Books on TV

Adult and YA Books that have been made into film, TV shows, or Netflix
 

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1. Ender's game

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Author:
Card, Orson Scott
Series:
Ender Wiggin volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Description:
Child hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.

2. The flight attendant: a novel

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Author:
Bohjalian, Chris, 1962-
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man, and no idea what happened. Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, counting...

3. The girl on the train

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Author:
Hawkins, Paula
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Obsessively watching a breakfasting couple every day to escape the pain of her losses, Rachel witnesses a shocking event that inextricably entangles her in the lives of strangers.

4. Gone girl: a novel

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Author:
Flynn, Gillian, 1971-
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?

5. The gunslinger

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Author:
King, Stephen, 1947-
Series:
Dark Tower volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Book, Audiobook
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The first fantasy in a projected series of novels called the Dark Tower, which tells the saga of the gunslinger and his pursuit of the man in black. A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King's most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland...

6. The handmaid's tale

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Author:
Atwood, Margaret, 1939-
Series:
Handmaid's tale volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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"This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." --E.L.Doctorow.

7. Hillbilly elegy: a memoir of a family and culture in crisis

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Author:
Vance, J. D.
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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Shares the story of the author's family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author--a Yale Law School graduate--while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

8. Little fires everywhere

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Author:
Ng, Celeste
Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the enigmatic mother and daughter who upend their lives"--

9. The lord of the rings

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Author:
Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Presents the epic depicting the Great War of the Ring, a struggle between good and evil in Middle-earth, following the odyssey of Frodo the hobbit and his companions on a quest to destroy the Ring of Power.

10. A man called Ove: a novel

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Author:
Backman, Fredrik, 1981-
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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A curmudgeon hides a terrible personal loss beneath a cranky and short-tempered exterior while clashing with new neighbors, a boisterous family whose chattiness and habits lead to unexpected friendship. "A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door"--Amazon.com.

11. Me before you

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Author:
Moyes, Jojo, 1969-
Series:
Me before you volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close family--who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life--big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel--and now...

12. Outlander: a novel

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Author:
Gabaldon, Diana
Series:
Outlander novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Hurtled back through time more than two hundred years to Scotland in 1743, Claire Randall finds herself caught in the midst of an unfamiliar world torn apart by violence, pestilence, and revolution and haunted by her growing feelings for James Fraser, a young soldier

13. Ready player one

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Author:
Cline, Ernest
Series:
Ready player novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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"In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the Oasis.Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines - puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. But when Wade stumbles upon the first...