The “experts” at The Guardian have revealed their list of the Top 50 Adaptations of books to film:
- 1984
- Alice in Wonderland
- American Psycho
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s
- Brighton Rock
- Catch 22
- Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
- A Clockwork Orange
- Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
- The Day of the Triffids
- Devil in a Blue Dress
- Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
- Doctor Zhivago
- Empire of the Sun
- The English Patient
- Fight Club
- The French Lieutenant’s Woman
- Get Shorty
- The Godfather
- Goldfinger
- Goodfellas
- Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Jaws
- The Jungle Book
- A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
- LA Confidential
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Lolita
- Lord of the Flies
- The Maltese Falcon
- Oliver Twist
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Orlando
- The Outsiders
- Pride and Prejudice
- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
- The Railway Children
- Rebecca
- The Remains of the Day
- Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List)
- Sin City
- The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
- The Talented Mr Ripley
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- Trainspotting
- The Vanishing
- Watership Down