Top Books/Series TV Show & Movie Adaptations

Each month we ask our Facebook followers for a book or series recommendation based on a particular genre or similar parameters – and then print the answers in our mid-month newsletter.

I thought it would be a good idea to have a separate page listing these, as I use it as a reference guide often.

This top list is made up of the Top Books/Series TV Show & Movie Adaptations that was listed in the August 2020 Newsletter.

The book is usually better, but these are some of the great adaptations that we have seen over the years. If there is anything that we missed, please add it below in the comments so we can get it listed here!

Top Books/Series TV Show & Movie Adaptations

• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (2005 Film)
• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (2019 Film)
• Jackson Brodie by Kate Atkinson (TV Show “Case Histories”)
• Agatha Raisin by M.C. Beaton  (TV Show “Agatha Raisin”)
• Hamish Macbeth by M.C. Beaton  (TV Show “Hamish Macbeth”)
• John Cardinal by Giles Blunt  (TV Show “Cardinal”)
• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1971 Film)
• The Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (TV Show “The Dresden Files”) 
• Virgin River by Robyn Carr (TV Show “Virgin River”)
• Miss Marple by Agatha Christie  (TV Show “Agatha Christie’s Marple”)
• The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy (1990 Film)
• Vera Stanhope by Ann Cleeves (TV Show “Vera”)
• Shetland by Anne Cleeves  (TV Show “Shetland”)
• Harry Bosch Series by Michael Connelly (TV Show “Bosch”)
• The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwell (TV Show “The Last Kingdom”)
• Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Multiple Adaptions on TV and Film)
• Little Fires Everywhere (TV Show “Little Fires Everywhere”)
• Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg (1991 Film)
• Murder, She Wrote by Donald Bain and Jessica Fletcher (TV Show “Murder She Wrote”)
• Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (TV Show “Outlander”)
• Cormoran Strike by Robert Galbraith (TV Show “Strike”)
• Inspector Lynley by Elizabeth George  (TV Show “The Inspector Lynley Mysteries”)
• Phryne Fisher by Kerry Greenwood (TV Show “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries”)
• A Time To Kill by John Grisham (1996 Film)
• The Firm by John Grisham (1993 Film)
• The Magicians by Lev Grossman (TV Series “The Magicians”)
• All Souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness (TV Show “A Discovery of Witches”)
• Midnight, Texas by Charlaine Harris (TV Show “Midnight, Texas”) 
• Sookie Stackhouse by Charlaine Harris (TV Show “True Blood”)
• All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot (1975 Film)
• MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker (1970 Film/TV Show “M*A*S*H”)
• The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood (1972 Film “Cabaret”)
• Longmire by Craig Johnson (TV Show “Longmire”)
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (1975 Film)
• The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (1994 Film)
• Stand By Me by Stephen King  (1986 Film)
• The Shining by Stephen King  (1980 Film)
• Doctor Sleep by Stephen King  (2019 Film)
• To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1962 Film)
• Raylan Givens by Elmore Leonard (TV Show “Justified”)
• Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard (1997 Film “Jackie Brown”)
• Dexter by Jeff Lindsay (TV Show “Dexter”)
• Jason Bourne by Robert Ludlum (Multiple Films)
• Kurt Wallander by Henning Mankell  (TV Show “Wallander”)
• Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurty (TV Miniseries “Lonesome Dove”)
• The Accidental Billionaires by Ben Mezrich (2010 Film “The Social Network”)
• Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1939 Film)
• The 100 by Kass Morgan (TV Series “The 100”)
• Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (TV Series “Altered Carbon”)
• Harry Hole by Jo Nesbo (2017 Film “The Snowman”)
• All Agatha Christie Novels  (Too many to list)
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (1999 Film “Fight Club”)
• Spenser by Robert B. Parker (TV Show “Spenser for Hire”)
• The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta (TV Show “The Leftovers”)
• Hercule Poirot (Multiple film and television adaptations)
• The Godfather by Mario Puzo (1972 Film)
• Temperance Brennan by Kathy Reich (TV Show “Bones”)
• Inspector Banks by Peter Robinson (TV Show “DCI Banks”)
• Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (Multiple Films)
• The Raj Quartet by Paul Scott (TV Show “The Jewel in the Crown”)
• Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard  (TV Show “Pretty Little Liars”)
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien (Multiple Films)
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (TV Serial “Brideshead Revisited”)
• The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger (2006 Film)
• Lord Peter Wimsey (TV Show “Lord Peter Wimsey”)