Books to Movies 2019

Books to read before they hit the big screen in 2019

 A Dog’s Way Home by W. Bruce Cameron

 Film adaptation starring Bryce Dallas Howard & Ashley Judd expected January 11

 Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys

 Film adaptation Ashes in the Snow starring Bel Powley & Peter Franzén expected January 11

 Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro

 Film adaptation Alita: Battle Angel starring Mahershala Ali & Rosa Salazar expected February 14

 The Rhythm Section by Mark Burnell

 Film adaptation starring Blake Lively & Sterling K. Brown expected February 22

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

 Film adaptation How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World starring Jay Baruchel & America Ferrara expected February 22

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

 Film adaptation starring Tom Holland & Nick Jonas expected March 1

Five Feet Apart by Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry & Tobias Iaconis

 Film adaptation starring Haley Lu Richardson & Cole Sprouse expected March 22

Where’d You Go, Bernadette? by Maria Semple

 Film adaptation starring Cate Blanchett & Emma Nelson expected March 22

The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester

 Film adaptation Greyhound starring Tom Hanks & Elisabeth Shue expected March 22

Three Seconds by Anders Roslund & Borge Hellström

Film adaptation starring Rosamund Pike & Joel Kinneman expected March 22

The Visible Filth by Nathan Ballingrud Film adaptation Wounds starring Armie Hammer & Dakota Johnson expected March 29

The Best of Enemies by Osha Gray Davidson

Film adaptation starring Taraji P. Henson & Sam Rockwell expected April 5

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

Film adaptation starring Jason Clarke & John Lithgow expected April 5

After by Anna Todd

 Film adaptation starring Josephine Langford & Hero Fiennes-Tiffin expected April 12

The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook

 Film adaptation starring Keira Knightley & Alexander Skarsgård expected April 26

The Sun is Also a Star

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Film adaptation starring Charles Melton & Yara Shahidi expected May 17

A Dog’s Journey by W. Bruce Cameron

 Film adaptation starring Dennis Quaid & Josh Gad expected May 17

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

 Film adaptation starring Judi Dench & Josh Gad expected August 9

It by Stephen King

 Film adaptation starring Jessica Chastain & Bill Hader expected September 6

The Kitchen by Ollie Masters & Ming Doyle

 Film adaptation starring Melissa McCarthy & Tiffany Haddish expected September 20

The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn

 Film adaptation starring Amy Adams & Julianne Moore expected October 4

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

 Film adaptation starring Nicole Kidman & Ansel Elgort expected October 11

The Good Liar by Nicholas Searle

 Film adaptation starring Helen Mirren & Ian McKellan expected November 15

Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by T.S. Eliot

 Film adaptation starring Idris Elba & Taylor Swift expected December 20

The Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

 Film adaptation starring Harrison Ford & Karen Gillan expected December 25

Little Women

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

 Film adaptation starring Merle Streep & Emma Watson expected December 25

Film Adaptations with no release date as of January 2019

 

P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

 Film adaptation starring Noah Centineo & Lana Condor

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

 Film adaptation cast not set

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

 Film adaptation starring Colin Firth & Julie Walters

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

 Film adaptation starring Elle Fanning & Justice Smith

Native Son

Native Son by Richard Wright

 Film adaptation starring Nick Robinson & Ashton Sanders

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simison

 Film adaptation starring Ryan Reynolds

Books to Movies 2018

Books to read before they hit the big screen in 2018

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Forever My Girl by Heidi McLaughlin

Film adaptation expected January 19


 

Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton

Film adaptation titled 12 Horses expected January 19


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Monster by Walter Dean Myers

Film adaptation premiering at the Sundance Film Festival January 22

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The House Without A Christmas Tree

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Review by Michele Bolay

In honor of the holiday season, I went back and looked at my list of favorite children’s holiday books, and this was right at the top: The House Without a Christmas Tree by Gail Rock, one in a short series of novels about the incomparable 10-year-old Addie Mills. Unfortunately, the series is out of print, but several libraries in the system still have copies, and this particular title was filmed as a must-see made-for-TV movie in the 1970s that is still available on DVD.

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Books to Read Before They Hit the Big Screen

Rosie Dunne or Love, Rosie by Cecilia Ahern
Film release February 6 as Love, Rosie starring Lily Collins & Sam Clalfin

The Last Apprentice by Joseph Delaney
Film Release February 6 as Seventh Son starring Jeff Bridges & Kit Harrington

Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
Film Release February 13 starring Jamie Dornan & Dakota Johnson

The DUFF (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) by Kody Keplinger
Film release February 20 starring Mae Whitman & Robbie Amell

 Dead Stars by Bruce Wagner
Film release February 27 as Maps to the Stars starring Julianne Moore & Robert Pattinson

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
Film release March 13 starring Chris Hemsworth & Cillian Murphy

Insurgent by Veronica Roth
Film release March 20 starring Shailene Woodley & Theo James

Serena by Ron Rash
Film release March 27 starring Jennifer Lawrence & Bradley Cooper

The Longest Ride by Nicholas Sparks
Film release April 10 starring Chris Hemsworth & Britt Robertson

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
Film release April 17 starring Tom Hardy & Gary Oldman

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Film release May 1 starring Carey Mulligan & Michael Sheen

Paper Towns by John Green
Film release June 19 starring Cara Delevingne & Nat Wolff

The Scorch Trials by James Dashner
Film release September 18 starring Dylan O’Brien & Kaya Scodelario

Black Mass by Dick Lehr & Gerald O’Neill
Film release September 18 starring Johnny Depp & Benedict Cumberbatch

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Film release October 2 starring Daniel Radcliffe & James McAvoy

Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Film release October 9 starring Idris Elba & Scarlett Johansson

Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Film release November 20 as Mockingjay: Part 2 starring Jennifer Lawrence & Josh Hutcherson

The Martian by Andy Weir
Film release November 27 starring Matt Damon & Jessica Chastain

 

Make sure to get your hands on these books before the movies hit the big screen!