Lists of works of fiction made into feature films

This is a list of fiction works that have been made into feature films. The title of the work and the year it was published are both 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

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
100 Rifles (1958), Robert MacLeod	100 Rifles (1969)
101 Reykjavík (1996), Hallgrímur Helgason	101 Reykjavík (2000)
The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Licentiousness (Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage), novel (1785), pub. (1904), Marquis de Sade	Salò (1975)
The 25th Hour (2001), David Benioff	25th Hour (2002)
2010: Odyssey Two (1982), Arthur C. Clarke	2010 (1984)
4.50 From Paddington (1957), Agatha Christie	Murder, She Said (1961) Le crime est notre affaire (2008)
42nd Street (1930), Bradford Ropes	42nd Street (1933)
48 Shades of Brown (1999), Nick Earls	48 Shades (2006)
491 (1961), Lars Görling	491 (1964)
50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2001), Graeme Aitken	50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005)
52 Pick-Up (1974), Elmore Leonard	The Ambassador (1984) 52 Pick-Up (1986)
58 Minutes (1987), Walter Wager	Die Hard 2 (1990)
633 Squadron (1956), Frederick E. Smith	633 Squadron (1964)

A

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
The A.B.C. Murders (1936), Agatha Christie	The Alphabet Murders (1966) The A.B.C. Murders (1992) (TV)
À ton image (1998), Louise L. Lambrichs	À ton image (2004)
De Aanslag (The Assault) (1982), Harry Mulisch	The Assault (1986)
About a Boy (1998), Nick Hornby	About a Boy (2002)
About Schmidt (1996), Louis Begley	About Schmidt (2002)
Absolute Power (1996), David Baldacci	Absolute Power (1997)
The Accidental Tourist (1985), Anne Tyler	The Accidental Tourist (1988)
Across 110th (1970), Wally Ferris	Across 110th Street (1972)
Adam Ben Kelev (Man, Son of a Dog) (1971), Yoram Kaniuk	Adam Resurrected (2009)
Adams Fall (2000), Sean Desmond	Abandon (2002)
Addie Pray (1971), Joe David Brown	Paper Moon (1973)
Adiliya by the River (1999), Jin Renshun	Green Tea (2003)
Adolphe (1816), Benjamin Constant	Adolphe (2002)
Adventure (1911), Jack London	Adventure (1925)
The Adventurers (1966), Harold Robbins	The Adventurers (1970)
The Adventures of Captain Alatriste (Las aventuras del Capitán Alatriste) (1996–present) (series), Arturo Pérez-Reverte	Alatriste (2006)
The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan (1824), James Justinian Morier	The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Mark Twain	Huck and Tom (1918) Huckleberry Finn (1950) Huckleberry Finn (1931) Huck Finn (1937) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955) (TV) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) Huckleberry Finn (1974) Hopelessly Lost (1972) Huckleberry Finn (1975) (TV) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1981) (TV) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1985) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1986) Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tow Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1990) (TV) The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) Tom and Huck (1995)
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), Carlo Collodi	The Adventures of Pinocchio (1936) (Unfinished, considered a lost film) Pinocchio (1940) Pinocchio (1957) (TV) The Adventures of Buratino (1959) Pinocchio in Outer Space (1965) Pinocchio (1968) (TV) Pinocchio (1972) The Adventures of Buratino (1975) Pinocchio (1976) (TV) The Adventures of Pinocchio (1984) Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night (1987) 964 Pinocchio (1991) Pinocchio (1993) Pinocchio's Revenge (1996) The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) Geppetto (2000) A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) A Tree of Palme (2002) Pinocchio (2002) Pinocchio 3000 (2004) Pinocchio (2008) Pistachio – The Little Boy That Woodn't (2010)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891–1892) (series), (1892) (novel), Arthur Conan Doyle	Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; or, Held for Ransom (1905) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1921) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (1979–1986) (series)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Mark Twain	Tom Sawyer (1907) Tom Sawyer (1917) * Huck and Tom (1918) Tom Sawyer (1930) * Huckleberry Finn (1931) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938) Tom Sawyer (1936) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) Tom Sawyer (1973) * Huckleberry Finn (1974) Tom Sawyer (1973) (TV) * Huckleberry Finn (1975) (TV) Tom Sawyer (1984) The Adventures of Mark Twain (1986) Back to Hannibal: The Return of Tow Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1990) (TV) Tom and Huck (1995) Tom Sawyer (2000)
Advise and Consent (1959), Allen Drury	Advise & Consent (1962)
Aelita (1923) (a. k. a. Aelita or, The Decline of Mars), Alexei Tolstoy	Aelita (1924)
The African Queen (1935), C. S. Forester	The African Queen (1951)
After Dark, My Sweet (1955), Jim Thompson	After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
After Hours (1979), Edwin Torres	Carlito's Way (1993)
After the Funeral (1953), Agatha Christie	Murder at the Gallop (1963)
The Age of Innocence (1921), Edith Wharton	The Age of Innocence (1924) The Age of Innocence (1928) The Age of Innocence (1934) The Age of Innocence (1993)
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), Irving Stone	The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)
Äideistä parhain (Mother of Mine) (1999), Heikki Hietamies	Äideistä parhain (Mother of Mine) (2005) (a. k. a. Den bästa av mödrar (Swedish))
Aimez-vous Brahms? (1959), Françoise Sagan	Goodbye Again (1961) Jahan Tum Le Chalo (1999)
Air America (1985), Christopher Robbins	Air America (1990)
Airborn (2004), Kenneth Oppel	Airborn (2012)
Airport (1968), Arthur Hailey	Airport (1970) * Airport 1975 (1975) ** Airport '77 (1977) *** The Concorde ... Airport '79 (1979)
Alice Adams (1921), Booth Tarkington	Alice Adams (1923) Alice Adams (1935)
Allan Quartermain (1887), Sir H. Rider Haggard	Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987)
All Fall Down (1960), James Leo Herlihy	All Fall Down (1962)
All the Brothers Were Valiant (1919), Ben Ames Williams	All the Brothers Were Valiant (1923) Across to Singapore (1928) All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
All the King's Men (1946), Robert Penn Warren	All the King's Men (1949) All the King's Men (2006)
All the Pretty Horses (1992), Cormac McCarthy	All the Pretty Horses (2000)
All the Rivers Run (1958), Nancy Cato	All the Rivers Run (1983–1990) (mini)
All the Way (2001), Andy Behrens	Sex Drive (2008)
Almayer's Folly (1895), Joseph Conrad	Hanyut (2011) Almayer's Folly (2011)
Along Came a Spider (1993), James Patterson	Along Came a Spider (2001)
Altered States (1978), Paddy Chayefsky	Altered States (1980)
Always Another Dawn (1948), Zelma Roberts	Always Another Dawn (1948)
Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned (1987), Walter Mosley	Always Outnumbered (1998) (TV)
El Amante Bilingüe (The Bilingual Lover) (1990), Juan Marsé	El Amante Bilingüe (1993)
El Amateur (The Amateur) (1990), Mauricio Dayub	El Amateur (1999)
An American Dream (1965), Norman Mailer	An American Dream (1966)
American Knees (1995), Shawn Wong	Americanese (2006)
American Psycho (1991), Bret Easton Ellis	American Psycho (2000) * American Psycho 2: All-American Girl (2002) (V)
American Splendor (1976–2008), Harvey Pekar	American Splendor (2003)
An American Tragedy (1925), Theodore Dreiser	A Place in the Sun (1951)
The Americanization of Emily (1959), William Bradford Huie	The Americanization of Emily (1964)
Amerika (1927), Franz Kafka	Klassenverhältnisse (Class Relations) (1984) Intervista (1987) Amerika (1994)
Les amitiés particulières (This Special Friendship) (1943), Roger Peyrefitte	Les amitiés particulières (1964)
The Amityville Horror (1977), Jay Anson	The Amityville Horror (1979) The Amityville Horror (2005)
El Amor infiel (The Unfaithful Love) (1970), Mario David	El Amor infiel (1974)
Amos Judd (1895), John Ames Mitchell	The Young Rajah (1922)
Amu (2005), Shonali Bose	Amu (2005)
La Anam (Sleepless) (1969), Ihsan Abdel Quddous	La Anam (1957)
Anatomy of a Murder (1958), John D. Voelker (as Robert Traver)	Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
And Now Tomorrow (1942), Rachel Field	And Now Tomorrow (1944)
And Then There Were None (1939), Agatha Christie	And Then There Were None (1945) Ten Little Indians (1959) (TV) Gumnaam (1965) Ten Little Indians (1965) Zehn kleine Negerlein (1969) (TV) And Then There Were None (1974) Desyat Negrityat (1987) Ten Little Indians (1989) Identity (2003)
The Anderson Tapes (1969), Lawrence Sanders	The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale (1957), Ivan Yefremov	The Andromeda Nebula (1967)
The Andromeda Strain (1969), Michael Crichton	The Andromeda Strain (1971) The Andromeda Strain (2008) (TV)
Angel (1957), Elizabeth Taylor	Angel (2007)
Angel Square (1987), Brian Doyle	Angel Square (1990)
Angélique (1957–2012) (series), Anne Golon and Serge Golon	Angélique, marquise des anges (1964) * Merveilleuse Angélique (1965) ** Angélique et le roy (1966) *** Indomptable Angélique (1967) **** Angélique et le sultan (1968)
Angels & Demons (2000), Dan Brown	Angels & Demons (2009)
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956), Angus Wilson	Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1992)
The Angry Hills (1955), Leon Uris	The Angry Hills (1959)
Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter (The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty) (1970), Peter Handke	The Goalkeeper's Fear of the Penalty (1972)
Un animal doué de raison (A Sentient Animal) (1967), Robert Merle	The Day of the Dolphin (1973)
Animal Farm (1945), George Orwell	Animal Farm (1954) Animal Farm (1999) (TV)
Anna and the King of Siam (1944), Margaret Landon	Anna and the King of Siam (1946) The King and I (1956) The King and I (1999) Anna and the King (1999)
Anna Karenina (1873–1887) (serial), (1888) (novel), Leo Tolstoy	Anna Karenina (1914) Anna Karenina (1915) Love (1927) Anna Karenina (1935) Anna Karenina (1948) Nahr al-Hob (River of Love) (1960) Anna Karenina (1967) Anna Karenina (1974) Anna Karenina (1985) Anna Karenina (1997) Anna Karenina (2005) Anna Karenina (2012)
Anna to the Infinite Power (1979), Mildred Ames	Anna to the Infinite Power (1983)
Anne of Avonlea (1909), Lucy Maud Montgomery	Anne of Avonlea (1975) (TV) Anne of Avonlea (1987) (TV)
Anne of Green Gables (1908), Lucy Maud Montgomery	Anne of Green Gables (1919) Anne of Green Gables (1934) * Anne of Windy Poplars (1940) Anne of Green Gables (1956) (TV) Anne of Green Gables (1972) (TV) * Anne of Avonlea (1975) (TV) Anne of Green Gables (1985) (TV) ** Anne of Avonlea (1987) (TV) ** * Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story (2000) (TV) ** ** Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2009) (TV)
L'Année des méduses (The Year of the Jellyfish) (1983), Christopher Frank	L'Année des méduses (Year of the Jellyfish) (1984)
The Anointed (1937), Clyde Brion Davis	Adventure (1945)
The Antagonists (1971), Ernest K. Gann	Masada (1987) (TV) (mini)
Anthony Adverse (1933), Hervey Allen	Anthony Adverse (1936)
Antikiller (Антикиллер) (1999), Daniil Koretsky	Antikiller (2002)
Antonieta (1978), Andrés Henestrosa	Antonieta (1982)
Apache Rising (1957), Marvin H. Albert	Duel at Diablo (1966)
An Apartment for Jenny (1945) (a. k. a. A Job for Jenny), Faith Baldwin	Apartment for Peggy (1948)
The Apocalypse Watch (1995), Robert Ludlum	The Apocalypse Watch (1997) (TV)
The Apple Dumpling Gang (1971), Jack Bickham	The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975) * The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979) ** Tales from the Apple Dumpling Gang (1982) (TV)
Appointment with Death (1938), Agatha Christie	Appointment with Death (1988)
Appointment with Venus (1951), Jerrard Tickell	Appointment with Venus (1951)
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1959), Mordecai Richler	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Armageddon 2419 A.D. (1928), Philip Francis Nowlan * The Airlords of Han (1929), Philip Francis Nowlan	Buck Rogers (1939) Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)
L'Armée des ombres (The Army of Shadows) (1943), Joseph Kessel	L'Armée des ombres (The Army of Shadows) (1969)
Arouse and Beware (1936), MacKinlay Kantor	The Man from Dakota (1940)
Arrowsmith (1925), Sinclair Lewis	Arrowsmith (1931)
El Asalto (The Robbery) (1956), Enrique Silberstein	El Asalto (The Robbery) (1960)
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (Lift to the Scaffold) (1951), Noël Calef	Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Ask the Dust (1939), John Fante	Ask the Dust (2006)
Asking for Trouble (2001), Elizabeth Young	The Wedding Date (2005)
The Asphalt Jungle (1949), W. R. Burnett	The Asphalt Jungle (1950) The Badlanders (1959)
The Assassination Bureau, Ltd (1963), Jack London	The Assassination Bureau (1969)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (1983), Ron Hansen	The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
L'Assommoir (1877), Émile Zola	Gervaise (1956)
Assunta Spina (1908), Salvatore Di Giacomo	Assunta Spina (1915) Assunta Spina (1930) Assunta Spina (1948) Assunta Spina (2006)
The Astronauts (1961), Stanislaw Lem	First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
Asylum (1996), Patrick McGrath	Asylum (2005)
At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965), Peter Matthiessen	At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
At the Earth's Core (1914) (serial), (1922) (novel), Edgar Rice Burroughs	At the Earth's Core (1976) Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
Atlantis (1912), Gerhart Hauptmann	Atlantis (1913)
Atonement (2001), Ian McEwan	Atonement (2007)
Audrey Rose (1975), Frank De Felitta	Audrey Rose (1977)
The Auction Block (1914), Rex Beach	The Auction Block (1917) The Auction Block (1926)
Auntie Mame (1955), Patrick Dennis	Auntie Mame (1958)
Avalon High (2005), Meg Cabot	Avalon High (2010) (TV)
The Aviator (1981), Ernest K. Gann	The Aviator (1985)
Away All Boats (1953), Kenneth M. Dodson	Away All Boats (1956)
An Awfully Big Adventure (1989) Beryl Bainbridge	An Awfully Big Adventure (1995)
The Ax (1997), Donald E. Westlake	Le Couperet (2005)
Ayat-Ayat Cinta (The Verses of Love) (2005), Habiburrahman El Shirazy	Ayat-Ayat Cinta (2008)

B

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Baby Love (1968), Tina Chad Christian	Baby Love (1968)
Babylon Babies (1999), Maurice Georges Dantec	Babylon A.D. (2008)
Back Street (1931), Fannie Hurst	Back Street (1932) Back Street (1941) Back Street (1961)
Back When We Were Grownups (2001), Anne Tyler	Back When We Were Grownups (2004)
Background to Danger (1937) (a. k. a. Uncommon Danger), Eric Ambler	Background to Danger (1943)
Bad Girl (1928), Viña Delmar	Bad Girl (1931)
The Bad Seed (1954), William March (novel) * The Bad Seed (1954), play adaptation by Maxwell Anderson	The Bad Seed (1956) The Bad Seed (1985) (TV) The Bad Seed (TBA 2013)
Baise-moi(1999), Virginie Despentes	Baise-moi (2000)
The Bait (1968), Dorothy Uhnak	The Bait (1973) (TV)
The Ballad of Cat Ballou (1956), Roy Chanslor	Cat Ballou (1965)
The Ballad of the Flim-Flam Man (1965), Guy Owen	The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
The Ballad of the Running Man (1963), Shelley Smith	The Running Man (1963)
Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress) (2000), Dai Sijie	Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2002)
Band of Angels (1955), Robert Penn Warren	Band of Angels (1957)
Bank Shot (1972), Donald E. Westlake	Bank Shot (1974)
Banner in the Sky (1900), James Ramsey Ullman	Third Man on the Mountain (1959)
The Barefoot Mailman (1943), Theodore Pratt	The Barefoot Mailman (1951)
Basil of Baker Street (1958), Eve Titus	The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), Dorothy Allison	Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
Battle Cry (1953), Leon Uris	Battle Cry (1955)
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1963), Rumer Godden	The Battle of the Villa Fiorita (1965)
Battle Royale (1999), Koshun Takami	Battle Royale (2000) * Battle Royale II: Requiem (2003)
Battlefield Earth (1982), L. Ron Hubbard	Battlefield Earth (2000)
Be Cool (1999), Elmore Leonard	Be Cool (2005)
Be Ready with Bells and Drums (1961), Elizabeth Kata	A Patch of Blue (1965)
Be Still, My Love (1947), June Truesdell	The Accused (1949)
The Beach (1996), Alex Garland	The Beach (2000)
Beaches (1985), Iris Rainer Dart	Beaches (1988)
The Beardless Warriors (1960), Richard Matheson	The Young Warriors (1967)
The Beast (1991), Peter Benchley	The Beast (1996)
The Beast Master (1959), Andre Norton	The Beastmaster (1982) * Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991) ** Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996) (TV)
The Beast Must Die (1938), Cecil Day-Lewis (as Nicholas Blake)	La Bestia debe morir (1952) Que la bête meure (The Beast Must Die) (1969) (a. k. a. This Man Must Die)
The Beast Within (1981), Edward Levy	The Beast Within (1982)
Beat the Devil (1951), Claud Cockburn (as James Helvick)	Beat the Devil (1953)
Beau Brocade (1907), Baroness Emmuska Orczy	Beau Brocade (1916)
Beau Geste (1924), P. C. Wren	Beau Geste (1926) Beau Hunks (1931) Beau Geste (1939) Beau Geste (1966) Follow That Camel (1967) The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977) Beau Geste (1982) (TV) (mini)
Beautiful Creatures (2009), Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl	Beautiful Creatures (2013)
Bedelia (1945), Vera Caspary	Bedelia (1946)
Bee Season (2000), Myla Goldberg	Bee Season (2005)
Beer and Blood: The Story of a Couple o' Wrong Guys (1930), John Bright and Kubec Glasmon	The Public Enemy (1931)
Before the Fact (1932), Anthony Berkeley (as Francis Iles)	Suspicion (1941)
Behind That Curtain (1928), Earl Derr Biggers	Behind That Curtain (1929)
Being There (1971), Jerzy Kosinski	Being There (1979)
Bel Ami (1885), Guy de Maupassant	Bel Ami (1939) The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947) Bel Ami (2005) (TV) Bel Ami (2012)
Belle de Jour (1928), Joseph Kessel	Belle de Jour (1967)
Belli Moda (Silver Cloud) (1961), Anasuya Shankar	Belli Moda (1966)
Bellman and True (1975), Desmond Lowden	Bellman and True (1987) The Real McCoy (1993)
Beloved (1987), Toni Morrison	Beloved (1998)
Belphégor (1927), Arthur Bernède	Belphégor - Le fantôme du Louvre (2001)
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1880), Lew Wallace	Ben Hur (1907) Ben-Hur (1925) Ben-Hur (1959) Ben Hur (2003) Ben Hur (2010) (TV) (mini)
Benjamin Blake (1941), Edison Marshall	Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942) Treasure of the Golden Condor (1953)
Benzina (Gasoline) (1998), Elena Stancanelli	Gasoline (2001)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), Alfred Döblin	Berlin — Alexanderplatz (1931) Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980) (TV)
La bestia nel cuore (2003), Cristina Comencini	La bestia nel cuore (The Beast in the Heart) (2005) (a. k. a. Don't Tell)
La Bête humaine (1890), Émile Zola	Die Bestie im Menschen (1920) La Bête humaine (1938) Human Desire (1954) La Bestia humana (1954) Cruel Train (1995)
The Betsy (1971), Harold Robbins	The Betsy (1978)
Beyond the Forest: The Story of a Man and Woman Destroyed by Love (1948), Stuart D. Engstrand	Beyond the Forest (1949)
Beyond This Place (1953), A. J. Cronin	Beyond This Place (1955) Beyond This Place (1957) (TV) Kalapani (1958) Web of Evidence (1959) Poola Rangadu (1967)
The BFG (1982), Roald Dahl	The BFG (1989)
Bhowani Junction (1954), John Masters	Bhowani Junction (1956)
Bid Time Return (1975), Richard Matheson	Somewhere in Time (1980)
The Beginning and the End (بداية ونهاية, Bidaya wa Nihaya) (1960), Naguib Mahfouz	Bidaya wa Nihaya (1960)
The Big Bounce (1966) (written) (1969) (published), Elmore Leonard	The Big Bounce (1969) The Big Bounce (2004)
The Big Clock (1946), Kenneth Fearing	The Big Clock (1948) No Way Out (1987)
Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions (1998), Daniel Wallace	Big Fish (2003)
The Big Fisherman (1948), Lloyd C. Douglas	The Big Fisherman (1959)
The Big Heat (1952), William P. McGivern	The Big Heat (1953)
Big Red (1945), Jim Kjelgaard	Big Red (1962)
The Big Sleep (1939), Raymond Chandler	The Big Sleep (1946) The Big Sleep (1978) The Big Lebowski (1998)
Big Trouble (1999), Dave Barry	Big Trouble (2002)
Biggles (1932–1968) (series), W. E. Johns	Biggles: Adventures in Time (1986) It Couldn't Happen Here (1988)
Billion-Dollar Brain (1966), Len Deighton	Billion Dollar Brain (1967)
Billy Bathgate (1989), E. L. Doctorow	Billy Bathgate (1991)
Billy Liar (1969), Keith Waterhouse	Billy Liar (1963)
Birdy (1978), William Wharton	Birdy (1984)
The Bishop's Wife (1928), Robert Nathan	The Bishop's Wife (1947)
Biruma no tategoto (The Burmese Harp) (1946) (a.k.a. Harp of Burma), Michio Takeyama	Biruma no tategoto (The Burmese Harp) (1956) Biruma no tatekoto (The Burmese Harp) (1985)
The Biscuit Eater (1939), James H. Street	The Biscuit Eater (1972)
The Bitch (1979), Jackie Collins	The Bitch (1979)
Bitter Moon (Lunes de fiel) (1981), Pascal Bruckner	Bitter Moon (1992)
The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932), Grace Zaring Stone	The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
Black Alibi (1942), Cornell Woolrich	The Leopard Man (1943)
The Black Angel (1943), Cornell Woolrich	Black Angel (1946)
The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses (1888), Robert Louis Stevenson	The Black Arrow (1911) The Black Arrow (1943) The Black Arrow (1973) (TV) Black Arrow (1985) (TV) Chyornaya strela (The Black Arrow) (1987) The Black Arrow (1988) (TV)
Black Beauty (1877), Anna Sewell	Black Beauty (1921) Black Beauty (1933) Black Beauty (1946) Courage of Black Beauty (1958) Black Beauty (1971) Black Beauty (1978) (TV) Black Beauty (1994) Black Beauty (1995) (V)
The Black Camel (1929), Earl Derr Biggers	The Black Camel (1931)
The Black Curtain (1941), Cornell Woolrich	Street of Chance (1942)
The Black Dahlia (1987), James Ellroy	The Black Dahlia (2006)
Black Narcissus (1939), Rumer Godden	Black Narcissus (1947)
The Black Path of Fear (1944), Cornell Woolrich	The Chase (1946)
The Black Rose (1945), Thomas B. Costain	The Black Rose (1950)
The Black Stallion (1941–1989) (series), Walter Farley The Black Stallion (1941) * The Black Stallion Returns (1945) ** The Young Black Stallion (1989)	The Black Stallion (1979–2003) (series) The Black Stallion (1979) * The Black Stallion Returns (1983) ** The Young Black Stallion (2003)
Black Sunday (1971), Thomas Harris	Black Sunday (1977)
The Blackboard Jungle (1954), Evan Hunter	Blackboard Jungle (1955)
Blackbeard's Ghost (1965), Ben Stahl	Blackbeard's Ghost (1968)
The Blank Wall (1947), Elisabeth Sanxay Holding	The Reckless Moment (1949) The Deep End (2001)
Blaze of Noon (1946), Ernest K. Gann	Blaze of Noon (1947)
Le Blé en herbe (1923), Colette	Le Blé en herbe (1954) Le Blé en herbe (1990)
Bleak House (1852–1853) (serial), (1853) (novel), Charles Dickens	Bleak House (1920) Bleak House (1922) Bleak House (1927) (short film) Bleak House (1959) (TV) (serial) Bleak House (1985) (TV) (serial) Bleak House (2005) (TV) (serial)
Bless the Beasts and Children (1970), Glendon Swarthout	Bless the Beasts & Children (1971)
Bless the Child (1993), Cathy Cash Spellman	Bless the Child (2000)
The Blessing (1951), Nancy Mitford	Count Your Blessings (1959)
Blood and Chocolate (1997), Annette Curtis Klause	Blood & Chocolate (2007)
Blood Brother (1947), Elliott Arnold	Broken Arrow (1950)
Blood on the Moon (1941) (a.k.a. Gunman's Chance), Luke Short	Blood on the Moon (1948)
Blood on the Moon (1984), James Ellroy	Cop (1988)
The Blood Oranges (1970), John Hawkes	The Blood Oranges (1997)
Blood Work (1998), Michael Connelly	Blood Work (2002)
Blue Fin (1969), Colin Thiele	Blue Fin (1978)
The Blue Lagoon (1908), Henry De Vere Stacpoole	The Blue Lagoon (1923) The Blue Lagoon (1949) The Blue Lagoon (1980)
Blueprint (Blaupause) (1999), Charlotte Kerner	Blueprint (2003)
The Body (1983), Richard Sapir	The Body (2001)
The Body Snatchers (1955), Jack Finney	Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) * Body Snatchers (1993) ** The Invasion (2007) Invasion of the Pod People (2007)
Bombaiyer Bombete (1976), Satyajit Ray	Bombaiyer Bombete (2003)
The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), Tom Wolfe	The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Bonjour Tristesse (Hello Sadness) (1954), Françoise Sagan	Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
Boogiepop and Others (1998), Kouhei Kadono	Boogiepop and Others (2000)
The Book of Daniel (1971), E. L. Doctorow	Daniel (1983)
Das Boot (The Boat) (1973), Lothar-Günther Buchheim	Das Boot (The Boat) (1981)
The Border Jumpers (1955), Will C. Brown	Man of the West (1958)
The Border Legion (1916), Zane Grey	The Border Legion (1924) The Last Round-Up (1934)
Border Town (1934), Carroll Graham	Bordertown (1935)
The Borrowers (1952), Mary Norton	The Borrowers (1973) (TV) The Borrowers (1997) The Borrower Arrietty (2010)
The Bostonians (1885–1886) (serial), (1886) (novel), Henry James	The Bostonians (1984)
Bourne (1980–2012) (series), Robert Ludlum and Eric Van Lustbader The Bourne Identity (1980) * The Bourne Supremacy (1986) ** The Bourne Ultimatum (1990) *** The Bourne Legacy (2004)	The Bourne Identity (1988) (TV) Bourne (2002–present) (series) The Bourne Identity (2002) * The Bourne Supremacy (2004) ** The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) *** The Bourne Legacy (2012)
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006), John Boyne	The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2008)
Boy on a Dolphin (1955), David Divine	Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
The Boys from Brazil (1976), Ira Levin	The Boys from Brazil (1978)
The Bravados (1958), Frank O'Rourke	The Bravados (1958)
The Brave Bulls (1949), Thomas C. Lea, III	The Brave Bulls (1951)
The Brave Cowboy (1956), Edward Abbey	Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
The Brave Little Toaster: A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances (1980) Thomas M. Disch * The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1988), Thomas M. Disch	The Brave Little Toaster (1987) * The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998) ** The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1999)
Brave New World (1932), Aldous Huxley	Brave New World (1980) Brave New World (1998) Brave New World (TBA 2011)
Breakfast of Champions (1973), Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.	Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Breakfast on Pluto (1998), Patrick McCabe	Breakfast on Pluto (2005)
Breakfast with Scot (1999), Michael Downing	Breakfast with Scot (2007)
Breakheart Pass (1974), Alistair MacLean	Breakheart Pass (1975)
Breaking Smith's Quarter Horse (1963), Paul St. Pierre	Smith! (1969)
The Bride Wore Black (1940), Cornell Woolrich	The Bride Wore Black (1967)
Brideshead Revisited, The Sacred & Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder (1945), Evelyn Waugh	Brideshead Revisited (1981) (TV) (serial) Brideshead Revisited (2008)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927), Thornton Wilder	The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944) The Bridge of San Luis Rey (2004)
Bridge to Terabithia (1977), Katherine Paterson	Bridge to Terabithia (1985) (TV) Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953), James A. Michener	The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1953)
The Bridges of Madison County (a. k. a. Love in Black and White) (1992), Robert James Waller	The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Bridget Jones (1996–1999) (series), Helen Fielding Bridget Jones's Diary (1996) * Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (1999)	Bridget Jones (2001–2004) (series) Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) * Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
Bright Lights, Big City (1984), Jay McInerney	Bright Lights, Big City (1988)
Brighton Rock (1938), Graham Greene	Brighton Rock (1947) Brighton Rock (2011)
Bringing Out the Dead (1998), Joe Connelly	Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Brødre i Blodet (Brothers by Blood) (1996), Ingvar Ambjørnsen	Elling (2001) * Mors Elling (2003) ** Elsk meg i morgen (2005)
Broken April (1978), Ismail Kadare	Abril Despedaçado (Behind the Sun) (2001)
Brothers in Law (1955), Henry Cecil	Brothers in Law (1957)
The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Fyodor Dostoyevsky	The Brothers Karamazov (1958) The Brothers Karamazov (1969)
Brown's Requiem (1981), James Ellroy	Brown's Requiem (1998)
Buddwing (1964), Evan Hunter	Mister Buddwing (1966)
Buffalo Girls (1990), Larry McMurtry	Buffalo Girls (1995) (TV)
Buffalo Soldiers (1993), Robert O'Connor	Buffalo Soldiers (2003)
Bump in the Night (1988), Isabelle Holland	Bump in the Night (1991)
The Burglar in the Closet (1978), Lawrence Block	Burglar (1987)
El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra (The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest) (1616–1630), Tirso de Molina	Don Juan (1926)
The Burning Hills (1956), Louis L'Amour	The Burning Hills (1956)
The Burning Shore (1985), Wilbur Smith	Burning Shore (1991)
Burton and Speke (1982), William Harrison	Mountains of the Moon (1990)
The Busy Body (1966), Donald E. Westlake	The Busy Body (1967)
But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1927), Anita Loos	Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1955)
BUtterfield 8 (1935), John O'Hara	BUtterfield 8 (1960)
By the Great Horn Spoon! (1963), Sid Fleischman	The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin (1967)

C

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
The Caine Mutiny (1952), Herman Wouk	The Caine Mutiny (1954) The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1955) (TV) The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988) (TV)
Cal (1983), Bernard MacLaverty	Cal (1984)
Call for the Dead (1961), John le Carré	The Deadly Affair (1966)
Call It Treason (1949), George Howe	Decision Before Dawn (1951)
The Call of the Wild (1903), Jack London	The Call of the Wild (1935) The Call of the Wild (1972) What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown! (1978) (TV) The Call of the Wild (1993) (TV) The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon (1997) Call of the Wild (2009) Disney's The Call of the Wild (TBA 2016)
Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction (1998), Luke Davies	Candy (2006)
Canto dos Malditos (The Song of the Damned) (2001), Austregésilo Carrano Bueno	Bicho de Sete Cabeças (The Great Brain Storm) (2001)
Canyon Passage (1945), Ernest Haycox	Canyon Passage (1946)
Captain Blood: His Odyssey (1922), Rafael Sabatini	Captain Blood (1924) Captain Blood (1935) Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950) * Captain Pirate (1952) (a. k. a. Captain Blood, Fugitive, UK only) * The Son of Captain Blood (1962) Odyssey of Captain Blood (1991)
A Captive in the Land (1962), James Aldridge	A Captive in the Land (1990)
The Captives (1955), Elmore Leonard	The Tall T (1957)
Car, Boy, Girl (1961), Gordon Buford	Herbie, the Love Bug (1968–2005) (series) The Love Bug (1968) * Herbie Rides Again (1974) ** Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) ** * Herbie Goes Bananas (1980) ** ** The Love Bug (1997) (TV) ** ** * Herbie: Fully Loaded (2005)
The Card (1911), Arnold Bennett	The Card (1952)
Careful, He Might Hear You (1963), Sumner Locke Elliott	Careful, He Might Hear You (1983)
Carlito's Way (1975), Edwin Torres * After Hours (1979), Edwin Torres	Carlito's Way (1993) * Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005)
The Carpetbaggers (1961), Harold Robbins	The Carpetbaggers, (1964) * Nevada Smith (1964) (prequel) ** Nevada Smith Tv (1975) (TV) (failed pilot to TV series of same name)
La Casa de los Espíritus (The House of the Spirits) (1982), Isabel Allende	The House of the Spirits (1993)
A Case of Need (1968), Michael Crichton (as Jeffery Hudson)	The Carey Treatment (1972)
Les carnets du Major Thompson (The Trophies of Major Thompson) (1954), Pierre Daninos	The French, They Are a Funny Race (1955)
Case File: FBI (1953), Gordon Gordon and Mildred Gordon (as John Ripley)	Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
Cash McCall (1955), Cameron Hawley	Cash McCall (1960)
Casino Royale (1953), Ian Fleming	Casino Royale (1967) Casino Royale (2006)
The Castle (1926), Franz Kafka	The Castle (1968) The Castle (1994) The Land Surveyor (Землемер) (1994) Das Schloß (1997)
Car Chaser (1982), Elmore Leonard	Cat Chaser (1989)
The Cat That Walked by Himself (1902), Rudyard Kipling	The Cat Who Walked by Herself (1988)
Catch-22 (1961), Joseph Heller	Catch-22 (1970)
Catlow (1963), Louis L'Amour	Catlow (1971)
The Caveman's Valentine (1994), George Dawes Green	The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
Les cerfs-volants (1980), Romain Gary	Les cerfs-volants (2007) (TV)
Celle qui n'était plus (The Woman Who Was No More (U.S. edition only, 1954)) (1952), Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac	Les Diaboliques (1955) Diabolique (1996)
The Cement Garden (1978), Ian McEwan	The Cement Garden (1993)
Centennial (1974), James A. Michener	Centennial (1978) (TV)
A Certain Mr. Takahashi (1985), Ann Ireland	The Pianist (1991)
La chair du maître (1997), Dany Laferrière	Vers le Sud (Heading South) (2005)
The Chamber (1994), John Grisham	The Chamber (1996)
La chambre bleue (The Blue Room) (1964), Georges Simenon	La Habitación azul (The Blue Room) (2002)
Champagne (1926), Walter C. Mycroft	Champagne (1928)
The Chancellor Manuscript (1977), Robert Ludlum	The Chancellor Manuscript (TBA 2012)
Changhen Ge (1995), Wang Anyi	Everlasting Regret (2005)
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), Roald Dahl	Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Charlie Chan Carries On (1930), Earl Derr Biggers	Charlie Chan Carries On (1931) Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)
Charlie M (1977), Brian Freemantle	Charlie Muffin (1979) (TV)
Charlotte Gray (1999), Sebastian Faulks	Charlotte Gray (2001)
Charlotte's Web (1952), E. B. White	Charlotte's Web (1973) * Charlotte's Web 2: Wilbur's Great Adventure (2003) (V) Charlotte's Web (2006)
Chateau Bon Vivant (1969), Frankie O'Rear and John O'Rear	Snowball Express (1972)
The Cheetah Girls (1999–2006) (series), Deborah Gregory	The Cheetah Girls (2003–2008) (series) The Cheetah Girls (2003) (TV) * The Cheetah Girls 2 (2006) (TV) ** The Cheetah Girls: One World (2008) (TV)
The Children of Light (1960), H. L. Lawrence	The Damned (1963)
The Children of Men (1992), P. D. James	Children of Men (2006)
Children of Pleasure (1932), Larry Barretto	The Crash (1932)
The Children of Sanchez (1961), Oscar Lewis	The Children of Sanchez (1979)
Children of the Covered Wagon (1951), Mary Jane Carr	Westward Ho, the Wagons! (1956)
China Seas (1934), Crosbie Garstin	China Seas (1935)
The Chinese Parrot (1926), Earl Derr Biggers	The Chinese Parrot (1927)
Chocolat (1999), Joanne Harris	Chocolat (2000)
The Chocolate War (1974), Robert Cormier	The Chocolate War (1988)
Christine (1983), Stephen King	Christine (1983)
Christmas at Candleshoe (1953), J. I. M. Stewart (as Michael Innes)	Candleshoe (1977)
Christmas at Twenty-Nine (2002), Kamato Toshio	Singles (2003)
A Christmas Gift (a. k. a. The Melodeon) (1977), Glendon Swarthout	Kelly & Dolly: A Christmas to Remember (1984) (TV)
Christmas Holiday (1939), W. Somerset Maugham	Christmas Holiday (1944)
The Christmas Shoes (2002), Donna VanLiere	The Christmas Shoes (2002) * The Christmas Blessing (2005) ** The Christmas Hope (2009)
Christopher Strong (1932), Gilbert Frankau	Christopher Strong (1933)
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950–1956) (series), C.S. Lewis The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) * Prince Caspian (1951) ** The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1952) ** * The Silver Chair (1953) ** ** * The Magician's Nephew (1955)	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1967) (TV) (serial) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979) (TV) The Chronicles of Narnia (1988–1990) (TV) (serial) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1988) * Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (1989) ** The Silver Chair (1990) The Chronicles of Narnia (2005–present) (series) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) * The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) ** The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010) ** * The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew (2012)
The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968) (series), Lloyd Alexander The Book of Three (1964) * The Black Cauldron (1965)	The Black Cauldron (1985)
The Cider House Rules (1985), John Irving	The Cider House Rules (1999)
Cimarron (1929), Edna Ferber	Cimarron (1931) Cimarron (1960)
The Cincinnati Kid (1964), Richard Jessup	The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
Cinderella Liberty (1973), Darryl Ponicsan	Cinderella Liberty (1973)
Cinq semaines en ballon (Five Weeks in a Balloon) (1863), Jules Verne	Flight of the Lost Balloon (1961) Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962) Viaje Fantástico en Globo (1975)
The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935), Charles G. Finney	7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
Cirque Du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan (2000–2006) (series), Darren Shan Cirque du Freak (2000) * The Vampire's Assistant (2000) ** Tunnels of Blood (2000)	Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)
The Citadel (1937), A. J. Cronin	The Citadel (1938)
The City of Ember (2003), Jeanne DuPrau	City of Ember (2008)
City of God (Cidade de Deus) (1997), Paulo Lins	City of God (2002)
Clair de femme (1977), Romain Gary	Clair de femme (1979)
The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980), Jean Auel	The Clan of the Cave Bear (1986)
Ku Klux Klan Trilogy (1902–1907) (series), Thomas Dixon, Jr. The Leopard's Spots (1902) * The Clansman (1905) ** The Traitor (1907)	The Birth of a Nation (1915) * The Fall of a Nation (1916)
Class Reunion (Der Abituriententag) (1928), Franz Werfel	Class Reunion (1974) (TV)
Clean Break (1955), Lionel White	The Killing (1956)
Clear and Present Danger (1989), Tom Clancy	Clear and Present Danger (1994)
The Client (1993), John Grisham	The Client (1994)
Clockers (1992), Richard Price	Clockers (1995)
A Clockwork Orange (1962), Anthony Burgess	Vinyl (1965) A Clockwork Orange (1971)
El Club Dumas (The Club Dumas) (1993), Arturo Pérez-Reverte	The Ninth Gate (1999)
Cockfighter (1962), Charles Willeford	Cockfighter (1974)
Cocoon (1985), David Saperstein	Cocoon (1985) * Cocoon: The Return (1988)
The Code of the West (1934), Zane Grey	Code of the West (1925) Code of the West (1947)
Coins in the Fountain (1952), John Hermes Secondari	Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) The Pleasure Seekers (1964) Coins in the Fountain (1990)
Cold Mountain (1997), Charles Frazier	Cold Mountain (2003)
The Color of Money (1984), Walter Tevis	The Color of Money (1986)
The Color Purple (1982), Alice Walker	The Color Purple (1985)
The Colors of the Day (1952), Romain Gary	The Man Who Understood Women (1959)
Colossus (1966), Dennis Feltham Jones	Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
The Comfort of Strangers (1981), Ian McEwan	The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate) (1989), Laura Esquivel	Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Compulsion (1956), Meyer Levin	Compulsion (1959)
Comrade Jacob (1961), David Caute	Winstanley (1975)
Comrades (1909), Thomas Dixon, Jr.	Bolshevism on Trial (1919)
The Constant Nymph (1923), Margaret Kennedy	The Constant Nymph (1928) The Constant Nymph (1933) The Constant Nymph (1943)
Cool Hand Luke (1965), Donn Pearce	Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Le comte de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) (1844-1846), Alexandre Dumas, père	The Count of Monte Cristo (1908) The Count of Monte Cristo (1913) The Count of Monte Cristo (1929) The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) * The Son of Monte Cristo (1940) ** The Return of Monte Cristo (a. k. a. Monte Cristo's Revenge) (1946) El Conde de Monte Cristo (The Count of Monte Cristo) (1943) The Count of Monte Cristo (1943) Mask of the Avenger (1951) The Count of Monte Cristo (1958) (TV) The Count of Monte Cristo (1961) The Treasure of Monte Cristo (1961) The Return of Monte Cristo (a. k. a.Under the Sign of Monte Carlo) (1968) The Count of Monte Cristo (1975) (TV) The Count of Monte Cristo (1979) (TV) (serial) The Count of Monte Cristo (1955) Padayottam (1982) Veta (1986) Uznik Zamka If (1988) The Count of Monte Cristo (1998) (TV) (mini) The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)
The Comedians (1966), Graham Greene	The Comedians (1967)
Conagher (1968), Louis L'Amour	Conagher (1991) (TV)
La comtesse de Cagliostro (1924), Maurice Leblanc	Arsène Lupin (2004)
Confessions of a Crap Artist (1975), Philip K. Dick	Confessions d'un Barjo (Confessions of a Barjo) (1992)
Congo (1980), Michael Crichton	Congo (1995)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889), Mark Twain	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921) A Connecticut Yankee (1931) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) A Connecticut Yankee (1955) (TV) Un español en la corte del rey Arturo (1964) A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court (1978) (TV) Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) Novye priklyucheniya yanki pri dvore korolya Artura (1988) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1989) (TV) A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) * A Kid in Aladdin's Palace (1998) (TV) A Young Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1996) A Knight in Camelot (1998) (TV) Black Knight (2001)
The Constant Gardener (2001), John le Carré	The Constant Gardener (2005)
Contact (1985), Carl Sagan	Contact (1997)
Cool Hand Luke (1965), Donn Pearce	Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cops and Robbers (1972), Donald E. Westlake	Cops and Robbers (1973)
Corazón salvaje (Wild Heart) (1957), Caridad Bravo Adams	Corazón salvaje (1956) Juan del Diablo (1960) Corazón salvaje (1968)
Coroner Creek (1945), Luke Short	Coroner Creek (1948)
The Cowboys (1971), William Dale Jennings	The Cowboys (1972)
Cracking India (1991), Bapsi Sidhwa	Earth (1998)
Crash (1973), J. G. Ballard	Crash (1996)
Creator (1980), Jeremy Leven	Creator (1985)
O Crime do Padre Amaro (The Crime of Father Amaro, a. k. a. The Sins of Father Amaro) (1875), José Maria de Eça de Queiroz	El crimen del Padre Amaro (The Crime of Father Amaro) (2002) O Crime do Padre Amaro (2005) (TV)
Crossfire Trail (1954), Louis L'Amour	Crossfire Trail (2001) (TV)
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (1942), Wang Dulu	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)
The Cruel Sea (1951), Nicholas Monsarrat	The Cruel Sea (1953)
Cry Wolf (a. k. a. The Demarest Inheritance) (1945), Marjorie Carleton	Cry Wolf (1947)
Cutter and Bone (1976), Newton Thornburg	Cutter's Way (1981)
Cyborg (1972), Martin Caidin	The Six Million Dollar Man (1973) (TV)
Cycle of the Werewolf (1983), Stephen King	Silver Bullet (1985)
The Cypher (a. k. a. The Cipher) (1961), Gordon Cotler	Arabesque (1966)

D

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
The Da Vinci Code (2003), Dan Brown	The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Dad (1981), William Wharton	Dad (1989)
Damage (1991), Josephine Hart	Damage (1992)
La Dame aux Camélias (1848), Alexandre Dumas, fils	Camille (1909) Camille (1915) Camille (1917) Camille (1921) Camille (1926) (made by Norma Talmadge) Camille (1926) (made by Ralph Barton, and starring Charlie Chaplin) Camille (1936) Camille 2000 (1969) Camille (1984)
Damnation Alley (1967), Roger Zelazny	Damnation Alley (1977)
The Damned Utd (2006), David Peace	The Damned United (2009)
The Dancer Upstairs (1995), Nicholas Shakespeare	The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
Dances with Wolves (1986), Michael Blake	Dances with Wolves (1990)
A Dandy in Aspic (1966), Derek Marlowe	A Dandy in Aspic (1968)
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2001), Chris Fuhrman	The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys (2002)
Daniel Deronda (1876), George Eliot	Daniel Deronda (1921) Daniel Deronda (1970) Daniel Deronda (2002) (TV) (serial)
Danny, the Champion of the World (1975), Roald Dahl	Danny, the Champion of the World (1989) (TV)
Darby O'Gill and the Good People (1903), Herminie Templeton Kavanagh * Ashes of Old Wishes and Other Darby O'Gill Tales (1926), Herminie Templeton Kavanagh	Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959)
The Dark Fields (2001), Alan Glynn	Limitless (2011)
The Dark is Rising Sequence (1965–1977) (series), Susan Cooper	The Seeker: The Dark is Rising (2007)
The Dark of the Sun (1965), Wilbur Smith	Dark of the Sun (1968)
Dark Passage (1946), David Goodis	Dark Passage (1947)
David Copperfield (1849-1850) (serial) (1850) (novel), Charles Dickens	David Copperfield (1911) David Copperfield (1913) David Copperfield (1922) David Copperfield (1935) David Copperfield (1956-1966) (TV) (serial) David Copperfield (1966) (TV) (serial) David Copperfield (1969) David Copperfield (1974) (TV) (serial) David Copperfield (1986) (TV) (serial) David Copperfield (1993) (TV) David Copperfield (1999) (TV) David Copperfield (2000) (TV)
The Day of the Jackal (1971), Frederick Forsyth	The Day of the Jackal (1973) August 1 (1988) The Jackal (1997)
The Day of the Locust (1939), Nathanael West	The Day of the Locust (1975)
The Day of the Triffids (1951), John Wyndham	The Day of the Triffids (1962) The Day of the Triffids (2013)
The Day the World Ended (1977), Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts	When Time Ran Out... (1980)
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1959), John Brophy	The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
The Daybreakers (1960), Louis L'Amour * Sackett (1961), Louis L'Amour	The Sacketts (1979) (TV)
De la Terre à la Lune (From the Earth to the Moon) (1865), Jules Verne	A Trip to the Moon (1902) From the Earth to the Moon (1958) The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961) Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967) From the Earth to the Moon (1979) (TV)
Dead Calm (1963), Charles F. Williams	Dead Calm (1999)
The Dead Take No Bows (1941), Richard Bruke	Dressed to Kill (1941)
The Dead Zone (1979), Stephen King	The Dead Zone (1983)
Deadline at Dawn (1944), Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)	Deadline at Dawn (1946)
The Deadly Duo (1959), Richard Jessup	The Deadly Duo (1962)
Deadly, Unna? (1998), Phillip Gwynne	Australian Rules (2002)
Dealing: Or the Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues (1970), Michael Crichton and Douglas Crichton (as Michael Douglas)	Dealing (1972)
Dear John (2006), Nicholas Sparks	Dear John (2010)
Death of a Common Man (1946), Desmond Holdridge	The End of the River (1947)
Death on the Nile (1937), Agatha Christie	Death on the Nile (1978) Death on the Nile (2004)
Death Sentence (1975), Brian Garfield	Death Sentence (2007)
Death Wish (1972), Brian Garfield	Death Wish (1974)
The Deceivers (1952), John Masters	The Deceivers (1988)
December Boys (1963), Michael Noonan	December Boys (2007)
The Deep (1976), Peter Benchley	The Deep (1977)
The Deep End of the Ocean (1996), Jacquelyn Mitchard	The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
Deliverance (1970), James Dickey	Deliverance (1972)
Deluge (1928), S. Fowler Wright	Deluge (1933)
The Deluge (1886), Henryk Sienkiewicz	The Deluge (1974)
Demon Seed (1973), Dean Koontz	Demon Seed (1977)
D'entre les morts (1954) (The Living and the Dead (U.S. edition only, 1956)), Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac	Vertigo (1958)
Derailed (2003), James Siegel	Derailed (2005)
Desert Town (1946), Ramona Stewart	Desert Fury (1947)
Desert Gold (1913), Zane Grey	Desert Gold (1919) Desert Gold (1926) Desert Gold (1936)
Desert Guns (1957), Steve Frazee	Gold of the Seven Saints (1961)
Desert of the Heart (1964), Jane Rule	Desert Hearts (1985)
The Desperate Hours (1954), Joseph Hayes	The Desperate Hours (1955) Desperate Hours (1990) 36 Ghante (1974)
Destry Rides Again (1930), Max Brand	Destry Rides Again (1939)
The Detective (1966), Roderick Thorp	The Detective (1968)
Detective (1997), Arthur Hailey	Detective (2005) (TV)
The Devil Rides Out (1934), Dennis Wheatley	The Devil Rides Out (1967)
The Devil Wears Prada (2003), Lauren Weisberger	The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
The Devil's Advocate (1954), Morris West	Des Teufels Advokat (1977)
The Devil's Advocate (1990), Andrew Neiderman	The Devil's Advocate (1997)
The Devil's Own (1966), Norah Lofts	The Witches (1966)
The Devils (a.k.a. Demons, or The Possessed) (1872), Fyodor Dostoyevsky	The Possessed (1969) (TV) (mini) La femme publique (1984)
The Devils of Loudun (1952), Aldous Huxley (novel) * The Devils (1960), John Whiting (play) ** The Devils of Loudun (Die Teufel von Loudun) (1969) (opera)	The Devils (1971)
Le Diable au corps (The Devil in the Flesh) (1923), Raymond Radiguet	Devil in the Flesh (1947) Devil in the Flesh (1986) Devil in the Flesh (1998)
The Diamond Hunters (1971), Wilbur Smith	The Kingfisher Caper (1975)
Diamonds Are Forever (1956), Ian Fleming	Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
The Dice of God (1962), Hoffman Birney	The Glory Guys (1965)
The Dirty Dozen (1965), E. M. Nathanson	The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Dirty Weekend (1991), Helen Zahavi	Dirty Weekend (1993)
Disappearing Acts (1989), Terry McMillan	Disappearing Acts (2000)
Disclosure (1994), Michael Crichton	Disclosure (1994)
The Disorientated Man (1967), Peter Saxon	Scream and Scream Again (1970)
Il disprezzo (1954), Alberto Moravia	Contempt (1963)
A Distant Trumpet (1951), Paul Horgan	A Distant Trumpet (1964)
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (1996), Rebecca Wells	Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)
Le Divorce (1997), Diane Johnson	Le Divorce (2003)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1967), Philip K. Dick	Blade Runner (1982)
Doctor in the House (1952), Richard Gordon	Doctor in the House (1954)
Doctor Slaughter (1984), Paul Theroux	Half Moon Street (1986)
Doctor Zhivago (1957), Boris Pasternak	Doctor Zhivago (1965) Doctor Zhivago (2002) (TV) (serial)
Dodsworth (1929), Sinclair Lewis	Dodsworth (1936)
The Dogs of War (1974), Frederick Forsyth	The Dogs of War (1981)
Dog Soldiers (1974), Robert Stone	Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
Don Quixote (The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) (1605-1615), Miguel de Cervantes	Adventures of the Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote (1903) Don Quijote (1908) Don Quichotte (1908) Don Quixote (1915) Don Quixote (1923) Don Quixote (1927) Adventures of Don Quixote (1933) Don Quichotte (1933/I) Don Quichotte (1933/II) Don Quixote (1934) Don Quixote de la Mancha (1947) Don Quixote (1955–1969, unfinished) Don Quixote (1957) Don Quixote's Children (1965) Don Chisciotte e Sancho Panza (1969) Man of La Mancha (1972) The Adventures of Don Quixote (1973) (TV) The Amorous Adventures of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza (1976) Don Chisciotte (1983) (TV) Don Quixote of La Mancha (1987) Don Quijote de Orson Welles (1992) Don Quixote (2000) (TV) Don Quixote, Knight Errant (2002) Don Quixote (2010) The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (TBA 2014)
Donovan's Brain (1942), Curt Siodmak	The Lady and the Monster (1944) Donovan's Brain (1953) The Brain (1962)
Don't Look and It Won't Hurt (1971), Richard Peck	Gas Food Lodging (1992)
Don't Say a Word (1991), Andrew Klavan	Don't Say a Word (2001)
The Dork of Cork (1993), Chet Raymo	Frankie Starlight (1995)
Double Indemnity (1936) (serial), (1943) (novel), James M. Cain	Double Indemnity (1944)
The Double Take (1946), Roy Huggins	I Love Trouble (1948)
Down Will Come Baby (1993), Gloria Murphy	Down Will Come Baby (1999)
Dracula (1897), Bram Stoker	For a list of film adaptations, see the Dracula disambiguation article
The Dragon and the George (1976), Gordon R. Dickson	The Flight of Dragons (1982) (TV)
Dragon Seed (1942), Pearl S. Buck	Dragon Seed (1944)
Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984), Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman	Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight (2008)
Dream Days (1898), Kenneth Grahame	The Reluctant Dragon (1941)
The Dream Master (1966), Roger Zelazny	Dreamscape (1984)
Dreamcatcher (2001), Stephen King	Dreamcatcher (2003)
The Drift Fence (1933), Zane Grey	Drift Fence (1936)
Dr. No (1958), Ian Fleming	Dr. No (1962)
Drood (2009), Dan Simmons	Drood (TBA 2014)
The Drowning Pool (1950), Ross Macdonald	The Drowning Pool (1975)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1936), Walter D. Edmonds	Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
The Drums of Jeopardy (1920), Harold MacGrath	The Drums of Jeopardy (1923) The Drums of Jeopardy (1931)
The Dude Ranger (1951), Zane Grey	The Dude Ranger (1954)
Duel in the Sun (1941), Niven Busch	Duel in the Sun (1946)
Dune (1965), Frank Herbert	Dune (1984) Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) (TV) (mini) * Frank Herbert's Children of Dune (2003) (TV) (mini) Dune (future, TBA)
The Dying Animal (2001), Philip Roth	Elegy (2008)
Dying Young (1990), Marti Leimbach	Dying Young (1991)

E

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
The Eagle Has Landed (1975), Jack Higgins	The Eagle Has Landed (1976)
The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), Rosemary Sutcliff	The Eagle (2011)
East of Eden (1952), John Steinbeck	East of Eden (1955)
Eaters of the Dead (1976), Michael Crichton	The 13th Warrior (1999)
Eddie and the Cruisers (1980), P. F. Kluge	Eddie and the Cruisers (1983)
The Egyptian Series (1993-2007), Wilbur Smith River God (1993) * The Seventh Scroll (1995)	The Seventh Scroll (1999) (TV) (mini)
Election (1998), Tom Perrotta	Election (1999)
Elephant Walk (1948), Digby George Gerahty (as Robert Standish)	Elephant Walk (1954)
Elles n'oublient jamais (1993), Christopher Frank	Elles n'oublient jamais (1994)
Ellis Island (1983), Fred Mustard Stewart	Ellis Island (1984) (TV) (mini)
Elmer Gantry (1927), Sinclair Lewis	Elmer Gantry (1960)
Elsk meg i morgen (Love Me Tomorrow) (1999), Ingvar Ambjørnsen	Elsk meg i morgen (2005)
Emma (1815), Jane Austen	Emma (1972) (TV) (mini) Clueless (1995) Emma (1996) Emma (1996) (TV) (mini) Emma (2009) (TV) (serial) Aisha (2009)
Emil and the Detectives (1929), Erich Kästner	Emil and the Detectives (1931) Emil and the Detectives (1935) Emil and the Detectives (1954) Emil and the Detectives (1964) Emil and the Detectives (2001)
Emotional Arithmetic (1990), Matt Cohen	Emotional Arithmetic (2008)
Empire of the Sun (1984), J. G. Ballard	Empire of the Sun (1987)
The Enchanted April (1922), Elizabeth von Arnim	The Enchanted April (1935) Enchanted April (1992)
The Enchanted Voyage (1936), Robert Nathan	Wake Up and Dream (1946)
The End of the Affair (1951), Graham Greene	The End of the Affair (1955) The End of the Affair (1999)
Endless Love (1979), Scott Spencer	Endless Love (1981)
Enduring Love (1997), Ian McEwan	Enduring Love (2004)
Los Enemigos de la Mujer (1922), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez	Enemies of Women (1923)
The Enemy Below (1956), D. A. Rayner (Denys Rayner)	The Enemy Below (1957)
Enemy Mine (1979), Barry B. Longyear	Enemy Mine (1985)
Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant (The Children of Captain Grant) (1867–1868) (serial), (1873) (novel), Jules Verne	Дети капитана Гранта (Deti kapitana Granta, Captain Grant's Children) (1936) In Search of the Castaways (1962) V poiskakh kapitana Granta (1985) (TV)
The English Patient (1992), Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient (1996)
Enigma (1995), Robert Harris	Enigma (2001)
The Entity (1978), Frank De Felitta	The Entity (1981)
Eragon (2003), Christopher Paolini	Eragon (2006)
Escape (1939), Grace Zaring Stone	Escape (1940)
Escape to Witch Mountain (1968), Alexander Key	Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) * Return from Witch Mountain (1978) ** Beyond Witch Mountain (1982) (TV) Escape to Witch Mountain (1995) ** * Race to Witch Mountain (2009)
L'étoile du nord (The North Star) (1854), Georges Simenon	L'Etoile du nord (1982)
The Evening Star (1992), Larry McMurtry	The Evening Star (1996)
Everybody's All-American (1981), Frank Deford	Everybody's All-American (1988)
Everything Is Illuminated (2002), Jonathan Safran Foer	Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Evil Come, Evil Go (1961), Whit Masterson	The Yellow Canary (1963)
Evil Under the Sun (1981), Agatha Christie	Evil Under the Sun (1982) Evil Under the Sun (2001) (TV)
The Executioners (1957), John D. MacDonald	Cape Fear (1962) Cape Fear (1991)
Executive Suite (1952), Cameron Hawley	Executive Suite (1954)
Exit to Eden (1984), Anne Rice (as Anne Rampling)	Exit To Eden (1994)
Exit Wounds (1990), John Westermann	Exit Wounds (2001)
Exodus (1958), Leon Uris	Exodus (1960)
The Exorcist (1971), William Peter Blatty	The Exorcist (1973) * Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) ** The Exorcist III (1990) ** * Exorcist: The Beginning (2004) ** ** Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
Experiment Perilous (1943), Margaret Carpenter	Experiment Perilous (1944)
Extension du domaine de la lutte (Broadening the Trial of the Struggle, a.k.a. Whatever) (1994), Michel Houellebecq	Extension du domaine de la lutte (1999)
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), Jonathan Safran Foer	Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2012)
The Eye of the Beholder (1980), Marc Behm	Deadly Circuit (Mortelle randonnée) (1983) Eye of the Beholder (1999)
Eye of the Needle (a.k.a. Storm Island) (1978), Ken Follett	Eye of the Needle (1981) Fanaa (2006)

F

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Fahrenheit 451 (1953), Ray Bradbury	Fahrenheit 451 (1966) Fahrenheit 451 (TBA 2012)
Fail-Safe (1962), Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler	Fail-Safe (1964) Fail-Safe (2000) (TV)
The Fair Bride (1953), Bruce Marshall	The Angel Wore Red (1960)
The Fall of a Nation (1916), Thomas Dixon, Jr.	The Fall of a Nation (1916)
Falling Angel (1978), William Hjortsberg	Angel Heart (1987)
False Witness (1981), Dorothy Uhnak	1989 False Witness (TV movie) (novel)
The Family Band: From the Missouri to the Black Hills, 1881-1900 (1962), Laura Bower Van Nuys	The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968)
Family Business (1985), Vincent Patrick	Family Business (1989)
The Fan (1995), Peter Abrahams	The Fan (1996)
The Fan (1978), Bob Randall	The Fan (1981)
Fantastic Mr Fox (1970), Roald Dahl	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Thomas Hardy	Far from the Madding Crowd (1915) Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Far from the Madding Crowd (1998) Far from the Madding Crowd (2012)
Farewell My Concubine (1991), Lilian Lee	Farewell My Concubine (1993)
A Farewell to Arms (1929), Ernest Hemingway	A Farewell to Arms (1932) A Farewell to Arms (1957) In Love and War (1996)
Farewell to the King (L'Adieu au Roi) (1969) Pierre Schoendoerffer	Farewell to the King (1989)
Fate Is the Hunter (1961), Ernest K. Gann	Face Is the Hunter (1964)
Father Malachy's Miracle (1931)	Das Wunder des Malachias (1961)
Father of Frankenstein (1995), Christopher Bram	Gods and Monsters (1998)
Father of the Bride (1949), Edward Streeter	Father of the Bride (1950) * Father's Little Dividend (1951) Father of the Bride (1991) * Father of the Bride Part II (1995)
Father Sky (1979), Devery Freeman	Taps (1981)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971), Hunter S. Thompson	Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
The Feather Men (1991), Sir Ranulph Fiennes	Killer Elite (2011)
The Fellowship of the Ring (1953), J. R. R. Tolkien	J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1978) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
La Femme et le pantin (The Woman and the Puppet) (1898), Pierre Louÿs	La Femme et le Pantin (1928) The Devil Is a Woman (1935) La Femme et le Pantin (1959) That Obscure Object of Desire (1977)
Femmes de personnes (1983), Christopher Frank	Femmes de personne (1984)
Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within, a. k. a. Will O' the Wisp) (1931), Pierre Drieu La Rochelle	The Fire Within (Le feu follet) (1963)
Fever Pitch: A Fan's Life (1992), Nick Hornby	Fever Pitch (1997) Fever Pitch (2005)
Fiddler's Green (1950), Ernest K. Gann	The Raging Tide (1951)
Fight Club (1996), Chuck Palahniuk	Fight Club (1999)
Fighting Caravans (1929), Zane Grey	Fighting Caravans (1931) Wagon Wheels (1934)
The Final Programme (1968), Michael Moorcock	The Final Programme (1973)
Fire on the Mountain (1962), Edward Abbey	Fire on the Mountain (1981) (TV)
Firefox (1977), Craig Thomas	Firefox (1982)
Firestarter (1980), Stephen King	Firestarter (1984) * Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002)
The Firm (1991), John Grisham	The Firm (1993)
First Blood (1972), David Morrell	Rambo (1982–2008) (series) First Blood (1982) * Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) ** Rambo III (1988) ** * Rambo (2007)
First Love, Last Rites (1975), Ian McEwan	Schmetterlinge (1988) First Love, Last Rites (1997) Solid Geometry (2002) (short film) Butterflies (2005)
The First Men in the Moon (1901), H. G. Wells	A Trip to the Moon (1902) The First Men in the Moon (1919) First Men in the Moon (1964) The First Men in the Moon (2010) (TV) The First Men in the Moon 3D (2012)
The First Wives Club (1992), Olivia Goldsmith	The First Wives Club (1996)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003), Mitch Albom	The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)
The Fixer (1966), Bernard Malamud	The Fixer (1968)
Flaming Youth (1921), Samuel Hopkins Adams	Flaming Youth (1923)
Flashpoint (1976), George LaFountaine	Flashpoint (1984)
Fletch (1974), Gregory Mcdonald	Fletch (1985) * Fletch Lives (1989)
Fletch Won (1985), Gregory Mcdonald	Fletch Won (2013)
Flight of the Intruder (1986), Stephen Coonts	Flight of the Intruder (1991)
The Flight of the Phoenix (1964), Elleston Trevor	The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) Flight of the Phoenix (2004)
Flowers in the Attic (1979), V.C. Andrews	Flowers in the Attic (1987)
Flowing Gold (1922), Rex Beach	Flowing Gold (1940)
Focus (1945), Arthur Miller	Focus (2002)
The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth (1904), H. G. Wells	Village of the Giants (1965) The Food of the Gods (1976) * Food of the Gods II (1989)
The Fool of the Family (1930), Margaret Kennedy	Escape Me Never (1935) Escape Me Never (1947)
Fools' Gold (1958), Dolores Hitchens	Bande à part (Band of Outsiders) (1964)
For Love of the Game (1991), Michael Shaara	For Love of the Game (1999)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940), Ernest Hemingway	For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1956) (TV) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1966) (TV)
The Forbidden Territory (1933), Dennis Wheatley	Forbidden Territory (1934)
Force 10 From Navarone (1968), Alistair MacLean	Force 10 from Navarone (1978)
Forever Amber (1944), Kathleen Winsor	Forever Amber (1947)
The Forever War (1974), Joe Haldeman	The Forever War (TBA 2014)
Forlorn River (1927), Zane Grey	Forlorn River (1937)
The Formula (1979), Steve Shagan	The Formula (1980)
Forrest Gump (1986), Winston Groom	Forrest Gump (1994)
The Forsyte Saga (1906–1922) (series), John Galsworthy	That Forsyte Woman (1949) The Forsyte Saga (2002) (TV) (mini)
The Fountainhead (1943), Ayn Rand	The Fountainhead (1949)
The Four Feathers (1902), A. E. W. Mason	Four Feathers (1915) The Four Feathers (1921) The Four Feathers (1929) The Four Feathers (1939) Storm Over the Nile (1955) The Four Feathers (1977) The Four Feathers (2002)
The Fourth Protocol (1984), Frederick Forsyth	The Fourth Protocol (1987)
The Fox and the Hound (1967), Daniel Pratt Mannix IV	The Fox and the Hound (1981) * The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006)
F.P.1 Doesn't Answer (a.k.a. F.P.1, or F.P.1 Doesn't Respond) (1933), Curt Siodmak	F.P.1 antwortet nicht (1932) F.P.1 Doesn't Respond (1933) F.P.1 ne repond pas (1933)
Frank Merriwell (1896-1940s) (series), Gilbert Patten	The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936) (serial)
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (1818), Mary Shelley	Frankenstein (1910) Life Without Soul (1915) Universal series Frankenstein (1931) * Bride of Frankenstein (1935) ** Son of Frankenstein (1939) ** * The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) ** ** Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943) ** ** * House of Frankenstein (1944) ** ** ** House of Dracula (1945) ** ** ** * Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Hammer series The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) * The Revenge of Frankenstein (1958) ** The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) ** * Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) ** ** Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) ** ** * The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) ** ** ** Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974) Frankenstein 1970 (1958) Toho series Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965) * The War of the Gargantuas (1966) Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) Andy Warhol's Frankenstein (1973) Frankenstein: The True Story (1973) Blackenstein (1973) Young Frankenstein (1974) The Bride (1985) Frankenstein Unbound (1990) Frankenstein (1994) Monster Mash (1995) House of Frankenstein 1997 (1997) (TV) (mini) Van Helsing (2004) Frankenstein (2004) Frankenstein (2004) (TV) (mini) Frankenstein (2007)
Die Frau im Mond (The Woman in the Moon) (1928), Thea von Harbou	Frau im Mond (Woman in the Moon) (1929)
Freaky Friday (1972), Mary Rodgers	Freaky Friday (1976) * A Billion for Boris (1984) (TV) ** Summer Switch (1984) (TV) Freaky Friday (1995) Freaky Friday (2003) * Freaky Monday (2013)
Freedomland (1998), Richard Price	Freedomland (2006)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969), John Fowles	The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café (1987), Fannie Flagg	Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
Friend (1985), Diana Henstell	Deadly Friend (1986)
The Friendly Persuasion (1945), Jessamyn West * Except for Me and Thee (1955), Jessamyn West	Friendly Persuasion (1956) Friendly Persuasion (1975)
From Here to Eternity (1951), James Jones	From Here to Eternity (1953)
From Russia, with Love (1957), Ian Fleming	From Russia with Love (1963)
From the Terrace (1958), John O'Hara	From the Terrace (1960)
Funeral in Berlin (1964) Len Deighton	Funeral in Berlin (1966)
Funny Farm (1985), Jay Cronley	Funny Farm (1988)
The Furies (1945), Niven Busch	The Furies (1950)
The Fury (1976), John Farris	The Fury (1978)
The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1956), Sylvia Tate	The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown (1957)

G

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Game no na wa Yuukai (a.k.a. Geimu no na wa Yuukai (The Name of the Game is Kidnapping)) (2002), Keigo Higashino	G@me (2003)
The Game of X (1965), Robert Sheckley	Condorman (1981)
The Garden of Allah (1904), Robert Smythe Hichens	The Garden of Allah (1916) The Garden of Allah (1927) The Garden of Allah (1936)
The Garden of God (1923), Henry De Vere Stacpoole	Return to the Blue Lagoon (1991)
Gardens of Stone (1983), Nicholas Proffitt	Gardens of Stone (1987)
The Gay Sisters (1942), Stephen Longstreet	The Gay Sisters (1942)
Gentle Annie (1942), MacKinlay Kantor	Gentle Annie (1944)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady (1925), Anita Loos	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928) (presumed lost film) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
Geordie (1950), David Walker	Geordie (1955)
Georgy Girl (1965), Margaret Forster	Georgy Girl (1966)
Get Shorty (1990), Elmore Leonard	Get Shorty (1995)
The Getaway (1959), Jim Thompson	The Getaway (1972) The Getaway (1994)
Ghôre Baire (The Home and the World) (a.k.a. ঘরে বাইরে lit. At Home and Outside) (1916), Rabindranath Tagore	Ghare Baire (1984)
The Ghost (2007), Robert Harris	The Ghost Writer (2010)
The Ghost and Mrs Muir (1945), Josephine Leslie (as R. A. Dick)	The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Giant (1952), Edna Ferber	Giant (1956)
Gidget, the Little Girl with Big Ideas (1957), Frederick Kohner	Gidget (1959)
Gigi (1944), Colette	Gigi (1949) Gigi (1958)
The Gingerbread Man (written in 1994, yet left unpublished), John Grisham	The Gingerbread Man (1998)
The Girl from Petrovka (1972), George Feifer	The Girl from Petrovka (1974)
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1966–1967) (serial), (1967) (novel), Yasutaka Tsutsui	The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1983) The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1997) Morning Musume: Shinshun! Love Stories (2002) (TV) The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) Time Traveller: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2010)
Girl with a Pearl Earring (1999), Tracy Chevalier	Girl with a Pearl Earring (2003)
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (2000), Melissa Bank	Suburban Girl (2008) The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing (2012)
The Glass Inferno (1974), Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson	The Towering Inferno (1974)
Glitz (1985), Elmore Leonard	Glitz (1988) (TV)
Glory for Me (1945), MacKinlay Kantor	The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Gnomes (a.k.a. Leven en werken van de Kabouter) (1977), Wil Huygen and Rien Poortvliet	Gnomes (1980)
The Gnomobile (1937), Upton Sinclair	The Gnome-Mobile (1967)
The Go-Between (1953), L. P. Hartley	The Go-Between (1970)
God and My Country (1954), MacKinlay Kantor	Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
The Godfather (1969), Mario Puzo	The Godfather (1972) * The Godfather Part II (1974) ** The Godfather Part III (1990)
Gods and Generals (1996), Jeffrey Shaara	Gettysburg (1993) Gods and Generals (2003)
The Gods Hate Kansas (1964), Joseph Millard	They Came from Beyond Space (1967)
God's Little Acre (1933), Erskine Caldwell	God's Little Acre (1958)
Gold Coast (1980), Elmore Leonard	Gold Coast (1997) (TV)
Gold Mine (1970), Wilbur Smith	Gold (1974)
The Golden Bowl (1904), Henry James	The Golden Bowl (1971) (TV) (mini) The Golden Bowl (2000)
The Golden Evenings of Summer (1971), Will Stanton	Charley and the Angel (1973)
The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino (1936), Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy	The Adventures of Buratino (1959) The Adventures of Buratino (1975)
Goldfinger (1959), Ian Fleming	Goldfinger (1964)
Gone with the Wind (1936), Margaret Mitchell	Gone with the Wind (1939)
The Good Earth (1931), Pearl S. Buck	The Good Earth (1937)
The Good German (2001), Joseph Kanon	The Good German (2006)
A Good Year (2004), Peter Mayle	A Good Year (2006)
Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square (1969), Arthur La Bern	Frenzy (1972)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1934), James Hilton	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2004) (TV) (serial) Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2004) (TV)
Gorky Park (1981), Martin Cruz Smith	Gorky Park (1983)
Grand Canary (1933), A. J. Cronin	Grand Canary (1934)
The Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Steinbeck	The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Great Bank Robbery (1969), Frank O'Rourke	The Great Bank Robbery (1969)
The Great Dinosaur Robbery (1970), David Eliades and Robert Forrest Webb (as David Forrest)	One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975)
Great Expectations (1860–1861) (serial) (1861) (novel), Charles Dickens	Great Expectations (1917) Great Expectations (1922) Great Expectations (1934) Great Expectations (1946) Great Expectations (1967) (TV) (mini) Great Expectations (1974) (TV) Great Expectations (1981) (TV) (serial) Great Expectations (1983) Great Expectations (1989) (TV) (mini) Great Expectations (1998) Great Expectations (1999) (TV) Great Expectations (2011) (TV)
The Great Gatsby (1925), F. Scott Fitzgerald	The Great Gatsby (1926) The Great Gatsby (1949) The Great Gatsby (1974) The Great Gatsby (2000) (TV) G (2002) The Great Gatsby (2007) The Great Gatsby (2013)
The Great Man (1955), Al Morgan	The Great Man (1956)
The Great Santini (1976), Pat Conroy	The Great Santini (1979)
The Great Train Robbery (1975), Michael Crichton	The First Great Train Robbery (1979)
The Great West That Was (1900s), William "Buffalo Bill" Cody	The Indians are Coming (1930) (serial) Rustlers of Red Dog (1935) (serial)
Green for Danger (1944), Christianna Brand	Green for Danger (1946)
Green Grass of Wyoming (1946), Mary O'Hara	Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904), William Henry Hudson	Green Mansions (1959)
The Green Mile (1996) (serial/novel), Stephen King	The Green Mile (1999)
The Green Years (1944), A. J. Cronin	The Green Years (1946)
The Greengage Summer (1958), Rumer Godden	The Greengage Summer (1961)
Grendel (1971), John Gardner	Grendel Grendel Grendel (1981)
The Grifters (1963), Jim Thompson	The Grifters (1990)
The Grizzly King: A Romance of the Wild (1916), James Oliver Curwood	L'Ours (The Bear) (1988)
Gros câlin (1974), (as Émile Ajar)	Gros câlin (1979)
The Grotesque (1989), Patrick McGrath	The Grotesque (1995) (a. k. a. Grave Indiscretion, Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets)
The Group (1963), Mary McCarthy	The Group (1966)
De Griezelbus (1991–2006) (series), Paul van Loon	Gruesome School Trip (2005)
La Guerre des boutons (The War of the Buttons) (1912), Louis Pergaud	War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) (1962) War of the Buttons (1994)
The Guilty Head (1969), Romain Gary	Les faussaires (1994)
Gulliver's Travels (1726), Jonathan Swift	Le Voyage de Gulliver à Lilliput et chez les géants (1902) The New Gulliver (1935) Gulliver's Travels (1939) The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960) Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (1965) Gulliver's Travels (1977) Gulliver's Travels (1996) (TV) (mini) Gulliver's Travels (2010)
The Guns of Navarone (1957), Alistair MacLean	The Guns of Navarone (1961)
Gun of the Timberlands (1955), Louis L'Amour	Guns of the Timberlands (1960)
The Gypsy Moths (1955), James William Drought (as James Drought)	The Gypsy Moths (1969)

H

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
H.M. Pulham, Esquire (1942), John P. Marquand	H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
Hababam Sınıfı (1975), Rifat Ilgaz	Hababam Sınıfı (1975)
A Hall of Mirrors (1967), Robert Stone	WUSA (1970)
The Hamlet (1940), William Faulkner	The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
Hammers Over the Anvil (1952), Alan Marshall	Hammers Over the Anvil (1991)
The Handmaid's Tale (1985), Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
Hannibal (1999), Thomas Harris	Hannibal (2001)
Happy Land (1943), MacKinlay Kantor	Happy Land (1943)
Al-Haram (The Forbidden) (1961), Yusuf Idris	Al Haram (1965)
The Harder They Fall (1946), Budd Schulberg	The Harder They Fall (1956)
Harry Black (1956), David Walker	Harry Black (1958)
Harry Potter (1997–2007) (series), J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (1997) * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998) ** Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (1999) ** * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2000) ** ** Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2003) ** ** * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2005) ** ** ** Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007)	Harry Potter (2001–2011) (series) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) * Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) ** Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) ** * Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) ** ** Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007) ** ** * Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009) ** ** ** Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 (2010) ** ** ** Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 (2011)
Hart's War (1999), John Katzenbach	Hart's War (2002)
The Harvest (1950), Galina Nikolayeva	The Return of Vasili Bortnikov (1953)
The Harvey Girls (1942), Samuel Hopkins Adams	The Harvey Girls (1946)
Hating Alison Ashley (1984), Robin Klein	Hating Alison Ashley (2005)
Hatter's Castle (1931), A. J. Cronin	Hatter's Castle (1942)
Haunted Harbor (1944), Ewart Adamson (as Dayle Douglas)	Haunted Harbor (1944)
The Haunting of Hill House (1959), Shirley Jackson	The Haunting (1963) The Haunting (1999)
Hawaii (1959), James A. Michener	Hawaii (1966) * The Hawaiians (1970)
Hawk of the Wilderness (1933), William L. Chester	Hawk of the Wilderness (1938)
He Ran All the Way (1948), Sam Ross	He Ran All the Way (1951)
Header (1995), Edward Lee	Header (2006)
Headhunters (2001), Jules Bass	Monte Carlo (2011)
The Heart of the Matter (1948), Graham Greene	The Heart of the Matter (1953) The Heart of the Matter (1983) (TV)
The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (1961), Jin Yong	Story of the Sword and the Sabre (1963–1965) Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre (1978) The Hidden Power of the Dragon Sabre (1984) Kung Fu Cult Master (1993)
Heidi (1880), Johanna Spyri	Heidi (1937) Heidi (1952) * Heidi and Peter (1955) Heidi (1959) Heidi (1968) (TV) The Story of Heidi (1974) (TV) Heidi's Song (1982) Heidi (1993) (mini) Heidi (1996) Heidi (2005) (animated feature film produced by Nelvana) Heidi (2005) (live-action film directed by Paul Marcus) Heidi 4 Paws (2008)
Hell House (1971), Richard Matheson	The Legend of Hell House (1973)
The Hellbound Heart (1986), Clive Barker	Hellraiser (1987)
Heller with a Gun (1954), Louis L'Amour	Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
The Help (2009), Kathryn Stockett	The Help (2011)
The Heritage of the Desert (1910), Zane Grey	Heritage of the Desert (1924) Heritage of the Desert (1932) Heritage of the Desert (1939)
The High and the Mighty (1953), Ernest K. Gann	The High and the Mighty (1954)
High Fidelity (1995), Nick Hornby	High Fidelity (2000)
The History of Mr. Polly (1910), H. G. Wells	The History of Mr. Polly (1949)
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749), Henry Fielding	Tom Jones (1917) Tom Jones (1963) The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976) Tom Jones (1996) (TV) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1997) (TV)
A History of Violence (1997), John Wagner	A History of Violence (2005)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Douglas Adams	The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2004)
The Hobbit (1937), J. R. R. Tolkien	The Hobbit (1977) (TV) The Hobbit (2012–2013) (series) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) * The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2013)
The Holcroft Covenant (1978), Robert Ludlum	The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
The Holy Innocents (1988), Gilbert Adair	The Dreamers (2003)
Hombre (1961), Elmore Leonard	Hombre (1967)
The Honorary Consul (1973), Graham Greene	The Honorary Consul (1983)
Hopalong Cassidy (1906–1941) (series), Clarence E. Mulford	Hopalong Cassidy (1935–1938) (series)
Horrid Henry (1994–2011) (series), Francesca Simon	Horrid Henry: The Movie (2011)
Horseman, Pass By (1961), Larry McMurtry	Hud (1963)
The Host (2008), Stephenie Meyer	The Host (2013)
The Hot Rock (1970), Donald E. Westlake	The Hot Rock (1972)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901–1902) (serial), (1902) (novel), Arthur Conan Doyle	The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1937) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) Bees Saal Baad (1962) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978) The Hound of the Baskervilles (1981) The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000) (TV) The Hound of the Baskervilles (2002) (TV)
The Hound of Florence (1923), Felix Salten	The Shaggy Dog (1959) * The Shaggy D.A. (1976) ** The Return of the Shaggy Dog (1987) (TV) The Shaggy Dog (1994) (TV) The Shaggy Dog (2006)
The Hour Before Dawn (1942), W. Somerset Maugham	The Hour Before the Dawn (1944)
The Hours (1998), Michael Cunningham	The Hours (2002)
How Green Was My Valley (1939), Richard Llewellyn	How Green Was My Valley (1941)
Howards End (1910), E. M. Forster	Howards End (1992)
The Howling (1977), Gary Brandner	The Howling (1981) Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch (1985) Howling III (1987) Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988) Howling V: The Rebirth (1990) Howling VI: The Freaks (1992) Howling: New Moon Rising (1994)
The Human Stain (2000), Philip Roth	The Human Stain (2003)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Notre-Dame de Paris ("Our Lady of Paris") ) (1831), Victor Hugo	Esmeralda (1905) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1911) The Darling of Paris (1917) Esmeralda (1922) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1966) (TV) Kubra Aashiq (1973) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1977) (TV) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982) (TV) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1986) (TV) The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) * The Hunchback of Notre Dame II (2002) The Hunchback (1997) Quasimodo d'El Paris (1999)
The Hundred and One Dalmatians (1956), Dodie Smith	One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) * 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure (2003) 101 Dalmatians (1996) * 102 Dalmatians (2000)
The Hunger Games Trilogy (2008–2010) (series), Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games (2008) * Catching Fire (2009) ** Mockingjay (2010)	The Hunger Games Trilogy (2012–2014) (series) The Hunger Games (2012) * Catching Fire (2013) ** Mockingjay (TBA 2014)
The Hunt for Red October (1984), Tom Clancy	The Hunt for Red October (1990)
The Hunter (1962), Donald E. Westlake (as Richard Stark)	Point Blank (1967) Payback (1999) Full Contact (2003)
The Hustler (1959), Walter Tevis	The Hustler (1961)

I

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
I Am Legend (1954), Richard Matheson	The Last Man on Earth (1964) The Omega Man (1971) I Am Legend (2007) I Am Ωmega (2007)
I Am Number Four (2010), Pittacus Lore	I Am Number Four (2011)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1973), Lois Duncan	I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997) * I Still Know What You Did Last Summer (2000) ** I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer (2006) (V)
I Love You, Beth Cooper (2007), Larry Doyle	I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)
Ice Station Zebra (1963), Alistair MacLean	Ice Station Zebra (1968)
If I Die Before I Wake (1938), Sherwood King	The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
The IPCRESS File (1962), Len Deighton	The Ipcress File (1965)
L'Île mystérieuse (The Mysterious Island) (1874), Jules Verne	20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) The Mysterious Island (1929) Mysterious Island (1941) Mysterious Island (1951) (serial) Mysterious Island (1961) La Isla misteriosa y el capitán Nemo (L'Île mystérieuse) (1973) (TV) (mini) Mysterious Island (1982) Mysterious Island (2005) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
The Illustrated Man (1951), Ray Bradbury	The Illustrated Man (1968)
Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front) (1929), Erich Maria Remarque	All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) * The Road Back (1937) All Quiet on the Western Front (1979) (TV)
Imagining Argentina (1987), Lawrence Thornton	Imagining Argentina (2003)
Immortality, Inc. (1959), Robert Sheckley	Freejack (1992)
An Imperfect Lover (1928), Robert Gore-Browne	Cynara (1932)
In Country (1985), Bobbie Ann Mason	In Country (1989)
The Incredible Journey (1961), Sheila Burnford	The Incredible Journey (1963) Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) * Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)
Incubus (1976), Ray Russell	The Incubus (1981)
Indian Country (1953), Dorothy M. Johnson	A Man Called Horse (1970) * The Return of a Man Called Horse (1976) ** Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1983)
The Innocent (1990), Ian McEwan	The Innocent (1993)
Instruct My Sorrows (1942), Clare Jaynes	My Reputation (1946)
Interview with the Vampire (1976), Anne Rice	Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
The Investigation (1977), Dorothy Uhnak	Kojak: The Price of Justice (1987) (TV)
The Invisible Man (1897), H. G. Wells	The Invisible Man (1933) * The Invisible Man Returns (1940) ** The Invisible Woman (1940) ** * Invisible Agent (1942) ** ** The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944) ** ** * Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
In the Heat of the Night (1965), John Bell	In the Heat of the Night (1967) * They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970) ** The Organization (1971)
In This House of Brede (1969), Rumer Godden	In This House of Brede (1975) (TV)
The Iron Man (1968), Ted Hughes	The Iron Giant (1999)
The Iron Trail (1913), Rex Beach	The Iron Trail (1921)
The Island (1979), Peter Benchley	The Island (1980)
Island in the Sky (1944), Ernest K. Gann	Island in the Sky (1953)
The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), H. G. Wells	Island of Lost Souls (1932) Terror Is a Man (1959) The Island of Doctor Agor (1971) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1977) The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
Islands in the Stream (1970), Ernest Hemingway	Islands in the Stream (1977)
It (1986), Stephen King	It (1990) (TV) It (2011)
It Can't Happen Here (1935), Sinclair Lewis	Shadow of the Land (a.k.a. United States: It Can't Happen Here) (1968) (TV)
Ivanhoe (1820), Sir Walter Scott	Ivanhoe (1913) Ivanhoe (1952) Ivanhoe (1970) (TV) (mini) Ivanhoe (1982) The Ballad of the Valiant Knight Ivanhoe (Баллада о доблестном рыцаре Айвенго) (1983) Ivanhoe (1986) Ivanhoe (1997) (TV) The Legend of Ivanhoe (1999) (TV) Darkest Knight (2000) (TV)

J

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Jack in the Box (1980), William Kotzwinkle	Book of Love (1990)
Jack's Return Home (1970), Ted Lewis	Get Carter (1971) Hit Man (1972) Get Carter (2000)
James and the Giant Peach (1961), Roald Dahl	James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Jane Eyre (1847), Charlotte Brontë (as Currer Bell)	Jane Eyre (1915) The Castle of Thornfield (1915) Woman and Wife (1918) Jane Eyre (1921) Orphan of Lowood (1926) Jane Eyre (1934) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) Jane Eyre (1944) Sangdil (1952) (a.k.a. Jane Eyre) The Orphan Girl (1956) El Secreto (English: "The Secret") (1963) Jane Eyre (1970) Shanti Nilayam (1972) Ardiente Secreto (1978) (English: "Ardent Secret") (1978) Jane Eyre (1996) Jane Eyre (2011)
Jassy (1944), Norah Lofts	Jassy (1947)
Jaws (1974), Peter Benchley	Jaws (1975–1987) (series) Jaws (1975) * Jaws 2 (1978) ** Jaws 3-D (1983) ** * Jaws: The Revenge (1987)
Jean le Bleu (1932), Jean Giono	La femme du boulanger (The Baker's Wife) (1938)
The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903), Bram Stoker	The Curse of the Mummy (1970) (TV) Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) The Awakening (1980) Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy (1997)
Jim Kane (1970), Joseph P. Brown	Pocket Money (1972)
Jimmy the Kid (1967), Donald E. Westlake (as Richard Stark)	Come ti rapisco il pupo (1976) Jimmy the Kid (1982) Jimmy the Kid (1998)
Jitter Joint (1999), Howard Swindle	D-Tox (a. k. a. Eye See You) (2002)
Johnny Tremain (1944), Esther Forbes	Johnny Tremain (1957)
Josepha (1981), Christopher Frank	Josepha (1982)
Journal d'un curé de campagne (1936), Georges Bernanos	Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
A Journey to Matecumbe (1961), Robert Lewis Taylor	Treasure of Matecumbe (1976)
Journey to Shiloh (1960), Henry Wilson Allen	Journey to Shiloh (1963)
Journey to the West (1590s), Wu Cheng'en	Havoc in Heaven (1961) Shaw Brothers Studio film series: Monkey Goes West (1966) * Princess Iron Fan (1966) ** Cave of the Silken Web (1967) ** * The Land of Many Perfumes (1968) A Chinese Odyssey (1995) Heavenly Legend (1998) A Chinese Tall Story (2005) The Fire Ball (2005) The Adventures of Super Monkey (2007) The Forbidden Kingdom (2008) The Monkey King (2012) Journey to the West (future, TBA)
The Joy Luck Club (1989), Amy Tan	The Joy Luck Club (1993)
Jude the Obscure (1895), Thomas Hardy	Jude the Obscure (1971) Jude (1996)
A Judgement in Stone (1977), Ruth Rendell	La Cérémonie (1995)
The Juggler (1965), Donald E. Westlake (as Richard Stark)	Made in USA (1966)
Jumanji (1981), Chris Van Allsburg	Jumanji (1995)
The Jungle Book (1894), Rudyard Kipling * The Second Jungle Book (1895), Rudyard Kipling	Elephant Boy (1937) Jungle Book (1942) The Jungle Book (1967) * The Jungle Book 2 (2003) Adventures of Mowgli (1967) Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book (1994) * The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli & Baloo (1997) ** Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998) Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book (1998)
Jupiter Laughs (1940), A. J. Cronin	Shining Victory (1941) Ich suche Dich (I Seek You) (156)
Jurassic Park (1990), Michael Crichton	Jurassic Park (1993–present) (series) Jurassic Park (1993) * The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) ** Jurassic Park III (2001)
The Jungle (1906), Upton Sinclair	The Jungle (1914)
Justine (1957), Lawrence Durrell	Justine (1969)

K

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Kaitei Gunkan (1902–1907), Shunro Oshikawa Kaitei Okoku (1931), Shigeru Komatsuzaki	Atragon (1963) Super Atragon (1995)
Kenka erejii (1963), Takashi Suzuki	Fighting Elegy (1966)
The Keys of the Kingdom (1941), A. J. Cronin	The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)
Khamphiphaksa (The Judgment) (1981), Chart Korbjitti	Ai-Fak (2004)
Kidnapped (1886), Robert Louis Stevenson	Kidnapped (1938) Kidnapped (1960) Kidnapped (1971) Kidnapped (1995)
The King's Damosel (1976), Vera Chapman	Quest for Camelot (1998)
King Solomon's Mines (1885), Sir H. Rider Haggard	Allan Quatermain (1919) King Solomon's Mines (1937) King Solomon's Mines (1950) * Watusi (1959) King Solomon's Treasure (1977) King Solomon's Mines (1985) * Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987) King Solomon's Mines (1986) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) King Solomon's Mines (2004) (TV) (mini) Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls (2008)
King's Ransom (1959), Evan Hunter (as Ed McBain)	High and Low (1963)
Kings Go Forth (1956), Joe David Brown	Kings Go Forth (1958)
Kings Row (1940), Henry Bellamann	Kings Row (1942)
The Killer Angels (1974), Michael Shaara	Gettysburg (1993)
The Killer Inside Me (1952), Jim Thompson	The Killer Inside Me (1976) The Killer Inside Me (2010)
Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul (1905), H. G. Wells	Kipps (1921) Kipps (1941) Kipps (1960) (TV) (serial) Half a Sixpence (1967)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1976), Manuel Puig	Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Kiss the Girls (1995), James Patterson	Kiss the Girls (1997)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948), Horace McCoy	Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
The Klansman (1967), William Bradford Huie	The Klansman (1974)
The Kolchak Papers (1970), Jeff Rice	Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1972–1976) (series) The Night Stalker (1972) (TV) * The Night Strangler (1973) (TV) ** Crackle of Death (1974) (TV) *** The Demon and the Mummy (1976) (TV)
Kowloon Tong (1997), Paul Theroux	Chinese Box (1997)
Kuroi Ame (Black Rain) (1966), Masuji Ibuse	Black Rain (1989)

L

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
L.A. Confidential (1990), James Ellroy	L.A. Confidential (1997)
Lad: A Dog (1919), Albert Payson Terhune	Lad: A Dog (1963)
Lady Audley's Secret (1862), Mary Elizabeth Braddon	Lady Audley's Secret (1912) Lady Audley's Secret (a. k. a. Secrets of Society) (1915) Lady Audley's Secret (1920) Lady Audley's Secret (2000)
Lady L (1958), Romain Gary	Lady L (1965)
The Lair of the White Worm (1911), Bram Stoker	The Lair of the White Worm (1988)
La lampe dans la fenêtre (1972), Pauline Cadieux	Cordélia (1980)
The Land That Time Forgot (1918), Edgar Rice Burroughs	The Caspak Trilogy (1975–1977) (series) The Land That Time Forgot (1975) * The People That Time Forgot (1977) The Land That Time Forgot (2009)
Lassie Come-Home (1940), Eric Knight	Lassie (1943–2005) (series) Lassie Come Home (1943) * Son of Lassie (1945) ** Courage of Lassie (1946) *** Hills of Home (1948) **** The Sun Comes Up (1949) ***** Challenge to Lassie (1950) ****** The Painted Hills (1951) ******* Lassie's Great Adventure (1963) ******** The Magic of Lassie (1988) ********* Lassie (1994) ********** Lassie (2005)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), Edward Bulwer-Lytton	The Last Days of Pompeii (1900) The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) (1908) The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) (1913) The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) (1926) The Last Days of Pompeii (1935) The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei, Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi) (1950) The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) (1959)
The Last Detail (1970), Darryl Ponicsan	The Last Detail (1973)
The Last Hunt (1954), Milton Lott	The Last Hunt (1956)
The Last of the Duanes (1913) (written), (1996) (published), Zane Grey	The Last of the Duanes (1919) The Last of the Duanes (1924) The Last of the Duanes (1930) El último de los Vargas (1930) Last of the Duanes (1941)
The Last of the Mohicans (1826), James Fenimore Cooper	The Last of the Mohicans (1912) The Last of the Mohicans (1920) (made in America) Der Letzte der Mohikaner (The Last of the Mohicans) (1920) (made in Germany) The Last of the Mohicans (1932) (serial) The Last of the Mohicans (1936) The Last of the Mohicans (1971) (TV) (serial) The Last of the Mohicans (1977) (TV) The Last of the Mohicans (1992)
The Last Picture Show (1966), Larry McMurtry	The Last Picture Show (1971)
The Last Ride (1996), Thomas Eidson	The Missing (2003)
The Last Song (2009), Nicholas Sparks	The Last Song (2010)
Last Stand at Papago Wells (1957), Louis L'Amour	Apache Territory (1958)
Last Stand at Saber River (1959), Elmore Leonard	Last Stand at Saber River (1997)
The Last Unicorn (1968), Peter S. Beagle	The Last Unicorn (1982)
The Late George Apley (1937), John P. Marquand	The Late George Apley (1947)
Lay This Laurel (1973), Lincoln Kirstein	Glory (1989)
Layer Cake (2000), J. J. Connolly	Layer Cake (2004)
Laura (1942) (serial), (1943) (novel), Vera Caspary	Laura (1944) Laura (1962) (TV) Laura (1968) (TV)
Law and Order (1973), Dorothy Uhnako	Law and Order (1976) (TV)
The Law at Randado (1954), Elmore Leonard	Border Shootout (1990)
Law Man (1955), Lauran Paine	The Quiet Gun (1957)
Lawyer Man (1932), Max Trell	Lawyer Man (1933)
Leaving Cheyenne (1963), Larry McMurtry	Lovin' Molly (1974)
The Ledger (1970), Dorothy Uhnak	Get Christie Love! (1974) (TV)
Left Behind (1995–2007) (series), Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins	Left Behind (2000–2005) (series) Left Behind: The Movie (2000) * Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (2002) ** Left Behind: World at War (2005)
Legion (1983), William Peter Blatty	The Exorcist III (1990)
Lemonade Mouth (2007), Mark Peter Hughes	Lemonade Mouth (2011) (TV) * Lemonade Mouth 2 (2012) (TV)
The Leopard (1958), Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa	The Leopard (1963)
Less Than Zero (1985), Bret Easton Ellis	Less Than Zero (1987)
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) (2004), John Ajvide Lindqvist	Let the Right One In (2008) Let Me In (2010)
Letter to Five Wives (1946), John Klempner	A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Let Me Count the Ways (1965), Peter De Vries	How Do I Love Thee? (1970)
Les Liaisons dangereuses (The Dangerous Liaisons) (1782), Pierre Choderlos de Laclos	Les liaisons dangereuses (1959) Uiheomhan gwangye (Dangerous Liaison) (1970) Les Liaisons dangereuses (1980) (TV) Dangerous Liaisons (1988) Valmont (1989) Cruel Intentions (1999) Untold Scandal (2003) Les Liaisons dangereuses (2003) (TV) (mini) Michael Lucas' Dangerous Liaisons (2005)
The Life Before Us (a. k. a. Momo) (1975), Romain Gary (as Émile Ajar)	Madame Rosa (1977) The Life Before Us (2010) (TV)
Life of Pi (2001), Yann Martel	Life of Pi (film) (2012)
The Lincoln Lawyer (2005), Michael Connelly	The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
A Lion Is in the Streets (1945), Adria Locke Langley	A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
Little Dorrit (1855–1857) (serial), (1857) (novel), Charles Dickens	Little Dorrit (1913) Little Dorrit (1920) Klein Dorrit (1934) Little Dorrit (1988) Little Dorrit (2008) (TV) (serial)
The Lizard's Tail (1979), Marc Brandell	The Hand (1981)
Eine Liebe in Deutschland (A Love in Germany) (1978), Rolf Hochhuth	Eine Liebe in Deutschland (A Love in Germany) (1983)
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759–1767), Laurence Sterne	A Cock and Bull Story (2006)
The Light in the Forest (1953), Conrad Richter	The Light in the Forest (1958)
The Light of Western Stars (1914), Zane Grey	The Light of the Western Stars (1918) The Light of Western Stars (1925) The Light of Western Stars (1930) The Light of Western Stars (1940)
Like a Fire is Burning (1991), Gerald N. Lund	The Work and the Glory: American Zion (2005)
Little Caesar (1929), W. R. Burnett	Little Caesar (1931) Black Caesar (1973) * Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
The Little Drummer Girl (1983), John le Carré	The Little Drummer Girl (1984)
The Little White Horse (1946), Elizabeth Goudge	The Secret of Moonacre (2009)
Live and Let Die (1954), Ian Fleming	Live and Let Die (1973)
Live Flesh (1986), Ruth Rendell	Carne trémula (Live Flesh) (1997)
Loaded (1995), Christos Tsiolkas	Head On (1998)
Lobo (1900), Ernest Thompson Seton	The Legend of Lobo (1962)
Logan's Run (1967), William F. Nolan and George Clayton Johnson	Logan's Run (1976) Logan's Run (2012)
Lolita (1955), Vladimir Nabokov	Lolita (1962) Lolita (1997)
The Lone Star Ranger (1915), Zane Grey	The Lone Star Ranger (1919) The Lone Star Ranger (1923) The Lone Star Ranger (1930) Lone Star Ranger (1942)
The Long Goodbye (1953), Raymond Chandler	The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Looters (1968), John H. Reese	Charley Varrick (1973)
Lord Jim (1899–1900) (serial), (1900) (novel), Joseph Conrad	Lord Jim (1925) Lord Jim (1965)
Lord of the Flies (1954), William Golding	Lord of the Flies (1963) Alkitrang dugo (1976) Lord of the Flies (1990)
The Lord of the Rings (1953–1955) (series), J. R. R. Tolkien The Fellowship of the Ring (1953) * The Two Towers (1954) ** The Return of the King (1955)	J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1978) The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy (2001–2003) (series) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) * The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) ** The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
The Lords of Discipline (1980), Pat Conroy	The Lords of Discipline (1983)
Lost Horizon (1933), James Hilton	Lost Horizon (1937) Lost Horizon (1973)
The Lost Ones (1961), Donald G. Payne	The Island at the Top of the World (1974)
The Lost Symbol (2009), Dan Brown	The Lost Symbol (2012)
The Lost World (1912), Arthur Conan Doyle	The Lost World (1925) The Lost World (1960) The Lost World (1992) * Return to the Lost World (1992) The Lost World (1998) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World (1999–2002) (TV) The Lost World (2001) (TV) King of the Lost World (2005)
The Lost World (1995), Michael Crichton	The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
Lottie and Lisa (Das doppelte Lottchen) (1949), Erich Kästner	Das doppelte Lottchen (1950) The Lullaby of Hibari (1951) Twice Upon a Time (1953) The Parent Trap (1961) * The Parent Trap II (1987) ** The Parent Trap III (1988) ** * The Parent Trap: Hawaiian Honeymoon (1989) Kuzanthaiyum Deivamum (1965) Letha Manasulu (1966) Do Kaliyan (1968) Animation Tomboy Angels (1980) Pyaar ke do Pal (1986) I and Myself: The Two Lottes (1991) Charlie & Louise - Das doppelte Lottchen (1994) khaharan-e- gharib (1995) The Parent Trap (1998) Kuch Khatti Kuch Meethi (2001) Tur & Retur (2003)
The Loved One (1948), Evelyn Waugh	The Loved One (1965)
Love Story (1970), Erich Segal * Oliver's Story (1977), Erich Segal	Love Story (1970) * Oliver's Story (1978)
The Lovely Bones (2002), Alice Sebold	The Lovely Bones (2009)
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), William Makepeace Thackeray	Barry Lyndon (1975)
The Lucky One (2008), Nicholas Sparks	The Lucky One (2012)
El Lugar sin límites (Hell Has No Limits) (1966), José Donoso	El lugar sin límites (Hell Has No Limits) (1978)
Lunes de fiel (1981), Pascal Bruckner	Bitter Moon (1992)
The Lusty Men (1948), Claude Stanush	The Lusty Men (1952)

M

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
MacKenna's Gold (1963), Henry Wilson Allen (as Heck Allen)	Mackenna's Gold (1969)
Madame Doubtfire (a.k.a. Alias Madame Doubtfire) (1987), Anne Fine	Mrs. Doubtfire (1994)
The Maddening (1987), Andrew Neiderman	The Maddening (1995)
The Magic Bed Knob; or, How to Become a Witch in Ten Easy Lessons (1943), Mary Norton * Bonfires and Broomsticks (1945), Mary Norton	Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)
The Magician (1908), W. Somerset Maugham	The Magician (1926)
Magnificent Obsession (1929), Lloyd C. Douglas	Magnificent Obsession (1935) Magnificent Obsession (1954)
Maître du monde (Master of the World) (1904), Jules Verne	Master of the World (1961) Master of the World (1976) (TV)
Make Room! Make Room! (1966), Harry Harrison	Soylent Green (1973)
The Maltese Falcon (1930), Dashiell Hammett	The Maltese Falcon (1931) Satan Met a Lady (1936) The Maltese Falcon (1941) * The Black Bird (1975)
The Man Called Noon (1970), Louis L'Amour	The Man Called Noon (1973)
The Man in Black (1964), Marvin H. Albert	Rough Night in Jericho (1967)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955), Sloan Wilson	The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
Man on Fire (1980), A. J. Quinnell	Man on Fire (1987) Man on Fire (2004)
The Man Who Fell to Earth (1963), Walter Travis	The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976) The Man Who Fell to Earth (1987) (TV) The Man Who Fell to Earth (future, TBA)
The Man Who Never Was (1954), Ewen Montagu	The Man Who Never Was (1956)
The Man with the Golden Gun (1965), Ian Fleming	The Man with the Golden Gun (1974)
The Man Without a Face (1972), Isabelle Holland	The Man Without a Face (1993)
Man Without a Star (1952), Lee Dinford	Man Without a Star (1955)
The Manchurian Candidate (1959), Richard Condon	The Manchurian Candidate (1962) The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Manon des Sources (part two of L'Eau des collines) (1966), Marcel Pagnol	Manon des Sources (1953) Manon des Sources (1986)
Marnie (1961), Winston Graham	Marnie (1964)
Mary Poppins (1934), P. L. Travers	Mary Poppins (1964)
MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors (1968), Richard Hooker	MASH (1970)
Marathon Man (1974), William Goldman	Marathon Man (1976)
The Matarese Circle (1979), Robert Ludlum	The Matarese Circle (2012)
Matilda (1988), Roald Dahl	Matilda (1996)
Maurice (1971), E. M. Forster	Maurice (1987)
The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character (1886), Thomas Hardy	The Mayor of Casterbridge (1921) The Mayor of Casterbridge (1978) (TV) The Mayor of Casterbridge (2003) (TV) The Claim (2000)
The Medusa Touch (1973), Peter Van Greenaway	The Medusa Touch (1978)
The Memoirs of Cleopatra (1997), Margaret George	Cleopatra (1999)
The Mephisto Waltz (1969), Fred Mustard Stewart	The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
Mercy Island (1941), Theodore Pratt	Mercy Island (1941)
Merton of the Movies (1919), Harry Leon Wilson	Merton of the Movies (1924) Make Me a Star (1932) Merton of the Movies (1947)
Message in a Bottle (1998), Nicholas Sparks	Message in a Bottle (1999)
Miami Mayhem (1960), Marvin H. Albert * The Lady in Cement (1961), Marvin H. Albert	Tony Rome (1967) * Lady in Cement (1968)
Midnight and Jeremiah (1943), Sterling North	So Dear to My Heart (1949)
A Midnight Clear (1982), William Wharton	A Midnight Clear (1992)
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), John Wyndham	Village of the Damned (1960) * Children of the Damned (1963) Village of the Damned (1995)
Mildred Pierce (1941), James M. Cain	Mildred Pierce (1945)
Millennium (1983), John Varley	Millennium (1989)
Millennium (2005–2007) (series), Stieg Larsson The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2005) * The Girl Who Played with Fire (2006) ** The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2007)	Millennium (2009–2014) (series) Swedish films The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009) * The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009) ** The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (2009) American films The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011) * The Girl Who Played with Fire (2013) ** The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (TBA 2014)
Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls (1903), Frank Wedekind	Innocence (2004) The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005)
The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1962), Agatha Christie	The Mirror Crack'd (1980) Subho Mahurat (2003)
Les Misérables (1862), Victor Hugo	On the Barricade (1907) Le Chemineau (1907) Les Misérables (1909) The Bishop's Candlesticks (1909) Les Misérables (1911) Les Misérables (1913) The Bishop's Candlesticks (1913) Les Misérables (1917) Les Misérables (1922) Aa Mujou (1923) Les Misérables (1925) The Bishop's Candlesticks (1929) Aa Mujou (1929) Jean Valjean (1931) Les Misérables (1934) Les Misérables (1935) Gavrosh (1937) Kyojinden (1938) Los Miserables (1943) El Boassa (1944) I Miserabili (1948)(Re-released in 1952) Les Nouveaux Misérables (1949) Re mizeraburu: Kami to Akuma (Les Misérables: Gods and Demons) (1950) Ezhai Padum Padu (1950) Beedala Patlu (1950) Les Misérables (1952) Kundan (1955) Duppathage Duka (1956) Sirakaruwa (1957) Les Misérables (1958) Os Miseráveis (1958) Jean Valjean (1961) (TV) Cosette (1961) (TV) Gavroche (1962) (TV) Jean Valjean (1963) (TV) I miserabili (1964) (TV) (mini) Les Misérables (1967) (TV) (mini) Os Miseráveis (1967) Sefiller (1967) Les Misérables (1972) (TV) (mini) Los Miserables (1973) (TV) Les Misérables (1978) (TV) Al Boasa (1978) Les Misérables (1982) (TV)(Later re-adapted as a four-part television miniseries in 1985) Les Misérables (1995) Les Misérables – The Dream Cast in Concert (1995) Les Misérables (1998) Les Misérables (2000) (TV) (mini)(Later re-adapted as a edited-down television film version the same year and dubbed into English) Les Misérables - 25th Anniversary Live from the O2 (2010) Les Misérables (2011) (TV) Les Misérables (TBA 2013)
Misery (1987), Stephen King	Misery (1990)
Moby-Dick, or The Whale (1851), Herman Melville	The Sea Beast (1926) Moby Dick—Rehearsed (1955) Moby Dick (1956) Tom and Jerry in: Dicky Moe (1962) Moby Dick (1978) Dot and the Whale (1986) Moby Dick (1998) (TV) Moby Dick (1999) Capitaine Achab (2004) Moby Dick (2010) Moby Dick (2010) (TV) (mini) Moby Dick (2011) (TV) Age of the Dragons (2011)
Moderato Cantabile (1958), Marguerite Duras	Seven Days... Seven Nights (1960)
The Molly Maguires (1969), Arthur H. Lewis	The Molly Maguires (1970)
Monkey in the Middle (1973), Robert Syd Hopkins (as Robert Rostand)	The Killer Elite (1975)
The Monster from Earth's End (1959), Murray Leinster	The Navy vs. the Night Monsters (1966)
Montana Rides Again (1934), Max Brand	Branded (1950)
The Moon and Sixpence (1919), W. Somerset Maugham	The Moon and Sixpence (1942)
Moonraker (1955), Ian Fleming	Moonraker (1979)
The Moon-Spinners (1962), Mary Stewart	The Moon-Spinners (1964)
The Moonstone (1868), Wilkie Collins	The Moonstone (1934) The Moonstone (1959) (TV) The Moonstone (1972) (TV) The Moonstone (1996) (TV)
Morpho Eugenia (1992), A. S. Byatt	Angels & Insects (1996)
The Mortal Instruments (2007–2013) (series), Cassandra Clare	The Mortal Instruments (2013)
Le Morte d'Arthur (The Death of Arthur) (1485), Sir Thomas Malory	Excalibur (1981)
The Mosquito Coast (1981), Paul Theroux	The Mosquito Coast (1986)
Mother Carey's Chickens (1911), Kate Douglas Wiggin	Mother Carey's Chickens (1938) Summer Magic (1963)
Mother Night (1961), Kurt Vonnegut	Mother Night (1996)
A Mother's Gift (2001), Britney Spears and Lynne Spears	Brave New Girl (2004) (TV)
The Moving Target (1949), Ross Macdonald (as John Macdonald)	Harper (1966)
Mr. Hobbs' Vacation (1954), Edward Streeter	Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
Mr. Limpet (1942), Theodore Pratt	The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)
Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1943), Theodore Pratt	Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944)
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (1971), Robert C. O'Brien	The Secret of NIMH (1982) * The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue (1999)
Mrs McGinty's Dead (1952), Agatha Christie	Murder Most Foul (1964)
Mud on the Stars (1942), William Bradford Huie	Wild River (1960)
La Mujer de mi Hermano (My Brother's Wife) (2002), Jaime Bayly	La mujer de mi hermano (My Brother's Wife) (2005)
A Mule for the Marquesa (1964), Frank O'Rourke	The Professionals (1966)
Murder in Amityville (1979), Hans Holzer	Amityville II: The Possession (1982)
Murder on the Orient Express (1934), Agatha Christie	Murder on the Orient Express (1974) Murder on the Orient Express (2001) (TV)
Murphy’s Romance: A Novel (1980), Max Schott	Murphy's Romance (1985)
Mute Witness (1963), Robert L. Pike (as Robert L. Fish)	Bullitt (1968)
My Ántonia (1918), Willa Cather	My Antonia (1995) (TV)
My Philadelphia Father (1955), Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Sr. (as Cordelia Drexel Biddle)	The Happiest Millionaire (1967)
My Friend Flicka (1941), Mary O'Hara	My Friend Flicka (1943) * Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (1945) ** Green Grass of Wyoming (1948) Flicka (2006) * Flicka 2 (2010)
My Kingdom for a Woman (1952), Ismet Regeila	Abdulla the Great (1955)
My Reminiscences as a Cowboy (1930), Frank Harris	Cowboy (1968)
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (unfinished) (1870), Charles Dickens	The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1909) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1914) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1993) The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012) (TV) (mini)
Mystic River (2001), Dennis Lehane	Mystic River (2003)

N

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
The Name of the Rose (1980), Umberto Eco	The Name of the Rose (1986)
The Naked and the Dead (1948), Norman Mailer	The Naked and the Dead (1958)
The Nanny Diaries (2002), Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus	The Nanny Diaries (2007)
The Natural (1952), Bernard Malamud	The Natural (1984)
National Velvet (1935), Enid Bagnold	National Velvet (1944) * International Velvet (1978)
Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí (The Unbearable Lightness of Being) (1984), Milan Kundera	The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
Nest in a Fallen Tree (1967), Joy Cowley	The Night Digger (1971)
The Net (1912), Rex Beach	Fair Lady (1922)
Nevada (1928), Zane Grey	Nevada (1927) Nevada (1935) Nevada (1944)
Never Cry Wolf (1963), Farley Mowat	Never Cry Wolf (1983)
The Neverending Story (1979), Michael Ende	The NeverEnding Story (1984) * The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990) ** The NeverEnding Story III (1994) The NeverEnding Story (2014)
Nicholas Nickleby (1838–1839) (serial), (1839) (novel), Charles Dickens	Nicholas Nickleby (1903) Nicholas Nickleby (1912) Nicholas Nickleby (1947) Nicholas Nickleby (1957) Nicholas Nickleby (1968) Nicholas Nickleby (1977) (TV) (serial) Nicholas Nickleby (1985) The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (2001) Nicholas Nickleby (2002)
The Nick Adams Stories (1972), Ernest Hemingway	Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
Night and the City (1938), Gerald Kersh	Night and the City (1950) Night and the City (1992)
Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1945), Cornell Woolrich (as George Hopley)	Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
The Night of the Generals (1963), Hans Hellmut Kirst	The Night of the Generals (1967)
The Night of the Hunter (1953), Davis Grubb	The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Night of the Iguana (1961) (play), Tennessee Williams * Basis from One Arm and Other Stories (1967), Tennessee Williams	The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Night Shift (1942), Maritta Wolff	The Man I Love (1946)
Night Watch (1998), Sergey Lukyanenko	Night Watch (2004) * Day Watch (2006)
Nightmare (1942) (a.k.a. And So to Death), Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)	Fear in the Night (1947) Nightmare (1956)
Nightmare Alley (1946), William Lindsay Gresham	Nightmare Alley (1947)
Nights in Rodanthe (2002), Nicholas Sparks	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
Nightwing (1977), Martin Cruz Smith	Nightwing (1979)
Nine and a Half Weeks: A Memoir of a Love Affair (1978), Elizabeth McNeill	9½ Weeks (1986) * Another 9½ Weeks (1997) ** The First 9½ Weeks (1998)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell	Nineteen Eighty-Four (1953) (TV) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954) (TV) 1984 (1956) Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
The Ninth Configuration (1978), William Peter Blatty	The Ninth Configuration (1980)
No Country for Old Men (2005), Cormac McCarthy	No Country for Old Men (2007)
No Down Payment (1957), John McPartland	No Down Payment (1957)
No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939), James Hadley Chase	No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948) The Grissom Gang (1971) La Chair de l'orchidée (1975)
No se lo Digas a Nadie (Don't Tell Anyone) (1994), Jaime Bayly	No se lo Digas a Nadie (Don't Tell Anyone) (1998)
Nobody Loves a Drunken Indian (1967), Clair Huffaker	The Last Warrior (1970)
Northern Lights (1995), Philip Pullman	The Golden Compass (2007)
Northwest Passage (1937), Kenneth Roberts	Northwest Passage (1940)
Nostromo (1904), Joseph Conrad	Nostromo (1996) (TV) (mini)
The Notebook (1996), Nicholas Sparks	The Notebook (2004)
Nothing Lasts Forever (1979), Roderick Thorp	Die Hard (1988)
Nurse Matilda (1964–1974) (series), Christianna Brand	Nanny McPhee (2005) * Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang (2010)

O

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Odd Man Out (1945), F. L. Green	Odd Man Out (1947)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1958), William P. McGivern	Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Odyssey (8th century BC), Homer	Ulysses (1955) The Odyssey (1987) Ulysses' Gaze (Greek: Το βλέμμα του Οδυσσέα, translit. To Vlemma tou Odyssea) (1995) The Odyssey (1997) (TV) (mini) O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) Odysseus and the Isle of the Mists (2007) (TV)
Audition (1997), Ryu Murakami	Audition (1999)
Of Human Bondage (1915), W. Somerset Maugham	Of Human Bondage (1934) Of Human Bondage (1946) Of Human Bondage (1964)
Of Mice and Men (1937), John Steinbeck	Of Mice and Men (1939) Of Mice and Men (1981) (TV) Of Mice and Men (1992)
Oil! (1927), Upton Sinclair	There Will Be Blood (2007)
The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–1841) (serial) (1841) (novel), Charles Dickens	The Old Curiosity Shop (1911) The Old Curiosity Shop (1912) The Old Curiosity Shop (1914) The Old Curiosity Shop (1921) The Old Curiosity Shop (1934) The Old Curiosity Shop (1975) The Old Curiosity Shop (1979) (TV) (mini) The Old Curiosity Shop (1984) The Old Curiosity Shop (1995) (TV) The Old Curiosity Shop (2007) (TV)
The Old Man and the Sea (1951) (written), (1952) (published), Ernest Hemingway	The Old Man and the Sea (1958) The Old Man and the Sea (1990) The Old Man and the Sea (1999)
Old Yeller (1956), Fred Gipson	Old Yeller (1957) * Savage Sam (1963)
Oliver Twist (1837–1839), Charles Dickens	Oliver Twist (1909) Oliver Twist (1922) Oliver Twist (1933) Oliver Twist (1948) Oliver! (1968) Oliver Twist (1982) Oliver & Company (1988) Oliver Twist (1997) Twist (2003) Boy called Twist (2004) Oliver Twist (2005)
Oliver's Story (1977), Erich Segal	Oliver's Story (1978)
Oms en série (Oms by the Dozen) (1957), Stefan Wul	Fantastic Planet (1973)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963), Ian Fleming	On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
On Stranger Tides (1987), Tim Powers	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ken Kesey	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
One Gallant Rush (1965), Peter Burchard	Glory (1989)
One Hundred Years Ahead (Сто лет тому вперед) (1976), Kir Bulychev	Guest from the Future (Гостья из будущего) (1985) (TV)
One More Spring (1933), Robert Nathan	One More Spring (1935)
One Shot (novel) (2004), Lee Child	Jack Reacher (film) (2012)
One Thousand and One Nights (12th century), various Indian storytellers	Le Palais des Mille et une nuits (1905) The Thief of Bagdad (1924) The Thief of Bagdad (1940) 1001 Arabian Nights (1959) Il fiore delle Mille ed una notte (Arabian Nights) (1974) Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights (1994)
The Onion Field (1973), Joseph Wambaugh	The Onion Field (1979)
The Open Range Men (1990), Lauran Paine	Open Range (2003)
Operation Terror (1961), Gordon Gordon and Mildred Gordon	Experiment in Terror (1962)
Ordinary People (1976), Judith Guest	Ordinary People (1980)
Orlando: A Biography (1928), Virginia Woolf	Orlando (1992)
The Osterman Weekend (1972), Robert Ludlum	The Osterman Weekend (1983)
The Other Boleyn Girl (2001), Philippa Gregory	The Other Boleyn Girl (2003) (TV) The Other Boleyn Girl (2008)
The Other One (1955), Catherine Turney	Back from the Dead (1957)
The Other Side of Midnight (1973), Sidney Sheldon	The Other Side of Midnight (1977)
Our Girl Friday (1951), Ernest K. Gann	Our Girl Friday (1953) (a. k. a. The Adventures of Sadie)
Our Man in Havana (1958), Graham Greene	Our Man in Havana (1959)
Out of Sight (1996), Elmore Leonard	Out of Sight (1998)
An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Joseph Conrad	An Outcast of the Islands (1952)
The Outsiders (1967), S. E. Hinton	The Outsiders (1983)
Over the River (1933), John Galsworthy	One More River (1934)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1940), Walter Van Tilburg Clark	The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)

P

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
A Painted Devil (1966), Thomas P. Cullinan	The Beguiled (1971)
A Painted House (2001), John Grisham	A Painted House (2003) (TV)
The Painted Veil (1925), W. Somerset Maugham	The Painted Veil (1934) The Seventh Sin (1957) The Painted Veil (2006)
Pan Wolodyjowski (Fire in the Steppe) (1888), Henryk Sienkiewicz	Colonel Wolodyjowski (1968)
Parineeta (1914), Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay	Parineeta (1942) Parineeta (1953) Parineeta (1969) Parineeta (2005)
Paris Blues (1957), Harold Flender	Paris Blues (1961)
Les Particules Élémentaires (1998) (a.k.a. Atomised), Michel Houellebecq	The Elementary Particles (2006)
Pasó por aquí (Once in the Saddle) (1947), Eugene Manlove Rhodes	Four Faces West (1948)
A Passage to India (1924), E. M. Forster	A Passage to India (1984)
Patriot Games (1987), Tom Clancy	Patriot Games (1992)
The Peacock Spring (1975), Rumer Godden	The Peacock Spring (1996) (TV)
The Pelican Brief (1992), John Grisham	The Pelican Brief (1993)
The People That Time Forgot (1918), Edgar Rice Burroughs	The People That Time Forgot (1977)
Percy Jackson & the Olympians (2005–2009) (series), Rick Riordan The Lightning Thief (2005) * The Sea of Monsters (2006)	Percy Jackson & the Olympians (2010–present) (series) Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010) * Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters (2013)
Perfect Little Angels (1989), Andrew Neiderman	Perfect Little Angels (1998) (TV)
Pet Sematary (1983), Stephen King	Pet Sematary (1989) * Pet Sematary Two (1992)
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up (1904) (play) Peter and Wendy (1911) (novel), J. M. Barrie	Peter Pan (1924) Peter Pan (1953) * Return to Never Land (2002) Peter Pan (1976) (TV) The Lost Boys (1978) Peter Pan (USSR, 1987) Hook (1991) Peter Pan (2003) Neverland (2003) Peter Pan (2003) Neverland (2003) Finding Neverland (2004) Tinker Bell (2008–2012) (series) Tinker Bell (2008) (V) * Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (2009) ** Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (2010) (V) *** Pixie Hollow Games (2011) (V) **** Secret of the Wings (2012) (V)
Peyton Place (1956), Grace Metalious	Peyton Place (1957)
Phantom Crown: The Story of Maximilian & Carlota of Mexico (1934), Bertita Harding	Juarez (1939)
Phantom Lady (1942), Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)	Phantom Lady (1944)
The Phantom of the Opera (1909–1910, 1911), Gaston Leroux	The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Phantom of the Opera (1943) The Phantom of the Opera (1962) The Phantom of the Opera (1989) The Phantom of the Opera (1998) The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Pharaoh (1895), Bolesław Prus	Pharaoh (1966)
The Philadelphian (1957), Richard P. Powell	The Young Philadelphians (1959)
El Pianista (1985), Manuel Vázquez Montalbán	The Pianist (1998)
The Pickwick Papers (1836–1837) (serial), (1837) (novel), Charles Dickens	The Pickwick Papers (1913) The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick (1921) The Pickwick Papers (1952)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), Oscar Wilde	Dorian Grays Portræt (1910) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1913) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1916) Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray (1917) Az Élet királya (The Picture of Dorian Gray) (1918) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) El Retrato de Dorian Gray (1969) (TV) Dorian Gray (a. k. a. The Evils of Dorian Gray or The Secret of Dorian Gray) (1970) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1973) (TV) The Picture of Dorian Gray (1976) (TV) Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (1977) The Sins of Dorian Gray (1983) (TV) Dorian (a. k. a. Pact with the Devil) (2001) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) Dorian (2004) The Picture of Dorian Gray (2004) The Picture of Dorian Gray (2006) The Picture of Dorian Gray (2007) The Picture (of Dorian Gray) (2009) Dorian Gray (2009)
The Pillar of Light (1990), Gerald N. Lund	The Work and the Glory (2004)
Pin (1981), Andrew Neiderman	Pin (1988)
Pioneer, Go Home! (1959), Richard P. Powell	Follow That Dream (1964)
The Pirates! (2004–2012) (series), Gideon Defoe The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists (2004) * The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling (2005)	The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists (2012)
Pity My Simplicity (1944), Christopher Massie	Love Letters (1945)
La Planète des singes (1963), Pierre Boulle	Planet of the Apes (1968–1973, 2001–present) (series) Planet of the Apes (1968) * Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) ** Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) ** * Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) ** ** Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) Planet of the Apes (2001) * Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
Pleasure Island (1949), William Maier	The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953)
Point de lendemain: conte dédiée à la reine (1876), Dominique Vivant	The Lovers (Les Amants) (1958)
The Polar Express (1985), Chris Van Allsburg	The Polar Express (2004)
Pollyanna (1913), Eleanor H. Porter	Pollyanna (1920) Pollyanna (1960) Hayat sevince güzel (1971) Pollyanna (1973) (TV) (serial) The Adventures of Pollyanna (1982) (TV) Polly (1989) (TV) * Polly: Comin' Home! (1990) (TV) Pollyanna (2003) (TV)
Le Pont de la Rivière Kwai (1952), Pierre Boulle	The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) * Return from the River Kwai (1988)
Poodle Springs (1959–1988) (written), (1989) (published), Raymond Chandler and Robert B. Parker	Poodle Springs (1998) (TV)
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1979), Vincent Patrick	The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
Popiół i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) (1948), Jerzy Andrzejewski	Popiół i diament (Ashes and Diamonds) (1958)
Portnoy's Complaint (1969), Philip Roth	Portnoy's Complaint (1972)
Portrait of Jennie (1940), Robert Nathan	Portrait of Jennie (1948)
The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Paul Gallico	The Poseidon Adventure (1972) * Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) The Poseidon Adventure (2005) Poseidon (2006)
The Positronic Man (1993), Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg	Bicentennial Man (1999)
Possession: A Romance (1990), A. S. Byatt	Possession (2002)
The Postman (1985), David Brin	The Postman (1997)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), James Cain	Le Dernier Tournant (The Last Turning) (1939) Ossessione (Obsession) (1942) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
The Power (1956), Frank M. Robinson	The Power (1968)
The Power and the Glory (1940), Graham Greene	The Fugitive (1947)
The Power of One (1989), Bryce Courtenay	The Power of One (1992)
Pożegnania (1948), Stanisław Dygat	Farewells (1958)
Presumed Innocent (1987), Scott Turow	Presumed Innocent (1990)
Pride and Prejudice (1813), Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice (1940) Pride & Prejudice: A Latter-Day Comedy (2003) Bride and Prejudice (2004) Pride & Prejudice (2005)
The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Mark Twain	The Prince and the Pauper (1909) The Prince and the Pauper (1915) Der Prinz und der Bettelknabe (1920) Yiskor (1933) The Prince and the Pauper (1937) The Prince and the Pauper (1943) The Prince and the Pauper (1962) Raja Aur Runk (1968) The Adventures of the Prince and the Pauper (1969) Princ a chudas (1971) (TV) Prints i nishchiy (1972) (TV) Crossed Swords (a. k. a. The Prince and the Pauper) (1977) Ringo (1978) (TV) (special) Trading Places (1983) The Prince and the Pauper (1990) (short film) Dave (1993) The Prince and the Pauper (1995) It Takes Two (1995) The Prince and the Pauper (1997) The Prince and the Surfer (1999) The Pooch and the Pauper (2000) (TV) The Prince and the Pauper (2000) (TV) Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper (2004) The Prince and the Pauper (2005) Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties (2006) A Modern Twain Story: The Prince and the Pauper (2007)
The Prince of Tides (1986), Pat Conroy	The Prince of Tides (1991)
The Princess Bride (1973), William Goldman	The Princess Bride (1987)
The Princess Diaries (2000–2009) (series), Meg Cabot	The Princess Diaries (2002–2004) (series) The Princess Diaries (2002) * The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)
A Princess of Mars (1917), Edgar Rice Burroughs	Princess of Mars (2009) (V) John Carter (2012)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1894), Anthony Hope	The Prisoner of Zenda (1913) The Prisoner of Zenda (1915) The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) The Prisoner of Zenda (1937) The Prisoner of Zenda (1952) The Prisoner of Zenda (1979) The Prisoner of Zenda (1984)
Promise at Dawn (1961), Romain Gary	Promise at Dawn (1970)
Pronto (1993), Elmore Leonard	Pronto (1997) (TV)
Professor Unrat (1905), Heinrich Mann	Der blaue Engel (1930)
Psycho (1959), Robert Bloch	Psycho (1960) * Psycho II (1983) ** Psycho III (1986) ** * Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) (TV) Psycho (1998)
Psycho II (1982), Robert Bloch	Psycho II (1983)
The Puppet Masters (1951), Robert A. Heinlein	The Brain Eaters (1958) The Puppet Masters (1994)
The Purple Cloud (1901), M. P. Shiel The End of the World (1955), Ferdinand Reyher	The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959)
Pursuit (1963), Richard Unekis	Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974)

Q

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Q & A (1977), Edwin Torres	Q & A (1990)
QB VII (1970), Leon Uris	QB VII (1974) (TV) (mini)
The Queen of the Damned (1988), Anne Rice	Queen of the Damned (2002)
Quentin Durward (1823), Sir Walter Scott	The Adventures of Quentin Durward (1955)
The Quick and the Dead (1973), Louis L'Amour	The Quick and the Dead (1987) (TV)
The Quiet American (1955), Graham Greene	The Quiet American (1958) The Quiet American (2002)

R

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Radio Free Albemuth (1976), Philip K. Dick	Radio Free Albemuth (2011)
Ragtime (1975), E. L. Doctorow	Ragtime (1981)
Ramrod (1943), Luke Short	Ramrod (1947)
Raiders of Spanish Peaks (1938), Zane Grey	The Arizona Raiders (1936)
Rain (2000), V.C. Andrews	Rain (2006)
The Rainbird Pattern (1972), Victor Canning	Family Plot (1976)
The Rainbow (1915), D. H. Lawrence	The Rainbow (1989)
The Rainbow Trail (a. k. a. The Desert Crucible) (1915), Zane Grey	The Rainbow Trail (1918) The Rainbow Trail (1925) The Rainbow Trail (1932)
The Rainmaker (1995), John Grisham	The Rainmaker (1997)
Raise the Titanic! (1976), Clive Cussler	Raise the Titanic (1980)
Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era (1963), Sterling North	Rascal (1969)
Ratman's Notebooks (1969), Gilbert Ralston (as Stephen Gilbert)	Willard (1971) * Ben (1972) Willard (2003)
The Razor's Edge (1944), W. Somerset Maugham	The Razor's Edge (1946) The Razor's Edge (1984)
Rebecca (1938), Daphne du Maurier	Rebecca (1940)
The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1973) (a.k.a. Gone to Texas), Asa Earl Carter (as Forrest Carter)	The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Red Alert (1958), Peter George	Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
Red Dragon (1981), Thomas Harris	Manhunter (1986) Red Dragon (2002)
Red Hugh: Prince of Donegal (1957), Robert T. Reilly	The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966)
The Red Pony (1937), John Steinbeck	The Red Pony (1949)
The Redhead from Sun Dog (1931), W. C. Tuttle	Range Feud (1931) The Red Rider (1934)
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941), Carson McCullers	Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1973), Max Simon Ehrlich	The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1975)
The Reivers (1962), William Faulkner	The Reivers (1969)
The Remains of the Day (1989), Ishiguro	The Remains of the Day (1993)
Rendezvous in Black (1948), Cornell Woolrich	Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
The Rescuers (1959–1978) (series), Margery Sharp The Rescuers (1959) * Miss Bianca (1962)	The Rescuers (1977) * The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
The Return of the Condor Heroes (1959), Jin Yong	The Story of the Great Heroes (1960–1961) The Brave Archer and His Mate (1982) Little Dragon Maiden (1983)
The Return of the King (1955), J. R. R. Tolkien	The Return of the King (1980) (TV) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
Return of the Living Dead (1977), John Russo	Return of the Living Dead (1985–2005) (series) The Return of the Living Dead (1985) * Return of the Living Dead Part II (1988) ** Return of the Living Dead 3 (1993) ** * Return of the Living Dead 4: Necropolis (2005) ** ** Return of the Living Dead 5: Rave from the Grave (2005) ** ** * More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead (TBA)
The Return of the Native (1878), Thomas Hardy	The Return of the Native (1994) (TV) The Return of the Native (2010)
The Return of the Soldier (1918), Rebecca West	The Return of the Soldier (1982)
Return to Paradise (1951), James A. Michener	Return to Paradise (1953) Until They Sail (1957)
Return to Peyton Place (1959), Grace Metalious	Return to Peyton Place (1961)
Reuben, Reuben (1964), Peter De Vries	Reuben, Reuben (1970)
Revolt (1929), Mary C. McCall, Jr.	Scarlet Dawn (1932)
The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1951), William Bradford Huie	The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956)
The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service (1903), Robert Erskine Childers	The Riddle of the Sands (1979) Das Rätsel der Sandbank (The Riddle of the Sands) (1984) (TV)
Riders of the Purple Sage (1912), Zane Grey	Riders of the Purple Sage (1918) Riders of the Purple Sage (1925) Riders of the Purple Sage (1931) Riders of the Purple Sage (1941) Riders of the Purple Sage (1996)
Ripley Under Ground (1970), Patricia Highsmith	Ripley Under Ground (2005)
Ripley's Game (1974), Patricia Highsmith	Ripley's Game (2002)
Rising Sun (1992), Michael Crichton	Rising Sun (1993)
The River (1946), Rumer Godden	The River (1951)
Riverworld (1971–1983) (series), Philip José Farmer	Riverworld (2003) Riverworld (2010)
Les rivières pourpres (Blood Red Rivers) (1997), Jean-Christophe Grangé	Les rivières pourpres (The Crimson Rivers) (2000) Les rivières pourpres II: Les anges de l'apocalypse (Crimson Rivers 2: Angels of the Apocalypse) (2004)
The Road Back (1930–1931) (serial), (1931) (novel), Erich Maria Remarque	The Road Back (1937)
The Highland Rogue (1723), Daniel Defoe Rob Roy (1917), Walter Scott	Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue (1953) Rob Roy (1995)
The Robe (1942), Lloyd C. Douglas	The Robe (1953)
Robinson Crusoe (1719), Daniel Defoe	Robinson Crusoe (1927) Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954) Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (1966) Crusoe (1988) Shipwrecked (1991) Robinson Crusoe (1997)
Rogue Cop (1954), William P. McGivern	Rogue Cop (1954)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1937), MacKinlay Kantor	The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
A Room with a View (1908), E. M. Forster	A Room with a View (1985)
The Roots of Heaven (1957), Romain Gary	The Roots of Heaven (1958)
Rosemary's Baby (1967), Ira Levin	Rosemary's Baby (1968) * Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby (1976) (TV)
The Rover (1923), Joseph Conrad	L'avventuriero (The Rover) (1967)
The Rules of Attraction (1987), Bret Easton Ellis	The Rules of Attraction (2002)
Rum Punch (1992), Elmore Leonard	Jackie Brown (1997)
The Runaway Jury (1996), John Grisham	Runaway Jury (2003)
A Running Duck (a.k.a. Fair Game) (1974), Paula Gosling	Cobra (1986) Fair Game (1995)
The Running Man (1982), Stephen King (as Richard Bachman)	The Running Man (1987)
The Russia House (1989), John le Carré	The Russia House (1990)

S

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
The Saga of Pecos Bill (1923), Edward O'Reilly	Melody Time (1948) Tall Tale (1995)
Sahara (1992), Clive Cussler	Sahara (2005)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1963) (a.k.a. The Afternoon Towing), Yukio Mishima	The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (1976)
Saint Jack (1973), Paul Theroux	Saint Jack (1979)
"Saint" Johnson (1930), W. R. Burnett	Law and Order (1932) Wild West Days (1937)
'Salem's Lot (1975), Stephen King	Salem's Lot (1979) (TV) * A Return to Salem's Lot (1987) (TV) 'Salem's Lot (2004) (TV)
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2006), Paul Torday	Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
A Salute to the Great Macarthy (1971), Barry Oakley	The Great Macarthy (1975)
Sanctuary (1931), William Faulkner	The Story of Temple Drake (1933)
The Sand Pebbles (1962), Richard McKenna	The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Sangre y arena (Blood and Sand) (1909), Vicente Blasco Ibáñez	Blood and Sand (1916) Blood and Sand (1922) Blood and Sand (1941) Blood and Sand (1987) Blood and Sand (1989)
The Satan Bug (1962), Alistair MacLean	The Satan Bug (1965)
Save the Tiger (1972), Steve Shagan	Save the Tiger (1974)
Sayonara (1954), James A. Michener	Sayonara (1957)
A Scanner Darkly (1977), Philip K. Dick	A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Scarface (1929), Armitage Trail	Scarface (1932) Scarface (1983) Scarface (TBA 2013)
The Scarlet Letter (1850), Nathaniel Hawthorne	The Scarlet Letter (1908) The Scarlet Letter (1911) The Scarlet Letter (1913) The Scarlet Letter (1917) The Scarlet Letter (1920) The Scarlet Letter (1922) The Scarlet Letter (1926) The Scarlet Letter (1934) Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe (1973) The Scarlet Letter (1979) (TV) (mini) The Scarlet Letter (1995) Juhong geulshi (2004)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1903–1905), Baroness Emmuska Orczy	The Scarlet Pimpernel (1917) The Laughing Cavalier (1917) The Elusive Pimpernel (1919) The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1928) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) * Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937) Pimpernel Smith (1941) Pimpernel Svensson (1950) The Elusive Pimpernel (1950) (a.k.a. The Fighting Pimpernel, U.S.A. only) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1960) (TV) Don't Lose Your Head (1966) (a.k.a. Carry On Pimpernel, U.S.A. only) The Elusive Pimpernel (1969) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982) (TV) The Scarlet Pimpernel (1987) (TV) The Forecourt Pimpernel (2001) (TV) The Black Pimpernel (2006) The Scarlet Pimpernel (2010)
The Searchers (1954), Alan Le May	The Searchers (1956)
Schindler's Ark (1982), Thomas Keneally	Schindler's List (1993)
The Screaming Mimi (1949), Fredric Brown	The Screaming Mimi (1958) The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
The Score (1963), Donald E. Westlake (as Richard Stark)	Mise à sac (1967) The Score (1978)
The Sea Hawk (1915), Rafael Sabatini	The Sea Hawk (1924) The Sea Hawk (1940)
The Sea-Wolf (1904), Jack London	The Sea-Wolf (1913) The Sea Wolf (1920) The Sea Wolf (1926) The Sea Wolf (1930) The Sea Wolf (1941) Wolf Larsen (1958) Der Seewolf (1972) (TV) (mini) Il Lupo dei Mari (The Legend of the Sea Wolf) (1975) Morskoj volk (1991) (TV) The Sea Wolf (1993) (TV) The Sea Wolf (1997) The Sea Wolf (2008) Sea Wolf (2009)
The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (1907) Joseph Conrad	Sabotage (1936) The Secret Agent (1996)
The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic (2003), Madeline Wickham (as Sophie Kinsella)	Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
A Selva (1900), José Maria Ferreira de Castro (as Ferreira de Castro)	The Forest (2002)
Sense and Sensibility (1811), Jane Austen	Sense and Sensibility (1981) (TV) Sense and Sensibility (1995) Kandukondain Kandukondain (2000) Sense and Sensibility (2008) (TV) From Prada to Nada (2011)
Seven Days to a Killing (1973), Clive Egleton	The Black Windmill (1974)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution: Being a Reprint from the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D. (1974), Nicholas Meyer	The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
The Seventh (1967), Donald E. Westlake (as Richard Stark)	The Split (1968)
A Severa (1900), Júlio Dantas	A Severa (1931)
The Shadow Line (1917), Joseph Conrad	Smuga cienia (The Shadow Line) (1976)
The Shadow Riders (1982), Louis L'Amour	The Shadow Riders (1982) (TV)
Shaft (1970), Ernest Tidyman	Shaft (1971) * Shaft's Big Score (1972) ** Shaft in Africa (1973) ** * Shaft (2000)
Shaft's Big Score (1972), Ernest Tidyman	Shaft's Big Score (1972)
Shalako (1962), Louis L'Amour	Shalako (1968)
The Shape of Things to Come (1933), H. G. Wells	Things to Come (1936) H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (1979)
She: A History of Adventure (1886–1887) (serial), (1887) (novel), Sir H. Rider Haggard	La Colonne de feu (The Pillar of Fire) (1899) She (1908) She (1911) She (1916) She (1917) She (1925) She (1935) She (1965) * The Vengeance of She (1968) S+H+E: Security Hazards Expert (1980) She (1982) She (1985) She (2001) (made and released direct-to-video only)
Shè diao ying xióng zhuàn (The Legend of the Condor Heroes) (1957–1959) (serial), (1959) (novel), Jin Yong	Story of the Vulture Conqueror (1958) The Brave Archer (1977) * The Brave Archer 2 (1978) ** The Brave Archer 3 (1981) ** * The Brave Archer and His Mate (1982) Se diu ying hung ji dung sing sai jau (The Eagle Shooting Heroes) (1993) Dongxié Xidú (Ashes of Time) (1994)
She Loves Me Not (1933), Edward Hope	She Loves Me Not (1934) True to the Army (1942) How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)
Sheep (2004), Simon Maginn	The Dark (2005)
Shen Mu (Sacred Wood) (1999), Liu Qingbang	Blind Shaft (2003)
A Shilling for Candles (1936), Josephine Tey (pseudonym for Elizabeth Mackintosh)	Young and Innocent (1937)
The Shining (1977), Stephen King	The Shining (1980) The Shining (1997) (TV)
Shining Through (1988), Susan Isaacs	Shining Through (1992)
The Shipping News (1993), Annie Proulx	The Shipping News (2001)
The Shrinking Man (1956), Richard Matheson	The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) The Incredible Shrinking Woman (1981)
Shoeless Joe (1982), W. P. Kinsella	Field of Dreams (1989)
The Shootist (1975), Glendon Swarthout	The Shootist (1976)
Shout at the Devil (1968), Wilbur Smith	Shout at the Devil (1976)
Shutter Island (2003) Dennis Lehane	Shutter Island (2010)
Sideways (2004), Rex Pickett	Sideways (2004)
The Siege of Trencher's Farm (1969), Gordon Williams	Straw Dogs (1971) Straw Dogs (2011)
The Silence of the Lambs (1988), Thomas Harris	The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Singer Not the Song (1953), Audrey Erskine Lindop	The Singer Not the Song (1961)
Single Lady (1931), John Monk Saunders	The Last Flight (1931)
A Simple Plan (1993), Scott Smith	A Simple Plan (1998)
Simple Simon (1996), Ryne Douglas Pearson	Mercury Rising (1998)
Sinuhe egyptiläinen (Sinuhe the Egyptian) (1945), Mika Waltari	The Egyptian (1954)
Sister Carrie (1900), Theodore Dreiser	Carrie (1952)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2001), Ann Brashares	The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) * The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
Six Weeks (1976), Fred Mustard Stewart	Six Weeks (1982)
Skinwalkers (1986), Tony Hillerman	Skinwalkers (2002)
Skipping Christmas (2001), John Grisham	Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
Skyscraper (1931), Faith Baldwin	Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969), Kurt Vonnegut	Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)
Slayground (1971), Donald E. Westlake (as Richard Stark)	Slayground (1983)
Sleeping with the Enemy (1987), Nancy Price	Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Sliver (1991), Ira Levin	Sliver (1993)
Slugs (1982), Shaun Hutson	Slugs (1988)
Small Vices (1997), Robert B. Parker	Spenser: Small Vices (1999) (TV)
The Snatchers (1953), Lionel White	The Night of the Following Day (1968)
Snow Angels (1994), Stewart O'Nan	Snow Angels (2007)
So Red the Rose (1934), Stark Young	So Red the Rose (1935)
Solaris (1961), Stanislaw Lem	Solaris (1972) Solaris (2002)
Soldier of Fortune (1954), Ernest K. Gann	Soldier of Fortune (1955)
A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1990), Kaylie Jones	A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998)
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), Ray Bradbury	Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
The Song of Bernadette (1941), Franz Werfel	The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Sons and Lovers (1913), D. H. Lawrence	Sons and Lovers (1960) Sons and Lovers (1981) (TV) (serial) Sons and Lovers (2003) (TV) (serial)
S.O.S. Noronha (1954), Pierre Viré	S.O.S. Noronha (1957)
Sour Sweet (1982), Timothy Mo	Sour Sweet (1989)
Sorstalanság (Fatelessness) (1975), Imre Kertész	Fateless (2005)
The Sound and the Fury (1929), William Faulkner	The Sound and the Fury (1959)
Space (1982), James A. Michener	Space (1985) (TV)
The Space Vampires (1976), Colin Wilson	Lifeforce (1985)
The Spanish Gardener (1950), A. J. Cronin	The Spanish Gardener (1957)
Spartacus (1951), Howard Fast	Spartacus (1960) Spartacus (2004)
Sphere (1987), Michael Crichton	Sphere (1998)
Spider (1990), Patrick McGarth	Spider (2001)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2003–2009) (series), Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black	The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Spirales (1987), Christopher Frank	Spirale (1987)
Split Images (1981), Elmore Leonard	Split Images (1992) (TV)
The Spoilers (1906), Rex Beach	The Spoilers (1914) The Spoilers (1923) The Spoilers (1930) The Spoilers (1942) The Spoilers (1955)
A Sporting Proposition (1973), James Aldridge	Ride a Wild Pony (1975)
Spy Story (1974), Len Deighton	Spy Story (1976)
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), John le Carré	The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
The Spy Who Loved Me (1962), Ian Fleming	The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Stairs of Sand (1929), Zane Grey	Stairs of Sand (1929)
The Stalking Moon (1965), T. V. Olsen	The Stalking Moon (1968)
The Stand (1978), Stephen King	The Stand (1994) (TV) The Stand (future, TBA)
Stand at Spanish Boot (1948), Harry Brown	Apache Drums (1951)
Stara baśń. Powieść z dziejów Polski (An Ancient Tale: A Novel in Polish History) (1876), Józef Ignacy Kraszewski	Stara basn: kiedy slonce bylo bogiem (An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God) (2003)
Stardust (1999), Neil Gaiman	Stardust (2007)
Starfire (1960), Robert Buckner	Moon Pilot (1962)
Star in the West (1959), Richard Emery Roberts	The Second Time Around (1961)
Stars In My Crown (1947), Joe David Brown	Stars In My Crown (1950)
The Stars Look Down (1935), A. J. Cronin	The Stars Look Down (1939)
Starship Troopers (1959), Robert A. Heinlein	Starship Troopers (1997) * Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (2004) ** Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (2007)
Station West (1948), Luke Short	Station West (1948)
The Stepford Wives (1972), Ira Levin	The Stepford Wives (1975) * Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980) (TV) ** The Stepford Children (1987) (TV) ** * The Stepford Husbands (1996) (TV) The Stepford Wives (2004)
Stella Dallas (1923), Olive Higgins Prouty	Stella Dallas (1925) Stella Dallas (1937) Stella (1990)
A Stir of Echoes (1958), Richard Matheson	Stir of Echoes (1999) * Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming (2007)
Storm in the City (1950), Horace McCoy	The Turning Point (1952)
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Robert Louis Stevenson	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1908) Den Skæbnesvangre Opfindelse (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) (1910) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1912) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) Der Januskopf (The Head of Janus) (1920) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951) * The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957) The Testament of Dr. Cordelier (1959) The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960) The Nutty Professor (1963) * The Nutty Professor (2008) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968) Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971) I, Monster (1971) Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (1972) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973) (TV) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1981) (TV) Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again (1982) The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1985) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1986) (TV) Edge of Sanity (1989) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1989) (TV) Jekyll & Hyde (1990) (TV) Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde (1995) Mary Reilly (1996) (TV) The Nutty Professor (1996) * Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (1999) (TV) Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2002) (TV) Jekyll + Hyde (2006) (TV) Jekyll (2007) (TV) Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (2008) (TV) Jekyll (future, TBA)
A Stranger Came Home (1949), George Sanders	A Stranger Came Home (1954)
A Stranger Is Watching (1977), Mary Higgins Clark	A Stranger Is Watching (1982)
Strangers on a Train (1950), Patricia Highsmith	Strangers on a Train (1951)
Stranger's Return (1933), Philip Stong	The Stranger's Return (1933)
The Street Lawyer (1998), John Grisham	The Street Lawyer (2003) (TV)
Strip Tease (1993), Carl Hiassen	Striptease (1996)
Stuart Little (1945), E. B. White	Stuart Little (1999) * Stuart Little 2 (2002) ** Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2006) (V)
The Stud (1969), Jackie Collins	The Stud (1978)
Stupeur et Tremblement (Fear and Trembling) (1999), Amélie Nothomb	Fear and Trembling (Stupeur et tremblements) (2003)
Sultana - La Nuit du Serail (1982), Prince Michael of Greece and Denmark	The Favorite (a.k.a. Intimate Power) (1989)
The Sum of All Fears (1991), Tom Clancy	The Sum of All Fears (2002)
Summer Pass (1931), Zane Grey	Summer Pass (1933)
The Sun Also Rises (1926), Ernest Hemingway	The Sun Also Rises (1957) The Sun Also Rises (1984) (TV)
The Swarm (1974), Arthur Herzog	The Swarm (1978)
Der Schweizerische Robinson (The Swiss Family Robinson) (1812), Johann David Wyss	Al-Ṭurfa al-Šahiyya fī aḫbār al-ʿAʾila al-Swīsiyya - Arabic translation (c. 1900) Swiss Family Robinson (1940 film) Mighty Mouse in: Swiss Cheese Family Robinson (1947) The Swiss Family Robinson (1958) (TV) Swiss Family Robinson (1960) The Swiss Family Robinson (1973) (TV) The Swiss Family Robinson (1973) (TV) The Swiss Family Robinson (1975) (TV) The Swiss Family Robinson (1976) Mountain Family Robinson (1979) The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson (1998) Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1998) (TV) The New Swiss Family Robinson (1998) (TV) Stranded (2002) (TV)
The Sword in the Stone (1938), T. H. White	The Sword in the Stone (1963)

T

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Taggart (1959), Louis L'Amour	Taggart (1964)
Tai-Pan (1966), James Clavell	Tai-Pan (1986)
Take Three Tenses: A Fugue in Time (1945), Rumer Godden	Enchantment (1948)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1973), Morton Freedgood (as John Godey)	The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998) (TV) The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)
A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Charles Dickens	A Tale of Two Cities (1911) A Tale of Two Cities (1917) A Tale of Two Cities (1922) The Only Way (1927) A Tale of Two Cities (1935) A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
Tales of the South Pacific (1947), James A. Michener	South Pacific (1958) South Pacific (2001)
The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955), Patricia Highsmith	Plein Soleil (1960) The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
The Tall Men (1954), Henry Wilson Allen	The Tall Men (1954)
Al-Tareeq al-Masdood (The Barred Road) (1954), Ihsan Abdel Quddous	Al-Tareeq al-Masdood (1958)
Tarzan (1912–1965, 1995) (series), Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the Apes (1912) * The Return of Tarzan (1913) ** The Beasts of Tarzan (1914) *** The Son of Tarzan (1915) **** Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar (1916) ***** Jungle Tales of Tarzan (1919) ****** Tarzan the Untamed (1920) ******* Tarzan the Terrible (1921) ******** Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1922/23) ********* Tarzan and the Ant Men (1924) ********** Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle (1927/28) *********** Tarzan and the Lost Empire (1928/29) ************ Tarzan at the Earth's Core (1929/30) ************* Tarzan the Invincible (1930/31) ************** Tarzan Triumphant (1931/32) *************** Tarzan and the City of Gold (1932) **************** Tarzan and the Lion Man (1933/34) ***************** Tarzan and the Leopard Men (1932/33) ****************** Tarzan's Quest (1935/36) ******************* Tarzan and the Forbidden City (1938) ******************** Tarzan the Magnificent (1939) ********************* Tarzan and the Foreign Legion (1947) ********************** Tarzan and the Madman (1964) *********************** Tarzan and the Castaways (1965) ************************ Tarzan: The Lost Adventure (1995, with Joe R. Lansdale)	Tarzan of the Apes (1918) * The Romance of Tarzan (1918) ** The Revenge of Tarzan (1920) ** * The Son of Tarzan (1920) ** ** The Adventures of Tarzan (1921) ** ** * Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927) ** ** ** Tarzan the Mighty (1928) ** ** ** * Tarzan the Tiger (1929) Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) Tarzan the Fearless (1933) * Tarzan and His Mate (1934) The New Adventures of Tarzan (1935) ** Tarzan Escapes (1936) Tarzan and the Green Goddess (1938) Tarzan’s Revenge (1938) ** * Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939) ** ** Tarzan's Secret Treasure (1941) ** ** * Tarzan's New York Adventure (1942) ** ** ** Tarzan Triumphs (1943) ** ** ** * Tarzan's Desert Mystery (1943) ** ** ** ** Tarzan and the Amazons (1945) ** ** ** ** * Tarzan and the Leopard Woman (1946) ** ** ** ** ** Tarzan and the Huntress (1947) ** ** ** ** ** * Tarzan and the Mermaids (1948) Tarzan's Magic Fountain (1949) * Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) ** Tarzan's Peril (1951) ** * Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952) ** ** Tarzan and the She-Devil (1953) Tarzan's Hidden Jungle (1955) * Tarzan and the Lost Safari (1957) ** Tarzan and the Trappers (1958) ** * Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958) ** ** Tarzan's Greatest Adventure (1959) Tarzan, the Ape Man (1959) ** ** * Tarzan the Magnificent (1960) Tarzan Goes to India (1962) * Tarzan's Three Challenges (1963) Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1966) * Tarzan and the Great River (1967) ** Tarzan and the Jungle Boy (1968) Tarzan's Deadly Silence (1970) Tarzan and the Brown Prince (1972) Tarzan, the Ape Man (1981) Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984) Tarzan and the Lost City (1998) Tarzan of the Apes (1999) Disney's Tarzan (1999–2005) (series) Tarzan (1999) * Tarzan & Jane (2002) ** Tarzan II (2005)
The North Star (1956), Henry Wilson Allen	Tashunga (The North Star) (1996)
Telefon (1975), Walter Wager	Telefon (1977)
Ten Against Caesar (a. k. a. Trail's End at 'Dobe Town) (1952), Kathleen B. George and Robert A. Granger	Gun Fury (1953)
Tender, Loving Care (1984), Andrew Neiderman	Tender Loving Care (1999) (V)
The Terminal Man (1972), Michael Crichton	The Terminal Man (1974)
Terms of Endearment (1975), Larry McMurtry	Terms of Endearment (1983)
As Terras Do Risco (1994), Agustina Bessa-Luís	The Convent (1995)
Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (1891), Thomas Hardy	Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1913) Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1924) Tess (1979)
The Tesseract (1998), Alex Garland	The Tesseract (2003)
Tex (1979), S. E. Hinton	Tex (1982)
Texas (1985), James A. Michener	James A. Michener's Texas (1994) (TV)
Texasville (1987), Larry McMurtry	Texasville (1990)
Theatre (1937), W. Somerset Maugham	Bezaubernde Julia (1960) (TV) Du bist zauberhaft (Adorable Julia) (1962) Theatre (1978) Poniro thilyko... katergara gynaika! (1980) Being Julia (2004)
There's a Porpoise Close Behind Us (1936), Noel Langley	These Foolish Things (2005)
These Foolish Things (2004), Deborah Moggach	The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012)
They Came to Cordura (1958), Glendon Swarthout	They Came to Cordura (1959)
They Do It with Mirrors (1952), Agatha Christie	Murder Ahoy! (1964) Murder with Mirrors (1985) (TV)
They Saved London (1955), Bernard Newman	Battle of the V-1 (1958)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), Horace McCoy	They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Thin Air (1995), Robert B. Parker	Thin Air (2000) (TV)
The Thirteenth Guest (1929), Armitage Trail	The Thirteenth Guest (1932)
The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915), John Buchan	The 39 Steps (1935) The 39 Steps (1959) The Thirty Nine Steps (1978) The 39 Steps (2008) The Thirty-Nine Steps (2011)
Thieves Like Us (1937), Frederick A. Stokes	They Live by Night (1950) Thieves Like Us (1974)
Thomasina: The Cat Who Thought She Was God (1957), Paul Gallico	The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964)
Thor (1993), Wayne Smith	Bad Moon (1996)
Thunder Mountain (1935), Zane Grey	Thunder Mountain (1935) Thunder Mountain (1947)
Thunderball (1961), Ian Fleming	Thunderball (1965) Never Say Never Again (1983)
Thunderhead (1943), Mary O'Hara	Thunderhead, Son of Flicka (1945)
The Thundering Herd (1925), Zane Grey	The Thundering Herd (1925) The Thundering Herd (1933)
The Three Godfathers (1913), Peter B. Kyne	The Three Godfathers (1916) Marked Men (1919) Action (1921) Hell's Heroes (1930) Three Godfathers (1936) 3 Godfathers (1948) The Godchild (1974) (TV)
Three-Ten to Yuma (1953), Elmore Leonard	3:10 to Yuma (1957) 3:10 to Yuma (2007)
The Three Worlds of Johnny Handsome (1973), Morton Freedgood	Johnny Handsome (1989)
A Thrill a Minute with Jack Albany (1967), Morton Freedgood (as John Godey)	Never a Dull Moment (1968)
A Tiger Walks (1960), Ian Niall	A Tiger Walks (1964)
Time After Time (1979), Karl Alexander	Time After Time (1979)
The Time Machine (1895), H. G. Wells	The Time Machine (1960) The Time Machine (1978) (TV) Time After Time (1979) The Time Machine (2002)
A Time to Kill (1989), John Grisham	A Time to Kill (1996)
The Time Traveler's Wife (2003), Audrey Niffenegger	The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)
Timeline (1999), Michael Crichton	Timeline (2003)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), John le Carré	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
To Catch a Thief (1952), David F. Dodge	To Catch a Thief (1955)
To Have and Have Not (1937), Ernest Hemingway	To Have and Have Not (1944) The Breaking Point (1950) The Gun Runners (1958)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Harper Lee	To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
To Sir, With Love (1959), E.R. Braithwaite	To Sir, with Love (1967) * To Sir, with Love II (1996) (TV)
To the Devil... a Daughter (1953), Dennis Wheatley	To the Devil a Daughter (1976)
To the Last Man (1921), Zane Grey	To the Last Man (1933)
Der Tod in Venedig (Death in Venice) (1912), Thomas Mann	Death in Venice (1971)
Toby Tyler; or, Ten Weeks with a Circus (1877) (serial), (1881) (novel), James Otis Kaler (as James Otis)	Toby Tyler (1960)
Toilers of the Sea (French: "Les Travailleurs de la Mer") (1866), Victor Hugo	Toilers of the Sea (1914) Toilers of the Sea (1915) Toilers of the Sea (1923) Toilers of the Sea (1936) Sea Devils (1953)
Topaz (1967), Leon Uris	Topaz (1969)
Touch (1987), Elmore Leonard	Touch (1997)
Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (Around the World in Eighty Days) (1873), Jules Verne	'Round the World in 80 Days (1914) Around the World in Eighty Days (1919) Around the World in 80 Days (1956) The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963) Around the World in Eighty Days (1972) (made in Australia) Around the World in Eighty Days (1972) (made in Canada) Around the World with Willy Fog (1981–1983) Ginga Shippu Sasuraiger (1983) Around the World in Eighty Days (1987) Around the World in 80 Days (1988) (V) Around the World in 80 Days (1989) (TV) (mini) Around the World in 80 Days (1999) (V) Tweety's High-Flying Adventure (2000) Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Tous les hommes sont mortels (All Men Are Mortal) (1946), Simone de Beauvoir	All Men Are Mortal (1995)
The Tower (1973), Richard Martin Stern	The Towering Inferno (1974)
A Town Like Alice (1950), Nevil Shute	A Town Like Alice (1956)
The Track of the Cat (1949), Walter Van Tilburg Clark	Track of the Cat (1952)
Trainspotting (1993), Irvine Welsh	Trainspotting (1996)
Treasure Island (1883), Robert Louis Stevenson	Treasure Island (1918) Treasure Island (1920) Treasure Island (1934) Treasure Island (1937) Treasure Island (1950) * Long John Silver (1954) Return to Treasure Island (1954) Treasure Island (1971) Animal Treasure Island (1971) Treasure Island (1972) Treasure Island (1977) (TV) Treasure Island (1982) (TV) L'Île au trésor (1985) Return to Treasure Island (1986) (TV) (mini) L'isola del tesoro (1987) Treasure Island (1988) Return to Treasure Island (1988) (TV) Treasure Island (1990) (TV) Return to Treasure Island (1992) Muppet Treasure Island (1996) Return to Treasure Island (1996) (TV) Return to Treasure Island (1998) (TV) Treasure Island (1999) Treasure Planet (2002) Pirates of Treasure Island (2006) Die Schatzinsel (2007)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1927), B. Traven	The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
The Trial (1925), Franz Kafka	The Trial (1962) After Hours (1985) The Trial (1993)
Trinity's Child (1983), William Prochnau	By Dawn's Early Light (1990) (TV)
Les Trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) (1844), Alexandre Dumas, père	The Three Musketeers (1903) The Three Musketeers: Part 1/The Three Musketeers: Part 2 (1911) The Three Musketeers (1914) The Three Musketeers (1916) Les Trois Mousquetaires (1921) The Three Musketeers (1921) The Three Musketeers (1933) (serial) Les Trois Mousquetaires (1933) The Three Musketeers (1935) The Three Musketeers (1939) The Three Musketeers (1948) At Sword's Point (1952) The Three Musketeers (1953) Los tres mosqueteros y medio (1957) Les trois mousquetaires: Premiere époque-Les ferrets de la reine (1961) (a.k.a. (a.k.a. “The Fighting Musketeeers”) * Les trois mousquetaires: La vengeance de Milady (1961) (a.k.a. “The Vengeance of the Musketeers”) The Three Musketeers (1969) (TV) The Three Musketeers in Boots (1972) The Three Musketeers (1973) * The Four Musketeers (1974) ** The Return of the Musketeers (1989) The Three Musketeers (1973) (TV) Les Quatre Charlots Mousquetaires (1974) * A Nous Quatre Cardinal (1974) d'Artagnan l'intrépide (1975) d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1978) * The Secret of Queen Anna, or Musketeers Thirty Years After (1993) ** The Return of the Musketeers, or The Treasures of Cardinal Mazarin (2009) The Three Musketeers (1992) Ring of the Musketeers (1992) The Three Musketeers (1993) La Fille de d'Artagnan (The Daughter of d'Artagnan) (1994) The Musketeer (2001) d'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires (2005) Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004) La Femme Musketeer (2004) Barbie and the Three Musketeers (2009) The Three Musketeers (2011)
The Trouble with Harry (1950), Jack Trevor Story	The Trouble with Harry (1955)
True Grit (1968), Charles Portis	True Grit (1969) * Rooster Cogburn (1975) ** True Grit: A Further Adventure (1978) (TV) True Grit (2010)
The Turning Point (1977), Hermann Kant	The Turning Point (German: Der Aufenthalt) (1983)
The Twenty-fifth Hour (Ora 25) (1949), Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu	The 25th Hour (1967)
Twilight for the Gods (1958), Ernest K. Gann	Twilight for the Gods (1958)
The Twilight Saga (2005–2008) (series), Stephenie Meyer Twilight (2005) * New Moon (2006) ** Eclipse (2007) ** * Breaking Dawn (2008)	The Twilight Saga (2008–2012) (series) Twilight (2008) * The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) ** The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) *** The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 (2011) *** The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012)
The Twins (2000), Tessa de Loo	Twin Sisters (De tweeling) (2002)
Two-Gun Man (1929), Stewart Edward White	Under a Texas Moon (1929)
Two-Minute Warning (1975), George La Fountaine	Two-Minute Warning (1976)
Two Much! (1975), Donald E. Westlake	Le Jumeau (The Twin) (1984) Two Much (1995)
The Two Towers (1954), J. R. R. Tolkien	J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings (1978) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
Трудно быть богом (Trudno byt' bogom ("Hard to Be a God")) (1964), Arkady and Boris Strugatsky	Hard to Be a God (1989) Hard to Be a God (2008)
The Tunnel of Love (1954), Peter De Vries	The Tunnel of Love (1958)

U

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Ugetsu monogatari (1776), Ueda Akinari	Ugetsu (1953)
The Ugly Dachshund (1938), Gladys Bronwyn Stern	The Ugly Dachshund (1966)
Uncharted Seas (1938), Dennis Wheatley	The Lost Continent (1968)
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation (1881), Joel Chandler Harris	Song of the South (1946) Coonskin (1975) The Adventures of Brer Rabbit (2006)
Under the Tonto Rim (1926), Zane Grey	Under the Tonto Rim (1928) Under the Tonto Rim (1933) Under the Tonto Rim (1947)
Undercover Cat (1963), Gordon Gordon and Mildred Gordon	That Darn Cat! (1965) That Darn Cat (1997)
Unforbidden Fruit (1927), Samuel Hopkins Adams	The Wild Party (1929)
The Unforgiven (1957), Alan Le May	The Unforgiven (1960)
Union Street (1982), Pat Barker	Stanley & Iris (1989)
Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) (1954), Väinö Linna	The Unknown Soldier (1955) The Unknown Soldier (1985)
Useless Cowboy (1943), Alan Le May	Along Came Jones (1945)

V

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Valdez Is Coming (1970), Elmore Leonard	Valdez Is Coming (1971)
Valley of the Dolls (1966), Jacqueline Susann	Valley of the Dolls (1967)
Vampire$ (1990), John Steakley	Vampires (1998) * Vampires: Los Muertos (2002) (V) ** Vampires: The Turning (2005) (V)
Les Valseuses (1974), Bertrand Blier	Going Places (1974)
The Vanishing American (1925), Zane Grey	The Vanishing American (1925)
Vanity Fair (1847–1848), William Makepeace Thackeray	Vanity Fair (1911) Vanity Fair (1915) Vanity Fair (1922) Vanity Fair (1923) Vanity Fair (1932) Becky Sharp (1935) Vanity Fair (1967) (TV) Vanity Fair (1987) (TV) Vanity Fair (1998) (TV) Vanity Fair (2004)
Vanity Row (1953), W. R. Burnett	Accused of Murder (1956)
Vennelalo Adapilla (1991), Yandamuri Veerendranath	Beladingala Baale (1995)
Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team (1984), George Jonas Sword of Gideon (1986), George Jonas and Chris Bryant	Munich (2005)
Vengeance Valley (1949), Luke Short	Vengeance Valley (1951)
A Very Private Gentleman (1990), Martin Booth	The American (2010)
Vespers in Vienna (1947), Bruce Marshall	The Red Danube (1949)
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus tard (The Vicomte of Bragelonne: Ten Years Later) (1847–1850), Alexandre Dumas, père	The Iron Mask (1929) The Man in the Iron Mask (1939) The Man in the Iron Mask (1977) The Man in the Iron Mask (1998)
Victory (1915), Joseph Conrad	Victory (1919) Niebezpieczny raj (Dangerous Paradise) (1930) Dangerous Paradise (1930) Victory (1940) Victory (1995)
De Vierde Man (1981), Gerard Reve	The Fourth Man (1983)
Vigil in the Night (1939), A. J. Cronin	Vigil in the Night (1940)
The Viking (1951), Edison Marshall	The Vikings (1958)
Viper Three (1972), Walter Wager	Twilight's Last Gleaming (1977)
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea) (1870), Jules Verne	20,000 lieues sous les mers (1907) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954) Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1972) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1973) Captain Nemo (Капитан Немо) (1975) The Return of Captain Nemo (1978) (TV) The Black Hole (1979) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1985) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) (television film released by Hallmark) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) (television film released by Village Roadshow Pictures) Crayola Kids Adventures: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1997) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2002) 30,000 Leagues Under the Sea (2007) Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012)
The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains (1902), Owen Wister	The Virginian (1914) The Virginian (1923) The Virginian (1929) The Virginian (1946) The Virginian (2000) (TV)
Vision Quest (1979), Terry Davis	Vision Quest (1985)
The Voice of Bugle Ann (1935), MacKinlay Kantor	The Voice of Bugle Ann (1936)
Le Voleur (1897), Georges Darien	The Thief of Paris (1967)
Voyage au centre de la Terre (A Journey to the Center of the Earth) (1864), Jules Verne	Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959) Viaje al centro de la Tierra (1978) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1989) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993) (TV) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1999) (TV) Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) * Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) (TV) Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) (Direct-to-DVD release by The Asylum)
Les Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras (The Adventures of Captain Hatteras) (1866), Jules Verne	Conquest of the Pole (1912)
Voyage of the Damned (1974), Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts	Voyage of the Damned (1976)

W

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
The Wages of Fear (1950), Georges-Jean Arnaud	The Wages of Fear (1953) Violent Road (1958) (a. k. a. Hell's Highway) Sorcerer (1977)
The Wailing Asteroid (1960), Murray Leinster	The Terrornauts (1967)
A Walk to Remember (1999), Nicholas Sparks	A Walk to Remember (2002)
Walkabout (a.k.a. The Children) (1959), Donald G. Payne (as James Vance Marshall)	Walkabout (1971)
Walking Shadow (1994), Robert B. Parker	Walking Shadow (2001) (TV)
Waltz into Darkness (1947), Cornell Woolrich (as William Irish)	Mississippi Mermaid (1969) Original Sin (2001)
Wanderer of the Wasteland (1923), Zane Grey	Wanderer of the Wasteland (1924) Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935) Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945)
War and Peace (1869), Leo Tolstoy	War and Peace (1956) War and Peace (1966–67)
War Horse (1982), Michael Morpurgo	War Horse (2011)
The War of the Roses (1981), Warren Adler	The War of the Roses (1989)
The War of the Worlds (1898), H. G. Wells	The War of the Worlds (1953) The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1983) War of the Worlds (2005) H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds (2005) H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds (2005) * War of the Worlds 2: The Next Wave (2008)
Wat zien ik!? (1966), Albert Mol Haar van Boven (1969), Albert Mol	Wat zien ik (Business Is Business) (1971)
A Watcher in the Woods (1976), Florence Engel Randall	The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
Water for Elephants (2006), Sara Gruen	Water for Elephants (2011)
The Water Hole (1927–1928) (serial) (1928) (novel), Zane Grey	The Water Hole (1928)
Watership Down (1972), Richard Adams	Watership Down (1978)
The Way West (1949), A. B. Guthrie, Jr.	The Way West (1967)
The Werewolf of Paris (1933), Guy Endore	The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) Legend of the Werewolf (1975)
West of the Pecos (1937), Zane Grey	West of the Pecos (1922) West of the Pecos (1934) West of the Pecos (1945)
The Wet Parade (1931), Upton Sinclair	The Wet Parade (1932)
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1987), Hudson Talbott	We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993)
What Dreams May Come (1978), Richard Matheson	What Dreams May Come (1998)
What's the Worst Thing That Could Happen? (1996), Donald E. Westlake	What's the Worst Thing That Could Happen? (2001)
The Wheel Spins (1936), Ethel Lina White	The Lady Vanishes (1938) The Lady Vanishes (1979)
When Eight Bells Toll (1966), Alistair MacLean	When Eight Bells Toll (1971)
When Knighthood Was in Flower (1898), Charles Major	When Knighthood Was in Flower (1908) (a. k. a. When Knights Were Bold) When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922) The Sword and the Rose (1953)
When Worlds Collide (1932–1933) (serial), (1933) (novel), Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie	When Worlds Collide (1951) When Worlds Collide (2012)
Where Eagles Dare (1967), Alistair MacLean	Where Eagles Dare (1968)
Where the Boys Are (1960), Glendon Swarthout	Where the Boys Are (1960) * Where the Boys Are '84 (1984)
Where the Red Fern Grows (1961), Wilson Rawls	Where the Red Fern Grows (1974)
Where the Wild Things Are (1963), Maurice Sendak	Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Whistle Stop (1941), Maritta Wolff	Whistle Stop (1946)
White Banners (1936), Lloyd C. Douglas	White Banners (1938)
White Dog (1970), Romain Gary	White Dog (1982)
White Fang (1906), Jack London	White Fang (1925) White Fang (1936) White Fang (1946) White Fang (1973) * The Return of White Fang (1974) ** White Fang to the Rescue (1974) *** White Fang and the Gold Diggers (1974) **** White Fang and the Hunter (1975) White Fang (1991) * White Fang 2: Myth of the White Wolf (1994) White Fang (1991) White Fang (1997)
White Shark (1994), Peter Benchley	Creature (1998) (TV)
The White Ship (1975), Donald G. Payne	The White Ship (1976)
The White Stallions of Vienna (1963), Alois Podhajsky	Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
White Jazz (1992), James Ellroy	White Jazz (2012)
Who? (1958), Algis Budrys	Who? (1973)
Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (1981), Gary K. Wolf	Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
Who Lie in Gaol (1952), Joan Henry	The Weak and the Wicked (1953)
Who Rides with Wyatt (1955), Henry Wilson Allen	Young Billy Young (1969)
Why Me? (1983), Donald E. Westlake	Why Me? (1990)
Wicked Water (1949), MacKinlay Kantor	Hannah Lee: An American Primitive (1953)
Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), Jean Rhys	Wide Sargasso Sea (1993)
A Widow for One Year (1998), John Irving	The Door in the Floor (2004)
Wild Horse Mesa (1928), Zane Grey	Wild Horse Mesa (1925) Wild Horse Mesa (1932) Wild Horse Mesa (1947)
Wild Justice (1979), Wilbur Smith	Wild Justice (a. k. a. Covert Assassin) (1993) (TV)
The Willing Flesh (1955), Willi Heinrich	Cross of Iron (1977)
Wilt (1976), Tom Sharpe	Wilt (1989)
The Wind in the Willows (1908), Kenneth Grahame	The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) The Wind in the Willows (1983) * The Wind in the Willows: A Tale of Two Toads (1989) (TV) The Wind in the Willows (1987) (TV) The Wind in the Willows (1995) (TV) * The Willows in Winter (1996) The Wind in the Willows (1996) The Wind in the Willows (2006) (TV) The Wind in the Willows (2012)
The Wings of the Dove (1902), Henry James	The Wings of the Dove (1981) The Wings of the Dove (1997)
Winnie-the-Pooh (1926–1928) (series), A.A. Milne Winnie-the-Pooh (1926) * The House at Pooh Corner (1928)	Disney's Winnie the Pooh (1977–present) (series) The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) * Winnie the Pooh and Friends (1985) ** Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) ** * Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving (1999) ** ** The Tigger Movie (2000) ** ** * Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year (2002) ** ** ** Piglet's Big Movie (2003) ** ** ** * Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo (2004) ** ** ** ** Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005) ** ** ** ** * Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (2005) ** ** ** ** ** My Friends Tigger and Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie (2007) ** ** ** ** ** * Tigger and Pooh and a Musical Too (2009) ** ** ** ** ** ** Winnie the Pooh (2011)
Winter Meeting (1946), Grace Zaring Stone (as Ethel Vance)	Winter Meeting (1948)
Winter's Bone (2006), Daniel Woodrell	Winter's Bone (2010)
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), John Steinbeck	The Winter of Our Discontent (1983)
Wise Blood (1952), Flannery O'Connor	Wise Blood (1979)
The Witches (1983), Roald Dahl	The Witches (1990)
The Witches of Eastwick (1984), John Updike	The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Witchfinder General (1966), Ronald Bassett	Witchfinder General (1968)
Witch's Milk (1968), Peter De Vries	Pete 'n' Tillie (1972)
...with a Perfect Stranger (2005–2006), David Gregory Dinner with a Perfect Stranger: An Invitation Worth Considering (2005) * Day with a Perfect Stranger (2006)	The Perfect Stranger (2005–2009) (series) The Perfect Stranger (2005) * Another Perfect Stranger (2007) ** The Perfect Gift (2009)
The Witnesses (1971), Anne Holden	The Bedroom Window (1987)
Woe to Live On (1987), Daniel Woodrell	Ride with the Devil (1999)
The Wolfen (1978), Whitley Strieber	Wolfen (1981)
The Woman Chaser (1960), Charles Willeford	The Woman Chaser (1999)
The Woman in Black (1983), Susan Hill	The Woman in Black (1989) (TV) The Woman in Black (2012)
The Woman in White (1859–1860) (serial), (1860) (novel), Wilkie Collins	The Woman in White (1912/I) The Woman in White (1912/II) The Woman in White (1917) The Woman in White (1929) Crimes at the Dark House (1940) The Woman in White (1948) The Woman in Black (1982) (TV) (mini) Zhenshchina v belom (1982)
Woman, Thou Art Loosed!: Healings the Wounds of the Past (1993), T. D. Jakes	Woman Thou Art Loosed (2004)
Woman Wanted (1984), Joanna McClelland Glass	Woman Wanted (2000)
Women in Love (1920), D. H. Lawrence	Women in Love (1969)
The Women of Brewster Place (1982), Gloria Naylor	The Women of Brewster Place (1989) (TV)
Wonder Boys (1995), Michael Chabon	Wonder Boys (2000)
The Wonderful Country (1952), Thomas C. Lea, III	The Wonderful Country (1952)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), L. Frank Baum	The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays (1908) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910) Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1910) * The Land of Oz (1910) ** John Dough and the Cherub (1910) The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1914) * The Magic Cloak of Oz (1914) ** His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz (1914) Wizard of Oz (1925) The Wizard of Oz (1933) The Wizard of Oz (1939) Return to Oz (1964) (TV) The Wizard of Mars (1965) The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969) Ayşecik ve Sihirli Cüceler Rüyalar Ülkesinde (1971) Hunter (1973) Zardoz (1974) Journey Back to Oz (1974) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1975) Oz (1976) The Wiz (1978) The Wizard of Oz (1982) Return to Oz (1985) Dorothy Meets Ozma of Oz (1987) The Wizard of A.I.D.S. (1987) The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz (1990) Lion of Oz (2000) Lost in Oz (2002) (TV) The Muppets' Wizard of Oz (2005) Tin Man (2007) (TV) (mini) Tom and Jerry and the Wizard of Oz (2011) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (2011) The Witches of Oz (2011) Dorothy of Oz (2012)
The World According to Garp (1978), John Irving	The World According to Garp (1982)
The World in His Arms (1946), Rex Beach	The World in His Arms (1952)
The World of Henry Orient (1956), Nora Johnson	The World of Henry Orient (1964)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1956), Hammond Innes	The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
The Wrong Box (1889), Robert Louis Stevenson & Lloyd Osbourne	The Wrong Box (1966)
Wuthering Heights (1847), Emily Brontë	Wuthering Heights (1939) Abismos de Pasión (1954) Wuthering Heights (1970) Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992) Wuthering Heights (2003)
The Warriors (1965), Sol Yurick	The Warriors (1979)

Y

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
Yaju no seishun (1959), Haruhiko Oyabu	Youth of the Beast (1963)
The Year of Living Dangerously (1978), Christopher Koch	The Year of Living Dangerously (1982)
The Year of the Angry Rabbit (1964), Russell Braddon	Night of the Lepus (1972)
The Year of the Horse (1965), Eric S. Hatch	The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968)
Yellowstone Kelly (1958), Henry Wilson Allen	Yellowstone Kelly (1959)
Les yeux sans visage (The Eyes Without a Face) (1959), Jean Redon	Eyes Without a Face (1960)
Yield to the Night (1954), Joan Henry	Yield to the Night (1956)
Yo, Puta (2003), Isabel Pisano	Whore (2004)
You Only Live Twice (1964), Ian Fleming	You Only Live Twice (1967)
You're Best Alone (1943), Norah Lofts	Guilt Is My Shadow (1950)
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1977), Romain Gary	Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981)
Young Adam (1957), Alexander Trocchi	Young Adam (2003)
Young Man of Manhattan (1930), Katharine Brush	Young Man of Manhattan (1930)
Young Man with a Horn (1938), Dorothy Baker	Young Man with a Horn (1950)

Z

Fiction work(s)	Film adaptation(s)
De Zaak Alzheimer (The Alzheimer Case) (2000), Jef Geeraerts	De Zaak Alzheimer (The Alzheimer Case) (2003)
The Story of Zarak Khan (1949), A. J. Bevan	Zarak (1956)
Zathura (2002), Chris Van Allsburg	Zathura (2005)
Zazie in the Metro (Zazie dans le métro) (1959), Raymond Queneau	Zazie in the Metro (Zazie dans le métro) (1960)
De Zesde Mei (2003), Tomas Ross	06/05 (2003)
Zona Zamfirova (1906), Stefan Sremac	Zona Zamfirova (2002)
Zorba the Greek (1946), Nikos Kazantzakis	Zorba the Greek (1964)
Zuqāq al-Midaq (Midaq Alley) (1947), Naguib Mahfouz	El callejón de los milagros (1994)

Short stories and novellas

Main article: List of short fiction made into feature films

Young adult and children's literature

Main article: List of children's books made into feature films

See also

• Lists of film source material
• List of non-fiction works made into feature films
• List of plays made into feature films
• List of films based on stage plays or musicals