From Books to Movies

Many great movies begin life as a book! The following books and videos and/or DVDs are owned within the BPL Library system. Link directly to the Library's catalog for the most current status on holdings, locations and availability - and place holds on desired items.

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Book / Movie Title	Author
A - B
2001: A Space Odyssey	• Arthur C. Clarke
About a Boy	• Nick Hornby
Adaptation (Book titled: Orchid Thief)	• Susan Orlean
Affliction	• Russell Banks
Alice Adams	• Booth Tarkington
Alive	• Piers Paul Read
All Quiet on the Western Front	• Erich Maria Remarqué
All the King's Men	• Robert Penn Warren
All the Pretty Horses	• Cormac McCarthy
American Tragedy (Movie titled: Place in the Sun)	• Theodore Dreiser
Andromeda Strain	• Michael Crichton
Angela's Ashes	• Frank McCourt
Antwone Fisher (Book titled: Finding Fish: a Memoir)	• Antwone Quenton Fisher
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	• Mordecai Richler
Atonement	• McEwan, Ian
Beautiful Mind	• Sylvia Nasar
Being Julia (Book titled: Theatre)	• W. Somerset Maugham
Ben Hur	• Lew Wallace
Big Fish	• Daniel Wallace
Bostonians	• Henry James
Bourne Identity (2002)	• Robert Ludlum
Bourne Supremacy (2004)	• Robert Ludlum
Bourne Ultimatum (2007)	• Robert Ludlum
Breakfast at Tiffany's	• Truman Capote
Brideshead Revisited	• Evelyn Waugh
Bridge on the River Kwai	• Pierre Boulle
Bridges of Madison County	• Robert James Waller
Bridget Jones the Edge of Reason	• Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones's Diary	• Helen Fielding
Brokeback Mountain	• Annie Proulx

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C - D
Caine Mutiny	• Herman Wouk
Call of the Wild	• Jack London
Camelot (Book titled: Once and Future King)	• T. H. White
Capote (Book titled: In Cold Blood)	• Truman Capote
Catch-22	• Joseph Heller
Catch Me If You Can	• Frank W. Abagnale
The Chamber	• John Grisham
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	• Roald Dahl
Charlotte Gray	• Sebastian Faulks
Cheaper by the Dozen	• Gilbreth, Frank B.
Chocolat	• Joanne Harris
Civil Action	• Jonathan Harr
Cold Mountain	• Frazier, Charles
The Color Purple	• Alice Walker
Confessions of a Shopaholic	• Sophie Kinsella
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen	• Dyan Sheldon
Constant Gardener	• John Le Carré
Curious Case of Benjamin Button	• F. Scott Fitzgerald
Da Vinci Code	• Dan Brown
Death of a Salesman	• Arthur Miller
Deep End of the Ocean	• Jacqueline Mitchard
Derailed	• James Siegel
Devil Wears Prada	• Lauren Weisburger
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood	• Rebecca Wells
Doctor Zhivago	• Boris Pasternak
Dodsworth	• Sinclair Lewis
Door in the Floor (Book titled: A Widow for One Year)	• Irving, John

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E - F
East of Eden	• John Steinbeck
Emma	• Jane Austen
Empire of the Sun	• J. G. Ballard
English Patient	• Michael Ondaatje
Eragon	• Christopher Paolini
Fahrenheit 451	• Ray Bradbury
First Wives Club	• Olivia Goldsmith
Five People You Meet in Heaven	• Mitch Albom
Flags of Our Fathers	• James Bradley
Forrest Gump	• Winston Groom
Frankenstein	• Mary Shelley
Freaky Friday	• Mary Rodgers
Freedomland	• Richard Price
Frida (Book titled: Frida Kahlo: the Paintings)	• Hayden Herrera
Friday Night Lights	• H. G. Bissinger
Fried Green Tomatoes (Book titled: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café)	• Fannie Flagg
From Here to Eternity	• James Jones

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G - H
Giant	• Edna Ferber
Girl Interrupted	• Susanna Kaysen
Godfather	• Mario Puzo
Gone with the Wind	• Margaret Mitchell
Good Earth	• Pearl Buck
Grapes of Wrath	• John Steinbeck
Great Escape	• Paul Brickhill
Green Mile	• Stephen King
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2003)	• J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2006)	• J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)	• J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2002)	• J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)	• J. K. Rowling
He's Just Not That Into You	• Greg Behrendt
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy	• Douglas Adams
Hobbit	• J. R. R. Tolkien
Horse Whisperer	• Nicholas Evans
Hours	• Michael Cunningham
House of Sand and Fog	• Dubus, Andre
How Green Was My Valley	• Richard Llewellyn
How Stella Got Her Groove Back	• Terry McMillan
How to Make an American Quilt	• Whitney Otto
Hunt for Red October	• Tom Clancy

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I - L
I am Legend	• Matheson, Richard
I, Robot	• Isaac Asimov
Importance of Being Earnest	• Oscar Wilde
In Cold Blood (Movie titled: Capote)	• Truman Capote
In Her Shoes	• Jennifer Weiner
Inconvenient Truth	• Al Gore
Into the Wild	• Krakauer, Jon
James Bond [click for titles]	• Ian Fleming
Jane Eyre	• Charlotte Bronte
Jaws	• Peter Benchley
Joy Luck Club	• Amy Tan
Jumanji	• Chris Val Allsberg
Jurassic Park	• Michael Crichton
Kidnapped	• Robert Louis Stevenson
King and I (Book titled: Anna and the King of Siam)	• Margaret Landon
Kite Runner	• Khaled Hosseini
Last of the Mohicans	• James Fenimore Cooper
Lawrence of Arabia (Book titled: Seven Pillars of Wisdom)	• T. E. Lawrence
Legend of Bagger Vance	• Steven Pressfield
Legends of the Fall	• Jim Harrison
Les Misérables	• Victor Hugo
Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	• C. S. Lewis
Little Women	• Louisa May Alcott
The Longest Day	• Cornelius Ryan
Lord of the Flies	• William Golding
Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001) (Book titled: Fellowship of the Ring Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings)	• J. R. R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2004) (Book titled: Return of the King Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings)	• J. R. R. Tolkien
Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (2002) (Book titled: The Two Towers Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings)	• J. R. R. Tolkien
Lost World	• Michael Crichton
Love Comes Softly	• Janette Oke
Love in the Time of Cholera	• Gabriel García Márquez
Love Story	• Erich Segal
Love's Enduring Promise	• Janette Oke

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M - O
Maltese Falcon	• Dashiell Hammett
Man for all Seasons	• Robert Bolt
Man in the Iron Mask	• Alexandre Dumas
The Manchurian Candidate	• Richard Condon
Marley & Me	• John Grogan
Master and Commander the Far Side of the World	• Patrick O'Brian
Memoirs of a Geisha	• Arthur Golden
Message in a Bottle	• Nicholas Sparks
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil	• John Berendt
Mosquito Coast	• Paul Theroux
The Motorcycle Diaries	• Ernesto Guevara
Mrs. Dalloway	• Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Doubtfire (Book titled: Alias Madame Doubtfire)	• Anne Fine
Mrs. Miniver	• Jan Struther
Much Ado About Nothing	• William Shakespeare
Munich (Book titled: Vengeance)	• George Jonas
Must Love Dogs	• Claire Cook
My Fair Lady (Play titled: Pygmalion)	• George Bernard Shaw
Mystic River	• Dennis Lehane
Nights Below Station Street	• David Adams Richards
Nights in Rodanthe	• Nicholas Sparks
No Country for Old Men	• Cormac McCarthy
North and South	• John Jakes
The Notebook	• Nicholas Sparks
Of Mice and Men	• John Steinbeck
Old Yeller	• Fred Gipson
Oliver Twist	• Charles Dickens
Once and Future King (Movie titled: Camelot)	• T. H. White
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest	• Ken Kesey
One True Thing	• Anna Quindlen
Ordinary People	• Judith Guest
Other Boleyn Girl	• Philippa Gregory
Out of Africa	• Isaak Dinesen
Outsiders	• S. E. Hinton

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P - R
Passage to India	• E. M. Forster
Persuasion	• Jane Austen
Pilot's Wife	• Anita Shreve
Phantom Menace	• Terry Brooks
Phantom of the Opera	• Gaston Leroux
Place in the Sun (Book titled: American Tragedy)	• Theodore Dreiser
Planet of the Apes	• Pierre Boulle
Polar Express	• Chris Van Allsburg
Possession	• A. S. Byatt
Postcards From the Edge	• Carrie Fisher
Practical Magic	• Alice Hoffman
Prayer for Owen Meany (Movie titled: Simon Birch)	• John Irving
Pride and Prejudice	• Jane Austen
Prince of Tides	• Pat Conroy
Pursuit of Happyness	• Chris Gardner
Pygmalion (Movie: My Fair Lady)	• George Bernard Shaw
Reader	• Bernhard Schlink
Rebecca	• Daphne Du Maurier
Remains of the Day	• Kazuo Ishigura
The Republic of Love	• Carol Shields
Room With A View	• E. M. Forster
Roots	• Alex Haley
Runaway Jury	• John Grisham
Russia House	• John LeCarre

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S - T
Sahara	• Clive Cussler
Schindler's List	• Thomas Keneally
Secret Garden	• Frances Hodgson Burnett
Secret Life of Bees	• Sue Monk Kidd
See No Evil (Movie titled: Syriana)	• Robert Baer
Sense and Sensibility	• Jane Austen
Shipping News	• Annie Proulx
Shogun	• James Clavell
Shopgirl	• Steve Martin
Sideways	• Rex Pickett
Silence of the Lambs	• Thomas Harris
Simon Birch (Book titled: A Prayer for Owen Meany)	• John Irving
Simple Plan	• Scott B. Smith
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants	• Ann Brashares
Snow Falling on Cedars	• David Guterson
Sounder	• William Armstrong
Star Wars, Episode 1: The Phantom Menace	• Terry Brooks
Star Wars, Episode 2: Attack of the Clones (Book titled: Star Wars. Attack of the Clones)	• R. A. Salvatore
Star Wars, Episode 3: Revenge of the Sith	• Matthew Woodring Stover
Streetcar Named Desire	• Tennessee Williams
Sum of All Fears	• Tom Clancy
Sweet Hereafter	• Russell Banks
Syriana (Book titled: See No Evil)	• Robert Baer
Talented Mr. Ripley	• Patricia Highsmith
Tara Road	• Maeve Binchy
Terms of Endearment	• Larry McMurtry
Theatre (Movie titled: Being Julia)	• W. Somerset Maugham
Thirteen Days (Book titled: The Kennedy tapes : inside the White House during the Cuban Missile Crisis)
Thorn Birds	• Colleen McCullough
Three Musketeers	• Alexandre Dumas
To Kill a Mockingbird	• Harper Lee
Twilight	• Stephenie Meyer

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U - Z
Under the Tuscan Sun	• Frances Mayes
Vengeance (Movie titled: Munich)	• George Jonas
War of the Worlds	• H. G. Wells
Widow for One Year (Movie titled: Door in the Floor)	• Irving, John
World According to Garp	• John Irving
Wuthering Heights	• Emily Bronte

DJ - August 2009

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