These kind of questions keeps popping up when someone watches a movie which is based on a book. These kind of movies have become very popular among the audiences. People, after reading a book, like to compare, whether or not what they had imagined while reading the book, such as the climax scenes, the main characters, etc., fits to their fancy or not. Some might read the book after watching the movies, while some, who are not much into reading, would rather watch the movie than read about it. Some people like this concept, while some do not. This is because, the latter half feels that books made into movies do not cover the entire thing, such as maybe their favorite part in the book, or their favorite dialogs. Well, what the directors have got to say in their defense is that, in a 2 hours movie, it is not possible to cover each and every scene from the book, thus they have to edit some sections from the book.
Whatever the case might be, people love the concept of books made into movies. If you want to know what are the various books that have been made into a movie till date and that have also won Oscars Awards, then given below is a books made into movies list, that will tell you all about it.
Books Made Into Movies List
| Name Of Book | Author |
| Black Hawk Down | Mark Bowden |
| Bridget Jones’ Diary | Helen Fielding |
| Cold Mountain | Charles Frazier |
| Notebook | Nicholas Sparks |
| Dances With Wolves | Micheal Blake |
| Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown |
| Angels and Demons | Dan Brown |
| P.S.I Love You | Cecelia Ahern |
| Father of the Bride | Edward Streeter |
| The Firm | John Grisham |
| Forrest Gump | Winston Groom |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley |
| General’s Daughter | Nelson DeMille |
| Ghost Story | Peter Straub |
| Great Expectations | Charles Dickens |
| Twilight | Stephenie Meyer |
| New Moon | Stephenie Meyer |
| Hannibal | Thomas Harris |
| Horse Whisperer | Nicholas Evans |
| Journey to the Center of the Earth | Jules Verne |
| Out of Africa | Isac Dinesen (Karen Blixen) |
| Ben Hur: A tale of the Christ | Lew Wallace |
| Schindler’s List | Thomas Keneally |
| The Bridge on the River Kwai | Pierre Boulle |
| The Silence of the Lambs | Thomas Harris |
| Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini |
| Gangs of New York | Herbert Asbury |
| The Spy Who Loved Me | Ian Fleming |
| Around the World in Eighty Days | Jules Verne |
| Man in the Iron Mask | Alexandre Dumas |
| Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| The Godfather | Mario Puzo |
| Slumdog Millionaire | Simon Beaufoy |
Besides these books, there are several books made into movies, some for the children, some for family. Children, who cannot read yet, enjoy watching these movies. Given below is a list of books made into movies for kids. There are some children who become interested in reading the book after watching the movie. Then they can easily link the characters with the actors. Here is a list of children feature films, based on books.
Books Made Into Movies For Kids
| Name Of Book | Author |
| Aquamarine | Alice Hoffman |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell |
| Harry Potter | J.K. Rowling |
| Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen | Dyan Sheldon |
| Alice In Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| Inkheart | Cornelia Funke |
| The Spiderwick Chronicles | Holly Black and Tony DiTerlizzi |
| The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe | C.S.Lewis |
| Bridge to Terthia | Katherine Paterson |
| The Golden Compass | Phillip Pullman |
| City of Ember | Jeanne Duprau |
| Ella Enchanted | Gail Carson Levine |
| Eragon | Christopher Paolini |
| The Hundred and One Dalmatians | Dodie Smith |
| The Jungle Book | Rudyard Kipling |
| Little Women | Louisa May Alcott |
| Mary Poppins | P.L. Travers |
| Matilda | Roald Dahl |
| New Moon | Stephenie Meyer |
| Twilight | Stephanie Meyer |
| Eclipse | Stephenie Meyer |
| The Polar Express | Chris Van Allsburg |
| The Princess Diaries | Meg Cabot |
| Shrek | William Steig |
| Stuart Little | E.B.White |
| Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs | Judi Barrett |
This year (2010), there have been several books that have been made into movies. I am sure you must have seen the movie ‘Eclipse’ or you are probably eagerly waiting for the Harry Potter movie ‘Deathly Hallows’ to be released. Like this there are several books made into movies in 2010, some have already been released, while some are still to be released. Let us now take a sneak peak into the movies that have been adapted from books this year (2010).
Books Made Into Movies (2010)
| Name Of Book | Author |
| Eat, Pray, Love | Elizabeth Gilbert |
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | J.K. Rowling |
| The Last Song | Nicholas Sparks |
| Alice in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll |
| Dear John | Nicholas Sparks |
| Beezus and Ramona (Ramona and Beezus) | Beverly Clearly |
| Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Jeff Kinney |
| Flipped | Wendelin Van Draanen |
| How to Train Your Dragon | Cressida Cowell |