Top 50 Books to Movies

With the Oscars this weekend and my Blade Runner post yesterday, I was browsing the net and came across this blog entry about the best best literature to movie adaptations created by the London Evening Standard. I'm not sure when it's from (the blog is only dated April 24) but it's a good list. I suspect it's quite old. I wonder if I, Robot, I Am Legend, Lord of the Rings, Lion Witch and the Wardrobe or the Harry Potter books would have made the list.

I've followed it by a list of my own, only of movies which I have seen AND read the book.

1. The English Patient Michael Ondaatje
2. Goodfellas Nicholas Pileggi
3. The Vanishing Tim Krabbe
4. Lord Of The Flies William Golding
5. Remains Of The Day Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Close Range (incl Brokeback Mountain) Annie Proulx
7. Empire Of The Sun JG Ballard
8. Schindler’s Ark (filmed as Schindler’s List) Thomas Keneally
9. The Spy Who Came In From The Cold John le Carré
10. Different Seasons (Shawshank Redemption) Stephen King .
11. American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis
12. Jaws Peter Benchley
13. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (filmed as Blade Runner) Philip K Dick.
14. The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett
15. The Hound Of The Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
16. Heart Of Darkness (filmed as Apocalypse Now) Joseph Conrad
17. Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
18. Pride And Prejudice Jane Austen
19. Tess Of The D’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy .
20. The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
21. Les Liaisons Dangereuses (filmed as Dangerous Liaisons) Choderlos de Laclos
22. 1984 George Orwell
23. Alice In Wonderland Lewis Carroll
24. A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
25. A Kestrel For A Knave (filmed as Kes) Barry Hines
26. Breakfast At Tiffany’s Truman Capote
27. Be Cool (Get Shorty) Elmore Leonard
28. Goldfinger Ian Fleming
29. Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
30. One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest Ken Kesey
31. Day Of The Triffids John Wyndham
32. The Outsiders S E Hinton
33. The Railway Children E Nesbit
34. Watership Down Richard Adams
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
36. Orlando Virginia Woolf
37. The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
38. Brighton Rock Graham Greene
39. Catch-22 Joseph Heller .
40. Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak
41. Fight Club Chuck Palahniuk
42. The French Lieutenant’s Woman John Fowles
43. LA Confidential James Ellroy
44. The Godfather Mario Puzo
45. The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith
46. To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
47. Trainspotting Irvine Welsh
48. Sin City Frank Miller
49. Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier
50. Devil with a Blue Dress Walter Mosley

My list of my 12 favourite adaptations (that I can remember at this moment in time!)

• Trainspotting
• 1984
• Jaws
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Princess Bride
• Casino Royale
• The Constant Gardener
• Brighton Rock
• Watership Down
• Sin City
• Great Expectations
• Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

There are so many books I've read but haven't got round to seeing the film, I Am Legend, The Lion The Witch, Day of the Triffids, V for Vendetta etc etc that I really must see.