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📚 Book to movie adaptations 🎥

Books that were adapted into movies (not tv shows). Let's make this list as long as possible!

(going to only add the first book in a series)

The Lightning Thief

The Hunger Games

The Girl on the Train

Pride and Prejudice

The Lightning Thief

The Hunger Games

Inside the Mind of a Messy bihh

by trickynoodle

Uh Oh! Friend Clearly Not the Victim in Drama Being Described! (Suggestions welcome!)

Yellowface

Big Swiss

Darkly Dreaming Dexter

The Gargoyle

Yellowface

Big Swiss

Made for the Movies, Vol. II

by library.girl625

a collection of recommendations from the Made for the Movies forum

Project Hail Mary

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Bel Canto

Bridge to Terabithia

Project Hail Mary

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Read The States Challenge - Iowa

This is a list of books for the Read The States Challenge. Read any on each of the state lists and be awarded the pride of knowing you have read all across the US!

Gilead (Gilead, #1)

The Late Americans

The Weight of Silence

What's Eating Gilbert Grape

Gilead (Gilead, #1)

The Late Americans

road trip across the USA

1 state, 1 book

The Amulet

Alaska

Desert Remains (Gus Parker and Alex Mills #1)

True Grit

The Amulet

Alaska

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