I’ve Seen A Few of the 50 Best Book-to-Film Adaptations

While I think that there are a few good adapatations missing from this list (Lord of the Rings, Big Fish, High Fidelity, The Princess Bride), I decided to follow the pack and mark up the list with the films I’ve seen and the books I’ve read from that list.

  1. [BM] 1984
  2. [BM] Alice in Wonderland
  3. American Psycho
  4. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  5. Brighton Rock
  6. Catch 22
  7. [BM] Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
  8. [M] A Clockwork Orange
  9. Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
  10. The Day of the Triffids
  11. [M] Devil in a Blue Dress
  12. [BM] Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
  13. [M] Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
  14. Doctor Zhivago
  15. Empire of the Sun
  16. The English Patient
  17. [M] Fight Club
  18. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
  19. [M] Get Shorty
  20. [M] The Godfather
  21. [M] Goldfinger
  22. [M] Goodfellas
  23. [BM] Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
  24. The Hound of the Baskervilles
  25. [M] Jaws
  26. [M] The Jungle Book
  27. A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
  28. [M] LA Confidential
  29. Les Liaisons Dangereuses
  30. Lolita
  31. [B] Lord of the Flies
  32. [M] The Maltese Falcon
  33. Oliver Twist
  34. [M] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  35. Orlando
  36. The Outsiders
  37. Pride and Prejudice
  38. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  39. The Railway Children
  40. Rebecca
  41. The Remains of the Day
  42. [M] Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List)
  43. [M] Sin City
  44. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
  45. [M] The Talented Mr Ripley
  46. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  47. Through a Glass Darkly
  48. [BM] To Kill a Mockingbird
  49. [M] Trainspotting
  50. The Vanishing
  51. [B] Watership Down