Of the hundreds of movies that have been based on a book, the ones on this list
have been ... The books are mainly fiction and .... Misery - Stephen King.
Books made into movies This list is alphabetical by movie title. Of the hundreds of movies that have been based on a book, the ones on this list have been chosen because Waverley Library holds a copy of the book. The books are mainly fiction and are arranged on the shelves alphabetically by author. If they are non-fiction the shelf number is noted after the title. Many of these movies have a sound track held in the CD collection. To locate these check the catalogue under title. The biographies/autobiographies of movie stars are shelved in the 791 section of the non-fiction books.
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Beautiful mind – Sylvia Nasar (510.92 NAS) Beloved - Toni Morrison Accidental Tourist - Anne Tyler Adventures of the Little Prince (movie); The Little The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy Prince - Antoine Saint-Exupery Blade Runner (movie); Do Androids Dream of (held in Children's Library) Electric Sheep - Philip Dick The African Queen - C.S. Forester Bliss - Peter Carey Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe Alive : the story of the Andes survivors – Paul Born Free – Joy Adamson (599.7442 ADA) Piers Read (363.12492 REA) The Boy in the striped pyjamas – John Boyne All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria The Boys from Brazil – Ira Levin Remarque Brave new world – Aldous Huxley The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton Breaker Morant – Frederick Cutlack (994.03 MOR) Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt (920 MAC) Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote Angels and demons – Dan Brown Bridget Jones’s diary – Helen Fielding Anne of Green Gables - L.M. Montgomery Bridges of Madison County – Robert James Waller (held in Children's Library) Brokeback Mountain – Annie Proulx Atonement – Ian McEwan Awakenings - Oliver Sachs (616.832 SAC) C Camelot (movie); Once and Future King – T.H. White
Capote: a biography – Gerald Clarke (813.5 CAP)F Captain Correli’s mandolin – Louis de Bernieres Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury Careful he might hear you – Sumner Locke Elliott Fight Club _ Chuck Palahniuk Carrie – Stephen King The Firm - John Grisham Casanova – Andrew Miller Flight of the Intruder - Stephen Coonts Casino Royale – Ian Fleming Flowers in the Attic - by V.C. Andrews Catch 22 – Joseph Heller Forrest Gump - Winston Groom Catch me if you can – Frank Abagnale Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Chamber – John Grisham From Here to Eternity – James Jones The Children of Men – P.D James Chocolat – Joanne Harris G A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens Gangs of New York – Herbert Asbury (364.106609747 Circle of Friends - Maeve Binchy The General's Daughter - Nelson De Mille Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean Auel Get Shorty - Elmore Leonard The Client - John Grisham Gettysburg (movie); Killer Angels - Michael Shaara Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell 2012 Girl, interrupted – Susanna Kaysen (616.89 KAY) A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess Girl with a pearl earring – Tracey Chevalier Cold Mountain – Charles Frazier Girl with the dragon tattoo – Steig Larsson The Color Purple - Alice Walker Confessions of a Shopaholic – Sophie Kinsella Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell The Good Mother - Sue Miller The constant gardener – John Le Carre Gorrillas In the Mist - Diane Fossey (599.884 FOS) Contact - Carl Sagan Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Cosmopolis – Don de Lillo 2012 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Cousin Bette – Honore de Balzac Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald Cujo - Stephen King Guns of Navarone - Alaistair MacLean The curious case of Benjamin Button – F. Scott Fitzgerald H
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Harry Potter – J.K.Rowling Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown Head On [movie]; Loaded – Christos Tsiolkas Dad and Dave – Steele Rudd Heat and dust – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake Heidi - Johanna Spyri (held in Children's Library) Dead Zone - Stephen King The Help – Kathryn Stockett Derailed – James Siegel The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkein The devil wears Prada – Lauren Weisberger – Terry Pratchett Diary of Anne Frank (movie); The Diary of a YoungHogfather Girl - Anne Hook - Terry Brooks Frank (940.548 FRA) The diving bell and the butterfly – Jean-DominiqueHorse Baubywhisperer – Nicholas Evans Hotel New Hampshire – John Irving (362.19681 BAU) Hours – Michael Cunningham Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak House of the Spirits - Isabel Allende Dracula - Bram Stoker How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn Dune – Frank Herbert Howard's End - E.M. Forester Hud (movie); Horseman, Pass By - Larry McMurtry E Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins East of Eden - John Steinbeck The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy Eat, Pray, Love – Elizabeth Gilbert (910.4 GIL) Eclipse – Stephenie Meyer I Emma - Jane Austen Empire of the Sun - J. G. Ballard I am legend – Richard Matheson The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje The Innocents (movie); Turn of the Screw - by Evil Angels – John Bryson (345.02523099429 BRY) Henry James The Exorcist - William Blatty Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice The Invention of Hugo Cabret – Brian Selznick 2
My brilliant career – Miles Franklin My brother Jack – George Johnston
The island – Aldous Huxley J
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Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan Jumanji – Chris Van Allsberg (held in Children’s Library) The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling (held in Children’s Library) Jurassic Park – Michael Crichton
The Natural - Bernard Malamud Nineteen eighty-four – George Orwell No Country for old men – Cormac McCarthy No Way Out (movie); Big Clock - Kenneth Fearing Norwegian Wood – Haruki Murakami Not Without My Daughter - Betty Mahmoody (955.054 The notebook – Nicholas Sparks
K O The keys of the kingdom – A.J Cronin Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson The King and I (movie); Anna and the King of SiamOne - M.Day – David Nicholls One for the money – Janet Evanovich 2012 Landon (959.3 LEO) On the road – Jack Kerouac The kite runner – Khaled Hosseini P
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Papillon - Henri Charriere (365.6 CHA) L.A. Confidental - James Ellroy Passage to India - E.M. Forester Last Emperor - Edward Behr (951.03 YI) Patriot Games - Tom Clancy The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper Pelican Brief - John Grisham The Last Song – Nicholas Sparks Perfume: Lawrence of Arabia (movie); Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T. E.the story of a murderer – Patrick Suskind Persuasion - Jane Austen Lawrence 940.4153 Pet Sematary - Stephen King Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel Piano - Jane Campion The Little Princess (movie); Sara Crewe - FrancesThe Burnett Picnic at Hanging Rock – Joan Lindsay The Lincoln lawyer – Michael Connelly Portrait Of a Lady - Henry James Little Women - Louisa May Alcott (held in Children's Library) Power of one – Bryce Courtenay Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry Precious by Sapphire The Long Hot Summer (movie); The hamlet - William Faulkner Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Looking for Alibrandi – Melina Marchetta Primary Colors - Joe Klein (a.k.a. Lord of the Rings – J.R.R.Tolkien Anonymous) The Lost World - Michael Crichton Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy Love Story - Erich Segal Psycho – Robert Bloch The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold R
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Manhunter (movie); Red Dragon - Thomas Harris Ragtime - E.L. Doctrow Red Dragon – Thomas Harris Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro Mao’s last dancer – Li, Cunxin Revolutionary road – Richard Yates Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers (held in Children's Library) The Ring – Suzuki Koji Master and Commander – Patrick O’brian Rising Sun - Michael Crichton Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden The Road – Cormac McCarthy Men who stare at goats – Jon Ronson Man Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (movie); Seed andRunning the Sower - - Richard Bachman (pseud. Stephen Kin Russia House - John Le Carre Laurens Van Post Message in a Bottle - Nicholas Sparks S Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Midnight in the garden of good and evil – John Berendt Salmon fishing in the Yemen – Paul Torday (364.15230973 BER) Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne Misery - Stephen King Schindler's List (movie); Schindler's Ark- Thomas Kene Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare (822.33Q1) Sense and sensibility – Jane Austen 3
Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum The Shining - Stephen King Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon Shutter Island – Dennis Lehane Word war z - Max Brooks Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris - sequel Hannibal Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte A Simple Plan - Scott Smith Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra (364.9747 CAR) Y Sliver - Ira Levin Slumdog millionaire (movie); Q & A – Vikas Swarup The year of living dangerously – C.J. Koch Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson The Yearling - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Somersby (movie); The Return of Martin Guerre - You Natalie only live twice –Ian Fleming Davis (345.0263 GUE) Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury Sophie's Choice - William Styron Sound of Music (movie); The Story of the Trapp Family Singers – Maria Trapp (920 TRA) Soylent Green (movie); Make Room, Make Room - Harry Harrison Spartacus - Howard Fast The Stepford Wives – Ira Levin Sweet Hereafter - Russell Banks T 2001 : a Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith Terms of Endearment - Larry McMurtry The Thorn Birds - Colleen McCullough A Thousand Acres - Jane Smiley The Three Muskateers - Alexandre Dumas The Time Travelers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger Tim - Colleen McCullough To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee To Sir With Love - Edward Braithwaite A town like Alice – Neville Shute Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh Twilight – Stephanie Meyer U The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera Under the Tuscan Sun – Frances Mayes (945.5 MAY) V Village of the Damned (movie); Midwich Cuckoos - John Wyndam W War of the Worlds - H.G. Wells We need to talk about Kevin – Lionel Shriver Whatever happened to Baby Jane – Henry Farrell White Fang – Jack London The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike 4
