M.G. Parker Memorial Library | 28 Arlington Street, Dracut, MA | 978-454-5474
BEFORE THEY WERE MOVIES
You’ve seen them on the big screen, now read the books that they were based on.
Fiction
. Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women . Austen, Jane. Emma . Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility . Baum, L. Frank. The Wizard of Oz . Berendt, John. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil . Blatty, William Peter. The Exorcist . Bloch, Robert. Psycho . Boulle, Pierre. Bridge Over the River Kwai . Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany’s . Chabon, Michael. Wonder Boys . Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower . Clancy, Tom. Hunt for Red October . Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations . Donoghue, Emma. Room . DuMaurnier, Daphne. Rebecca . Ellis, Bret Easton. American Psycho . Ellroy, James. L.A. Confidential . Goldman, William. The Princess Bride . Groom, Winston. Forrest Gump . Han, Jenny. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before . Harris, Thomas. The Silence of the Lambs . Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame . Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day . Keneally, Thomas. Schindler’s List . Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest . King, Stephen. The Shawshank Redemption . Kwan, Kevin. Crazy Rich Asians . Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird . McCathy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men . McEwan, Ian. Atonement . Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind . Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club . Pasternak, Boris. Doctor Zhivago . Pileggi, Nicholas. Wiseguy (movie: Goodfellas) . Puzo, Mario. The Godfather . Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone . Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis . Stockett, Kathryn. The Help . Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit . Walker, Alice. The Color Purple . Wallace, Lew. Ben Hur . Weisberger, Lauren. The Devil Wears Prada . White, E.B. Charlotte’s Web
Nonfiction
. Bruce, J. Campbell. Escape from Alcatraz . Burrough, Bryan. Public Enemies . Cahalan, Susan. Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (movie: Brain on Fire) . Grogan, John. Marley and Me . Hawkins, Jane. Travelling to Infinity (movie: The Theory of Everything) . Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit: An American Legend (movie: Seabiscuit) . Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm . Kearns, Doris. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (movie: Lincoln) . Kennedy, Robert. Thirteen Days . Lewis, Michael. The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game (movie: The Blind Side) . Lewis, Michael. Moneyball . Lord, Walter. A Night to Remember . Lovell, Jim. The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 (movie: Apollo 13) . Mezrich, Ben. The Accidental Billionaires (movie: The Social Network) . Nasar, Sylvia. A Beautiful Mind . Philbrick, Nathanial. In the Heart of the Sea . Pileggi, Nicholas. Love and Honor in Las Vegas (movie: Casino) . Pistone, Joseph D. Donnie Brasco . Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden Figures . Woodward, Bob. All the President’s Men