Book and Movie Club Picks

Adaptations discussed in the 2025-26 Book and Movie Club meetings.

Updated April 7, 2026
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Book and Movie Club Picks

Adaptations discussed in the 2025-26 Book and Movie Club meetings.

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Carrie
King, Stephen
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Julianne Moore. Stephen King's legendary debut, about a teenage outcast and the revenge she enacts on her classmates.   Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her...
Dead Poets Society
Weir, Peter, 1944; Schulman, Tom; Williams, Robin, 1951 July 21; Leonard, Robert Sean, 1969; Hawke, Ethan, 1970; Charles, Josh, 1971; Kussman, Dylan; Ruggiero, Allelon; Waterston, James, 1969; Powers, Alexandra; Smith, Kurtwood, 1943; Pownall, Leon; Silve
DVD
Features the widescreen version of the film and special features including audio commentary by Peter Weir, John Seale, and writer Thom Schulman; a retrospective documentary; and more.
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 than a...
The notebook
Johnson, Mark; Harris, Lynn; Leven, Jeremy; Sardi, Jan; Cassavetes, Nick; Gosling, Ryan, 1980; McAdams, Rachel, 1978; Garner, James; Rowlands, Gena; Marsden, James, 1973; Connolly, Kevin, 1974; Thornton, David; Brown, Jamie Anne; Wahlquist, Heather; Shepa
DVD
Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in love one summer, but are tragically forced apart. When they reunite seven years later, their passionate romance is rekindled, forcing one of them to choose between true love and class order.
Holes
Sachar, Louis
Paper Book
A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. There is no lake - it has been dry for over a hundred years - and it...
Holes
Medavoy, Mike; Sachar, Louis, 1954; Davis, Andrew, 1946; Weaver, Sigourney, 1949; Voight, Jon, 1938; Arquette, Patricia, 1968; Nelson, Tim Blake; Hill, Dulae; LaBeouf, Shia, 1986; Winkler, Henry, 1945; Maffia, Roma; Kitt, Eartha; Fallon, Siobhan; St. John
DVD
A group of teenagers are at a detention camp in the desert. The warden has them dig holes in the desert to build character. One of the boys begins to wonder what the real reason is for the digging and giving the warden anything 'special' that they find.
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