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Books into Film Meme
Gakked at random from http://community.livejournal.com/surveys/12957189.html, and notably for the books it leaves out - Blade Runner, Maltese Falcon, any noir at all frankly, any of John Huston, any Hitchcock, Naked Lunch, The Prestige, any Wyndham, any Clarke, any Christie, any Doyle, pretty well any crime aside from one Hiasson and one Grisham, etc
Famous Books to Movies
Bold if you've read it
Italicize if you've seen it (any version)
Underline if you've done both
The Box - Richard Matheson
Cirque de Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - Darren Shan
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Judy and Ron Barrett
An Education - Lynn Barber
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson
Precious (Book: Push) - Sapphire
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
Gangs of New York - Herbert Asbury
Get Carter - Ted Lewis
Hostage - Robert Crais
Man On Fire - A.J. Quinnell
Rabbit-Proof Fence - Doris Pilkington
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
Cheaper by the Dozen - Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Cameron Crowe
Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
Freaky Friday - Mary Rodgers
I Love You, Beth Cooper - Larry Doyle
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn
Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
Striptease - Carl Hiassen
The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
Thumbsucker - Walter Kirn
The Firm - John Grisham
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Children of Men - P.D. James
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Pay It Forward - Catherine Ryan Hyde
Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra
Slumdog Millionaire (Book: Q & A) - Vikas Swarup
The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans
The Reader - Bernard Schlink
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Holes - Louis Sachar
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
Jumanji - Chris Van Allsberg
Matilda - Roald Dahl
Mean Girls (Book Title: Queen Bees & Wannabes) - Rosalind Wiseman
Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg
Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
The Princess Bride - William Golding
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham
The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter (Any) - J.K. Rowling
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore
Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
The Black Cauldron - Lloyd Alexander
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
The Duchess - Amanda Foreman
Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally
American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
Amityville Horror - Jay Anson
Carrie - Stephen King
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Dreamcatcher - Stephen King
Hannibal - Thomas Harris
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
Sleepy Hollow (Book Title: Legend Of Sleepy Hollow) - Washington Irving
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
The Green Mile - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
Derailed - James Siegel
The Constant Gardener - John le Carre
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
Trapped (Book Title: 24 Hours) - Greg Iles
21 (Book title: Bringing Down the House) - Ben Mezrich
A Beautiful Mind (Book Title: ... Biography of John Forbes Nash Jr.) - Sylvia Nasar
Blow - Bruce Porter
Catch Me If You Can - Frank W. Abagnale and Stan Redding
Dead Man Walking - Helen Prejean
Gorillas in the Mist - Diane Fossey
Riding in Cars with Boys - Beverly D'Onofrio
Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger
Zodiac - Robert Graysmith
A Walk to Remember - Nicholas Sparks
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
PS, I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
I Robot - Isaac Asimov
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
K-Pax - Gene Brewer
Minority Report - Philip K. Dick
Planet of the Apes - Pierre Boulle
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford
The Dirty Dozen - E.M. Nathanson
The Pianist - Wladyslaw Szpilman
Thin Red Line - James Jones
Famous Books to Movies
Bold if you've read it
Italicize if you've seen it (any version)
Underline if you've done both
The Box - Richard Matheson
Cirque de Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - Darren Shan
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Judy and Ron Barrett
An Education - Lynn Barber
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
The Men Who Stare At Goats - Jon Ronson
Precious (Book: Push) - Sapphire
The Road - Cormac McCarthy
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
Angels & Demons - Dan Brown
Gangs of New York - Herbert Asbury
Get Carter - Ted Lewis
Hostage - Robert Crais
Man On Fire - A.J. Quinnell
Rabbit-Proof Fence - Doris Pilkington
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
About a Boy - Nick Hornby
Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
Cheaper by the Dozen - Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
Chocolat - Joanne Harris
Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Cameron Crowe
Forrest Gump - Winston Groom
Freaky Friday - Mary Rodgers
I Love You, Beth Cooper - Larry Doyle
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist - Rachel Cohn
Princess Diaries - Meg Cabot
Striptease - Carl Hiassen
The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
Thumbsucker - Walter Kirn
The Firm - John Grisham
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - John Boyne
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Children of Men - P.D. James
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Enduring Love - Ian McEwan
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Girl With a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey
Pay It Forward - Catherine Ryan Hyde
Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants - Ann Brashares
Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra
Slumdog Millionaire (Book: Q & A) - Vikas Swarup
The Horse Whisperer - Nicholas Evans
The Reader - Bernard Schlink
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
Holes - Louis Sachar
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
Jumanji - Chris Van Allsberg
Matilda - Roald Dahl
Mean Girls (Book Title: Queen Bees & Wannabes) - Rosalind Wiseman
Polar Express - Chris Van Allsburg
Stormbreaker - Anthony Horowitz
The Princess Bride - William Golding
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham
The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Golden Compass - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter (Any) - J.K. Rowling
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Alan Moore
Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
The Black Cauldron - Lloyd Alexander
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
The Duchess - Amanda Foreman
Schindler's List - Thomas Keneally
American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
Amityville Horror - Jay Anson
Carrie - Stephen King
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Dreamcatcher - Stephen King
Hannibal - Thomas Harris
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice
Red Dragon - Thomas Harris
Sleepy Hollow (Book Title: Legend Of Sleepy Hollow) - Washington Irving
The Exorcist - William Peter Blatty
The Green Mile - Stephen King
The Shining - Stephen King
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
Derailed - James Siegel
The Constant Gardener - John le Carre
The Godfather - Mario Puzo
The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
Trapped (Book Title: 24 Hours) - Greg Iles
21 (Book title: Bringing Down the House) - Ben Mezrich
A Beautiful Mind (Book Title: ... Biography of John Forbes Nash Jr.) - Sylvia Nasar
Blow - Bruce Porter
Catch Me If You Can - Frank W. Abagnale and Stan Redding
Dead Man Walking - Helen Prejean
Gorillas in the Mist - Diane Fossey
Riding in Cars with Boys - Beverly D'Onofrio
Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand
The Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger
Zodiac - Robert Graysmith
A Walk to Remember - Nicholas Sparks
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier
The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks
PS, I Love You - Cecelia Ahern
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
I Robot - Isaac Asimov
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
K-Pax - Gene Brewer
Minority Report - Philip K. Dick
Planet of the Apes - Pierre Boulle
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
War of the Worlds - H. G. Wells
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Black Hawk Down - Mark Bowden
Jarhead - Anthony Swofford
The Dirty Dozen - E.M. Nathanson
The Pianist - Wladyslaw Szpilman
Thin Red Line - James Jones