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Books Made Into Movies
Topic Started: Jun 22 2005, 05:14 AM (716 Views)
FaithHopeTrick
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Here are some. Most are old films I tried to stick with the ones most people knew.

The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe(Chronicals of Narnia) - C.S. Lewis
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Godfather - Mario Puzo
Jaws - Peter Benchley
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
The Diary of Anne Frank - Anne Frank
Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Wizard Of Oz- L. Frank Baum
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Father of the Bride - Edward Streeter
Moby wablief - Herman Melville

There are many many more. I just touched on a few of them. You might be surprised on how many books made into movies there are.
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Trying not to repeat any mentioned earlier and considering plays as books (sorry for mistakes in author's names) ...

The Good Earth -- Pearl S. Buck
The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises -- Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea -- Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms -- Ernest Hemingway
The Pearl -- John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath -- John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck
Cannery Row -- John Steinbeck
Dracula -- Bram Stoker
A Tale of Two Cities -- Charles Dickens
David Copperfield -- Charles Dickens
Farenheit 451 -- Ray Bradburry
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream Electric Dreams?) -- Phillip K. wablief
Billy Budd -- Herman Melville
Ben Hur -- William K. Wallace
The Robe -- Lloyd C. Douglas
All Quiet on the Western Front -- Erich Maria Remarque
The Betsy -- Harold Robbins
War and Peace -- Leo Tolstoy
The Naked and the Dead -- Norman Mailer
An American Dream -- Norman Mailer
Death of a Salesman -- Arthur Miller (made for TV)
The Shining -- Steven King
Salem's Lot -- Steven King
Stand By Me (The Body, a novelette) -- Steven King
Les Miserabes -- Victor Hugo
Ivanhoe -- Sir Walter Scott
The Time Machine -- H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man -- H. G. Wells
The Island of Dr Moreau -- H. G. Wells
War of the Worlds -- H. G. Wells
Hucklebury Finn -- Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper -- Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court -- Mark Twain
Around the World in 80 Days -- Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea -- Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the Earth -- Jules Verne
Gigi -- Collette
Shipwrecked -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Lord of the Flies -- William Golding
Red Badge of Courage -- Stephen Crane
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (short story) -- James Thurber
Starship Troopers -- Robert Heinlein
I, Robot (short story collections etc) -- Issac Asimov
The Call of the Wild -- Jack London
White Fang -- Jack London
The House of the Seven Gables -- Wm Sommerset Maugham
The Blackboard Jungle -- Evan Hunter
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Fight Club, OH - and Sophie's World!

Fight Club's, lets see how I'm going to spell his name this time, Chuck Palahnuik. OK, so I looked it up, it's an impossible name.

And Sophie... well, if I'm not mistaken about 9 different writers worked on that one so for the life of me I couldn't tell you. Is Angela's Ashes mentioned yet, anyway?
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Ah, Sophie -- I knew I forgot that one, but a different lady.

Sophie's Choice -- William Styron
Catch 22 -- Joseph Heller
Slaughter House Five -- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
In Cold Blood -- Truman Capote (not sure if this was mentioned earlier)
Last of the Mohegans -- James Fenimore Cooper
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest -- Ken Kesey
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Wowie this is getting to some list! haha.
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It would make a good book. I'm sure we're leaving out literally thousands of movies that were taken directly from novels, short stories and plays.

In many cases two or three versions were made over the years -- for example, Charles Dickens A Christmas Caol must have been done dozens of times and, at times by different titles, such as Scrooge or Ebaneezer etc...
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