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Are you casting the movie while reading the book? Then you probably have a list of books you want made into movies as soon as possible. Our editors have a few, too, and we dream of the days when the stories we love to read finally make it to the big screen. Featuring books by Fannie Flagg, Katie Kitamura, Taylor Jenkins Reid, and Jasmine Guillory, this list argues that with the right vision, any book could be a movie. In any case, there are more than a few stories that deserve the screen treatment, so read on for a few of our dreamy book-to-movie adaptations, and then let us know what’s currently on your list of books that deserve it should be made into films.
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith’s 2005 novel is loosely based on E.M. Forster’s novel Howard’s End. A tale of the complications that arise between and between families, just waiting for the right ensemble to bring it to life on screen.
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg
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Fannie Flagg’s debut novel deserves a movie treatment, don’t you think? This book follows young Daisy Fay as she grows up with a group of characterful neighbors on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the 1950s.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Ann Patchett’s Philadelphia-set novel garnered many fans upon its release in 2019. As a story about siblings entangled in their family history, it has dramatic potential and the potential for exciting production design. On the same subject : Netflix: The 49 Absolutely Best TV Shows to Watch. (Wouldn’t you like to see the Dutch house of the same name?)
Intimacies by Katie Kitamura
Katie Kitamura’s new novel is a complex and gripping story about an interpreter in The Hague dealing with heartbreak and turbulent world politics. Read also : 10 Best “Couldn’t Put Down” Books to Get You Out of a Reading Slump. With compelling language and plenty of drama, it would make a fantastic leap to the big screen.
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
Andrew Sean Greer’s big-hearted novel about an author who travels the world to avoid his ex-partner’s nuptials – and finds so many hiccups along the way – would make for a roaring movie, but it would also tug at hearts.
Maybe In Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Maybe in Another Life by Taylor Jenkins Reid
In this Taylor Jenkins Reid novel, a young woman makes an important decision. It leads to two Sliding Doors-style paths, two alternate realities of their lives that play out amid questions of destiny, love, and free will.
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
There are rumors of a multi-part adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s epic One Hundred Years of Solitude. We’re keeping our fingers crossed that this gripping story, first published in 1967, hits our screens sooner rather than later.
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
The Lincoln Highway by Cupid Towles
From the author of Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow comes this gripping road novel about self-discovery and new beginnings – and full of exciting characters.
Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
Royal Holiday by Jasmine Guillory
Any of Jasmine Guillory’s novels would make great films – The Wedding Date, The Proposal, Royal Holiday – but Hollywood should start with this one, a story about a woman who accompanies her daughter on a business trip and finds more than she bargained for along the way is abroad.
28 Summers by Elin Hilderbrand
There are also rumors of a 28 Summers movie in the works, which is good news because this decade-long romance set on the Nantucket shore is ripe for a Hollywood adaptation.
