Saw the Movie-Read the Book!

This is a selected list of books that have been made into movies. 

Movie titles that are different than the book are noted.

• Berendt, John – Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil 
• Bloch, Robert – Psycho
• Boulle, Pierre – Planet of the Apes
• Ellroy, James – L.A. Confidential
• Fielding, Helen – Bridget Jones’s Diary
• Fitch, Janet – White Oleander
• Flagg, Fannie – Fried Green Tomatoes
• Forestser, C. S – The African Queen
• French, Nicci – Killing Me Softly
• Grisham, John – A Time to Kill
• Harris, Joanne – Chocolat
• Harris, Thomas – Hannibal
• Hornby, Nick – About a Boy
• Hyde, Catherine Ryan – Pay it Forward
• Junger, Sebastian – The Perfect Storm  
• Letts, Billie – Where the Heart Is
• McCourt, Frank – Angela’s Ashes
• McMurtry, Larry – Terms of Endearment
• Nasar, Sylvia – A Beautiful Mind 
• Orlean, Susan – The Orchid Thief  (movie title: Adaptation)
• Patterson, James – Along Came a Spider
• Perez-Reverte, Arturo – The Club Dumas (movie title: The Ninth Gate)
• Prejean, Sister Helen – Dead Man Walking
• Sparks, Nicholas – A Walk to Remember
• Swift, Graham – Last Orders
• Wallace, Lew – Ben Hur
• Wells, H. G. – The Time Machine
• Wells, Rebecca – Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Still trying to figure out what book the movie was based on, check out the Mid-Continent Public Library's web site.  This library offers a compilation of over 850 book titles, short stories and plays that have been made into motion pictures. 

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