From Page to Screen

 

Below is a list of books that have been made into movies.  I focused on the years from 2000-2007, with a few exceptions.  For more titles check:

 

http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/year.cfm  - You can browse by year, title, or author.  The only drawback is the list includes ALL books made into movies, even those based on picture books like The Cat in the Hat.

 

http://www.ocl.net/bookinfo/if/movies.shtml - Includes many older films, not all bestsellers.

 

http://www.epl.ca/EPLMaster.cfm?id=BOOKMOVIES - Not all these are bestsellers, but they are ogranized nicely by genre.

 

Fiction

 

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

The Five People You Meet in Heaven - Mitch Albom

I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier

The Sum of All Fears - Tom Clancy

The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy

Patriot Games - Tom Clancy

Hostage - Robert Crais

Timeline - Michael Crichton

The Hours - Michael Cunningham

House of Sand and Fog - Andre Dubus

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding

Casino Royale - Ian Fleming

Everything Is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer

Stardust (not certain if this was a bestseller before the movie) - Neil Gaiman

Bee Season - Myla Goldberg

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

A Time to Kill - John Grisham

The Pelican Brief - John Grisham

Rainmaker - John Grisham **many more!!

Chocolat - Joanne Harris

High Fidelity - Nick Hornby

Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris **more in the series

Carrie - Stephen King

The Green Mile - Stephen King **many more!!

The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri

Mystic River - Dennis Lehane

Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard

Where the Heart - Billie Letts

The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum

Shopgirl - Steve Martin

Atonement - Ian McEwan

All the Pretty Horse - Cormac McCarthy

The Nanny Diaries - Emma McLaughlin

Adaptation / The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Along Came a Spider - James Patterson

Kiss the Girls - James Patterson

The Weight of Water - Anita Shreve

Message in a Bottle - Nicholas Sparks

The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks

In Her Shoes - Jennifer Weiner

The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger

The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood - Rebecca Wells

 

 

Non-fiction, biographies, and memoirs

Catch Me if You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit -

           364.163 ABA

Fast Food Nation - 394.1 SCH

The Gangs of New York- 634.106 ASB

Seabiscuit - 798.4 HIL

Into the Wild - 917.98 KRA

Under the Tuscan Sun - 945.5 MAY

Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles - 956.7044 SWO

Black Hawk Down - 967.7305 BOW

A Perfect Storm - 974.4 JUN

Running with Scissors - BIO BURROUGHS

October Sky / Rocket Boys - BIO HICKAM

Girl, Interrupted - BIO KAYSEN

Angela's Ashes - BIO MCCOURT

A Beautiful Mind - BIO NASH

This Boy's Life - BIO WOLFF

 

 

Compiled 1/18/08 by Laura Leonard