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It seems like every time a new volume deal is announced lately, there'due south almost always news of the screen rights also being sold. When the rights to a volume sell, it doesn't guarantee a book will announced on the screen, just information technology's commonly a good gamble for studios to grab them in case the volume does well. And at that place are a ton of books that are movies that at present have successfully been adjusted for motion picture and television, going mode back to the start of moving pictures. Recently we've seen the screen debuts of such hits as Big Little Lies, The Handmaid'south Tale, and American Gods, and at that place are so many more books made into movies in the works.

Despite the near-abiding adaptation of books made into movies, "the book was ameliorate" seems like a popular refrain among readers. And while some adaptations have actually been improve than the books (Jaws, Dice Hard), it'southward a rare adaptation that can vanquish the source material. But it is fun to watch books that are movies and see what has changed and what has stayed the same.

Then here are 100 amazing books that have fabricated it to the large or small screen (or in some cases, both.) These books that are also movies are old and new titles, including fiction, nonfiction, comics and kids' books. There are certainly hundreds of other book to film adaptations to choose from, but these are a proficient place to start. I'm not claiming all their adaptations are wonderful, but the books are certainly great. (In some instances, I have noted when the championship for books turned into movies has been inverse for the screen.)

The best books that are movies

1. 12 Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup

"Northup, a black homo who was built-in costless in New York, details his kidnapping in Washington, D.C., and subsequent sale into slavery. After having been kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana, Northup was able to write to friends and family in New York, who were in turn able to secure his release."

2. The 25th Hour by David Benioff

"All Monty Brogan ever really wanted when he grew up was to exist a fireman. Now he's almost to start a seven-year stretch in the federal penitentiary for drug dealing. With just 20-four hours of liberty to go, he prowls the urban center with his girlfriend and his two best friends from high school-a high-flying bond trader and an idealistic teacher. As the minutes count downward, Monty seizes one last chance to stack the odds in his favor."

3. The Age of Innocence past Edith Wharton

"The return of the cute Countess Olenska into the conventional lodge of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of lodge. Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to denote his engagement to May Welland, a pretty ingenue, when May's cousin, Countess Olenska, is introduced into their circumvolve."

four. Akira past Katsuhiro Otomo

"Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of unknown origin that triggered Globe War Three. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, modify forever when paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy agency that will stop at naught to prevent another catastrophe like the one that leveled Tokyo. At the core of the agency's motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear of an unthinkable, monstrous power known just as Akira."

5. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

"Paul Baumer enlisted with his classmates in the German language army of Earth War I. Youthful, enthusiastic, they become soldiers. But despite what they take learned, they break into pieces under the get-go bombardment in the trenches. And equally horrible war plods on year later on year, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the principles of hate that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against each other–if only he can come out of the state of war alive."

half dozen. American Gods by Neil Gaiman

"It is the story of Shadow—released from prison house merely days after his wife and best friend are killed in an accident—who gets recruited to be babysitter, commuter, and errand male child for the enigmatic trickster, Mr. Wednesday. So begins Shadow'southward night and strange road trip, ane that introduces him to a host of eccentric characters whose fates are mysteriously intertwined with his own. For, beneath the placid surface of everyday life, a tempest is brewing—an epic war for the very soul of America—and Shadow is standing squarely in its path."

7. So In that location Were None by Agatha Christie

"X strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon declension by a mysterious "U. N. Owen." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in plough of having a guilty underground, and past the finish of the dark 1 of the guests is dead. Stranded by a fierce tempest, and haunted past a nursery rhyme counting down i by 1 . . . equally one by 1 . . . they begin to die. Which among them is the killer and volition whatever of them survive?"

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8. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir by Frank McCourt

"…the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's female parent, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. All the same Malachy—exasperating, irresponsible, and beguiling—does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one matter he can provide: a story. Frank lives for his father's tales of Cuchulain, who saved Ireland, and of the Angel on the Seventh Footstep, who brings his female parent babies."

9. Anna Karenina past Leo Tolstoy

"Considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, Anna Karenina is Tolstoy's classic tale of love and infidelity set against the backdrop of high society in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. A rich and complex masterpiece, the novel charts the disastrous course of a honey affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer. Tolstoy seamlessly weaves together the lives of dozens of characters, and in doing so captures a breathtaking tapestry of late-nineteenth-century Russian gild."

10. Anne of Green Gables by L. Grand. Montgomery

"It recounts the adventures of Anne Shirley, an 11-yr-old orphan girl who is mistakenly sent to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a heart-anile brother and sister who had intended to adopt a male child to help them on their farm in Prince Edward Island. The novel recounts how Anne makes her way with the Cuthberts, in school, and within the boondocks."

11. Amende by Ian McEwan

"On a hot summer day in 1935, 13-yr-old Briony Tallis witnesses a moment'southward amour between her older sister, Cecilia, and Robbie Turner, the son of a retainer and Cecilia'southward childhood friend. But Briony' s incomplete grasp of adult motives–together with her precocious literary gifts–brings about a criminal offense that will change all their lives."

12. Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison

"At the middle of this story is Ruth Anne Boatwright, known merely as Bone, a bastard child who observes the world around her with a mercilessly cracking perspective. When her stepfather Daddy Glen, "cold equally death, hateful as a snake," becomes increasingly more than brutal toward her, Bone finds herself defenseless in a family triangle that tests the loyalty of her mother, Anney-and leads to a final, harrowing encounter from which there can be no turning back."

thirteen. Honey past Toni Morrison

"Sethe, its protagonist, was built-in a slave and escaped to Ohio, merely eighteen years afterwards she is still not costless. She has too many memories of Sweet Home, the beautiful farm where and so many hideous things happened. And Sethe'southward new dwelling is haunted past the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Filled with bitter poetry and suspense as taut as a rope, Beloved is a towering achievement."

14. The BFG by Roald Dahl

"The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the heart of the nighttime by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon get breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must finish them once and for all. And the BFG is going to aid her!"

fifteen. Large Piffling Lies by Liane Moriarty

"Large Trivial Lies is a brilliant accept on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the dangerous picayune lies nosotros tell ourselves just to survive."

sixteen. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

"Jess Aarons has been practicing all summertime and so he tin can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in schoolhouse, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two go fast friends and spend nearly days in the forest behind Leslie's business firm, where they invent an enchanted state called Terabithia."

17. Brokeback Mount past Annie Proulx

"Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch easily, come up together when they're working every bit sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At get-go, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is coincidental, inevitable, just something deeper catches them that summertime."

18. Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Nascence, Joy, and Hard Times by Jennifer Worth

"In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-sometime Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable domicile to move into a convent and go a midwife in London's E End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a colorful cast of women—from the plucky, warm-hearted nuns with whom she lives, to the woman with twenty-four children who can't speak English, to the prostitutes of the city's seedier side."

xix. Cannery Row past John Steinbeck

"Showtime published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the credence of life every bit information technology is—both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the private. John Steinbeck draws on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, and interweaves their stories in this world where only the fittest survive—creating what is at once one of his most humorous and poignant works."

20. Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

"This novel of awesome dazzler and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modernistic humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear."

21. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

"A postmodern visionary and 1 of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines apartment-out adventure, a Nabokovian beloved of puzzles, a smashing middle for character, and a gustatory modality for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip Chiliad. Dick. The result is brilliantly original fiction equally profound as it is playful. In this groundbreaking novel, an influential favorite among a new generation of writers, Mitchell explores with daring artistry fundamental questions of reality and identity."

22. The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

"This is the story of 2 sisters – one a missionary in Africa and the other a child wife living in the Due south – who sustain their loyalty to and trust in each other beyond fourth dimension, distance, and silence. Beautifully imagined and securely empathetic, this archetype novel of American literature is rich with passion, hurting, inspiration, and an indomitable love of life."

23. Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (The basis for True Claret)

"Sookie Stackhouse is merely a small-time cocktail waitress in small-boondocks Louisiana—except for her "inability." She can read minds. Simply she can't hear a discussion that Neb Compton is thinking when he walks into her life—and and then one of her coworkers is killed… Maybe having a vampire for a boyfriend isn't such a vivid idea."

24. Devil in a Blue Dress past Walter Mosley

"Set in the late 1940s, in the African-American customs of Watts, Los Angeles, Devil in a Blue Dress follows Easy Rawlins, a black war veteran but fired from his job at a defense constitute. Easy is drinking in a friend'southward bar, wondering how he'll meet his mortgage, when a white man in a linen arrange walks in, offer good coin if Easy will just locate Miss Daphne Monet, a blonde beauty known to frequent black jazz clubs."

25. Practise Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Past Philip K. Dick (The basis for the motion picture Bract Runner)

"Past 2021, the Globe War has killed millions, driving entire species into extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remain covet whatever living creature, and for people who can't beget one, companies built incredibly realistic simulacra: horses, birds, cats, sheep. They've even built humans. Immigrants to Mars receive androids then sophisticated they are duplicate from truthful men or women. Fearful of the havoc these artificial humans can wreak, the government bans them from World. Driven into hiding, unauthorized androids alive amidst human being beings, undetected. Rick Deckard, an officially sanctioned bounty hunter, is commissioned to find rogue androids and "retire" them. But when cornered, androids fight back—with lethal force."

26. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

"Widely regarded as one of the funniest and most tragic books always written, Don Quixote chronicles the adventures of the self-created knight-errant Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful squire, Sancho Panza, as they travel through sixteenth-century Espana."

27. Dracula by Bram Stoker

"During a business visit to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania, a young English solicitor finds himself at the center of a series of horrifying incidents. Jonathan Harker is attacked by three phantom women, observes the Count's transformation from homo to bat grade, and discovers puncture wounds on his own cervix that seem to have been made by teeth. Harker returns dwelling house upon his escape from Dracula'due south grim fortress, but a friend'southward strange malady — involving sleepwalking, inexplicable blood loss, and mysterious pharynx wounds — initiates a frantic vampire hunt."

28. The English language Patient by Michael Ondaatje

"With unsettling beauty and intelligence, Michael Ondaatje's Booker Prize-winning novel traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the terminate of World War Two.The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his easily are hopelessly maimed. The Indian sapper Kip searches for subconscious bombs in a mural where cypher is safe but himself. And at the center of his labyrinth lies the English patient, nameless and hideously burned, a man who is both a riddle and a provocation to his companions—and whose memories of suffering, rescue, and betrayal illuminate this volume like flashes of rut lightning."

29. Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

"What if y'all couldn't bear upon anything in the outside world? Never exhale in the fresh air, feel the sun warm your face . . . or osculation the male child next door? In Everything, Everything, Maddy is a girl who'due south literally allergic to the outside world, and Olly is the boy who moves in next door . . . and becomes the greatest risk she'south e'er taken."

30. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer

"Nine-year-old Oskar Schell has embarked on an urgent, secret mission that will have him through the v boroughs of New York. His goal is to find the lock that matches a mysterious central that belonged to his male parent, who died in the World Merchandise Center on the morning of September eleven. This seemingly impossible task will bring Oskar into contact with survivors of all sorts on an exhilarating, affecting, often hilarious, and ultimately healing journey."

31. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (The basis for the film The Handmaiden)

"Sue Trinder is an orphan, left equally an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, every bit if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby'southward household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, likewise hosts a transient family unit of petty thieves—fingersmiths—for whom this firm in the heart of a mean London slum is domicile."

32. From the Mixed-Upwards Files of Mrs. Basil Due east. Frankweiler by East. L. Konigsburg

"When suburban Claudia Kincaid decides to run away, she knows she doesn't just want to run from somewhere she wants to run to somewhere–to a place that is comfortable, beautiful, and preferably elegant. She chooses the Metropolitan Museum of Fine art in New York Urban center. Knowing that her younger blood brother, Jamie, has money and thus tin help her with the serious greenbacks flow trouble she invites him forth."

33. A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin

"Sweeping from a harsh state of cold to a summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty, A Game of Thrones tells a tale of lords and ladies, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and bastards, who come together in a time of grim omens. Here an enigmatic ring of warriors deport swords of no homo metal; a tribe of fierce wildlings conduct men off into madness; a vicious young dragon prince barters his sister to win dorsum his throne; a child is lost in the twilight between life and death; and a determined woman undertakes a treacherous journey to protect all she holds dear."

34. Ghost in the Shell by Shirow Masamune

"Deep into the twenty-get-go century, the line between man and machine has been blurred as humans rely on the enhancement of mechanical implants and robots are upgraded with human being tissue. In this apace converging mural, cyborg superagent Major Motoko Kusanagi is charged to rail downward the craftiest and virtually dangerous terrorists and cybercriminals, including "ghost hackers" who are capable of exploiting the human being/motorcar interface and reprogramming humans to get puppets to comport out the hackers' criminal ends."

35. Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

"Originally serialized in the pages of the seminal comic book Eightball throughout the mid-1990s, this quasi-autobiographical story (the name of one of the protagonists is famously an anagram of the writer's name) follows the adventures of ii teenage girls, Enid and Becky, two best friends facing the prospect of growing up, and more importantly, apart. Daniel Clowes is one of the most respected cartoonists of his generation, and Ghost Earth is his magnum opus."

36. The Girl with All the Gifts past Grand. R. Carey

"Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our footling genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her jail cell to be nerveless for class. When they come up for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't similar her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't express joy."

37. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

"In 1967, later on a session with a psychiatrist she'd never seen before, 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent about of the adjacent two years in the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric infirmary every bit renowned for its famous clientele—Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles—equally for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary."

38. The Godfather by Mario Puzo

"With its brilliant and brutal portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather burned its way into our national consciousness. This unforgettable saga of crime and abuse, passion and loyalty continues to stand the test of time, as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld."

39. Gone with the Current of air by Margaret Mitchell

"This is the tale of Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled, manipulative daughter of a wealthy plantation owner, who arrives at young womanhood but in time to see the Civil War forever change her style of life. A sweeping story of tangled passion and courage, in the pages of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell brings to life the unforgettable characters that accept captured readers for over seventy years."

40. The Handmaid'due south Tale by Margaret Atwood

"The Handmaid'south Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the about future, it describes life in what was once the United states of america and is at present called the Commonwealth of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply failing birthrate by reverting to, and going across, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The authorities takes the Volume of Genesis admittedly at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population."

41. The Heart is a Lone Hunter by Carson McCullers

"Wonderfully attuned to the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition, and with a deft sense for racial tensions in the South, McCullers spins a haunting, unforgettable story that gives voice to the rejected, the forgotten, and the mistreated — and, through Mick Kelly, gives voice to the tranquility, intensely personal search for beauty."

42. A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes

"Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins amid the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural affluence of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the loftier seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a coiffure of down-at-the-heel pirates. A tale of seduction and expose, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor and unforeseen violence, this classic of twentieth-century literature is above all an extraordinary reckoning with the surreptitious reasons and otherworldly realities of childhood."

43. The Hours by Michael Cunningham

"In The Hours, Michael Cunningham, widely praised equally one of the almost gifted writers of his generation, draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of gimmicky characters struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair."

44. The House of Spirits past Isabel Allende

"Ane of the most of import novels of the twentieth century, The Firm of the Spirits is an enthralling epic that spans decades and lives, weaving the personal and the political into a universal story of dear, magic, and fate."

45. Housekeeping past Marilynne Robinson

"A modern classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and her younger sister, Lucille, who grow upward haphazardly, starting time under the care of their competent grandmother, and then of two comically bumbling great-aunts, and finally of Sylvie, their eccentric and remote aunt. The family house is in the small-scale Far W boondocks of Fingerbone assail a glacial lake, the same lake where their granddad died in a spectacular train wreck, and their mother drove off a cliff to her death. It is a boondocks "chastened past an outsized landscape and extravagant weather condition, and chastened again past an sensation that the whole of human history had occurred elsewhere." Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood beautifully illuminates the price of loss and survival, and the unsafe and deep undertow of transience."

46. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

"On November 15, 1959, in the modest boondocks of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. In that location was no credible motive for the law-breaking, and there were nigh no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and amazing empathy. In Cold Blood is a piece of work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence."

47. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks past Rebecca Skloot

"Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor blackness tobacco farmer whose cells—taken without her knowledge in 1951—became one of the most important tools in medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, cistron mapping, and more. Henrietta's cells accept been bought and sold by the billions, yet she remains well-nigh unknown, and her family can't beget health insurance. This phenomenal New York Times bestseller tells a riveting story of the standoff between ethics, race, and medicine; of scientific discovery and faith healing; and of a girl consumed with questions almost the mother she never knew."

48. Interview with the Vampire past Anne Rice

"Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly erotic, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing strength—a story of danger and flying, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary ability of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write."

49. Jane Eyre past Charlotte Brontë

"A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman's quest for freedom. Having grown upwards an orphan in the abode of her cruel aunt and at a harsh charity schoolhouse, Jane Eyre becomes an independent and spirited survivor-qualities that serve her well as governess at Thornfield Hall. Merely when she finds love with her sardonic employer, Rochester, the discovery of his terrible secret forces her to brand a selection. Should she stay with him whatever the consequences or follow her convictions, even if it means leaving her beloved?"

fifty. Jonathan Foreign & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

"At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very dissimilar magicians emerge to modify England's history. In the year 1806, with the Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to exist long expressionless in England-until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight. Shortly, some other practicing sorcerer comes forth: the young, handsome, and daring Jonathan Strange. He becomes Norrell's student, and they join forces in the war against France. But Foreign is increasingly fatigued to the wildest, most perilous forms of magic, straining his partnership with Norrell, and putting at risk everything else he holds dear."

51. The Joy Luck Lodge by Amy Tan

"Four mothers, four daughters, four families whose histories shift with the four winds depending on who's "saying" the stories. In 1949 four Chinese women, recent immigrants to San Francisco, begin coming together to eat dim sum, play mahjong, and talk. United in shared unspeakable loss and hope, they phone call themselves the Joy Luck Club. Rather than sink into tragedy, they choose to gather to raise their spirits and money. "To despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable." Forty years later the stories and history continue."

52. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

"The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Transitional islamic state of afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of modify and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, information technology is also about the power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons—their love, their sacrifices, their lies."

53. L.A. Confidential past James Ellroy

"L.A. Confidential is epic "noir", a crime novel of astonishing detail and scope written by the bestselling writer of The Black Dahlia. A horrific mass murder invades the lives of victims and victimizers on both sides of the constabulary. And three lawmen are defenseless in a mortiferous screw, a nightmare that tests loyalty and courage, and offers no mercy, grants no survivors."

54. Let the Right Ane In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

"It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The torso of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-yr-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most of import thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in adjacent door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik'due south Cube earlier, simply who can solve it at once. In that location is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she but comes out at nighttime. . . ."

55. Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey (The ground for the Area series)

"Ii hundred years later migrating into space, mankind is in turmoil. When a reluctant ship'southward helm and washed-up detective find themselves involved in the case of a missing daughter, what they notice brings our solar organization to the brink of civil war, and exposes the greatest conspiracy in human history."

56. Like H2o for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

"Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century United mexican states became a acknowledged miracle with its winning alloy of poignant romance and bittersweet wit."

57. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

"Journey to the dusty footling Texas town of Lonesome Dove and meet an unforgettable assortment of heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settlers. Richly authentic, beautifully written, always dramatic, Lonesome Pigeon is a book to brand us laugh, weep, dream, and remember."

58. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon past David Grann

"In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabulous civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he chosen "The Lost City of Z." In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett's quest for "Z" and his ain journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century."

59. Love in the Fourth dimension of Cholera past Gabriel García Márquez

"In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-built-in doctor, Florentino is devastated, but he is a romantic. Equally he rises in his business career he whiles abroad the years in 622 affairs–yet he reserves his heart for Fermina. Her husband dies at last, and Florentino purposefully attends the funeral. Fifty years, 9 months, and four days after he outset alleged his beloved for Fermina, he will do and then again."

60. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

"A treasure worth killing for. Sam Spade, a slightly shopworn private eye with his own lonely code of ideals. A perfumed grafter named Joel Cairo, a fat man proper name Gutman, and Brigid O'Shaughnessy, a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the driblet of a dime. These are the ingredients of Dashiell Hammett'due south coolly glittering precious stone of detective fiction, a novel that has haunted three generations of readers."

61. The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos (The basis for the pic The Mambo Kings)

"It'south 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way from Havana to the chiliad stage of New York City. It is the era of mambo, and the Castillo brothers, workers past day, become stars of the dance halls past night, where their orchestra plays the lush, sensuous, pulsing music that earns them the title of the Mambo Kings. This is their moment of youth, exuberance, honey, and freedom a gilt time that decades after is remembered with nostalgia and deep amore."

62. MASH: A Novel Nigh Three Army Doctors by Richard Hooker

"For fans of the flick and the series alike, here is the original version of that perfectly corrupt football game game, those martini-laced mornings and sexual escapades, and that unforgettable foray into assisted if incompleted suicide–all as funny and poignant now equally they were before they became a part of America'south culture and heart."

63. Midnight in the Garden of Adept and Evil by John Berendt

"Shots rang out in Savannah'southward grandest mansion in the misty,early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For well-nigh a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful urban center of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt'south sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet information technology is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining start-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old S with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder example."

64. The Namesake past Jhumpa Lahiri

"The Namesake takes the Ganguli family from their tradition-spring life in Calcutta through their fraught transformation into Americans. On the heels of their arranged hymeneals, Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli settle together in Cambridge, Massachusetts. An engineer by training, Ashoke adapts far less warily than his wife, who resists all things American and pines for her family. When their son is born, the chore of naming him betrays the vexed results of bringing old means to the new world. Named for a Russian writer by his Indian parents in retention of a catastrophe years before, Gogol Ganguli knows only that he suffers the burden of his heritage as well as his odd, antic name."

65. No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy

"In No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy simultaneously strips downwards the American crime novel and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and equally bloodily contemporary as this morning's headlines."

66. Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

"In a voice more powerful and empathetic than ever before, New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Strout binds together thirteen rich, luminous narratives into a book with the heft of a novel, through the presence of i larger-than-life, unforgettable grapheme: Olive Kitteridge."

67. 1 Flew Over the Cuckoo'due south Nest by Ken Kesey

"In this archetype novel, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving insubordinate who swaggers into the earth of a mental hospital and takes over. A brawny, life-affirming fighter, McMurphy rallies the other patients effectually him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. He promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies the rules at every turn."

68. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind

"An acclaimed bestseller and international awareness, Patrick Süskind's archetype novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when i man'southward indulgence in his greatest passion—his sense of smell—leads to murder."

69. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood past Marjane Satrapi

"Intensely personal, profoundly political, and wholly original, Persepolis is at once a story of growing upwardly and a reminder of the human price of state of war and political repression. It shows how we comport on, with laughter and tears, in the face up of absurdity. And, finally, it introduces us to an irresistible little girl with whom nosotros cannot assistance but autumn in love."

70. Applied Magic by Alice Hoffman

"For more than than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts nearly seemed to encourage the whispers of witchery, with their musty house and their exotic conconctions and their crowd of black cats. But all Gillian and Emerge wanted was to escape. One will do so past marrying, the other by running away. But the bonds they share will bring them back—almost equally if by magic…"

71. A Prayer for Owen Meany past John Irving (The ground for the motion-picture show Simon Birch)

"In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-one-time boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. 1 of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other male child's female parent. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God'southward instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul brawl is extraordinary."

72. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

"When Elizabeth Bennet start meets eligible available Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him big-headed and conceited; he is indifferent to her expert looks and lively heed. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship betwixt his friend Bingley and her beloved sis Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows us the folly of judging by first impressions and superbly evokes the friendships, gossip and snobberies of provincial center-grade life."

73. The Princess Bride by William Goldma

"Anyone who lived through the 1980s may find it impossible—inconceivable, even—to equate The Princess Helpmate with anything other than the sweet, celluloid romance of Westley and Buttercup, simply the flick is but a fraction of the ingenious storytelling you'll discover in these pages. Rich in graphic symbol and satire, the novel is prepare in 1941 and framed cleverly equally an "abridged" retelling of a centuries-one-time tale set in the fabulous country of Florin that'due south dwelling house to "Beasts of all natures and descriptions. Pain. Decease. Brave men. Coward men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passions.""

74. Prizzi's Honor past Richard Condon

"The Prizzi family unit's principal hit human, Charley, is about to discover that he and his new bride share more than just body heat: They're both cold-blooded assassins, and their next job is to water ice each other! Now Charley must choose which contract to laurels: the one to his married woman or the i on his married woman."

75. The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner

" The astounding yet true rags-to-riches saga of a homeless father who raised and cared for his son on the hateful streets of San Francisco and went on to become a crown prince of Wall Street."

76. Push button by Sapphire (The basis for the motion-picture show Precious)

"Relentless, remorseless, and inspirational, this "horrific, promise-filled story" (Newsday) is certain to haunt a generation of readers. Precious Jones, 16 years old and pregnant by her father with her second child, meets a determined and highly radical instructor who takes her on a journey of transformation and redemption."

77. A Rage in Harlem by Chester Himes

"For love of fine, wily Imabelle, hapless Jackson surrenders his life savings to a con man who knows the hush-hush of turning 10-dollar bills into hundreds—and then he steals from his boss, only to lose the stolen coin at a craps table. Luckily for him, he can turn to his savvy twin blood brother, Goldy, who earns a living—disguised as a Sister of Mercy—by selling tickets to Heaven in Harlem. With Goldy on his side, Jackson is ready for payback."

78. The Remains of the Mean solar day by Kazuo Ishiguro

"The Remains of the Twenty-four hour period is a greatly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and of his fading, insular world postwar England. At the finish of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a state drive, during which he looks back over his career to reassure himself that he has served humanity past serving "a great gentleman." Just lurking in his retentiveness are doubts well-nigh the truthful nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness" and graver doubts almost his own faith in the homo he served."

79. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor

"Set up in Mississippi at the pinnacle of the Depression, this is the story of one family unit'due south struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie'due south story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the class of an important yr why having land of their own is so crucial to the Logan family, even as she learns to draw forcefulness from her own sense of nobility and self-respect."

fourscore. Roots: The Saga of an American Family unit past Alex Haley

"Through the story of i family—his family unit—Alex Haley unforgettably brings to life the monumental ii-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the half-dozen generations who came after him: slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workmen and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects…and one author."

81. The Hush-hush Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

"Set up in S Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults 3 of the deepest racists in boondocks, Lily decides to jump them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina–a boondocks that holds the secret to her female parent'southward past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of blackness beekeeping sister, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story that women volition share and laissez passer on to their daughters for years to come up."

82. A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket

" Are you made fainthearted by death? Does fire unnerve you? Is a villain something that might crop upwards in hereafter nightmares of yours? Are you thrilled by nefarious plots? Is cold porridge upsetting to yous? Fell threats? Hooks? Uncomfortable wear? Information technology is probable that your answers will reveal A Series of Unfortunate Events to be ill-suited for your personal apply. A librarian, bookseller, or acquaintance should be able to propose books more appropriate for your fragile temperament. But to the rarest of readers nosotros say, "Go along, just cautiously.""

83. Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

"Since his offset advent in Beeton'southward Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has been one of the near beloved fictional characters ever created."

84. The Shining past Stephen Male monarch

"Jack Torrance's new task at the Overlook Hotel is the perfect chance for a fresh showtime. As the off-flavor caretaker at the atmospheric quondam hotel, he'll have enough of fourth dimension to spend reconnecting with his family and working on his writing. But as the harsh wintertime weather sets in, the idyllic location feels ever more remote . . . and more sinister. And the only i to observe the strange and terrible forces gathering effectually the Overlook is Danny Torrance, a uniquely gifted five-yr-erstwhile."

85. Silence past Shūsaku Endō

"Seventeenth-century Japan: Two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to a land hostile to their faith, where feudal lords force the faithful to publicly renounce their beliefs. Somewhen captured and forced to picket their Japanese Christian brothers lay down their lives for their faith, the priests evidence to unimaginable cruelties that test their own behavior. Shusaku Endo is i of the most celebrated and well-known Japanese fiction writers of the twentieth century, and Silence is widely considered to be his great masterpiece."

86. The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

" As part of the search for a serial murderer nicknames "Buffalo Neb," FBI trainee Clarice Starling is given an assignment. She must visit a homo confined to a high-security facility for the criminally insane and interview him. That man, Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is a former psychiatrist with unusual tastes and an intense marvel about the darker corners of the heed. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the cadre of Thomas Harris' The Silence of the Lambs–an unforgettable archetype of suspense fiction."

87. The Son by Philipp Meyer

"Part epic of Texas, function classic coming-of-age story, part unflinching test of the encarmine price of power, The Son is a gripping and utterly transporting novel that maps the legacy of violence in the American west with rare emotional acuity, even as information technology presents an intimate portrait of one family unit beyond 2 centuries."

88. The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

"Since his debut in 1955, Tom Ripley has evolved into the ultimate bad boy sociopath. Hither, in this first Ripley novel, we are introduced to suave Tom Ripley, a young striver, newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan. A product of a broken home, branded a "sissy" past his dismissive Aunt Dottie, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Presently Ripley'south fascination with Dickie'due south debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged past Dickie's ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante. A dark reworking of Henry James's The Ambassadors, The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smoothen confidence man, whose talent for murder and cocky-invention is chronicled in four subsequent Ripley novels."

89. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

"1 of the near important and indelible books of the twentieth century, Their Eyes Were Watching God brings to life a Southern love story with the wit and pathos establish only in the writing of Zora Neale Hurston. Out of print for almost thirty years—due largely to initial audiences' rejection of its strong black female protagonist—Hurston'due south archetype has since its 1978 reissue become perhaps the most widely read and highly acclaimed novel in the catechism of African-American literature."

90. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

" One of the near dearest novels of all fourth dimension, The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCullough'due south sweeping family saga of dreams, titanic struggles, dark passions, and forbidden love in the Australian Outback, returns to enthrall a new generation."

91. The Time Traveler'south Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

"A nigh untraditional love story, this is the celebrated tale of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who inadvertently travels through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential class. Henry and Clare's passionate matter endures across a bounding main of fourth dimension and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the force of fate and basks in the bonds of dearest."

92. To Kill a Mockingbird past Harper Lee

"The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern boondocks and the crisis of conscience that rocked it, To Kill A Mockingbird became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was showtime published in 1960. Information technology went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a archetype."

93. Trainspotting past Irvine Welsh

"Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career―an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives. It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'due south Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter."

94. Truthful Dust by Charles Portis

"Charles Portis has long been acclaimed as one of America's foremost comic writers. True Grit is his most famous novel–get-go published in 1968, and the basis for the moving picture of the same proper noun starring John Wayne. It tells the story of Mattie Ross, who is only 14 years of age when a coward going by the name of Tom Chaney shoots her father down in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and robs him of his life, his horse, and $150 in cash money. Mattie leaves dwelling house to avenge her father'due south blood. With the ane-eyed Rooster Cogburn, the meanest available U.S. Marshal, by her side, Mattie pursues the homicide into Indian Territory."

95. Unbroken: A World War Two Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

"In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into running, discovering a prodigious talent that had carried him to the Berlin Olympics. Merely when World State of war Two began, the athlete became an airman, embarking on a journey that led to a doomed flight on a May afternoon in 1943. When his Regular army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Body of water, against all odds, Zamperini survived, adrift on a foundering life raft."

96. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

"In a tranquillity suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters–beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys–commit suicide one past one over the form of a single year. Equally the boys find them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of boyish love, disquiet, and death."

97. White Oleander past Janet Fitch

"Everywhere hailed equally a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her girl, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes-each its own universe, with its ain laws, its own dangers, its own hard lessons to be learned-becomes a redeeming and surprising journeying of self-discovery."

98. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail past Cheryl Strayed

"At twenty-ii, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's decease, her family unit scattered and her own marriage was shortly destroyed. Four years after, with goose egg more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven just past blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would exercise information technology alone."

99. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

" England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male person heir, the country could exist destroyed by civil war. Henry 8 wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and almost of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original human being, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: ane twenty-four hours tender, one mean solar day murderous. Cromwell helps him suspension the opposition, just what will be the toll of his triumph?"

100. The Women of Brewster Place past Gloria Naylor

"In her heralded first novel, Gloria Naylor weaves together the stories of 7 women living in Brewster Place, a dour-inner metropolis sanctuary, creative a powerful, moving portrait of the strengths, struggles, and hopes of black women in America. Vulnerable and resilient, openhanded and openhearted, these women forge their lives in a place that in turn threatens and protects – a common prison and a shared dwelling house."

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