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Book to Screen

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Author

Dewey Number

Description

Anne of Green Gables

Montgomery, L.M.

Juv

Fic Mon

Who couldn’t use a little Anne? New series is getting rave reviews as well.

The Zookeeper’s Wife

Ackerman, Diane

940.531

ACK

Zookeeper helps many resistance activists and refugee Jews hide in empty cages and her own home during WWII.

The Handmaid’s Tale

Atwood, Margarget

FIC ATW

Both the book and the movie are getting a lot of attention right now.

The Magicians

Grossman, Lev

FIC LEV

This fantasy has been made into a series. Compare to Narnia and the Lord of the Rings and see what you think.

The Life of Pi

Martel, Yan

FIC

MAR

The film won awards and the book is hard to categorize. About a tiger, god and the human spirit. Or is it?

Atonement

McEwan, Ian

FIC MCW

Well received movie and wonderful book that has many of the same themes as The Life of Pi—with a vastly different setting.

Live By Night

Lehane, Dennis

FIC

LEH

From Jazz Age Boston to Tampa’s Latin Quarter to the streets of Cuba this epic explores the roaring 20s.

The Lost City of Z

Grann, David

918.11

GRA

Amazing true tale of adventure and obsession.

The Light Between Oceans

Stedman, M.L.

Fic

STE

I have not heard one person say anything other than this is an amazing book—and now it has been made into a movie.

A Hologram for the King

Eggers, Dave

FIC EGG

Tom Hanks stars in this movie of a businessman struggling to hold his life together in Saudi Arabia amid the global economy’s gale force winds.

American Pastoral

Roth, Philip

FIC

ROT

Roth’s Pulitzer prize winning novel is made into a movie.

Me Before You

Moyes, Jojo

FIC

MOY

Heartbreaking romance comes to the big screen.

The Girl on the Train

Hawkins, Paula

FIC HAW

2015’s big thriller is made into a movie.

The Jungle Book

Kipling, Rudyard

JUV Fic KIP

The classic comes to the screen once again.