Books Gone Hollywood

Books made into television shows or movies. The Book was Better!

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Book cover for "Alice's adventures in Wonderland"
Star rating for Alice's adventures in Wonderland
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.
Book cover for "American gods"
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Just released from prison, Shadow encounters Mr. Wednesday, an enigmatic stranger who seems to know a lot about him, and when Mr. Wednesday offers him a job as his bodyguard, Shadow accepts and is plunged into a dark and perilous world. Shadow is a man with a past and wants nothing more now than to live a quiet life with his wife. When his wife is killed in a terrible accident, Shadow flies home for the funeral. As a raging storm rocks the plane,...
Book cover for "Artemis Fowl"
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4.7 stars
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When twelve-year-old evil genius Artemis Fowl tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll. When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Book cover for "The BFG"
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4.3 stars
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Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
Book cover for "Charlie and the chocolate factory"
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4.6 stars
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Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.
Book cover for "The city of Ember"
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4.4 stars
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In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a Messenger to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions.
Book cover for "Cloud atlas"
Star rating for Cloud atlas
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
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Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalyptic world.
Book cover for "Coraline"
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4.3 stars
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Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Book cover for "The Dark is rising"
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4.5 stars
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An eleven-year-old boy searches for six magical signs in order to save the world from the threatening evil of the Dark.
Book cover for "Dead until dark"
Star rating for Dead until dark
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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Love blossoms between Sookie Stackhouse, a cocktail waitress who keeps to herself because of her ability to read minds, and Bill, a vampire with ties to a crowd that may be responsible for the death of one of Sookie's coworkers.

11. Dracula

Book cover for "Dracula"
Star rating for Dracula
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
After discovering the double identity of the wealthy Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula, a small group of people vow to rid the world of the evil vampire. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Book cover for "The handmaid's tale"
Star rating for The handmaid's tale
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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.
Book cover for "The Indian in the cupboard"
Star rating for The Indian in the cupboard
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Omri receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.
Book cover for "The lightning thief"
Star rating for The lightning thief
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Book cover for "The lovely bones"
Star rating for The lovely bones
Average Rating:
4 stars
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The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder, her surprise at her new home in heaven, and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.
Book cover for "The neverending story"
Star rating for The neverending story
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Shy, awkward Bastian is amazed to discover that he has become a character in the mysterious book he is reading and that he has an important mission to fulfill in the magical kingdom known as Fantastica.
Book cover for "Ready player one"
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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...
Book cover for "Where the wild things are"
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king. After he is sent to bed without supper for behaving like a wild thing, Max dreams of a voyage to the island where the wild things are. Max, a naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.