Auckland Council Libraries: Books made into movies or TV shows

Books made into movies or TV shows

Was the movie or book better? Here are a few of our favourite books that have recently been made into movies and TV shows.

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Little women

Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott’s classic story of the March sisters navigating what it means to be young women in 19th century New England has just been remade as a television mini-series starring Emily Watson, but there are plenty of versions to choose from!

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It

Stephen King

Book

It was the children who saw - and felt - what made the town so horribly different. In the storm drains and sewers 'It' lurked, taking the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. 'It' is buried deep - until the children are called back.

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The art of racing in the rain

Garth Stein

Book

Enzo is a lab terrier mix plucked from a farm outside Seattle to ride shotgun with race car driver Denny Swift as he pursues success on the track and off.

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Where'd you go, Bernadette

Maria Semple

Book

Bernadette Fox is notorious. Then Bernadette disappears.

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Good omens

Terry Pratchett

Book

The world is going to end next Saturday, just before dinner, but it turns out the local representatives from heaven and hell decide, on the whole, they prefer the Earth the way it is.

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Crazy rich Asians

Kevin Kwan

Book

When Rachel Chu agrees to spend the summer in Singapore with her boyfriend, Nicholas Young, she envisions a humble family home. What she doesn't know is that with one of Asia's most eligible bachelors on her arm, Rachel has a target on her back.

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Ready player one

Ernest Cline

Book

It's the year 2044, and the real world is an ugly place. Like most of humanity, Wade Watts escapes his grim surroundings by spending his waking hours jacked into the OASIS, a sprawling virtual utopia that lets you be anything you want to be.

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Northern lights

Philip Pullman

Book

Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight.

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Watchmen

Alan Moore

Graphic novel

Chronicles the fall from grace of a group of super-heroes plagued by all-too-human failings. Along the way, the concept of the super-hero is dissected as the heroes are stalked by an unknown assassin.

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You

Caroline Kepnes

Book

When aspiring writer Guinevere Beck strides into the East Village bookstore where Joe works, he's instantly smitten. But there's more to Joe and Beck than either have realised.

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