Mr. Zervanos
Contemporary American Novel (or Book) & Film (1970-present)
CW SSR Project
This is an ongoing single-semester project, in conjunction with your weekly SSR responsibilities. You must select (at least) one contemporary American novel/book that has been adapted to film. Periodic journal submissions will be collected. A culminating assignment will follow. Suggested authors and titles below…
Author & Book(s)…Film(s)
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Tuesdays With Morrie
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Russell Banks, The Sweet Hereafter
Charles Baxter, The Feast of Love
Buzz Bissinger, Friday Night Lights
Michael Blake, Dances With Wolves
Dan Brown, The DaVinci Code, Angels & Demons
Christopher Buckley, Thank You For Smoking
Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
Ethan Canin, The Palace Thief (a novella) (The Emperor’s Club)
Raymond Carver, Short Cuts
Michael Chabon, The Wonder Boys, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Tracy Chevalier, Girl With a Pearl Earring
Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, etc.
Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, Rainbow Six?
Harlan Cobin, Tell No One
Pat Conroy, Prince of Tides
Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World, The Hours
E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel, Ragtime, Billy Bathgate
Andre Dubus III, The House of Sand and Fog
Brett Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero
James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia, LA Confidential
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides
Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes
Ian Fleming, James Bond series: Casino Royale, etc.
Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
Karen Joy Fowler, The Jane Austen Book Club
Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
Chris Fuhrman, The Dangerous Lives of Altarboys
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum
John Grisham, The Firm, Pelican Brief, etc.
Winston Groom, Forrest Gump
Judith Guest, Ordinary People
David Guterson, Snow Falling on Cedars
Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action
Joanne Harris, Chocolat
Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal
Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit
A.M. Homes, Jack
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity, About a Boy
Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
John Irving, The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules, A Prayer for Owen Meany (Simon Birch)
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
P.D. James, Children of Men
Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son
Sebastian Junger, The Perfect Storm
Thomas Keneally, Schindler’s List
William Kennedy, Ironweed
Stephen King, The Shining, The Green Mile, Misery, The Shawshank Redemption, The Body (Stand by Me)
W.P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe (Field of Dreams)
Walter Kirn, Up in the Air
Jerzy Kosinski, Being There
Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
John le Carre, The Constant Gardener
Dennis Lehane, Mystic River
Elmore Leonard, Get Shorty, Rum Punch (Jackie Brown—Quentin T.), Out of Sight
Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
Peter Maas, Serpico
Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
Peter Matthiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord
Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, The Road, All the Pretty Horses
Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes
Ian McEwan, Atonement, Enduring Love
Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
Larry McMurtry, Terms of Endearment
Stephanie Meyer, Twilight, etc.
Rebecca Miller, Personal Velocity
Sue Miller, Inventing the Abbotts
Rick Moody, The Ice Storm
Toni Morrison, Beloved
Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief (Adaptation)
Whitney Otto, How to Make an American Quilt
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
John O’Brien, Leaving Las Vegas
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Choke
Tom Perrotta, Election, Little Children
Rex Pickett, Sideways
Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper
Nicolas Pileggi, Wise Guy (Goodfellas)
Richard Price, Freedomland, Clockers
Annie Proulx, The Shipping News, Brokeback Mountain
Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Anna Quindlen, One True Thing
Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
J.K. Rowling, …Harry Potter
Philip Roth, The Human Stain, The Dying Animal (Elegy)
Richard Russo, Empire Falls, Nobody’s Fool
Bernard Schlink, The Reader
Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Jeff Shara, Gods and Generals
Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, The Age of Grief (The Secret Lives of Dentists)
Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook, A Walk to Remember
Scott Spencer, Endless Love
William Styron, Sophie’s Choice
Vikas Swarup, Slumdog Millionaire
Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
Paul Theoroux, The Mosquito Coast
Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
J.R.R. Tolkien, Lord of the Rings
F.X. Toole, Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner (Million Dollar Baby)
Scott Turow, Presumed Innocent
Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist
John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick
Daniel Wallace, Big Fish
Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
Jennifer Weiner, In Her Shoes
Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting
Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Right Stuff
Tobias Wolff, This Boy’s Life
Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road