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, Andre.
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
***NOW A MAJOR HOLLYWOOD FILM DIRECTED BY CHRISTOPHER NOLAN*** WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' - Sunday Times Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as...

Oppenheimer (2023) dir. Christopher Nolan

The Da Vinci code : a novel
Brown, Dan
Audiobook
A murder in the silent, late night halls of the Louvre reveals a sinister plot to uncover a secret that has been protected by a clandestine society since the days of Christ. The victim is a high­ranking agent of this ancient society who, in the moments before his death, manages to leave gruesome...

The Da Vinci Code (2006) dir. Ron Howard

Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century
Bruder, Jessica
Paper Book
The inspiration for the award-winning film Nomadland starring Frances McDormand.

Nomadland (2020) dir. Chloé Zhao

Girl with a pearl earring
Chevalier, Tracy.
Paper Book

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

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Dick, Philip
Paper Book
World War Terminus devastated the Earth. Through its ruins, bounty hunter Rick Deckard searches for the renegade replicants he is sent to 'retire', while he dreams of owning a live animal - the ultimate status symbol in a world all but bereft of natural life. The opportunity of a...

Blade Runner (1982) dir. Ridley Scott

The name of the rose
Eco, Umberto.
Audiobook

The Name of the Rose (1986) dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud

Erasure : a novel
Everett, Percival
Ebook
#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...

American Fiction (2023) dir. Cord Jefferson

Bridget Jones's diary : a novel
Fielding, Helen
Paper Book
'In an emergency, I turn to Bridget Jones' DOLLY ALDERTON What do you do when a girlfriend's 60th birthday party is the same day as your boyfriend's 30th? Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your children has head lice? Is sleeping...

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

Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Flagg, Fannie.
Ebook
'A richly comic, poignant narrative' Harper Lee Rediscover the ultimate comfort read in the classic story of friendship, loyalty and secrets set in the deep south of America in the 1930s. The day Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison opened the Whistle Stop...

Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) dir. Jon Avnet

The price of salt
Highsmith, Patricia
Paper Book
WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY VAL McDERMID Therese is just an ordinary sales assistant working in a New York department store when a beautiful, alluring woman in her thirties walks up to her counter. Standing there, Therese is wholly unprepared for the first shock of love. Therese is an...

Carol (2015) dir. Todd Haynes

Never let me go
Ishiguro, Kazuo
Paper Book
As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attended an exclusive boarding-school in the English countryside. Idyllic in some ways yet vaguely sinister, 'Hailsham' was a place of intense friendships, mysterious rules, and 'guardians' who constantly reminded the students how special they were. Now thirty-one,...

Never Let Me Go (2010) dir. Mark Romanek

One flew over the cuckoo's nest
Kesey, Ken.
Ebook
Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel that epitomises the spirit of the sixties. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and...

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

Crazy rich Asians
Kwan, Kevin.
Paper Book
Thwarted love, scheming snobs, obscene wealth and haute couture - it's all here in a fabulous bestseller and now a groundbreaking and lavish movie. An absolutely wicked treat!

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

Life of Pi : a novel
Martel, Yann.
Paper Book

Life of Pi (2012) dir. Ang Lee

Oil! : a novel
Sinclair, Upton
Paper Book
Published in 1927, this masterpiece of realist fiction portrays a gripping tale of corruption and greed alongside a son's coming-of-age story. The basis for Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 film There Will Be Blood, the saga follows the rise of an oil magnate through the eyes of his loving...

There Will be Blood (2007) dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

The Joy Luck Club
Tan, Amy.
Ebook
'The Joy Luck Club is an ambitious saga that's impossible to read without wanting to call your Mum' Stylist Discover Amy Tan's moving and poignant tale of immigrant Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. In 1949 four Chinese women,...

The Joy Luck Club (1993) dir. Wayne Wang


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