Books Ive read because I liked the movie

Discover amazing books I've read after loving their movie adaptations! Explore this curated list of novels that inspired great films and find your next favorite read.

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre Cover
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

 

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Shane

 

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Green Dolphin Street

by Elizabeth Goudge

The lives of sisters Marianne and Marguerite take very unexpected courses when William, the man they both adore, writes after a ten year absence and …
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Rebecca

by Daphne Du Maurier

"Last Night I Dreamt I Went To Manderley Again." So the second Mrs. Maxim de Winter remembered the chilling events that led her down the …
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Our Man in Havana

 

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

by Baroness Orczy

A timeless novel of adventure, intrigue, and romance is sparked by one man's defiance in the face of authority... The year is 1792. The French …
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Out of Africa

by Isak Dinesen

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales …
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McTeague

 

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Ship of Fools

by Katherine Anne Porter

A novel recounting the lives and actions of the passengers on a ship en route from Mexico to Germany in 1931.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service

 

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The Thin Man

by Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett's classic The Thin Man introduced the world to Nick and Nora Charles, further made famous by the popular Thin Man films. With a …
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Gone with the Wind

by Margaret Mitchell

The classic civil war romanctic tale of Scarlet O'Hara and Rhett Butler and the Civil War conflict.
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Captain Blood

by Rafael Sabatini

Peter Blood is a physician and an English gentleman who becomes a pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after …
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The Remains of the Day

by Kazuo Ishiguro

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about …
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The Razor's Edge Cover
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The Razor's Edge

by W. Somerset Maugham

Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant …
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The loved one

 

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