Genre Lists
Books Made into Movies, 2010
Source: www.chasingthefrog.com
(We own all of these books)
DB/RC66218
Title: Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
Author: Dick, Phillip K.
Movie: The Adjustment Bureau
Annotation: Twenty-one science fiction tales by Hugo Award winner Philip K. Dick (1928-1982). In "Autofac," community residents battle machines to reclaim their lives. Also includes "The Exit Door Leads In," "Foster, You're Dead," "Imposter," and "The Minority Report," which was the basis for a Hollywood movie. Introduction by Jonathan Lethem. 2002.
BR12746, RC50842, LT2932
Title: Alice in Wonderland, And, Through the Looking Glass and What She Found There
Author: Carroll, Lewis
Movie: Alice in Wonderland
Annotation: Extraordinary things happen when a little girl falls down a rabbit hole and encounters the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, and other unusual characters. Her second adventure takes her to a land with a peculiar back-to-front order in which everything is reversed. Alice meets the Red Queen and hears such nonsense verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter." For grades 4-7. 1962.
BR17934, DB/RC67858
Title: The Associate
Author: Grisham, John
Movie: The Associate
Annotation: A college misdeed comes back to haunt Yale law-school graduate Kyle McAvoy when he is blackmailed into working at a Wall Street firm that is handling a multibillion dollar lawsuit involving a Pentagon contract. Forced into stealing documents, Kyle soon realizes he is in over his head. Bestseller. 2009.
BR13948, LT1925, RC16985, DB/RC50083
Title: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Author: Lewis, C. S.
Movie: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Annotation: The adventure of two boys and a girl aboard a magic ship with Prince Caspian, who takes them past islands and sea monsters to the land of Narnia. Third title in "The Chronicles of Narnia". For grades 4-7. Sequel to "Prince Caspian." 1952.
DB/RC55633
Title: Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution
Author: Keynes, Randal
Movie: Creation
Annotation: Inspired by inherited personal belongings, a descendent of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) portrays the naturalist's intimate family circle and explains how Darwin's observations of everyday human relations influenced his scientific theories of evolution. Covers Darwin's religious beliefs and his feelings about the death of his oldest daughter at age ten. 2001.
BR16791, DB/RC65315
Title: Dear John
Author: Sparks, Nicholas
Movie: Dear John
Annotation: North Carolina. After years of drifting, John Tyree, who was raised by a father with Asperger's syndrome, joins the army. While on leave he meets Savannah Curtis, a special-education major. The two fall in love, but their relationship changes when John reenlists after 9/11. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller. 2006.
DB/RC61789
Title: Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
Author: Gilbert, Elizabeth
Movie: Eat, Pray, Love
Annotation: Successful young author, recently divorced, seeks distraction and solace during a year of travel. She describes finding culinary pleasure in civilized Italy, ascetic meditation on an ashram in India, and a love affair in Bali. 2005.
BR18180, LT8836, DB/RC65812
Title: Eclipse
Author: Meyer, Stephenie
Movie: Eclipse
Annotation: After befriending werewolf Jacob, Bella must choose between him and her former vampire boyfriend Edward. Meanwhile vicious killings occur in nearby Seattle as a female vampire seeks revenge -- putting Bella in danger and stirring old enmities. For senior high readers. 2007. Sequel to "New Moon." Third book in the Twilight series.
BR14401, DB/RC69841, LT7866
Title: Flipped
Author: Van Draanen, Wendelin
Movie: Flipped
Annotation: In alternating chapters, neighbors Juli Baker and Bryce Loski describe how their feelings for each other and their families have changed since second grade. Juli used to chase Bryce, and now he wishes she still did. For grades 5-8. 2001.
DB/RC69599
Title: The Girl Who Played With Fire
Author: Larsson, Stieg
Movie: The Girl Who Played With Fire
Annotation: Stockholm. Computer hacker Lisbeth Salander stands accused of murdering two journalists who were researching sex trafficking. Lisbeth's former lover, magazine publisher Mikael Blomkvist, investigates to exonerate her. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2006. Second book in the Millennium Trilogy. Sequel to "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo."
DB/RC63461
Title: Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Author: Chandrasekaran, Rajiv
Movie: Green Zone
Annotation: Washington Post reporter profiles the U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority headquartered in Saddam Hussein's former palace in Baghdad. Criticizes the American officials in charge, beginning with L. Paul Bremer in 2003, and attributes the costly mistakes after the military victory to their the lack of experience. Violence and strong language. 2006.
BR17210, DB/RC64495
Title: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Author: Rowling: J. K.
Movie: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Annotation: The seventh and final volume in the Harry Potter series. Harry and his friends face Voldemort in the final battle between good and evil. For grades 4-7. 2007. Sequel to "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince."
DB/RC62633
Title: It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Author: Vizzini, Ned
Movie: It’s Kind of a Funny Story
Annotation: A tongue-in-cheek account of what leads high-achieving New York teenager Craig Gilner to check himself into a psychiatric hospital and how he comes to terms with depression while staying in the adult ward. Some descriptions of sex and some strong language. For senior high readers. 2006.
DB/RC69591
Title: The Last Song
Author: Sparks, Nicholas
Movie: The Last Song
Annotation: Defiant, troubled seventeen-year-old Ronnie is not happy to leave New York for a summer in North Carolina with the musician father she hasn't spoken to in three years. But an unexpected romance and a bittersweet reconnection with her father changes her attitude. Bestseller. 2009.
RC33399
Title: The Last Station: A Novel of Tolstoy's Last Year
Author: Parini, Jay
Movie: The Last Station
Annotation: Characters, narrating from their diaries, retell the final year of Tolstoy's life. Surrounded by wealth, his unhappy family, and a horde of onlookers, the great novelist decides at age eighty-two to abandon the lot for a life of poverty. He also leaves behind controversy over rights to his literary work. But his flight takes him only as far as the railroad stationmaster's house, where he dies a few days later. 1990.
DB/RC59667
Title: Never Let Me Go
Author: Ishiguro, Kazuo
Movie: Never Let Me Go
Annotation: England, 1990s. Kathy H., Ruth, and Tommy attended Hailsham, one of the better academies where human clones bred to be organ donors are sheltered from reality. Now thirty-one, Kathy has been a donor caregiver for eleven years. As her own time to donate nears, Kathy appreciates her privileged upbringing. 2005.
DB/RC63443
Title: The Lightning Thief
Author: Riordan, Rick
Movie: The Lightning Thief
Annotation: Upstate New York, 2005. Sixth-grader Percy Jackson, the son of Poseidon and a mortal mother, attends a summer camp for demigods. After Percy angers Zeus, his friends Grover, a satyr, and Annabeth, daughter of Athena, join him to resolve the problem. For grades 5-8. 2005. First book in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. Followed by "The Sea of Monsters."
BR8744, LT2935, RC33756
Title: Beezus and Ramona
Author: Cleary, Beverly
Movie: Ramona and Beezus
Annotation: Beezus Quimby's little sister Ramona continually terrorizes Beezus, and manages to provoke the whole family when she invites 15 children to a party without telling her mother. For grades 2-4. First Ramona Quimby book. Followed by "Ramona the Pest." 1955.
BR14802, LT7468, DB/RC56046
Title: Shutter Island
Author: Lehane, Dennis
Movie: Shutter Island
Annotation: The events of four strange days in late summer 1954, when two U.S. marshals arrive on tiny Shutter Island to investigate a female patient's disappearance from a locked room in the asylum for the criminally insane. And that is only one aspect of the case. Some strong language. 2003.
BR15884
Title: Prince of Thieves
Author: Hogan, Chuck
Movie: The Town
Annotation: Boston. After robbing a bank, career bandit Doug MacRay romantically pursues branch manager Claire Keesey, who is unaware Doug was her masked assailant. Lovesick Doug reconsiders criminal ways but can't resist one last heist. Violence and strong language. 2004.
DB/RC69578
Title: The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding Of Facebook, A Tale Of Sex, Money, Genius And Betrayal
Author: Mezrich, Ben
Movie: The Social Network
Annotation: Chronicles the invention of the Facebook social-networking computer web site by Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. Describes Zuckerberg's use of the university's database and legal problems with a rival site. Strong language and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009.
(Created by Rachel Bussan on 11/19/2010)