BOOKS MADE INTO FILMS

There has always been great debate when a well loved or

bestselling book is adapted into a movie. Recently a list was
published following a survey of its readers by The Guardian
newspaper.

Here is a list of the Top Twenty finest movie adaptations:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest - Ken Kesey
3. Blade Runner - Philip K Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep)

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4. The Godfather - Mario Puzo
5. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
6. Kes - Barry Hines (A Kestrel For a Knave)
7. Apocalypse Now - Joseph Conrad (Heart of Darkness)
8. The Shawshank Redemption - Stephen King (Rita Hayworth
etc)
9. LA Confidential - James Eilroy
10. Brokeback Mountain - E Annie Proulx
11. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
12. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
13. The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
14. Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
15. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje
16. Brighton Rock - Graham Greene
17. Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
18. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
19. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
20. Schindler’s List - Thomas Keneally (Schindler’s Ark)