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Books into Movies: 2021 Reading Challenge

December 21, 2020 by Dolores Nicholes

Alcott, Louisa May

Little Women

Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young ladies in nineteenth-century New England.


Applegate, Katherine

The One and Only Ivan

When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.


Christie, Agatha

Death on the Nile (Movie Release Date 2021)

A honeymoon cruise down the Nile spells danger for young, beautiful, and wealthy Linnet Doyle and her new husband, and it is up to the inimitable Hercule Poirot to uncover a killer.


Cline, Ernest

Ready Player One

Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world’s creator.


Crichton, Michael

Jurassic Park

An American bioengineering research firm erects a theme park on a Caribbean island, complete with living dinosaurs, and invites a group of scientists to be its first terrified guests.


Dahl, Roald

The Witches

Turned into a mouse by the Grand High Witch when he discovers her plot to destroy every child in England, a little boy–aided by his intrepid grandmother–takes on the witch and her coven.


Du Maurier, Daphne

Rebecca

A classic novel of romantic suspense finds the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter entering the home of her mysterious and enigmatic new husband and learning the story of the house’s first mistress, to whom the sinister housekeeper is unnaturally devoted.


Finn, A.J.

The Woman in the Window

After the Russells move in next door, Anna Fox, a recluse, finds her world crumbling when she witnesses something she shouldn’t.


Jiles, Paulette

News of the World

In the aftermath of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, an elderly widower and itinerant news reader, is offered fifty dollars to bring an orphan girl, who was kidnapped and raised by Kiowa raiders, from Wichita Falls back to her family in San Antonio.

Kwan, Kevin

Crazy Rich Asians

Envisioning a summer vacation in the humble Singapore home of a boy she hopes to marry, Chinese American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes their son’s relationship with an American girl.

London, Jack

The Call of the Wild

Follows the adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepard, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.


Stevenson, Bryan

Just Mercy

The founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama, recounts his experiences as a lawyer working to assist those desperately in need, reflecting on his pursuit of the ideal of compassion in American justice.


Tartt, Donna

The Goldfinch

Taken in by a wealthy family friend after surviving an accident that killed his mother, thirteen-year-old Theo Decker tries to adjust to life on Park Avenue.


Vance, J.D.

Hillbilly Elegy

Shares the story of the author’s family and upbringing, describing how they moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan that included the author, a Yale Law School graduate, while navigating the demands of middle class life and the collective demons of the past.

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