One Day: Book to Film
Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew meet after graduation, then reappear on the same date across twenty years as friendship, love, work, and bad timing change them.
One Day / 2011 filmAdaptations
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The Light Between Oceans: Book to Film
Tom and Isabel Sherbourne keep a baby found near their isolated lighthouse, creating a family through a secret that causes lasting harm to the child's grieving mother.
The Light Between Oceans / 2016 filmThe Descendants: Book to Film
With his wife in a coma, Matt King must tell his daughters about her condition, confront her affair, and decide whether his family's inherited Hawaiian land should be sold.
The Descendants / 2011 filmA Man Called Ove: Book to Film
A grieving widower plans to end his life, but repeated interruptions from new neighbors draw him into practical acts of care and reveal the history beneath his rigid routines.
A Man Called Ove / 2015 filmThe Namesake: Book to Film
Gogol Ganguli grows up between his Bengali family and American life, resisting the accidental name that connects him to his father's survival until loss changes what inheritance means.
The Namesake / 2006 filmThe Book Thief: Book to Film
Liesel Meminger learns to read with her foster father, hides a Jewish refugee during Nazi rule, and uses stolen books to preserve connection while war closes around Himmel Street.
The Book Thief / 2013 filmBookThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society2008FilmThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society2018
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: Book to Film
Writer Juliet Ashton begins corresponding with a Guernsey reading group formed during German occupation, then travels to the island and becomes involved in its search for Elizabeth McKenna.
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society / 2018 filmThe Dry: Book to Film
Federal agent Aaron Falk returns to drought-stricken Kiewarra for Luke Hadler's funeral and investigates a family killing while old suspicion around Ellie Deacon's death resurfaces.
The Dry / 2020 filmThe Wonder: Book to Film
English nurse Lib Wright observes an Irish girl said to survive without food and discovers that family secrecy, religious guilt, and adult authority are placing the child in mortal danger.
The Wonder / 2022 filmAdaptations and their sequels
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