Chole Moretz
Everything, Everything
Nicola Yoon
FIC YOO
Biracial 18-year-old Madeline has severe combined immunodeficiency, or “bubble baby disease,” an extremely rare condition that makes her allergic to the world. Her only human contact for her whole life has been her mother and her nurse Carla. All that changes when Olly and his troubled family move in next door. Madeline is drawn to Olly from the moment she first sees him, but how can she ever get to know him if going outside could kill her? Is Olly worth the risk? Even if he isn't, Madeline decides to take her life into her own hands for a change.
Movie: in production, Taylor Hickson
Go to Destiny.
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