|
A Book Made into a TV Show or Movie
|
|
|
|
|
The color purple
by Alice Walker
"The Color Purple depicts the lives of African American women in early twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through a series of letters spanning twenty years, first from Celie to God, then from the sisters to each other, the novel draws readers into the experiences of Celie, Nettie, Shug Avery, and Sofia"
|
|
|
Their eyes were watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
When Janie Starks returns home, the small black community buzzes with gossip about the outcome of her affair with a younger man
|
|
|
Nine perfect strangers
by Liane Moriarty
At a remote health resort, nine strangers and their enigmatic host become subjects of interest to former best-selling novelist Frances Welty, who develops uncomfortable doubts about the resort's real agenda
|
|
|
The underground railroad : a novel
by Colson Whitehead
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels
|
|
|
Behind her eyes
by Sarah Pinborough
The secretary of a successful psychiatrist is drawn into the seemingly picture-perfect life of her boss and his wife before discovering a complex web of controlling behaviors and secrets that gradually reveal profound and dangerous flaws in the couple's relationship.
|
|
|
Cherry
by Nico Walker
Rashly marrying his college girlfriend to keep their relationship active during his tour of duty, a college dropout turned army soldier is overwhelmed by the realities of war, PTSD and opioid addiction before forging a desperate plan. A first novel.
|
|
|
Nomadland : surviving America in the twenty-first century
by Jessica Bruder
The author chronicles her time embedded in a pool of transient older Americans who have taken to the road in late-model RVs, travel trailers, and vans, forming a growing community of nomads, migrant laborers who call themselves "workampers."
|
|
|
The wonder : a novel
by Emma Donoghue
Hired to care for a small Irish village girl said to have miraculously survived on nothing but "manna from heaven" for months, a journalist and nurse veteran of Florence Nightingale's Crimean campaign quickly finds herself fighting to save the child's life. By the best-selling author of Room. 150,000 first printing.
|
|
|
Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption
by Bryan Stevenson
The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice
|
|
|
News of the world : a novel
by Paulette Jiles
In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a widower and itinerant news reader, is offered fifty dollars to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, from Wichita Falls back to her family in San Antonio
|
|
|
The woman in the window
by A. J. Finn
An agoraphobic recluse languishes in her New York City home, drinking wine and spying on her neighbors, before witnessing a terrible crime through her window. Reissue. A #1 New York Times best-seller. Movie tie-in. 500,000 first printing. AB. K. LJ. NYT. PW.
|
|
|
Little fires everywhere
by Celeste Ng
When a custody battle divides her placid town, straitlaced family woman Elena Richardson finds herself pitted against her enigmatic tenant and becomes obsessed with exposing her past, only to trigger devastating consequences for both families
|
|
|
My policeman
by Bethan Roberts
"It is in 1950's Brighton that Marion first catches sight of Tom. He teaches her to swim, gently guiding her through the water in the shadow of the city's famous pier and Marion is smitten--determined her love alone will be enough for them both. A few years later near the Brighton Museum, Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world of art, travel, and beauty. Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion and meetPatrick in secret. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed"
|
|
|
Normal People
by Sally Rooney
Invites readers to immerse themselves into the Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated Hulu series through this collection of scripts from the show.
|
|
|
Mr. Malcolm's list
by Suzanne Allain
A well-to-do bachelor who would avoid matchmaking mothers and fortune hunters in favor of a "perfect" wife meets his match in a high-society misfit who reluctantly participates in a friend's plot for revenge
|
|
|
Crazy rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan
Envisioning a quality-time summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that viciously competes against other wealthy families and strongly opposes their son's relationship with an American girl. A first novel.
|
|
|
Tales of the city
by Armistead Maupin
The eccentric, mysterious, naive, jaded, up-and-coming, down-and-out, adventuresome, and withdrawn boarders in Russian Hill share their dissimilar worlds and worries
|
|
|
Station Eleven : a novel
by Emily St. John Mandel
The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of "King Lear" marks the beginning of the world's dissolution in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates
|
|
|
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer
In 1946, writer Juliet Ashton finds inspiration for her next book in her correspondence with a native of Guernsey, who tells her about the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a book club born as an alibi during German occupation. A first novel. Reissue. Netflix tie-in. AB. K. LJ. PW.
|
|
|
|
|
|