Good Books...Good Movies
2006-03-05 22:47 - General
I just saw a list of must read books, according to librarians. Some I haven't heard of, and lots I've heard of ... because of the movie adaptation. I decided to check exactly how many have become movies. It turns out, a lot. The links below are just a selection, with ellipses where there are really too many for me to bother with.
| Rank | Book Title | Author | Movie? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | Yes |
| 2 | The Bible | Yes, too many to count | |
| 3 | The Lord of the Rings Trilogy | JRR Tolkien | Yes |
| 4 | 1984 | George Orwell | Yes |
| 5 | A Christmas Carol | Charles Dickens | Yes, 2, 3... |
| 6 | Jane Eyre | Charlotte Bronte | Yes, 2, 3, 4... |
| 7 | Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen | Yes, 2, 3... |
| 8 | All Quiet on the Western Front | E M Remarque | Yes, 2, 3, 4 |
| 9 | His Dark Materials Trilogy | Phillip Pullman | Almost |
| 10 | Birdsong | Sebastian Faulks | No |
| 11 | The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | Yes |
| 12 | The Lord of the Flies | William Golding | Yes, 2 |
| 13 | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Mark Haddon | No |
| 14 | Tess of the D'urbevilles | Thomas Hardy | Yes |
| 15 | Winnie the Pooh | AA Milne | Yes, too many to count |
| 16 | Wuthering Heights | Emily Bronte | Yes, 2, 3... |
| 17 | The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Graham | Yes, 2, 3... |
| 18 | Gone With the Wind | Margaret Mitchell | Yes, 2... |
| 19 | Great Expectations | Charles Dickens | Yes, 2... |
| 20 | The Time Traveler's Wife | Audrey Niffenegger | No |
| 21 | The Lovely Bones | Alice Sebold | No |
| 22 | The Prophet | Khalil Gibran | No |
| 23 | David Copperfield | Charles Dickens | Yes, 2... |
| 24 | The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho | No |
| 25 | The Master and Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | Yes |
| 26 | Life of Pi | Yann Martel | No |
| 27 | Middlemarch | George Eliot | Yes |
| 28 | The Poisonwood Bible | Barbara Kingsolver | No |
| 29 | A Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | Yes |
| 30 | A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | Alexander Solzenhitsyn | No |
(Okay, this is just based off of Amazon's database. But it's pretty near comprehensive, eh?)
0000-00-00 00:00 - kathaclysm