Book and screen
Books that reached the screen
303 books in our rankings have been made into a film or a series — from 1914 to 2026. Ordered by what readers scored them, not by box office.
- The Return of the King2.1K ratings
9.19.1 / 10 - The Two Towers3.9K ratings
8.98.9 / 10 - Watchmen2.2K ratings
8.98.9 / 10 - Dune6.7K ratings
8.88.8 / 10 - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows7.1K ratings
8.88.8 / 10 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire7.5K ratings
8.88.8 / 10 - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban8.3K ratings
8.88.8 / 10 - East of Eden1.2K ratings
8.88.8 / 10 - Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince6.7K ratings
8.88.8 / 10 - The Hobbit8.3K ratings
8.68.6 / 10 - The Book Thief2.7K ratings
8.68.6 / 10 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy6.1K ratings
8.68.6 / 10 - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix7K ratings
8.68.6 / 10 - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone11.9K ratings
8.68.6 / 10 - Six of Crows2.3K ratings
8.68.6 / 10 - All the Light We Cannot See1.6K ratings
8.58.5 / 10 - Bring Up the Bodies207 ratings
8.58.5 / 10 - Nineteen Eighty-Four9.3K ratings
8.58.5 / 10 - Crime and Punishment1.9K ratings
8.58.5 / 10 - And Then There Were None2.7K ratings
8.48.4 / 10 - Roots: The Saga of an American Family104 ratings
8.48.4 / 10 - Momo287 ratings
8.48.4 / 10 - The Stand2K ratings
8.48.4 / 10 - The Help1.3K ratings
8.48.4 / 10 - Les Misérables854 ratings
8.48.4 / 10 - The Remains of the Day875 ratings
8.48.4 / 10 - The Pillars of the Earth1.3K ratings
8.48.4 / 10 - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets8.2K ratings
8.48.4 / 10 - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd1K ratings
8.48.4 / 10 - Where the Wild Things Are920 ratings
8.38.3 / 10 - The Phantom Tollbooth703 ratings
8.38.3 / 10 - Good Omens2.9K ratings
8.38.3 / 10 - Wonder1.1K ratings
8.38.3 / 10 - Pride and Prejudice4.4K ratings
8.38.3 / 10 - The Killer Angels156 ratings
8.38.3 / 10 - The Hunger Games9.3K ratings
8.38.3 / 10 - Coraline1.8K ratings
8.38.3 / 10 - Rendezvous with Rama1.2K ratings
8.38.3 / 10 - American Gods3.4K ratings
8.38.3 / 10 - The Brothers Karamazov65 ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - The End of Eternity357 ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - Misery1.6K ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - The Importance of Being Earnest891 ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - Jurassic Park2.6K ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - Corduroy191 ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - The Lightning Thief4.1K ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - War and Peace570 ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - I, Robot1.7K ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - The Handmaid's Tale3.7K ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - Slaughterhouse-Five3.5K ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - The Hound of the Baskervilles990 ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - King Rat117 ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - Middlemarch268 ratings
8.28.2 / 10 - Watership Down945 ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - The BFG771 ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - Murder on the Orient Express1.8K ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - The Caves of Steel757 ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - The Tombs of Atuan753 ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - Gone with the Wind599 ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - The Three-Body Problem4K ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - The Terror395 ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory1.4K ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - The Return of Sherlock Holmes280 ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - Perfume1.1K ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - War Horse66 ratings
8.18.1 / 10 - Persuasion856 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - The Neverending Story59 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - The Tell-Tale Heart371 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Catch-221.8K ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Much Ado About Nothing369 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents301 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Captain Corelli's Mandolin96 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - My Father's Dragon63 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Jane Eyre2.2K ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - The Grapes of Wrath1.3K ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - The Martian Chronicles1.1K ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - The Magic Faraway Tree61 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - One Hundred Years of Solitude104 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Anna Karenina1K ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Siddhartha1.7K ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - The Master and Margarita98 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Beloved680 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Charlotte's Web1.7K ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - The Secret Garden1.2K ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Cyrano de Bergerac154 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Childhood's End912 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Wyrd Sisters888 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - The Giver3.3K ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - A Study in Scarlet1.4K ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - One Shot322 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Memoirs of a Geisha1.3K ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - The Tale of Despereaux304 ratings
8.08.0 / 10 - Red Dragon662 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Inkheart52 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - A Clockwork Orange1.5K ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - The Railway Children97 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - The Sword in the Stone92 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - The Dark Is Rising205 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - World War Z2.3K ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Death on the Nile749 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - A Journey to the Centre of the Earth91 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Little Women1.7K ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Neuromancer2.3K ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Northern Lights228 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - The Bell Jar1.7K ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn246 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - The Fault in Our Stars3.6K ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - The Scarlet Pimpernel184 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Little House on the Prairie266 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea68 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo150 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - White Fang486 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Bartleby, the Scrivener228 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Breakfast of Champions947 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - The Illustrated Man411 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - The Princess and the Goblin103 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Bleak House157 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Atonement607 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - The Clan of the Cave Bear366 ratings
7.97.9 / 10 - Brave New World4.6K ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Emma1.1K ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Starship Troopers1.1K ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Heidi267 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader1.2K ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Crooked House219 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - The Thief Lord232 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Through the Looking-Glass424 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - The Light Fantastic1.3K ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland1.8K ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Children of Dune1.3K ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Peril at End House260 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Eye of the Needle236 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - The Day of the Triffids463 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Ozma of Oz100 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus3.1K ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Mr. Mercedes968 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Around the World in Eighty Days96 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - The Stepford Wives210 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Five Children and It66 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - The Passage705 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - The Once and Future King296 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - A Time to Kill568 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Kidnapped53 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - An Ideal Husband92 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - The Age of Innocence263 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - A Murder Is Announced240 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Dracula2.7K ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Macbeth1.5K ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Flatland99 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - The Firm563 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - The Valley of Fear233 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Sarah, Plain and Tall100 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Five on a Treasure Island100 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Ulysses308 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Orlando: A Biography271 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - James and the Giant Peach762 ratings
7.87.8 / 10 - Odyssey1.8K ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas882 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Three Men in a Boat282 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - For Whom the Bell Tolls487 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Something Wicked This Way Comes553 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - The Dead Zone620 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - The House of Mirth125 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Richard III112 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Of Mice and Men3.6K ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Solaris844 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Sense and Sensibility1.1K ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - The Colour of Magic2.4K ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - The Moonstone170 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - The Boys from Brazil75 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Farewell, My Lovely126 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Gone for Good88 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Mockingjay5.5K ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Nicholas Nickleby57 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Presumed Innocent111 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Never Let Me Go2K ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Peter Pan597 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Pollyanna97 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - The Lost World237 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - The Mayor of Casterbridge96 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - On Her Majesty's Secret Service72 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - No Second Chance63 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Doctor Zhivago150 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - The Sicilian66 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Cards on the Table239 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Johnny Tremain78 ratings
7.77.7 / 10 - Carrie1.8K ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Rainmaker235 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Sad Cypress153 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Mysterious Affair at Styles1.1K ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Kiss the Girls235 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Mary Poppins193 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - As You Like It158 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Candide718 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Big Sleep447 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Marvelous Land of Oz102 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Door into Summer132 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?108 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Iron Heel52 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - An American Tragedy59 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Pelican Brief365 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - 1st to Die216 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Sophie's Choice73 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Prince and the Pauper186 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Artemis Fowl1.3K ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Time Machine1.7K ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Ivanhoe175 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Thin Man89 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Old Man and the Sea2.4K ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer1.4K ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Howards End122 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Lord Jim67 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Sons and Lovers73 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Gorky Park103 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Jo's Boys62 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Treasure Island1.2K ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Sign of Four732 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Sleeping Murder128 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - The Black Dahlia161 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - Death in the Clouds228 ratings
7.67.6 / 10 - A Wrinkle in Time1.9K ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Lost World727 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Ruby in the Smoke117 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Seven Dials Mystery104 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The War of the Worlds1.2K ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Canterbury Tales59 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Call of the Wild834 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Sharp Objects1.4K ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Body in the Library312 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Dark Places942 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Oliver Twist606 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Mrs Dalloway590 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Andromeda Strain853 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Mrs McGinty's Dead96 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Things Fall Apart805 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Thunderball75 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Eaters of the Dead177 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Moving Finger157 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Appointment with Death175 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Eragon3.2K ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Pickwick Papers63 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Puppet Masters101 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Julius Caesar451 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Christine478 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Kim83 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Dead Man's Folly107 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Divergent3.3K ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Pale Horse82 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Man in the Brown Suit170 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Hold Tight78 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The First Men in the Moon86 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - The Clocks127 ratings
7.57.5 / 10 - Wuthering Heights2.5K ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - A Tale of Two Cities1.3K ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - Firestarter529 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - A Princess of Mars301 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - A Caribbean Mystery137 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - Silas Marner116 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - The Sittaford Mystery101 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - You Only Live Twice66 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - The Last of the Mohicans121 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - Goldfinger106 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - Uncle Tom's Cabin241 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - Strangers on a Train106 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - Angels & Demons4K ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - The Secret Agent81 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - Cover Her Face80 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - Tess of the d'Urbervilles322 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - Murder Is Easy93 ratings
7.47.4 / 10 - The Sun Also Rises800 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - Hannibal272 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - The Thirty-Nine Steps61 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - Casino Royale434 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man371 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - Timeline642 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - The Chamber175 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - The Island of Dr Moreau448 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - The Terminal Man134 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - Insurgent1.9K ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - A Case of Need64 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - Third Girl103 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - Madame Bovary543 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - Lisey's Story221 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - Diamonds Are Forever113 ratings
7.37.3 / 10 - Great Expectations1.1K ratings
7.27.2 / 10 - Paper Towns1.4K ratings
7.27.2 / 10 - The Invisible Man776 ratings
7.27.2 / 10 - Gulliver's Travels568 ratings
7.27.2 / 10 - Live and Let Die186 ratings
7.27.2 / 10 - The Man in the High Castle1.3K ratings
7.17.1 / 10 - Congo510 ratings
7.17.1 / 10 - The Crucible708 ratings
7.17.1 / 10 - Ethan Frome243 ratings
7.17.1 / 10 - The Tommyknockers382 ratings
7.17.1 / 10 - Hallowe'en Party306 ratings
7.07.0 / 10 - Lady Chatterley's Lover214 ratings
7.07.0 / 10 - The Lost Symbol1.5K ratings
7.07.0 / 10 - The Big Four251 ratings
7.07.0 / 10 - Heart of Darkness1.3K ratings
6.86.8 / 10 - The Circle730 ratings
6.86.8 / 10 - Allegiant1.5K ratings
6.66.6 / 10 - The Scarlet Letter1.2K ratings
6.66.6 / 10 - New Moon2K ratings
6.16.1 / 10
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