Read the books – see the movies!

 

A list of movies that started out as books, stories and graphic novels.

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Twilight by Stephenie Meyer plus just some of the many new movies to see on the big screen or watch on DVD:

Angels & Demons

Ballet Shoes
Body of Lies

Choke

The Colossus

Confessions of a Shopaholic

Coraline

Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Dirty Tricks 
Drive

Fahrenheit 451
The Fantastic Mr. Fox

Frost/Nixon

Iron Man (Iron Man comics)
Dark Knight (Batman Comics)
Dirt Music

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

He's Just Not That Into You

Horton Hears a Who
I, Lucifer
If You Could See Me Now
The Informant

Inkheart

Killing Pablo

King Lear 

Love in the Time of Cholera

The Lovely Bones

Mama Mia (the play into movie)

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

Nights in Rodanthe

Of Mice and Men  

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief

Prince Caspian (Nardia)

Public Enemies

The Rum Diary
Sin City II (based on the Graphic novels)
Sex in the City The Movie
Shutter Island

The Villa Golitsyn
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
The Secret Life of Bees
The Great Buck Howard
You and I (Finding tATu)

Animated: A Christmas Carol

Coraline

FInd out more with these books:

Films Into Books - Randall D. Larson

From Page to Screen - Joyce Moss and George Wilson

The Encyclopedia of Novels into Film
 

and this web site:

IMDB's Comprehensive List of Movies Based on Novels

with more than 200 TV movies and over 6500 feature films