Jumping from Page to Screen (Books Adapted into Film or TV Series - Adults) - Summer Adventure 2025Like this list

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• Imagine and Build Summer Adventure at AC Library

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  Build your own Summer Adventure at AC Library from June 1 to August 1. Complete activities, reading, and more to receive a book gift and prize drawing entries.

• A Gentleman in Moscow

  Towles, Amor,

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  Adapted into a limited series by the same name. From NoveList: "Deemed unrepentant by a Bolshevik tribunal in 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in a hotel across the street from the Kremlin, where he lives in an attic room…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Sympathizer

  Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-

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  Adapted into a limited series by the same name. From NoveList: "Follows a Viet Cong agent as he spies on a South Vietnamese army general and his compatriots as they start a new life on 1975 Los Angeles."

• Normal People

  a Novel

  Rooney, Sally,

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  Adapted into a limited series by the same name. From NoveList: "The unconventional secret childhood bond between a popular boy and a lonely, intensely private girl is tested by character reversals in their first year at a Dublin college that render…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Long Bright River

  Moore, Liz, 1983-

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  Adapted into a limited series by the same name. From NoveList: "A suspense novel that also looks at the anatomy of a Philadelphia family rocked by the opioid crisis and the relationship between two sisters--one, suffering from addiction, who has…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Mickey7

  Ashton, Edward (Science fiction writer),

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  Adapted into the film Mickey17. From NoveList: "A disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice work Niflheim, Mickey7, who can regenerate after dying, must keep his newly arrived clone a secret from the rest of the colony as…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Pachinko

  Lee, Min Jin,

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  Adapted into a streaming series by the same name. From NoveList: "In early 1900s Korea, prized daughter Sunja finds herself pregnant and alone, bringing shame on her family until a young tubercular minister offers to marry her and move with her to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fleishman Is in Trouble

  a Novel

  Brodesser-Akner, Taffy,

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  Adapted into a limited series by the same name. From NoveList: "Divorcing his hostile wife when he concludes he could find genuine happiness elsewhere, a doctor is astonished when his ex abruptly disappears, making him unable to move on without…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Three-body Problem

  Liu, Cixin,

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  Adapted into a streaming series by the same name. From NoveList: "Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project's signal is received by an alien civilization on the brink of destruction, which plans to invade…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Romancing Mister Bridgerton

  Quinn, Julia, 1970-

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  Adapted into the streaming series Bridgerton. From NoveList: "Secretly drawn to her best friend's brother for years, Penelope Featherington believes that she knows everything about Colin Bridgerton, until she stumbles upon his deepest secrets."

• Capote's Women

  a True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for An Era

  Leamer, Laurence,

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  Adapted into the second season of the anthology series Feud: Capote vs. The Swans. From NoveList: "This look at Capote’s never-published final novel Answered Prayers shows how the few chapters that were published in Esquire affected his friendships…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Tattooist of Auschwitz

  a Novel

  Morris, Heather (Screenwriter),

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  Adapted into a limited series by the same name. From NoveList: "An international best-seller based on the true story of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor traces the experiences of a Jewish Slovakian who uses his position as a concentration-camp…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Shōgun

  Clavell, James,

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  Adapted into a television series by the same name. From NoveList: "A bold English adventurer; an invincible Japanese warlord; a beautiful woman torn between two ways of life, two ways of love--all brought together in an extraordinary saga of a time…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Big Little Lies

  Moriarty, Liane,

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  Adapted into a streaming series by the same name. From NoveList: "An annual school Trivia Night ends in a disastrous riot leaving one parent dead in what appears to be a tragic accident, but evidence shows it might have been premeditated."

• The Queen's Gambit

  Tevis, Walter S.,

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  Adapted into a limited series by the same name. From NoveList: "Orphan Beth Harmon overcomes her fears and shyness by learning to play chess and, over the years, improves her game to become national champion and to play the world grandmasters."

• Sharp Objects

  a Novel

  Flynn, Gillian, 1971-

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  Adapted into a limited series by the same name. From NoveList: "Returning to her hometown after a long absence to investigate the murders of two girls, reporter Camille Preaker is reunited with her neurotic mother and enigmatic half-sister as she…Read moreRead more of this annotation