 | Brokeback Mountain: Now a Major Motion Picture by Annie Proulx
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.01 This beautiful short novel became the best film of 2005.
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 | Wuthering Heights (Barron's Classic Novels) by Emily Bronte
Buy used from: $2.38 The 1939 film version gave us the marvelous Heathcliff of Laurence Olivier.
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 | East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $0.01 James Dean met John Steinbeck in the celebrated 1955 film version.
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 | The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, Part 1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Buy used from: $0.01 This became the best film in the big-screen trilogy.
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 | Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel by Fannie Flagg
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $10.24 Wonderful book led to wonderful 1991 film.
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 | Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $0.28 Jane Austen's classic became a superb Emma Thompson-scripted movie.
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 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $9.20 / Used from: $2.74 With a dream cast, this prized novel was fully realized on film.
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $4.50 The 1939 movie is even better than the book!
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 | Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Buy used from: $4.50 See the 1962 movie version with its splendid cast.
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 | Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Buy used from: $4.89 The 1940 Hitchcock version was Oscar's Best Picture that year.
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 | Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $2.00 The 1946 David Lean adaptation may be the greatest film based on Dickens.
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 | Frankenstein (Enriched Classics) by Mary Shelley
Buy new: $4.95 / Used from: $1.23 Amazing story was re-invented by James Whale and Boris Karloff in the 1931 screen classic.
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 | The Godfather by Mario Puzo
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $0.01 The book led to two great films, the Oscar-winning Best Pictures of 1972 and 1974.
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 | A Room With a View by E. M. Forster
Buy used from: $15.64 Forster's book got a magical Merchant-Ivory film version in 1986.
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 | All the President's Men by Bob Woodward
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.30 The book became one of the great political films of its time.
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 | Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions) by E. M. Forster
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.95 Forster's masterpiece became the greatest Merchant-Ivory production (in 1992).
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 | In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $10.75 Capote's great non-fiction novel became a chilling black-and-white 1967 film.
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 | Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
Buy used from: $1.08 Horror classic got the Roman Polanski treatment in 1968.
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 | The LAST PICTURE SHOW : A Novel by Larry McMurtry
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $1.83 This tale of 1950s Texas became Peter Bogdanovich's finest film (in 1971).
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 | The Night Of The Hunter by Davis Grubb
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.49 Excellent book became a fantastic 1955 thriller, a one-of-a-kind gem.
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