Book to Film

Read the book before you watch the movie!

Updated June 30, 2025
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Call me by your name
Aciman, André
Paper Book
The film tie-in edition to the already highly acclaimed Luca Guadagnino-directed film of one of the great love stories of our time.

Call Me by Your Name (2017) dir. Luca Guadagnino

American prometheus : the triumph and tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Bird, Kai
Paper Book
THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OPPENHEIMER * "A riveting account of one of history's most essential and paradoxical figures."--Christopher Nolan #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * PULITZER PRIZE WINNER * The definitive biography of J. Robert...

Oppenheimer (2023) dir. Christopher Nolan

The Da Vinci code : a novel
Brown, Dan
Paper Book
THE #1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLING PHENOMENON, WITH MORE THAN 85 MILLION COPIES SOLD "Blockbuster perfection . . . a gleefully erudite suspense novel." --The New York Times "A pulse-quickening, brain-teasing adventure." --People While in...

The Da Vinci Code (2006) dir. Ron Howard

Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century
Bruder, Jessica
Paper Book
New York Times Bestseller From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have discovered a new, low-cost labor pool, made up largely of transient older Americans. Finding that social...

Nomadland (2020) dir. Chloé Zhao

Girl with a pearl earring
Chevalier, Tracy
Paper Book
The New York Times bestselling novel by the author of A Single Thread and At the Edge of the Orchard Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin Firth Tracy Chevalier transports...

Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003) dir. Peter Webber

Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Dick, Philip K.
Paper Book
Here is the classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, set nearly thirty years before the events of the new Warner Bros. film Blade Runner 2049, starring Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, and Robin Wright.   By 2021, the World War has killed millions,...

Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott

Erasure
Everett, Percival.
Paper Book
#20 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century' Adapted into the Oscar-nominated major motion picture, American Fiction. By the twice Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Trees and James. ...

American Fiction (2023) dir. Cord Jefferson

Bridget Jones's diary : a novel
Fielding, Helen.
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture starring Renee Zellwegger and Hugh Grant! "130 lbs. (how is it possible to put on 4 pounds overnight? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier (repulsive, horrifying notion)); alcohol units 2 (excellent) cigarettes 21 (poor but...

Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) dir. Sharon Maguire

Conclave
Harris, Robert
Paper Book
THE POWER OF GOD. THE AMBITION OF MEN. THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Pope is dead. Behind the locked doors of the Sistine Chapel, one hundred and eighteen cardinals from all over the globe will cast their votes in the world's...

Conclave (2024) dir. Edward Berger

The price of salt
Highsmith, Patricia
Ebook

Carol (2015) dir. Todd Haynes

Never let me go
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Paper Book
NOBEL PRIZE WINNER * From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes "a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist--a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times's 10...

Never Let Me Go (2010) dir. Mark Romanek

One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Kesey, Ken.
Paper Book
Ken Kesey's bracing, inslightful novel about the meaning of madness and the value of self-reliance, and the inspiration for the new Netflix original series Ratched Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is the...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) dir. Miloš Forman

Crazy rich Asians
Kwan, Kevin.
Paper Book
Crazy Rich Asians is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of...

Crazy Rich Asians (2018) dir. Jon M. Chu

Shutter Island
Lehane, Dennis.
Paper Book
The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter...

Shutter Island (2010) dir. Martin Scorsese

Life of Pi
Martel, Yann
Paper Book

Life of Pi (2012) dir. Ang Lee

Twelve Years A Slave (Easy Classics)
Barder, Gemma.
Paper Book

Twelve Years a Slave (2013) dir. Steve McQueen

The notebook
Sparks, Nicholas
Paper Book
Experience the unforgettable, heartbreaking love story set in post-World War II North Carolina about a young socialite and the boy who once stole her heart -- one of PBS's "Great American Reads". Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more...

The Notebook (2004) dir. Nick Cassavetes

The help
Stockett, Kathryn.
Paper Book
A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club -- Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. Aibileen is a wise, regal black maid raising her seventeenth white child. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, can cook like nobody's business but can't mind her tongue. It...

The Help (2011) dir. Tate Taylor

The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy.
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Amy Tan's modern classic that examines the sometimes painful, often tender, and always deep connection between mothers and daughters--now with a new preface "For me, [The Joy Luck Club] was one of those once-in-a-lifetime reading...

The Joy Luck Club (1993) dir. Wayne Wang


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