books that have been adapted into successful movies and have also won an oscar for their screenplay
created by lovelittlelotte
last updated June, 2026
Vineland
Thomas Pynchon
Conclave
Robert Harris
Erasure
Percival Everett
Women Talking
Miriam Toews
Caging Skies
Christine Leunens
Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Ron Stallworth
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
André Aciman
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Michael Lewis
Alan Turing: The Enigma
Andrew Hodges
12 Years a Slave
Solomon Northup
The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA
Antonio J. Mendez
The Descendants
Kaui Hart Hemmings
The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, a Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
Ben Mezrich
Push
Sapphire Sapphire
Q&A
Vikas Swarup
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy
Sideways: A Novel
Rex Pickett
The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
Władysław Szpilman
A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar
The Cider House Rules
John Irving
Father of Frankenstein
Christopher Bram
L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
James Ellroy
Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen
Forrest Gump (Forrest Gump, #1)
Winston Groom
Schindler's Ark
Thomas Keneally
Howards End
E.M. Forster
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
Thomas Harris
Dances With Wolves
Michael Blake
From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi
Pu Yi
© 2025 Pagebound