Book to Screen Adaptations

Want to read the book before you watch the movie or show? Here's a list of the most hyped book to TV adaptations hitting our screens.

Updated August 10, 2024
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Argylle
Conway, Elly.
Paper Book
One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most legendary spymaster, can prevent it. But to do so, she needs someone special. Enter Argylle. His life came to...
Boy swallows universe
Dalton, Trent
Paper Book
An utterly wonderful novel of love, crime, magic, fate and coming of age, set in Brisbane's violent working class suburban fringe - from one of Australia's most exciting new writers. Brisbane, 1983: A lost father, a mute brother, a mum in jail, a heroin dealer for a stepfather and a...
Dune: The Breath-Taking and Academy Award-nominated Science Fiction Masterpiece
Herbert, Frank
Paper Book
What The Lord of the Rings is to fantasy, Dune is to science fiction. Presenting one of the most influential works of all time, which has inspired countless other stories for more than half a century, this is an awe-inspiring world, and a story of truly epic scope. ...
Eileen
Moshfegh, Ottessa
Paper Book
Now a major motion picture streaming on Hulu, starring Anne Hathaway and Thomasin McKenzie Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize "Eileen is a remarkable piece of writing, always dark and surprising, sometimes ugly and occasionally hilarious. Its first...
Fool me once
Coben, Harlan
Paper Book
STOP PRESS NEWS! NOW A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER, AND OPTIONED FOR FILM WITH JULIA ROBERTS TO STAR IN AND PRODUCE If your husband was murdered And you were a witness How do you explain it when he appears on your nanny cam? You thought you trusted him. Now you...
Frankenstein
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
Paper Book
Scientist Victor Frankenstein learns how to create life, but his discovery goes quickly awry when he creates a monster larger and stronger than an ordinary man. As the monster uses its power to destroy everything Victor loves, the young scientist is forced to embark on a treacherous journey to end...
A gentleman in Moscow
Towles, Amor
Paper Book
On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. But instead of being taken to his usual suite,...
It Ends With Us
Hoover, Colleen
Ebook
**NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING BLAKE LIVELY AND JUSTIN BALDONI** THE RUNAWAY GLOBAL MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING NOVEL BY COLLEEN HOOVER.  'The reigning queen of BookTok' GUARDIAN 'One of the most influential voices of the last...
It's not summer without you
Han, Jenny
Paper Book
One girl. Two boys. An impossible decision to make . . . When something is perfect, you hope it lasts forever. But Isabel's lazy, long hot summers at her family friends' beach house are over. Conrad is the only boy she's ever loved. But he's left for...
Lady in the lake : a novel
Lippman, Laura
Paper Book
SOON TO BE A SERIES FROM APPLE TV! A New York Times Bestseller The revered New York Times bestselling author returns with a novel set in 1960s Baltimore that combines modern psychological insights with elements of classic noir, about a middle-aged housewife...
Lessons in chemistry : a novel
Garmus, Bonnie
Paper Book
THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Soon to be an Apple TV series starring Brie Larson 'Sparky, rip-roaring, funny' SUNDAY TIMES 'The most charming, life-enhancing novel I've read in ages' INDIA KNIGHT, Book of the Year 'I...
One day
Nicholls, David
Paper Book
***Out now: David Nicholls's new novel YOU ARE HERE*** THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER, NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES 'A wonderful, wonderful book' THE TIMES 'Perfect' NEW YORK TIMES 'A...
Poor things : episodes from the early life of Archibald McCandless M. D. Scottish public health officer
Gray, Alasdair
Paper Book
NOW THE OSCAR-WINNING MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMMA STONE, RAMY YOUSSEF, MARK RUFFALO, AND WILLEM DAFOE, DIRECTED BY YORGOS LANTHIMOS. "Witty and delightfully written" (New York Times Book Review), Alasdair Gray's Poor Things echoes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in this novel of a young...
Queenie
Carty-Williams, Candice
Paper Book
Silo
Howey, Hugh
Paper Book
NOW THE NO.1 DRAMA IN THE HISTORY OF AppleTV+ In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Inside, men and women live an enclosed life full of rules and regulations, of...
Stolen
Laestadius, Ann-Helen.
Paper Book
**NOW A MAJOR GLOBAL NETFLIX ADAPTATION** **THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER** 'Written with heart and great appeal' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A coming-of-age-story to be loved everywhere in the world' FREDRIK BACKMAN, author of A MAN CALLED OVE<...
The Thursday Murder Club
Osman, Richard
Paper Book
Four unlikely friends A shocking murder Welcome to THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the...
Watchers
Shine, A.M.
Paper Book
A spine-chilling Irish horror adventure set in the remote and sinister forests of Ireland, from debut Irish author A.M. Shine. 'A dark, claustrophobic read' T. Kingfisher, author of Paladin's Grace You can't see them. But they can see you. This forest isn't charted...

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