Books That Have Produced Good Movies

Submitted by Oedipus on Thu, 09/22/2005 - 03:59
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  1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  2. Awakenings by Oliver Sacks, M.D.
  3. Badge of Evil by Whit Masterson
  4. The Bad Seed by William March
  5. The Bird’s Nest by Shirley Jackson
  6. Blackboard Jungle by Evan Hunter
  7. Das Boot by Lothar G. Buchheim
  8. Breakfast At Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
  9. The Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
  10. The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller
  11. Broken Arrow by Elliott Arnold
  12. The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins
  13. Cash: An Autobiography by Johnny Cash
  14. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
  15. China Seas by Crosbie Garstin
  16. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
  17. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
  18. El Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte
  19. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  20. The Commissioner by Richard Dougherty
  21. The Cyclists' Raid by Frank Rooney
  22. Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
  23. Different Seasons by Stephen King
  24. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  25. Dumbo, the Flying Elephant by Helen Aberson & Harold Pearl
  26. Enter Sir John by Helen Simpson & Clemson Dane
  27. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  28. Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
  29. Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates
  30. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  31. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg
  32. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
  33. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
  34. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  35. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  36. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  37. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  38. The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pit
  39. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  40. The Green Mile by Stephen King
  41. The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
  42. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
  43. If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King
  44. In the Heat of the Night by John Ball
  45. In This Our Life by Ellen Glasgow
  46. Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
  47. Jaws by Peter Benchley
  48. June Night by Tora Nordström-Bonnier
  49. The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzákis
  50. Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett
  51. Lisa And David by Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
  52. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  53. The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle
  54. The Magnificent Amberson’s by Booth Tarkington
  55. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  56. The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon
  57. The Man in Black by Johnny Cash
  58. The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren
  59. Marnie by Winston Graham
  60. The Mating Game by H.E. Bates
  61. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
  62. Metropolis by Thea von Harbou
  63. Misery by Stephen King
  64. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
  65. The Mortal Storm by Phyllis Bottome
  66. Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorpe
  67. Odds Against Tomorrow by William P. McGivern
  68. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  69. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
  70. The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
  71. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
  72. The Ox Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  73. A Patch of Blue by Elizabeth Kata
  74. The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  75. The Pianist by Wladyslaw Szpilman
  76. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  77. The Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan
  78. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  79. Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
  80. Psycho by Robert Bloch
  81. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
  82. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  83. Red-Headed Woman by Katharine Brush
  84. Rope Burns: Stories From the Corner by F.X. Toole
  85. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin
  86. Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard
  87. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
  88. Since You Went Away by Margaret Buell Wilder
  89. Spellbound by Francis Beeding
  90. Stella Dallas by Olive Higgins Prouty
  91. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  92. Suspicion by Anthony Berkeley
  93. The Tenant by Roland Topor
  94. Ten Little Indians by Agatha Christie
  95. Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
  96. The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
  97. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
  98. To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
  99. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  100. Walkabout by James Vance Marshall
  101. The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White
  102. Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell, Jr.
  103. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
RosieCotton09/22/2005

I just saw Marnie, based on the novel by Winston Graham. I hear the novel is more freaky than the film.

Oedipus09/22/2005

Marnie is a good movie, it's been a while since I've seen it.

professor09/25/2005

Two of my favourites:
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton &nbsp book &nbsp movie
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro &nbsp book &nbsp movie
Check this out ! CLASSIC LITERATURE ADOPTED FOR FILM OR TV

Oedipus09/27/2005

Thanks, I still haven't seen The Remains of the Day.

brandylee2404/11/2006

Memoirs of a Geisha? The movie stayed pretty true to the book, though a lot of the details had to be cut for the sake of time...

Wezzo04/11/2006

Misery? :-)