Famous Bollywood Adaptations3 Idiots – Chetan Bhagat
Slumdog Millionaire - Vikas Swarup
The Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
The Blue Umbrella – Ruskin Bond
Hello - Chetan Bhagat
Devdas – Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
Paheli - Vijayadan Detha
Raincoat – O Henry
Bride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Mistress of Spices - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
Maqbool - Shakespeare
Omkara - Shakespeare
Parineeta - Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
Chokher Bali – Rabindranath Tagore
Pinjar - Amrita Pritam
Shatranj Ke Khiladi – Munshi Premchand
Pather Panchali - Bibhutibhushan Bandhopadhyay
The Guide – RK Narayan
Teesri Kasam – Phanishwarnath Renu
Sahib Biwi Aur Ghulam – Bimal Mitra
Kohra – Daphne de Maurier
Hollywood Adaptations
A Civil Action - Jonathan Harr
A Clockwork Orange - Antony Burgess
A Cry in the Night - John Bryson
A Dog Named Skip - Willie Morris
A Night to Remember - Walter Lord
A Passage to India - E.M. Forester
A Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger
A Prayer for Owen Meany (made as "Simon Birch") - John Irving
A River Runs Through It - Norman MacLean
A Room With a View - E.M. Forester
A Simple Plan - Scott B. Smith
A Time to Kill - John Grisham
Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
Alive - Peirs Paul Read
All the President`s Men - Carl Bernstein
All`s Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
Angela`s Ashes - Frank McCourt
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Anna and the King - Margaret Landon (novel: Anna and the King of Siam)
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Apocalypse Now - Joseph Conrad (book: Heart of Darkness)
Apt Pupil - Stephen King
Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
Atonement - Ian McEwan
Battle Field Earth - L. Ron Hubbard
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Ben-Hur - Lew Wallace
Billy Bathgate - E.L. Doctrow
Born Free - Joy Adamson
Born on the 4th of July - Ron Kovic
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Bridge Over the River Kwai - Pierre Boulle
Bridges of Madison County - Robert James Waller
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason - Helen Fielding
Bridget Jones`s Diary - Helen Fielding
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh lux
Bridge to Terabithia - by Katherine Paterson
Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini
Casino Royale - Ian Fleming`s James Bond
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Cat`s Eye - Stephen King
Charlotte`s Web - E.B. White
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Ian Fleming`s James Bond
Christine - Stephen King
Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Cider House Rules - John Irving
Circle of Friends - Maeve Binchy
Clear and Present Danger - Tom Clancy
Coma - Robin Cook
Congo - Michael Crichton
Cujo - Stephen King
Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand
Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake
Dangerous Minds - Louanne Johnson (book: My Posse Don`t Do Homework)
Death on the Nile - Agatha Christie
Deliverance - James Dickey
Delores Caliborne - Stephen King
Devil in a Blue Dress - Walter Mosley
Diamonds are Forever - Ian Fleming`s James Bond
Disclosure - Michael Crichton
Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting
Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
Donny Brasco - Joseph D. Pistone
Double Indemnity - James M. Cain
Dr. No - Ian Fleming`s James Bond
Dr. Strangelove - Peter George
Dracula - Bram Stoker
Dune - Frank Herbert
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Election - Tom Perrotta
Emma - Jane Austen
Evil under the Sun - Agatha Christie
Exodus - Leon Uris
Extreme Measures - Michael Palmer
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Field of Dreams - W.P. Kinsella (book: Shoeless Joe)
Firestarter - Stephen King
Flight of the Intruder - Stephen Coonts
Forest Gump - Winston Groom
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Freak Friday - Mary Rodgers
From Here to Eternity - James Jones
From Russia with Love - Ian Fleming`s James Bond
Girl Interrupted - Susanna Kaysen
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Goodfellas - Nicholas Pileggi
Gorillas in the Mist - Diane Fossey
Gorky Park - Martin Cruz Smith
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Guns of Navarone - Alistair MacLean
Hatchet - Gary Paulsen
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone - J K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J K Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J K Rowling
H G Wells - Jules Verne
Hanging Up - Delia Ephron
Heartburn - Nora Ephron
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
High Fidelity - A Novel by Nick Hornby
Holes - Louis Sachar
How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llwellyn
How to Make an American Quilt - Whitney Otto
Howard`s End - E.M. Forester
Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice
It - Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Jumanji - Chris Van Allsburg
Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
Just Cause - John Katzenbach
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Kiss the Girls - James Patterson
Laura - Vera Caspary
Lawnmower Man - Stephen King
Lawrence of Arabia - T.E. Lawrence (book: The 7 Pillars of Wisdom)
Leonard Wibberley
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Little Drummer Girl - John Le Carre
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Live and Let Die (made as Licence to Kill) - Goldfinger
Lost Horizon - James Hilton
Love Story - Erich Segal
Mary Poppins - P.L. Travers
MASH - Richard Hooker
Matilda - Roald Dahl
Message in a Bottle - Nicholas Sparks
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - John Berendt
Mildred Pierce - James M. Cain
Misery - Stephen King
Mommie Dearest - Christina Crawford
Moonraker - Goldfinger
Murder on the Orient Express - Agatha Christie
Mutiny on the Bounty - Charles Nordoff
My Left Foot - Christy Brown
Needful Things - Stephen King
Never Cry Wolf - Farley Mowat
O Pioneers! - Willa Cather
Of Human Bondage - George MacDonald
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Old Yeller - Fred Gipson
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
On Her Majesty`s Secret Service - Goldfinger
One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest - Ken Kesey
Ordinary People - Judith Guest
Out of Africa - IsakDinesen (aka Karen Blixen)
Out of Sight - Elmore Leonard
Patriot Games - Tom Clancy
Patton - Ladislas Farago
Persuasion - Jane Austen
Pet Cemetery - Stephen King
Peyton Place - Grace Metalious
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
Postcards from the Edge - Carrie Fisher
Practical Magic - Alice Hoffman
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Primal Fear - William Diehl
Primary Colors - Anonymous
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Wiggin
Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
Rosemary`s Ba- - Ira Levin
Run Silent, Run Deep - Edward L. Beach
Salem`s Lot - Stephen King
Schindler`s List - Thomas Keneally
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Shadowlands - William Nicholson
Shane - Jack Schaefer
Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King
She-Devil - Fay Weldon (book: The Lives and Loves of a She-devil)
Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
Sleepers - Lorenzo Carcaterra
Sleepwalkers - Stephen King
Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving
Smila`s Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
Sophie`s Choice - William Styron
Spartacus - Howard Fast
Sphere - Michael Crichton
Sphinx - Robin Cook
Stand - Me - Stephen King
Starship Troopers - Robert A. Heinlein
Stuart Little - E.B. White
Terms of Endearment - Larry McMurtry
Tess of the D`Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
The 13th Warrior (novel: The Eaters of the Dead) - Michael Crichton
The 39 Steps - John Buchan
The Andromeda Strain - Michael Crichton
The Bicentennial Man - Isaac Asimov (Book also known as "The Positronic Man")
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Black Cauldron - Lloyd Alexander
The Black Stallion - Walter Farley
The Blade Runner - Philip K. Dick (novel: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?)
The Bone Collector - Jeffery Deaver
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
The Bourne Identity - Robert Ludlum
The Caine Mutiny - Herman Wouk
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Chamber - John Grisham
The Client - John Grisham
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
The Deep End of the Ocean - Jacquelyn Mitchard
The Dirty Dozen - E.M. Nathanson
The Eiger Sanction - Trevanian
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
The Exocist - William Peter Blatty
The Falcon and the Snowman - Robert Lindsey
The Firm - John Grisham
The First Wives Club - Olivia Goldsmith
The French Lieutenant`s Woman - John Fowles
The General`s Daughter - Nelson DeMille
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir - R.A. Dick
The Ghost and the Darkness - Col. Patterson (book: The Man Eaters of Tsavo)
The Gingerbread Man (short story) - John Grisham
The Graduate - Charles Webb
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Great Escape - Paul Brickhill
The Great Gats- - F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Train Robbery - Michael Crichton
The Green Mile - Stephen King
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Holcroft Covenant - Robert Ludlum
The Hotel New Hampshire - John Irving
The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy
The Hurricane - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
The Indian in the Cupboard - Lynne Reid Banks
The Invisible Man - Jules Verne
The Iron Giant - Ted Hughes (book: The Iron Man)
The Island of Dr. Moreau - Jules Verne
The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
The Lady in the Lake - Raymond Chandler
The Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
The Little Lord Fauntleroy - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Lord of Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lost World - Michael Crichton
The Love Letter - Cathleen Schine
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
The Man With the Golden Gun - Goldfinger
The Mirror Crack`d - Agatha Christie
The Mouse on the Moon - Leonard Wibberley
The Mouse that Roared - Leonard Wibberley
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
The Neverending Story - Michael Ende
The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory
The Devil Wears Prada - Lauren Weisberger
The Osterman Weekend - Robert Ludlum
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
The Parent Trap - Erich Kastner
The Pelican Brief - John Grisham
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
The Postman Always Rings Twice - James M. Cain
The Postman - David Brin
The Princess and the Goblin - George MacDonald
The Princess Bride - William Goldman
The Razor`s Edge - George MacDonald
The Relic - Robert Preston
The Running Man (as Richard Bachman) - Stephen King
The Russia House - John Le Carre
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Emmuska Orczy
The Sea Wolf - Jack London
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret of NIMH - Robert O`Brien (book also known as: Mrs. Fris- and the Rats of Nimh)
The Shining - Stephen King
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John Le Carre
The Spy Who Loved Me - Goldfinger
The Stand - Stephen King
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Patricia Highsmith
The Terminal Man - Michael Crichton
The Thin Man - Dashiell Hammett
The Third Man - Graham Greene
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Time Machine - Jules Verne
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre - Bernard Traven
The Untouchables - Oscar Fraley
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham
The Witches of Eastwick - John Updike
The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Wonder Boys - Michael Chabon
The World According to Garp - John Irving
Thunderball - Goldfinger
To Kill a Mocking Bird - Harper Lee
Tom`s Midnight Garden - Phillipa Pearce
Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
True Crime - Andrew Klavan
Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albom
Valley of the Dolls - Jacqueline Susann
W. Somerset Maugham - George MacDonald
Watership Down - Richard Down
What Dreams May Come - Richard Matheson
What the Deaf Man Heard - G.D. Gearino
Whatever Happened to Ba- Jane - Henry Farrell
White Fang - Jack London
Who Has Seen the Wind - W.O. Mitchell
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (book: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) - Roald Dahl
Wings of the Doves - Henry James
You Only Live Twice – Goldfinger
101 Dalmations - Dodie Smith
1984 - George Orwell
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
2001 - Arthur C Clarke
2010 - Arthur C Clarke
First Published: Tuesday, December 29, 2009, 14:29