List of fiction works made into feature films

. The title of the work is followed by the work's author, the title of the film, and the year of the film. If a film has an alternate title based on geographical distribution, the title listed will be that of the widest distribution area.

Books

0–9

*"101 Reykjavík", Hallgrímur Helgason - "101 Reykjavík", 2000
* "The 25th Hour", David Benioff - "25th Hour", 2002
*"", Arthur C. Clarke - "2010", 1984
* "The Thirty-nine Steps", John Buchan - "The 39 Steps", 1935, 1959, 1978
* "4.50 From Paddington", Agatha Christie - "Murder, She Said", 1961
* "42nd Street", Bradford Ropes - "42nd Street", 1933
* "48 Shades of Brown", Nick Earls - "48 Shades", 2006
*"50 Ways of Saying Fabulous", Graeme Aitken - "50 Ways of Saying Fabulous", 2005
* "58 Minutes", Walter Wager - "Die Hard 2", 1990
*"9½ Weeks", Elizabeth McNeill - "9½ Weeks", 1986

A

* "The A.B.C. Murders", Agatha Christie - "The A.B.C. Murders", 1992 ; "The Alphabet Murders", 1966
*"À ton image", Louise L. Lambrichs - "À ton image", 2004
*"De Aanslag (The Assault)", Harry Mulisch - "The Assault", 1986
* "About a Boy", Nick Hornby - "About a Boy", 2002
* "About Schmidt", Louis Begley - "About Schmidt", 2002
*"Absolute Power", David Baldacci - "Absolute Power", 1997
*"The Accidental Tourist", Anne Tyler - "The Accidental Tourist", 1988
* "Across 110th Street", Wally Ferris - "Across 110th Street", 1972
* "Adams Fall", Sean Desmond - "Abandon", 2002
*"Adiliya by the River", Jin Renshun - "Green Tea", 2003
* "Adolphe", Benjamin Constant - "Adolphe", 2002
* "Adventure", Jack London - "Adventure", 1925
*"The Adventures of Captain Alatriste (Las aventuras del Capitán Alatriste)", Arturo Pérez-Reverte - "Alatriste", 2006
* "The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan", James Justinian Morier - "The Adventures of Hajji Baba", 1954
* "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", Mark Twain - "Huck Finn", 1937 ; "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", 1939, 1960 ; "Huckleberry Finn", 1974, 1975; "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", 1985 ; "The Adventures of Huck Finn", 1993 ; "Hopelessly Lost", 1972 ; "Tom and Huck", 1995
*"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", 1939
*"Aelita", Alexei Tolstoy - "Aelita", 1924
* "The African Queen", C. S. Forester - "The African Queen", 1951
* "After Dark, My Sweet", Jim Thompson - "After Dark, My Sweet", 1990
*"After Hours", Edwin Torres - "Carlito's Way", 1993
* "After the Funeral", Agatha Christie - "Murder at the Gallop", 1963
* "The Age of Innocence", Edith Wharton - "The Age of Innocence", 1993
* "Äideistä parhain" ("Mother of Mine"), Heikki Hietamies - "Äideistä parhain", 2005
*"Aimez-vous Brahms?", Françoise Sagan - "Goodbye Again", 1961
*"Air America", Christopher Robbins - "Air America", 1990
* "Airborn", Kenneth Oppel - "Airborn the Movie" (future)
* "Airport", Arthur Hailey - "Airport", 1970 ; "Airport 1975", 1975 ; "Airport '77", 1977 ; "", 1979
* "Alice Adams", Booth Tarkington - "Alice Adams", 1935
* "All Fall Down", James Leo Herlihy - "All Fall Down", 1962
*"All the Brothers Were Valiant", Ben Ames Williams - "Across to Singapore", 1928 ; "All the Brothers Were Valiant", 1923, 1953
* "All the King's Men", Robert Penn Warren - "All the King's Men", 1949, 2006
* "All the Pretty Horses", Cormac McCarthy - "All the Pretty Horses", 2000
* "All the Rivers Run", Nancy Cato - "All the Rivers Run", 1983
*"Along Came a Spider", James Patterson - "Along Came a Spider", 2001
* "Altered States", Paddy Chayefsky - "Altered States", 1980
* "Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned", Walter Mosley - "Always Outnumbered", 1998
*"El Amante Bilingüe (The Bilingual Lover)", Juan Marsé - "El Amante Bilingüe", 1993
*"El Amateur (The Amateur)", Mauricio Dayub - "El Amateur", 1999
* "American Knees", Shawn Wong - "Americanese", 2008
*"American Psycho", Bret Easton Ellis - "American Psycho", 2000
* "American Splendor", Harvey Pekar - "American Splendor", 2003
* "An American Tragedy", Theodore Dreiser - "A Place in the Sun", 1951
* "The Americanization of Emily", William Bradford Huie - "The Americanization of Emily", 1964
* "Les amitiés particulières (This Special Friendship)", Roger Peyrefitte - "Les amitiés particulières", 1964
*"The Amityville Horror", Jay Anson - "The Amityville Horror", 1979, 2005
*"El Amor infiel (The Unfaithful Love)", Mario David - "El Amor infiel", 1974
* "Amos Judd", John Ames Mitchell - "The Young Rajah", 1922
* "La Anam (Sleepless)", Ihsan Abdel Quddous - "La Anam", 1957
*"Anatomy of a Murder", John D. Voelker (as Robert Traver) - "Anatomy of a Murder", 1959
* "And Now Tomorrow", Rachel Field - "And Now Tomorrow", 1944
* "And Then There Were None", Agatha Christie - "And Then There Were None", 1945, 1974 ; "Ten Little Indians", 1965, 1974, 1989 ; "Desyat Negrityat", 1987 ; "Identity", 2003
* "The Anderson Tapes", Lawrence Sanders - "The Anderson Tapes", 1971
* "", Ivan Yefremov - "The Andromeda Nebula", 1967
* "The Andromeda Strain", Michael Crichton - "The Andromeda Strain", 1971
*"Angel Square", Brian Doyle - "Angel Square", 1990
*"Angélique" series of novels, Anne and Serge Golon - "Angélique et le sultan", 1958 ; "Indomptable Angélique", 1967; "Angélique et le roy", 1966; "Merveilleuse Angélique", 1965; "Angélique, marquise des anges", 1964
*"Angels & Demons", Dan Brown - "Angels & Demons" (future)
*"Anglo-Saxon Attitudes", Angus Wilson - "Anglo-Saxon Attitudes", 1992
*"Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter", Peter Handke - "The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty", 1972
*"Un animal doué de la raison (A Sentient Animal)", Robert Merle - "The Day of the Dolphin", 1973
* "Anna Karenina", Leo Tolstoy - "Anna Karenina", 1935, 1948, 1985
*"Anna to the Infinite Power", Mildred Ames - "Anna to the Infinite Power", 1983
* "Anne of Avonlea", L. M. Montgomery - "Anne of Avonlea", 1987
* "Anne of Green Gables", L. M. Montgomery - "Anne of Green Gables", 1919, 1934, 1956, 1985
* "L'Année des méduses", Christopher Frank - "L'Année des méduses (Year of the Jellyfish)", 1984
* "The Anointed", Clyde Brion Davis - "Adventure", 1945
* "Anthony Adverse", Hervey Allen - "Anthony Adverse", 1936
* "Antonieta", Andrés Henestrosa - "Antonieta", 1982
* "Appointment with Death", Agatha Christie - "Appointment with Death", 1988
* "Appointment with Venus", Jerrard Tickell - "Appointment with Venus", 1951
* "L'Armée des ombres (Army of Shadows)", Joseph Kessel - "L'Armée des ombres", 1969
* "Arrowsmith", Sinclair Lewis - "Arrowsmith", 1931
* "El Asalto", Enrique Silberstein - "El Asalto", 1960
* "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Elevator to the Gallows)", Noël Calef - "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud", 1958
* "Ask the Dust", John Fante - "Ask the Dust", 2006
* "The Asphalt Jungle", W.R. Burnett - "The Asphalt Jungle", 1950 ; "The Badlanders", 1958
* "The Assassination Bureau, Ltd", Jack London - "The Assassination Bureau", 1969
* "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford", Ron Hansen - "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (future)
*"L'Assommoir", Emile Zola - "Gervaise", 1956
* "Assunta Spina", Salvatore di Giacomo - "Assunta Spina", 1915, 1930, 1948, 2006
* "Asylum", Patrick McGrath - "Asylum", 2005
* "At Play in the Fields of the Lord", Peter Matthiessen - "At Play in the Fields of the Lord", 1991
* "Atonement", Ian McEwan - "Atonement", 2007
* "Audrey Rose", Frank De Felitta - "Audrey Rose", 1977
* "Auntie Mame", Patrick Dennis - "Auntie Mame", 1958
* "The Aviator", Ernest K. Gann - "The Aviator", 1985
* "Away All Boats", Kenneth M. Dodson - "Away All Boats", 1956

B

*"Babylon Babies", Maurice Georges Dantec - "Babylon A.D." (future)
*"Back Street", Fannie Hurst - "Back Street", 1932, 1941, 1961
* "Background to Danger", Eric Ambler - "Background to Danger", 1943
* "Bad Girl", Viña Delmar - "Bad Girl", 1931
*"The Bad Seed", Maxwell Anderson (play)/William March (novel) - "The Bad Seed", 1956
* "Baise-moi", Virginie Despentes - "Baise-moi", 2000
*"The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man", Guy Owen - "The Flim-Flam Man", 1967
*"Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress)", Dai Sijie - "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress", 2002
* "Bastard Out of Carolina", Dorothy Allison - "Bastard Out of Carolina", 1996
* "Battle Royale", Koushun Takami - "Battle Royale", 2000
*"Battlefield Earth", L. Ron Hubbard - "Battlefield Earth", 2000
* "Be Cool", Elmore Leonard - "Be Cool", 2005
* "The Beach", Alex Garland - "The Beach", 2000
* "Beaches", Iris Rainer Dart - "Beaches", 1988
*"The Beast", Peter Benchley - "The Beast", 1996
*"The Beast Master", Andre Norton - "The Beastmaster", 1982
* "The Beast Must Die", Cecil Day-Lewis (as Nicholas Blake) - "La bestia debe morir", 1952 ; "Que la bête meure", 1969
*"Beat the Devil", Claud Cockburn (as James Helvick) - "Beat the Devil", 1953
*"Beau Brocade", Baroness Emmuska Orczy - "Beau Brocade", 1916
* "Beau Geste", P. C. Wren - "Beau Geste", 1926, 1939, 1966, 1982 ; "The Last Remake of Beau Geste", 1977
* "Bee Season", Myla Goldberg - "Bee Season", 2000
* "Before the Fact", Anthony Berkeley (as Francis Iles) - "Suspicion", 1941
*"Behind That Curtain", Earl Derr Biggers - "Behind That Curtain", 1929
* "Being There", Jerzy Kosiński - "Being There", 1971
* "Belle de Jour", Joseph Kessel - "Belle de Jour", 1967
*"Belli moda (Silver cloud)", Anasuya Shankar - "Belli moda", 1966
*"Bellman and True", Desmond Lowden - "Bellman and True", 1987 ; "The Real McCoy", 1993
* "Beloved", Toni Morrison - "Beloved", 1998
*"Belphégor", Arthur Bernède - "Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre", 2001
* "", Lew Wallace - "Ben-Hur", 1907, 1925, 1959, 2003
* "Benzina", Elena Stancanelli - "Gasoline", 2001
*"Berlin Alexanderplatz", Alfred Döblin - "Berlin Alexanderplatz", 1980
* "La bestia nel cuore", Cristina Comencini - "La bestia nel cuore" ("The Beast in the Heart"), 2005
*"La Bête humaine", Emile Zola - "La Bestia humana", 1954 ; "Die Bestie im Menschen", 1920 ; "La Bête humaine", 1938 ; "Cruel Train", 1995 ; "Human Desire", 1954
* "The Betsy", Harold Robbins - "The Betsy", 1978
*"Beyond This Place", A. J. Cronin - "Web of Evidence", 1959
* "Bhowani Junction", John Masters - "Bhowani Junction", 1956
* "Bidaya wa Nihaya (A Beginning and an End)", Naguib Mahfouz - "Bidaya wa Nihaya", 1960
* "The Big Bounce", Elmore Leonard - "The Big Bounce", 1969, 2004
* "", Daniel Wallace - "Big Fish", 2003
* "Big Red", Jim Kjelgaard - "Big Red", 1962
*"The Big Sleep", Raymond Chandler - "The Big Sleep", 1946, 1978
* "Big Trouble", Dave Barry - "Big Trouble", 2002
* "Biggles" series of novels, W. E. Johns - "", 1986
* "Billy Bathgate", E. L. Doctorow - "Billy Bathgate", 1991
* "Billy Liar", Keith Waterhouse - "Billy Liar", 1963
* "Biruma no tategoto", Michio Takeyama - "Biruma no tategoto (The Burmese Harp)", 1956 ; "Biruma no tatekoto", 1985
* "The Bitch", Jackie Collins - "The Bitch", 1979
*"Bitter Moon", Pascal Bruckner - "Bitter Moon", 1992
*"The Black Camel", Earl Derr Biggers - "The Black Camel", 1931
* "The Black Dahlia", James Ellroy - "The Black Dahlia", 2006
* "The Black Rose", Thomas B. Costain - "The Black Rose", 1950
* "Black Sunday", Thomas Harris - "Black Sunday", 1977
* "Blackboard Jungle" - Evan Hunter - "Blackboard Jungle", 1955
*"The Blank Wall", Elisabeth Sanxay Holding - "The Deep End", 2001
* "Le Blé en herbe", Colette - "Le Blé en herbe", 1954, 1990
* "Bless the Beasts and Children", Glendon Swarthout - "Bless the Beasts and Children", 1971
*"Bless the Child", Cathy Cash Spellman - "Bless the Child", 2000
* "The Blessing", Nancy Mitford - "Count Your Blessings", 1959
* "Blood and Chocolate", Annette Curtis Klause - "Blood and Chocolate", 2007
*"Blood Brother", Elliott Arnold - "Broken Arrow", 1950
*"Blood on the Moon", Luke Short - "Blood on the Moon", 1948
*"Blood on the Moon", James Ellroy - "Cop", 1988
* "The Blood Oranges", John Hawkes - "The Blood Oranges", 1997
*"Blood Work (novel)|Blood Work", Michael Connelly - "Blood Work", 2002
* "Blue Fin", Colin Thiele - "Blue Fin", 1978
* "The Blue Lagoon", Henry De Vere Stacpoole - "The Blue Lagoon", 1949, 1980
*"Blueprint / Blaupause", Charlotte Kerner - "Blueprint", 2003
* "The Body", Richard Sapir - "The Body", 2001
* "The Body Snatchers", Jack Finney - "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", 1956, 1978; "Body Snatchers", 1993; "The Invasion" (future) ; "The Visiting", 2006
* "Bombaiyer Bombete", Satyajit Ray - "Bombaiyer Bombete", 2003
* "The Bonfire of the Vanities", Tom Wolfe - "The Bonfire of the Vanities", 1990
* "Bonjour Tristesse", Françoise Sagan - "Bonjour tristesse", 1958
* "Boogiepop and Others", Kouhei Kadono, "Boogiepop and Others", 2000
*"The Book of Daniel", E. L. Doctorow - "Daniel", 1983
* "Das Boot", Lothar-Günther Buchheim - "Das Boot", 1981
* "Border Town", Carroll Graham - "Bordertown", 1935
* "The Bostonians", Henry James - "The Bostonians", 1984
* "Boy on a Dolphin", David Divine - "Boy on a Dolphin", 1957
* "The Boys from Brazil", Ira Levin - "The Boys from Brazil", 1978
*"The Bravados", Frank O'Rourke - "The Bravados", 1958
* "Brave New World", Aldous Huxley - "Brave New World", 1998
* "Breakfast at Tiffany's", Truman Capote - "Breakfast at Tiffany's", 1961
* "Breakfast of Champions", Kurt Vonnegut - "Breakfast of Champions", 1999
* "Breakfast on Pluto", Patrick McCabe - "Breakfast on Pluto", 2005
* "Breakfast with Scot", Michael Downing - "Breakfast with Scot" (future)
* "The Bride Wore Black", Cornell Woolrich - "The Bride Wore Black", 1968
* "The Bridge of San Luis Rey", Thornton Wilder - "The Bridge of San Luis Rey", 1929, 1944, 2004
* "The Bridges of Madison County", Robert James Waller - "The Bridges of Madison County", 1995
* "Bridget Jones's Diary", Helen Fielding - "Bridget Jones's Diary", 2001
* ', Helen Fielding - ', 2004
* "Bright Lights, Big City", Jay McInerney - "Bright Lights, Big City", 1988
* "Brighton Rock", Graham Greene - "Brighton Rock", 1947
* "Bringing Out the Dead", Joe Connelly - "Bringing Out the Dead", 1999
*"Brødre i Blodet (Brothers by Blood)", Ingvar Ambjørnsen - "Elling", 2001
* "Broken April", Ismail Kadare - "Abril Despedaçado" ("Behind the Sun"), 2001
* "Brothers in Law", Henry Cecil - "Brothers in Law", 1957
* "The Brothers Karamazov", Fyodor Dostoevsky - "The Brothers Karamazov", 1958, 1969
*"Buffalo Soldiers", Robert O'Connor - "Buffalo Soldiers", 2001
*"The Burglar in The Closet", Lawrence Block - "Burglar", 1987
*"El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra", Tirso de Molina - "Don Juan", 1926
* "The Busy Body", Donald E. Westlake - "The Busy Body", 1967
*"But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes", Anita Loos - "Gentlemen Marry Brunettes", 1955
* "BUtterfield 8", John O'Hara - "BUtterfield 8", 1960
*"Butterflies", Ian McEwan - "Schmetterlinge", 1988

C

*"The Caine Mutiny", Herman Wouk - "The Caine Mutiny", 1954
*"Cal", Bernard MacLaverty - "Cal", 1984
* "Call for the Dead", John le Carré - "The Deadly Affair", 1966
*"Call It Treason", George Howe - "Decision Before Dawn", 1951
*"", Luke Davies - "Candy", 2006
*"Canto dos Malditos (The Song of the Damned)", Austregésilo Carrano Bueno - "Bicho de Sete Cabeças", 2001
*"Captain Blood", Rafael Sabatini - "Captain Blood", 1924, 1935
*"A Captive in the Land", James Aldridge - "A Captive in the Land", 1990
*"The Card", Arnold Bennett - "The Card", 1952
*"Careful, He Might Hear You", Sumner Locke Elliott - "Careful, He Might Hear You", 1983
*"Carlito's Way", Edwin Torres - "", 2005
*"La Casa de los Espíritus (The House of the Spirits)", Isabel Allende - "The House of the Spirits", 1993
*"The Carpetbaggers", Harold Robbins - "The Carpetbaggers", 1964
*"Case File FBI", Gordon and Mildred Gordon - "Down Three Dark Streets", 1954
*"Casino Royale", Ian Fleming - "Casino Royale", 1967, 2006
* "The Cat that Walked by Himself", Rudyard Kipling - "The Cat Who Walked by Herself", 1988
* "Catch-22", Joseph Heller - "Catch-22", 1970
*"The Caveman's Valentine", George Dawes Green - "The Caveman's Valentine", 2001
*"Celle qui n'était plus", Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac - "Diabolique", 1996 ; "Les Diaboliques", 1955
*"A Certain Mr. Takahashi", Ann Ireland - "The Pianist", 1991
* "La chambre bleue", Georges Simenon - "La Habitación azul", 2002
*"Champagne", Walter C. Mycroft - "Champagne", 1928
*"The Chancellor Manuscript", Robert Ludlum - "The Chancellor Manuscript" (future)
*"Changhen Ge", Wang Anyi - "Everlasting Regret", 2005
*"Charlie Chan Carries On", Earl Derr Biggers - "Charlie Chan Carries On", 1931
*"Charlie M", Brian Freemantle - "Charlie Muffin", 1979
*"Charlotte Gray", Sebastian Faulks - "Charlotte Gray", 2001
*"The Children of Sanchez", Oscar Lewis - "The Children of Sanchez", 1979
* "The Children of Light", H. L. Lawrence - "The Damned", 1963
*"The Chinese Parrot", Earl Derr Biggers - "The Chinese Parrot", 1927
*"Chocolat", Joanne Harris - "Chocolat", 2000
*"Christine", Stephen King - "Christine", 1983
*"The Christmas Shoes", Donna VanLiere - "The Christmas Shoes", 2002
*"Christmas at Twenty-Nine", Kamato Toshio - "Singles", 2003
*"Christopher Strong", Gilbert Frankau - "Christopher Strong", 1933
*"The Cider House Rules", John Irving - "The Cider House Rules", 1999
* "Cimarron", Edna Ferber - "Cimarron", 1931, 1960
*"The Cincinnati Kid", Richard Jessup - "The Cincinnati Kid", 1965
*"The Circus of Dr. Lao", Charles G. Finney - "7 Faces of Dr. Lao", 1964
*"The Citadel", A. J. Cronin - "The Citadel", 1938
* "City of God", Paulo Lins - "City of God", 2003
*"The Clan of the Cave Bear", Jean Auel - "The Clan of the Cave Bear", 1986
* "The Clansman" and "The Leopard's Spots", Thomas Dixon, Jr. - "The Birth of a Nation", 1915
* "Clear and Present Danger", Tom Clancy - "Clear and Present Danger", 1994
* "The Client", John Grisham - "The Client", 1994
* "A Clockwork Orange", Anthony Burgess - "A Clockwork Orange", 1971
* "El Club Dumas", Arturo Pérez-Reverte - "The Ninth Gate", 1999
*"Cocker at the Theatre", Ian McEwan - "First Love, Last Rites", 1997
*"Cockfighter", Charles Willeford - "Cockfighter", 1974
*"Cold Mountain - "Cold Mountain", 2003
*"The Color of Money", Walter Tevis - "The Color of Money", 1986
* "The Color Purple", Alice Walker - "The Color Purple", 1985
*"Colossus", Dennis Feltham Jones - "", 1970
*"The Comfort of Strangers", Ian McEwan - "The Comfort of Strangers", 1990
*"Como Agua Para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate)", Laura Esquivel - "Like Water for Chocolate", 1992
*"Compulsion", Meyer Levin - "Compulsion", 1959
*"Comrade Jacob", David Caute - "Winstanley", 1975
* "Comrades", Thomas Dixon, Jr." - "Bolshevism on Trial", 1919
* "Le comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo)", Alexandre Dumas, père - "The Count of Monte Cristo", 1908, 1913, 1934, 1943, 1975, 1955, 1961, 1968, 1980, 1998, 2002
* "La comtesse de Cagliostro", Maurice Leblanc - "Arsène Lupin, 2004
* "Confessions of a Crap Artist", Philip K. Dick - "Confessions d'un Barjo", 1975
* "The Constant Gardener", John le Carré - "The Constant Gardener", 2005
*"Contact", Carl Sagan - "Contact", 1997
*"Cool Hand Luke", Donn Pearce - "Cool Hand Luke", 1967
*"Corazón salvaje", Caridad Bravo Adams - "Corazón salvaje", 1956, 1968
*"Cracking India", Bapsi Sidhwa - "Earth", 1998
* "Crash", J. G. Ballard - "Crash, 1996
*"Creator", Jeremy Leven - "Creator", 1985
* "O Crime do Padre Amaro", José Maria de Eça de Queiroz - "El crimen del Padre Amaro (The Crime of Father Amaro)", 2002
*"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Wang Dulu - "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", 2000
*"The Cruel Sea", Nicholas Monsarrat - "The Cruel Sea"
*"Cutter and Bone", Newton Thornburg - "Cutter's Way", 1981
*"Cycle of the Werewolf", Steven King - "Silver Bullet", 1985
*"The Cypher", Gordon Cotler - "Arabesque", 1966

D

*"The Da Vinci Code", Dan Brown - "The Da Vinci Code", 2006
*"Dad", William Wharton - "Dad", 1989
*"Damage", Josephine Hart - "Damage", 1992
*"La Dame aux Camélias", Alexandre Dumas, fils - "Camille", 1909, 1915, 1917, 1921, 1926 (Norma Talmadge), 1926 (Charlie Chaplin), 1936, 1984 ; "Camille 2000", 1969
*"Damnation Alley", Roger Zelazny - "Damnation Alley", 1977
*"The Dancer Upstairs", Nicholas Shakespeare - "The Dancer Upstairs", 2002
*"Dances with Wolves", Michael Blake - "Dances with Wolves", 1990
*"A Dandy in Aspic", Derek Marlowe - "A Dandy in Aspic", 1968
*"The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys", Chris Fuhrman - "The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys", 2002
*"Daniel Deronda", George Eliot - "Daniel Deronda", 1921, 1970, 2002
*"Dark Passage", David Goodis - "Dark Passage", 1947
* "The Day of the Jackal", Frederick Forsyth - "The Day of the Jackal", 1973
*"The Day They Robbed the Bank of England", John Brophy - "The Day They Robbed the Bank of England", 1959
*"Dead Calm", Charles F. Williams - "Dead Calm"
*"The Dead Zone", Stephen King - "The Dead Zone", 1983
* "Deadly, Unna", Phillip Gwynne - "Australian Rules", 2002
*"Death of a Common Man", Desmond Holdridge - "The End of the River", 1947
* "Death on the Nile", Agatha Christie - "Death on the Nile", 1978, 2004
*"Death Takes No Bows", Brett Halliday - "Dressed to Kill", 1941
*"Death Wish", Brian Garfield - "Death Wish", 1974
*"The Deceivers", John Masters - "The Deceivers", 1988
*"December Boys", Michael Noonan - "December Boys", 2007
*"The Deep End of the Ocean", Jacquelyn Mitchard - "The Deep End of the Ocean", 1999
*"The Deep", Peter Benchley - "The Deep", 1977
*"Deliverance", James Dickey - "Deliverance", 1972
*"Deluge", S. Fowler Wright - "Deluge", 1933
*"The Deluge", Henryk Sienkiewicz - "The Deluge", 1974
*"Demon Seed", Dean Koontz - "Demon Seed", 1977
*"Derailed", James Siegel - "Derailed", 2005
*"Desert of the Heart", Jane Rule - "Desert Hearts", 1985
*"Desert Town", Ramona Stewart - "Desert Fury", 1947
*"The Desperate Hours", Joseph Hayes - "Desperate Hours", 1990 ; "The Desperate Hours", 1955
*"Destry Rides Again", Max Brand - "Destry Rides Again", 1939
* "The Devil Wears Prada", Lauren Weisberger - "The Devil Wears Prada", 2006
*"The Devil's Advocate", Andrew Neiderman - "The Devil's Advocate", 1997
*"The Devils", Fyodor Dostoevsky - "La femme publique", 1984
*"The Devils", John Whiting (play);"The Devils of Loudun", Aldous Huxley (novel) - "The Devils", 1971
*"Le Diable au corps", Raymond Radiguet - "Devil in the Flesh", 1947, 1986, 1998
*"Diamonds Are Forever", Ian Fleming - "Diamonds Are Forever", 1971
*"The Dirty Dozen", E.M. Nathanson - "The Dirty Dozen", 1967
*"Disappearing Acts", Terry McMillan - "Disappearing Acts", 2000
*"Il disprezzo", Alberto Moravia - "Contempt", 1963
*"Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood", Rebecca Wells - "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood", 2002
*"Le Divorce", Diane Johnson - "Le Divorce", 2003
* "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", Philip K. Dick - "Blade Runner", 1982
*"Doctor in the House", Richard Gordon - "Doctor in the House", 1954
* "Doctor Zhivago", Boris Pasternak - "Doctor Zhivago", 1965
* "Dodsworth", Sinclair Lewis - "Dodsworth", 1936
*"The Dogs of War", Frederick Forsyth - "The Dogs of War", 1981
*"Donovan's Brain", Curt Siodmak - "Donovan's Brain", 1953
*"Don't Look and It Won't Hurt", Richard Peck - "Gas Food Lodging", 1992
*"Don't Say a Word", Andrew Klavan - "Don't Say a Word", 2001
* "The Dork of Cork", Chet Raymo - "Frankie Starlight", 1995
*"Down Will Come Baby", Gloria Murphy - "Down Will Come Baby", 1999
*"Dracula", Bram Stoker - "House of Dracula", 1945
* "Dracula", Bram Stoker - For a list of film adaptations, see "Dracula" article
*"Dragon Seed", Pearl S. Buck - "Dragon Seed", 1944
*"Dragons of Autumn Twilight", Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman - "" (future)
*"The Drowning Pool", Ross Macdonald - "The Drowning Pool", 1975
*"Drums Along the Mohawk", Walter D. Edmonds - "Drums Along the Mohawk", 1939
*"The Drums of Jeopardy", Harold MacGrath - "The Drums of Jeopardy", 1922, 1931
* "Dune", Frank Herbert - "Dune", 1984, 2000
*"Dying Young", Marti Leimbach - "Dying Young", 1991

E

*"The Eagle Has Landed", Jack Higgins - "The Eagle Has Landed", 1976
*"East of Eden", John Steinbeck - "East of Eden", 1955
*"Eaters of the Dead", Michael Crichton - "The 13th Warrior", 1999
*"Eddie and the Cruisers", P. F. Kluge - "Eddie and the Cruisers", 1983
*"Election", Tom Perrotta - "Election", 1999
*"Elmer Gantry", Sinclair Lewis - "Elmer Gantry", 1960
* "Emma", Jane Austen - "Clueless", 1995 - "Emma", 1996
*"Emotional Arithmetic", Matt Cohen - "Emotional Arithmetic" (future)
*"Empire of the Sun", J. G. Ballard - "Empire of the Sun", 1987
*"The Enchanted April", Elizabeth von Arnim - "Enchanted April", 1992
*"The End of the Affair", Graham Greene - "The End of the Affair", 1955, 1999
*"Endless Love", Scott Spencer - "Endless Love", 1981
* "Enduring Love", Ian McEwan - "Enduring Love", 2004
*"Los Enemigos De La Mujer", Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - "Enemies of Women", 1923
*"The Enemy Below", D. A. Rayner - "The Enemy Below", 1957
*"Les Enfants du capitaine Grant (The Children of Captain Grant)", Jules Verne - "Deti kapitana Granta", 1936 ; "In Search of the Castaways", 1962 ; "V poiskakh kapitana Granta", 1985
* "The English Patient", Michael Ondaatje - "The English Patient", 1996
*"Enigma", Robert Harris - "Enigma", 2001
*"The Entity", Frank De Felitta - "The Entity", 1981
*"Eragon", Christopher Paolini - "Eragon", 2006
*"L'étoile du nord", Georges Simenon - "L'Etoile du nord", 1982
*"The Evening Star", Larry McMurtry - "The Evening Star", 1996
*"Everybody's All-American", Frank Deford - "Everybody's All-American", 1988
*"Everything Is Illuminated", Jonathan Safran Foer - "Everything Is Illuminated", 2005
* "Evil Under the Sun", Agatha Christie - "Evil Under the Sun", 1982, 2001
*"The Executioners", John D. MacDonald - 'Cape Fear", 1962, 1991
*"Executive Suite", Cameron Hawley - "Executive Suite", 1954
*"Exit to Eden", Anne Rice (as Anne Rampling) - "Exit To Eden", 1994
*"Exit Wounds", John Westermann - "Exit Wounds", 2001
*"Exodus", Leon Uris - "Exodus", 1960
*"The Exorcist", William Peter Blatty - "The Exorcist", 1973
*"Extension du domaine de la lutte", Michel Houellebecq - "Extension du domaine de la lutte", 1999
*"Eye of the Beholder", Marc Behm - "Eye of the Beholder", 1999
*"Eye of the Needle", Ken Follett - "Eye of the Needle", 1981

F

*"Fahrenheit 451", Ray Bradbury - "Fahrenheit 451", 1966, 2007
*"Fail-Safe", Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler - "Fail-Safe", 1964, 2000
*"Fair Game", Paula Gosling - "Cobra", 1986 ; "Fair Game", 1995
*"Family Business", Vincent Patrick - "Family Business", 1989
*"The Fan", Peter Abrahams - "The Fan", 1996
*"The Fan", Bob Randall - "The Fan", 1981
* "Far from the Madding Crowd", Thomas Hardy - "Far from the Madding Crowd", 1967, 1998
*"Farewell My Concubine", Lilian Lee - "Farewell My Concubine", 1993
* "Farewell to the King", Pierre Schoendoerffer - "Farewell to the King", 1989
* "Father of Frankenstein", ["Father of Frankenstein" is about director James Whale, but it is a novel which speculates about his last days.] Christopher Bram - "Gods and Monsters", 1998
*"Father of the Bride", Edward Streeter - "Father of the Bride", 1950, 1991
*"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", Hunter S. Thompson - "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", 1998
* "The Fellowship of the Ring", J. R. R. Tolkien - "", 2001
*"La Femme et le pantin", Pierre Louÿs - "The Devil Is a Woman", 1935
*"Fever Pitch", Nick Hornby - "Fever Pitch", 1997, 2005
* "Fight Club", Chuck Palahniuk - "Fight Club", 1999
*"Fire on the Mountain", Edward Abbey - "Fire on the Mountain", 1981
*"Firefox", Craig Thomas - "Firefox", 1982
* "The Firm", John Grisham - "The Firm", 1993
*"First Blood", David Morrell - "First Blood", 1982
*"The First Men in the Moon", H. G. Wells - "The First Men in the Moon", 1919 ; "First Men in the Moon", 1964
*"The First Wives Club", Olivia Goldsmith - "The First Wives Club", 1996
*"The Five People You Meet in Heaven", Mitch Albom - "The Five People You Meet in Heaven", 2004
*"The Fixer", Bernard Malamud - "The Fixer", 1968
*"Flashpoint", George La Fountaine - "Flashpoint", 1984
*"Fletch", Gregory Mcdonald - "Fletch", 1985
*"Fletch Won", Gregory Mcdonald - "Fletch Won" (future)
*"Flight of the Intruder", Stephen Coonts - "Flight of the Intruder", 1991
*"The Flight of the Phoenix", Elleston Trevor - "The Flight of the Phoenix", 1964 ; "Flight of the Phoenix", 2004
*"Flying Saucers from Outer Space", Donald Kehoe - "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers", 1956
*"The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth", H. G. Wells - "The Food of the Gods", 1976
* "Fools' Gold", Dolores Hitchens - "Bande à part", 1964
*"For Love of the Game", Michael Shaara - "For Love of the Game", 1999
*"For Your Eyes Only", Ian Fleming - "For Your Eyes Only", 1981
*"Force 10 From Navarone", Alistair MacLean - "Force 10 from Navarone", 1978
*"Forever Amber", Kathleen Winsor - "Forever Amber", 1947
* "Forrest Gump", Winston Groom - "Forrest Gump", 1994
*"The Fountainhead", Ayn Rand - "The Fountainhead", 1949
*"The Four Feathers", A.E.W. Mason - "The Four Feathers", 1915, 1921, 1929, 1939, 1977, 2002 ; "Storm Over the Nile", 1955
*"The Fourth Protocol", John le Carré - "The Fourth Protocol", 1987
*"The Fox and the Hound", Daniel Pratt Mannix IV - "The Fox and the Hound", 1981
*"F.P.1", Curt Siodmak - "F.P.1", 1933 ; "F.P.1 antwortet nicht", 1932 ; "F.P.1 ne repond pas", 1933
*"Frankenstein", Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein", 1948 ; "Flesh for Frankenstein", 1973 ; "House of Frankenstein", 1944 ;"House of Frankenstein 1997", 1997 ; "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein", 1957 ; "Lady Frankenstein", 1971 ; "Life Without Soul", 1916 ; "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein", 1994 ; "Son of Frankenstein", 1939 ; "The Curse of Frankenstein", 1957 ; "The Evil of Frankenstein", 1964 ; "The Ghost of Frankenstein", 1942 ; "The Horror of Frankenstein", 1970 ; "The Revenge of Frankenstein", 1958 ; "Young Frankenstein", 1974
*"Die Frau in Mond", Thea von Harbou - "Frau im Mond", 1929
*"Freedomland", Richard Price - "Freedomland", 2006
* "The French Lieutenant's Woman", John Fowles - "The French Lieutenant's Woman", 1981
*"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café", Fannie Flagg - "Fried Green Tomatoes", 1991
*"Friend", Diana Henstell - "Deadly Friend", 1986
*"From Here to Eternity", James Jones - "From Here to Eternity", 1953
*"From Russia with Love", Ian Fleming - "From Russia with Love", 1963
*"From the Terrace", John O'Hara - "From the Terrace", 1960
*"Funeral in Berlin", Len Deighton - "Funeral in Berlin", 1966
*"Funny Farm", Jay Cronley - "Funny Farm", 1988
*"The Fury", John Farris - "The Fury", 1978
*"The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown", Sylvia Tate - "The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown", 1957

G

*"G@me", Keigo Higashino - "G@me", 2003
* "The Garden of Allah", Robert Smythe Hichens - "The Garden of Allah", 1916, 1927, 1936
* "The Garden of God", Henry De Vere Stacpoole - "Return to the Blue Lagoon", 1991
* "Gardens of Stone", Nicholas Proffitt - "Gardens of Stone", 1987
* "The Gay Sisters", Stephen Longstreet - "The Gay Sisters", 1942
*"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", Anita Loos - "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", 1953
*"Geordie", David Walker - "Geordie", 1955
*"Georgy Girl", Margaret Forster - "Georgy Girl", 1966
*"Get Shorty", Elmore Leonard - "Get Shorty", 1995
* "The Getaway", Jim Thompson - "The Getaway", 1972, 1994
*"Ghare Baire (The Home and the World)", Rabindranath Tagore - "Ghare Baire", 1984
*"The Ghost and Mrs Muir", Josephine Leslie (as R. A. Dick) - "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir", 1947
*"Giant", Edna Ferber - "Giant", 1956
*"Gidget, The Little Girl With the Big Ideas", Frederick Kohner - "Gidget", 1959
*"Gigi", Colette - "Gigi", 1958
*"The Gingerbread Man", John Grisham (unpublished) - "The Gingerbread Man", 1998
*"The Girl from Petrovka", George Feifer - "The Girl from Petrovka", 1974
*"Girl with a Pearl Earring", Tracy Chevalier - "Girl with a Pearl Earring", 2003
*"The Girls of Pleasure Island", William Maier - "The Girls of Pleasure Island", 1953
*"The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing", Melissa Bank - "The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing" (future) ; "Suburban Girl" (future)
*"Glory for Me", Mackinlay Kantor - "The Best Years of Our Lives", 1946
*"The Gnomes", Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet - "Gnomes", 1980
*"God and My Country", Mackinlay Kantor - "Follow Me, Boys!", 1966
* "The Godfather", Mario Puzo - "The Godfather", 1972
*"Gods and Generals", Michael Shaara - "Gods and Generals", 2003
*"God's Little Acre", Erskine Caldwell - "God's Little Acre", 1958
*"The Golden Bowl", Henry James - "The Golden Bowl", 2000
*"Goldfinger", Ian Fleming - "Goldfinger", 1964
*"Goldmine", Wilbur Smith - "Gold", 1974
* "Gone with the Wind", Margaret Mitchell - "Gone with the Wind", 1939
*"The Good Earth", Pearl S. Buck - "The Good Earth", 1937
*"The Good German", Joseph Kanon - "The Good German", 2006
*"A Good Year", Peter Mayle - "A Good Year", 2006
*"Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square", Arthur La Berne - "Frenzy", 1972
*"Goodbye, Mr. Chips", James Hilton - "Goodbye, Mr. Chips", 1939, 1969
*"Gorky Park", Martin Cruz Smith - "Gorky Park", 1983
*"Grand Canary", A. J. Cronin - "Grand Canary", 1934
*"The Grapes of Wrath", John Steinbeck - "The Grapes of Wrath", 1940
*"The Great Gatsby", F. Scott Fitzgerald - "The Great Gatsby", 1926, 1949, 1974, 2000
*"The Great Man", Al Morgan - "The Great Man", 1956
*"Green for Danger", Christianna Brand - "Green for Danger", 1946
*"Green Mansions", William Henry Hudson - "Green Mansions", 1959
*"The Green Years", A. J. Cronin - "The Green Years", 1946
*"Grendel", John Gardner - "Grendel Grendel Grendel", 1981
* "De Griezelbus" novel series, Paul van Loon - "Gruesome School Trip",
* "The Grizzly King", James Oliver Curwood - "L'Ours", 1988
* "The Group", Mary McCarthy - "The Group", 1966
*"La Guerre des boutons", Louis Pergaud - "War of the Buttons", 1962, 1994
*"Gulliver's Travels", Jonathan Swift - "Gulliver's Travels", 1996 ; "The Three Worlds of Gulliver", 1960
*"The Guns of Navarone", Alistair Maclean - "The Guns of Navarone", 1961
*"The Gypsy Moths", James William Drought - "The Gypsy Moths", 1969

H

* "Hababam Sınıfı", Rıfat Ilgaz - "Hababam Sınıfı", 1975
*"A Hall of Mirrors", Robert Stone - "WUSA", 1970
*"Hammers Over the Anvil", Alan Marshall - "Hammers Over the Anvil", 1991
* "The Handmaid's Tale", Margaret Atwood - "The Handmaid's Tale", 1990
* "Hannibal", Thomas Harris - "Hannibal", 2001
* "The Harder They Fall", Budd Schulberg - "The Harder They Fall", 1956
* "Harry Black", David Walkers - "Harry Black", 1958
*"Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", 2002
*"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", 2005
*"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince", J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" (future)
*"Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix", 2007
*"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", 2001
*"Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", J. K. Rowling - "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", 2004
* "Hart's War", John Katzenbach - "Hart's War", 2002
* "The Harvey Girls", Samuel Hopkins Adams - "The Harvey Girls", 1942
* "Hating Alison Ashley", Robin Klein - "Hating Alison Ashley", 2005
*"Hatter's Castle", A. J. Cronin - "Hatter's Castle (film)", 1942
* "Haunted Harbor", Ewart Adamson (as Dayle Douglas) - "Haunted Harbor", 1944
* "The Haunting of Hill House", Shirley Jackson - "The Haunting", 1963, 1999
* "Hawaii", James Michener - "Hawaii", 1966 ; "The Hawaiians", 1970
* "Hawk of the Wilderness", William L. Chester - "Hawk of the Wilderness", 1938
* "He Ran All the Way", Sam Ross - "He Ran All the Way", 1951
*"High Fidelity", Nick Hornby - "High Fidelity", 2000
* "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling", Henry Fielding - "Tom Jones", 1963
* "A History of Violence", John Wagner - "A History of Violence", 2005
*"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", Douglas Adams - "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", 2004
* "The Hobbit", J. R. R. Tolkien - "The Hobbit", 1977, (future)
*"The Holy Innocents", Gilbert Adair - "The Dreamers", 2003
* "The Honorary Consul", Graham Greene - "The Honorary Consul", 1983
*"The Hound of the Baskervilles", Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Hound of the Baskervilles ", 1939, 1959
* "The Hours", Michael Cunningham - "The Hours", 2002
* "Howards End", E. M. Forster - "Howards End", 1992
*"The Human Stain", Philip Roth - "The Human Stain", 2003
* "The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris)", Victor Hugo - "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", 1923, 1939, 1956, 1982, 1996
* "The Hunt for Red October", Tom Clancy - "The Hunt for Red October", 1990

I

*"L'Île mystérieuse", Jules Verne - "La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo", 1973 ; "Mysterious Island", 1929, 1941, 1951, 1961, 1982, 2005
* "Im Westen Nichts Neues", Erich Maria Remarque - "All Quiet on the Western Front", 1930, 1979
*"Imagining Argentina", Lawrence Thornton - "Imagining Argentina", 2003
*"Immortality, Inc.", Robert Sheckley - "Freejack", 1992
*"In Country", Bobbie Ann Mason - "In Country", 1989
*"Interview with the Vampire", Anne Rice - "", 1994
*"The Invisible Man", H. G. Wells - "The Invisible Man", 1933
*"The Island of Dr Moreau", H. G. Wells - "The Island of Dr. Moreau", 1977, 1996 ; "Island of Lost Souls", 1933
*"Ivanhoe", Sir Walter Scott - "Ivanhoe", 1913, 1952, 1982, 1997 ; "The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe", 1983

J

*"Jack's Return Home", Ted Lewis - "Get Carter", 1971, 2000
*"Jane Eyre", Charlotte Brontë - "Jane Eyre", 1944, 1970, 1996
*"Jaws", Peter Benchley - "Jaws", 1975
* "Jean le Bleu", Jean Giono - "La femme du boulanger (The Baker's Wife)", 1938
* "The Jewel of Seven Stars", Bram Stoker - "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb", 1971
*"Journal d'un curé de campagne", Georges Bernanos - "Diary of a Country Priest", 1951
*"Journey to the West", Wu Cheng'en - "A Chinese Odyssey", 1994
*"The Joy Luck Club", Amy Tan - "The Joy Luck Club", 1993
* "Jude the Obscure", Thomas Hardy - "Jude", 1996
*"A Judgement in Stone", Ruth Rendell - "La Cérémonie", 1995
*"The Jungle Book", Rudyard Kipling - "Jungle Book", 1942 ; "The Jungle Book", 1967, 1994 ; "The Jungle Book 2", 2003 ; "Adventures of Mowgli", 1967 ; "", 1997
*"Jupiter Laughs", A. J. Cronin - "Shining Victory", 1941
* "Jurassic Park", Michael Crichton - "Jurassic Park", 1993
* "Justine", Lawrence Durrell - "Justine", 1969

K

* "Kaitei Gunkan", Shunrō Oshikawa - "Atragon", 1963
* "Kaitei Okoku", Shigeru Komatsuzaki - "Atragon", 1963
*"Kenka erejii", Takashi Suzuki - "Fighting Elegy", 1966
*"The Keys of the Kingdom", A. J. Cronin - "The Keys of the Kingdom", 1941
* "Khamphiphaksa (The Judgment)", Chart Korbjitti - "Ai-Fak", 2004
*"Kidnapped", Robert Louis Stevenson - "Kidnapped", 1938, 1960, 1971, 1995
*"The Killer Angels", Michael Shaara - "Gettysburg", 1993
*"Kiss of the Spider Woman", Manuel Puig - "Kiss of the Spider Woman", 1985
* "Kuroi Ame (Black Rain)", Ibuse Masuji - "Black Rain, 1989

L

*"La lampe dans la fenêtre", Pauline Cadieux - "Cordélia", 1980
* "The Last of the Mohicans", James Fenimore Cooper - "The Last of the Mohicans", 1911, 1920, 1932, 1936, 1992
*"Lay This Laurel", Lincoln Kirstein - "Glory", 1989
* "Layer Cake", J. J. Connelly - "Layer Cake", 2004
*"The Ledger", Dorothy Uhnak - "Get Christie Love!", 1974
*"Left Behind", Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins - "", 2000
*', Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins - ', 2005 ; "", 2002
* "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Louis Cha - "Ashes of Time", 1994
*"Legion", William Peter Blatty - "The Exorcist III", 1990
*"The Leopard", Giuseppe Lampedusa - "The Leopard", 1963
* "Less Than Zero", Bret Easton Ellis - "Less Than Zero", 1987
* "Les Liaisons Dangereuses", Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - "Cruel Intentions", 1999 ; "Dangerous Liaisons", 1988 ; "Valmont", 1989
*"Eine Liebe in Deutschland", Rolf Hochhuth - "Eine Liebe in Deutschland", 1983
*"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", Laurence Sterne - "A Cock and Bull Story", 2006
* "Like a Fire is Burning", Gerald N. Lund - ", 2005
*"Live and Let Die", Ian Fleming - "Live and Let Die", 1973
*"Live Flesh", Ruth Rendell - "Carne trémula", 1997
* "Loaded", Christos Tsiolkas - "Head On", 1998
*"Lolita", Vladimir Nabokov - "Lolita", 1962, 1997
*"The Looters", John H. Reese - "Charley Varrick", 1973
*"Lord Jim", Joseph Conrad - "Lord Jim", 1925, 1965
*"Lord of the Flies", William Golding - "Lord of the Flies", 1963, 1990
* "Lost Horizon", James Hilton - "Lost Horizon", 1937, 1973
*"The Lost World", Arthur Conan Doyle - "The Lost World", 1925, 1960, 1992, 1998, 2001
* "Love Story", Erich Segal - "Love Story", 1970
*"El Lugar sin límites", José Donoso - "El lugar sin límites", 1978
* "Lunes de Fiel", Pascal Bruckner - "Bitter Moon", 1992

M

*"Magnificent Obsession", Llyd C. Douglas - "Magnificent Obsession", 1935, 1954
* "The Maltese Falcon", Dashiell Hammett - "The Maltese Falcon", 1931, 1941 ; "Satan Met a Lady", 1936
* "Man on Fire", A. J. Quinnell - "Man on Fire", 1987, 2004
*"The Man with the Golden Gun", Ian Fleming - "The Man with the Golden Gun", 1974
* "The Manchurian Candidate", Richard Condon - "The Manchurian Candidate", 1962, 2004
*"Manon des Sources", Marcel Pagnol - "Manon des Sources"
* "Marnie", Winston Graham - "Marnie", 1964
*"Mars Project", Wernher von Braun - "Conquest of Space", 1955
* "", Richard Hooker - "M*A*S*H", 1970
* "Maurice", E. M. Forster - "Maurice", 1987
*"The Mayor of Casterbridge", Thomas Hardy - "The Claim", 2000
*"Memoirs of Cleopatra", Margaret George - "Cleopatra", 1999
*"The Midwich Cuckoos", John Wyndham - "Children of the Damned", 1963 ; "Village of the Damned", 1960, 1995
* "Mine-Haha or Physical Education of Young Girls", Frank Wedekind - "", 2005
* "Minority Report", Philip K. Dick - "Minority Report", 2002
* "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side", Agatha Christie - "The Mirror Crack'd", 1980
*"Misery", Stephen King - "Misery", 1990
* "Moby-Dick", Herman Melville - "Moby Dick", 1956, 1978, 1998
*"Moonraker", Ian Fleming - "Moonraker", 1979
*"The Moonstone", Wilkie Collins - "The Moonstone", 1934, 1972, 1996
*"Morpho Eugenia", A. S. Byatt - "Angels & Insects", 1996
* "Mother Night", Kurt Vonnegut - "Mother Night", 1996
* "A Mother's Gift", Britney and Lynne Spears - "Brave New Girl", 2004
* "The Moving Target", Ross Macdonald - "Harper", 1966
* "Mrs McGinty's Dead", Agatha Christie - "Murder Most Foul", 1964
* "La mujer de mi hermano", Jaime Bayly - "La mujer de mi hermano", 2005
*"Murder in Amityville", Hans Holzer - "", 1982
* "Murder on the Orient Express", Agatha Christie - "Murder on the Orient Express", 1974
* "Mute Witness", Robert L. Fish - "Bullitt", 1968
*"My Antonia", Willa Cather - "My Antonia", 1995
*"My Friend Flicka", Mary O'Hara - "Flicka", 2006 ; "My Friend Flicka", 1943
* "My Kingdom for a Woman", Ismet Regeila - "Abdulla the Great", 1955
* "Mystic River", Dennis Lehane - "Mystic River, 2003

N

*"The Name of the Rose", Umberto Eco - "The Name of the Rose", 1986
*"The Nanny Diaries", Emma McLaughlin & Nicola Kraus - "The Nanny Diaries", 2007
*"The Natural", Bernard Malamud - "The Natural", 1984
*"National Velvet", Enid Bagnold - "National Velvet", 1944
* "Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí", Milan Kundera - "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", 1988
* "The Night of the Hunter", Davis Grubb - "The Night of the Hunter", 1953
*"Night Watch", Sergey Lukyanenko - "Day Watch", 2006
* "Nightmare", Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish) - "Fear in the Night", 1947 ; "Nightmare", 1956
*"Nineteen Eighty-Four", George Orwell - "Nineteen Eighty-Four", 1953, 1954, 1956, 1984
*"No Country for Old Men", Cormac McCarthy - "No Country for Old Men", 2007
*"No Orchids for Miss Blandish", James Hadley Chase - "La Chair de l'orchidée", 1975
* "Nothing Lasts Forever", Roderick Thorp - "Die Hard", 1988

O

* "Odd Man Out", F. L. Green - "Odd Man Out", 1947
* "The Odyssey", Homer - "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", 2000
*"œdishon (Audition)", Ryu Murakami - "Audition", 1999
*"Of Mice and Men", John Steinbeck - "Of Mice and Men", 1992
*"Oliver Twist", Charles Dickens - "Oliver Twist", 1922
*"Oms en Série", Stefan Wul - "Fantastic Planet", 1973
*"On Her Majesty's Secret Service", Ian Fleming - "On Her Majesty's Secret Service", 1969
*"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", Ken Kesey - "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", 1975
*"One Gallant Rush", Peter Burchard - "Glory", 1989
* "One Hundred Years Ahead (Сто лет тому вперед)", Kir Bulychev - "Guest From the Future (Гостья из будущего)", 1985
* "Ordinary People", Judith Guest – "Ordinary People", 1980
*"", Virginia Woolf - "Orlando", 1992
* "Our Man in Havana", Graham Greene - "Our Man in Havana", 1959
*"The Outsiders", S. E. Hinton - "The Outsiders", 1983

P

*"Pan Wolodyjowski" (Fire in the Steppe)", Henryk Sienkiewicz - "Colonel Wolodyjowski", 1968
*"Parineeta", Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay - "Parineeta", 1942, 1953, 1969, 2005
*"Les Particules Élémentaires", Michel Houellebecq - "The Elementary Particles", 2006
* "A Passage to India", E. M. Forster - "A Passage to India", 1984
* "Patriot Games", Tom Clancy - "Patriot Games", 1992
* "The Pelican Brief", John Grisham - "The Pelican Brief", 1993
*"Peyton Place", Grace Metalious - "Peyton Place", 1957
*"The Phantom of the Opera", Gaston Leroux - "The Phantom of the Opera", 1925, 1943, 1962, 1989, 2004
* "Pharaoh", Bolesław Prus – "Pharaoh", 1966
*"El Pianista", Manuel Vázquez Montalbán - "The Pianist", 1998
* "The Pillar of Light", Gerald N. Lund - "The Work and The Glory", 2004
* "Planète des Singes", Pierre Boulle - "Planet of the Apes", 1968, 2001
*"Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï", Pierre Boulle - "The Bridge on the River Kwai", 9157
* "Popiół i diament", Jerzy Andrzejewski - "Popiół i diament (Ashes and Diamonds)", 1958
* "The Poseidon Adventure", Paul Gallico - "The Poseidon Adventure", 1972, 2005 ; "Beyond the Poseidon Adventure", 1979 ; "Poseidon", 2006
* "", A. S. Byatt - "Possession", 2002
*"The Postman Always Rings Twice", James Cain - "The Postman Always Rings Twice", 1946, 1981
*"Pożegnania", Stanislaw Dygat - "Farewells", 1958
*"Presumed Innocent", Scott Turow - "Presumed Innocent", 1990
* "Pride and Prejudice", Jane Austen - "Pride and Prejudice", 1940, 1980, 1995 2003, 2005
* "The Princess Bride", William Goldman - "The Princess Bride", 1987
*"The Prisoner of Zenda", Anthony Hope - "The Prisoner of Zenda", 1913, 1915, 1922, 1937, 1952, 1979, 1984
* "Professor Unrat", Heinrich Mann - "Der blaue Engel", 1930
* "Psycho", Robert Bloch - "Psycho", 1960, 1998
*"The Purple Cloud", M. P. Shiel, and "End of the World", Ferdinand Reyher - "The World, the Flesh and the Devil", 1959

Q

* "Quentin Durward", Sir Walter Scott - "The Adventures of Quentin Durward", 1955
*"The Quiet American", Graham Greene - "The Quiet American", 2002, 1958

R

*"Ragtime", E. L. Doctorow - "Ragtime", 1981
*"The Rainbird Pattern", Victor Canning - "Family Plot", 1976
*"Ratman's Notebook", Gilbert Ralston (as Stephen Gilbert) - "Willard", 1971, 2003 ; "Ben", 1972
*"The Razor's Edge", W. Somerset Maugham - "The Razor's Edge", 1946, 1984
* "Rebecca", Daphne du Maurier - "Rebecca", 1940
*"Red Alert", Peter George - "", 1964
* "Red Dragon", Thomas Harris - "Manhunter" (1986) and "Red Dragon", 2002
*"The Red Pony", John Steinbeck - "The Red Pony", 1949
* "Reflections in a Golden Eye", Carson McCullers - "Reflections in a Golden Eye", 1967
*"The Remains of the Day", Kenzaburo Oe - "The Remains of the Day"
* "The Return of the King", J. R. R. Tolkien - "", 2003
* "Riverworld", Philip José Farmer - "Riverworld", 2003
*"Les rivières pourpres", Jean-Christophe Grangé - "The Crimson Rivers", 2000 ; "", 2004
*"Robinson Crusoe", Daniel Defoe - "Robinson Crusoe", 1954; "Robinson Crusoe on Mars", 1964 ; "Robinson Crusoe", 1997
* "A Room with a View", E. M. Forster - "A Room with a View", 1986
* "The Rules of Attraction", Bret Easton Ellis - "The Rules of Attraction", 2002
* "Rum Punch", Elmore Leonard- "Jackie Brown", 1997
* "The Russia House", Tom Clancy - "The Russia House", 1990

S

* "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea", Yukio Mishima - "The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea", 1976
* "A Salute to the Great Macarthy", Barry Oakley - "The Great Macarthy", 1975
* "Sangre y arena (Blood and Sand)", Vicente Blasco Ibáñez - "Blood and Sand", 1916, 1922, 1941, 1989
* "A Scanner Darkly", Philip K. Dick - "A Scanner Darkly", 1977
*"The Scarlet Letter", Nathaniel Hawthorne - "The Scarlet Letter", 1995
* "The Scarlet Pimpernel", Baroness Emmuska Orczy - "The Elusive Pimpernel", 1919, 1950, 1969 ; "The Laughing Cavalier", 1917 ; "Pimpernel Smith", 1941 ; "Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel", 1937 ; "The Scarlet Pimpernel", 1917, 1934, 1982, 1987 ; "The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel", 1928 ;
* "Schindler's Ark", [Although Schindler's Ark is concerned with real people and real events, it is a fictional representation of history.] Thomas Keneally - "Schindler's List", 1993
*"The Screaming Mimi", Fredric Brown - "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage", 1970 ; "The Screaming Mimi", 1958
*"A Selva", Ferreira de Castro - "The Forest", 2002
* "Sense and Sensibility", Jane Austen - "Sense and Sensibility", 1995
*"Seven Days to a Killing", Clive Egleton - "The Black Windmill", 1974
*"A Severa", Júlio Dantas - "A Severa", 1931
*"Shaft", Ernest Tidyman - "Shaft", 1971, 2000
*"The Shape of Things to Come", H. G. Wells - "H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come", 1979
* "Shè diāo yīng xióng zhuàn", Jinyong - "Dōngxié Xīdú (Ashes of Time)", 1994
* "Sheep", Simon Maginn - "The Dark", 2005
* "Shen Mu (Sacred Wood)", Liu Qingbang - "Blind Shaft", 2003
* "A Shilling for Candles", Josephine Tey - "Young and Innocent", 1937
*"The Shining", Stephen King - "The Shining", 1980, 1997
*"The Shipping News", Annie Proulx - "The Shipping News", 2001
*"Shoeless Joe", W. P. Kinsella - "Field of Dreams", 1989
* "Sideways", Rex Pickett - "Sideways", 2004
* "The Silence of the Lambs", Thomas Harris - "The Silence of the Lambs", 1991
*"A Simple Plan", Scott Smith - "A Simple Plan", 1998
*"Sinuhe egyptiläinen (Sinuhe the Egyptian)", Mika Waltari - "The Egyptian", 1954
*"Sister Carrie", Theodore Dreiser - "Carrie", 1952
*"The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", Ann Brashares - "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants", 2005
* "Skinwalkers", Tony Hillerman - "Skinwalkers", 2002
* "Slaughterhouse-Five", Kurt Vonnegut - "Slaughterhouse-Five", 1972
*"Śmierć Miasta (Death of a City)", Władysław Szpilman - "The Pianist", 2002
*"Snow Angels", Stewart O'Nan - "Snow Angels", 2008
*"Solaris", Stanisław Lem - "Solaris", 1972, 2002
* "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries", ["A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries" is a fictionalized version of the author's life.] Kaylie Jones - "A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries", 1998
*"Something Wicked This Way Comes", Ray Bradbury - "Something Wicked This Way Comes", 1983
*"Sons and Lovers", D. H. Lawrence - "Sons and Lovers", 1960
*"Sorstalanság", Imre Kertész - "Fateless", 2005
*"The Spanish Gardener", A. J. Cronin - "The Spanish Gardener", 1957
*"The Spy Who Loved Me", Ian Fleming - "The Spy Who Loved Me", 1977
*"The Stand", Stephen King - "The Stand", 1994
* "Stara Basn", Józef Ignacy Kraszewski - "", 2003
*"The Stars Look Down", A. J. Cronin - "The Stars Look Down", 1939
* "Starship Troopers", Robert A. Heinlein - "Starship Troopers", 1997
*"The Stepford Wives", Ira Levin - "The Stepford Wives", 1975, 2004
* "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", Robert Louis Stevenson - "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", 1920, 1931, 1941 ; "Der Januskopf (The Head of Janus)", 1920
* "A Stranger Came Home", George Sanders - "A Stranger Came Home", 1954
*"A Stranger Is Watching", Mary Higgins Clark - "A Stranger Is Watching", 1982
* "Strangers on a Train", Patricia Highsmith - "Strangers on a Train", 1951
*"Stupeur et Tremblement", Amélie Nothomb - "Fear and Trembling (Stupeur et tremblements)", 2003
*"Sultana - La Nuit du Serail", Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark - "The Favorite", 1989
*"The Sum of All Fears", Tom Clancy - "The Sum of All Fears", 2002
*"Der Schweizerische Robinson (The Swiss Family Robinson)", Johann David Wyss - "Swiss Family Robinson", 1940, 1960

T

*"Tai-Pan", James Clavell - "Tai- Pan", 1986
* "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three", Morton Freedgood (as John Godey) - "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three", 1974, 1998
* "The Talented Mr. Ripley", Patricia Highsmith - "Plein Soleil", 1960 ; "The Talented Mr. Ripley", 1999
*"Terms of Endearment", Larry McMurtry - "Terms of Endearment", 1983
*"As Terras Do Risco", Agustina Bessa-Luís - "O Convento", 1995
* "Tess of the d'Urbervilles", Thomas Hardy - "Tess", 1979
* "Theatre", W. Somerset Maugham - "Being Julia", 2004 ; "Julia, du bist zauberhaft", 1962
* "They Do It with Mirrors", Agatha Christie - "Murder with Mirrors", 1985
*"Thunderball", Ian Fleming - "Thunderball", 1965
* "The Time Machine", H. G. Wells - "Time After Time", 1979 ; "The Time Machine", 1960 - "The Time Machine", 2002
* "Timeline", Michael Crichton - "Timeline", 2003
*"To Kill a Mockingbird", Harper Lee - "To Kill a Mockingbird", 1962
*"Der Tod in Venedig", Thomas Mann - "Death in Venice", 1971
*"Tom Sawyer", Mark Twain - "Tom Sawyer", 1973
* "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days)", Jules Verne - "Around the World in Eighty Days", 1919, 1956, 1972 (Australia), 1972 (Canada), 1989, 1986, 2004 ; "Around the World with Willy Fog", 1981 ; "The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze", 1963 ; "Ginga Shippu Sasuraiger", 1983
* "Tous les hommes sont mortels (All Men are Mortal)", Simone de Beauvoir - "All Men are Mortal", 1995
*"A Town Like Alice", Nevil Shute - "A Town Like Alice", 1956, 1986
* "Trainspotting", Irvine Welsh - "Trainspotting", 1996
*"Treasure Island", Robert Louis Stevenson - "Treasure Island", 1934, 1950
*"The Trial", Franz Kafka - "The Trial", 1962, 1993
*"Trinity's Child", William Prochnau - "By Dawn's Early Light", 1990
* "Les Trois Mousquetaires" ("The Three Musketeers"), Alexandre Dumas, père - "Les Trois Mousquetaires", 1921, 1933; "The Three Musketeers", 1921, 1933 (serial), 1935, 1939, 1948, 1973, 1993 ; "The Four Musketeers", 1974 ; "D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers", 1978 Russian musical ; "The Musketeer", 2001 ; "", 2004
* "The Two Towers", J. R. R. Tolkien - "", 2002
* "Трудно быть богом, Trudno byt' bogom (Hard to Be a God)", Arkady and Boris Strugatsky - "Hard to Be a God", 1989, 2008

U

* "Ugetsu monogatari", Ueda Akinari - "Ugetsu", 1953
*"Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier)", Väinö Linna - "The Unknown Soldier", 1955, 1985

V

* "Valley of the Dolls", Jacqueline Susann - "Valley of the Dolls", 1967
*"Vanity Fair", William Makepeace Thackeray - "Becky Sharp", 1935 ; "Vanity Fair", 1911, 1915, 1922, 1923, 1932, 1967, 1987, 1998, 2004
* "Vennelalo Aadapilla", Yandamoori Veerendranath - "Beladingala Baale", 1995
* "", [Although "Vengeance" is concerned with real people and events, it is a fictional representation of history.] George Jonas - "Sword of Gideon", 1986; "Munich", 2005
*"De Vierde Man", Gerard Reve - "The Fourth Man", 1983
*"Vigil in the Night", A. J. Cronin - "Vigil in the Night", 1940
* "Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea)", Jules Verne - "20,000 lieues sous les mers", 1907 ; "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", 1916, 1954, 1972, 1997 (Hallmark), 1997 (Village Roadshow) ; "Captain Nemo and the Underwater City", 1969 ; "The Return of Captain Nemo", 1978 ; "", 1997

W

*"War and Peace", Leo Tolstoy - "War and Peace", 1956, 1968
* "The War of the Worlds", H. G. Wells - "The War of the Worlds", 1953 ; "War of the Worlds", 2005 (Spielberg) ; "H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds", 2005 (Hines) ; "H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds", 2005 (Latt)
* "Wat zien ik?", Albert Mol - "Wat zien ik? (Business Is Business)", 1971
*"Watership Down", Richard Adams - "Watership Down"
*"Who Censored Roger Rabbit?", Gary Wolf - "Who Framed Roger Rabbit", 1988
*"Wide Sargasso Sea", Jean Rhys - "Wide Sargasso Sea", 1993
*"A Widow for One Year", John Irving - "The Door in the Floor", 2004
*"The Willing Flesh", Willi Heinrich - "Cross of Iron", 1977
*"Wilt", Tom Sharpe - "Wilt", 1989
*"The Wings of the Dove", Henry James - "The Wings of the Dove", 1997
*"The Winter of Our Discontent", John Steinbeck - "The Winter of Our Discontent", 1983
*"Wise Blood", Flannery O'Connor - "Wise Blood", 1979
*"The Witches of Eastwick", John Updike - "The Witches of Eastwick", 1987
*"Witchfinder General", Ronald Bassett - "Witchfinder General", 1968
* "The Witnesses", Anne Holden - "The Bedroom Window", 1987
*"The Wolfen", Whitley Streiber - "Wolfen", 1981
*"The Woman Chaser", Charles Willeford - "The Woman Chaser", 1999
*"Woman Thou Art Loosed", T. D. Jakes - "Woman Thou Art Loosed", 2004
*"Woman Wanted", Joanna McClelland Glass - "Woman Wanted", 2000
* "Women in Love", D. H. Lawrence - "Women in Love", 1969
* "The Women of Brewster Place", Gloria Naylor - "The Women of Brewster Place", 1989
* "Wonder Boys", Michael Chabon - "Wonder Boys", 2000
* "The World According to Garp", John Irving - "The World According to Garp", 1982
*"The World in His Arms", Rex Beach - "The World in His Arms", 1952
* "The World of Henry Orient", Nora Johnson - "The World of Henry Orient", 1964
* "The Wrong Box", Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne - "The Wrong Box", 1966
* "Wuthering Heights", Emily Brontë - "Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights", 1992 ; "Wuthering Heights", 1939, 1970, 2003 ; "Abismos de Pasión", 1954

Y

* "Yaju no seishun", Haruhiko Oyabu - "Youth of the Beast", 1963
*"The Year of Living Dangerously", Christopher Koch - "The Year of Living Dangerously", 1982
* "Yield to the Night", Joan Henry - "Yield to the Night", 1956
* "Yo Puta", Isabel Pisano - "Whore", 2004
*"You Only Live Twice", Ian Fleming - "You Only Live Twice", 1967
* "Young Adam", Alexander Trocchi - "Young Adam", 2003
* "Young Man of Manhattan", Katharine Brush - "Young Man of Manhattan", 1930
* "Young Man with a Horn", Dorothy Baker, "Young Man with a Horn", 1950

Z

* "De Zaak Alzheimer", Jef Geeraerts - "De Zaak Alzheimer (The Alzheimer Case)", 2003
*"Zamok", Franz Kafka - "Zamok", 1994
* "Zarak", A. J. Bevan - "Zarak", 1956
*"De Zesde Mei", Tomas Ross - "06/05", 2003
*"Zona Zamfirova", Stefan Sremac - "Zona Zamfirova", 2002
* "Zorba the Greek", Nikos Kazantzakis - "Zorba the Greek (film)", 1964
*"Zuqāq al-Midaq (Midaq Alley)", Naguib Mahfouz - "El callejón de los milagros", 1994

Short stories and novellas

ee also

* Lists of film source material

Notes