Novel Films Blogfest

Thanks to Madeleine at Scribble and Edit for hosting this blogfest. It has been quite a journey through the memory banks, a little dim and dusty at times, but here are a few highlights. There are, I have no doubt, many many more that I could have added to the list, and indeed many more that really ought to be on the list, but these are the ones that I can bring to mind. If your favourites are not here, then do remind me of them in your comments!

Books I have read whose Films I have seen:

(I have discounted films that spawn a “book of the film”)

Here they are as they occur to me!

Lord of the Rings                                JRR Tolkein

Narnia series                                      CS Lewis

Stardust                                               Neil Gaiman

Harry Potter series                             JK Rowling

The Hogfather                                     Terry Pratchett

Colour of Magic                                  Terry Pratchett

Going Postal                                       Terry Pratchett

James Bond Series                            Ian Fleming

Watership Down                                  Richard Adams

Pride and Prejudice                            Jane Austen

Emma                                                   Jane Austen

Northangar Abbey                               Jane Austen

Persuasion                                           Jane Austen

Jane Eyre                                             Charlotte Bronte

Many Dickens Novels                         Charles Dickens

Many Shakespeare Plays                  William Shakespeare

Swallows and Amazons                      Arthur Ransome

Moonfleet                                              J. Meade Falkner

Wind in the Willows                             Kenneth Grahame

2001: A Space Odyssey                    Arthur C Clarke

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang                      Ian Fleming

Sherlock Homes stories                     Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

My Family and Other Animals            Gerald Durrell

I Robot                                                   Isaac Asimov

War of the Worlds                                HG Wells

The Time Machine                               HG Wells

Many Agatha Christie crime novels   Agatha Christie

Many Alistair MacLean novels            Alistair MacLean

Books I have read (and loved) whose films I have not yet seen

Lovely Bones                                          Alice Sebold

The Hobbit (but soon, very soon!)        JRR Tolkein

Neverwhere                                            Neil Gaiman

Hornblower series                                 CS Forester

The Sword of Truth Series                   Terry Goodkind

Books I would love to see made into a film / films

Wheel of Time Series                         Robert Jordan / 
                                                              Brandon Sanderson

Mistborn series                                   Brandon Sanderson

Quantum Gravity series                     Justina Robson

Black Magician series                       Trudi Canavan

Vatta’s War series                             Elizabeth Moon

Riftwar Cycle                                      Raymond E Feist

The rest of the Discworld Series     Terry Pratchett

Dragonriders series                          Anne McCaffrey

The Belgariad                                    David Eddings

The Malorean                                     David Eddings

The Elenium                                       David Eddings

Ringworld                                           Larry Niven

Tower on the Rift Series                   Ian Irvine

The Player of Games                        Ian M Banks

(and other culture novels)

It will be of no surprise to you that the novels listed here display a distinct lean towards the fantasy and science fiction spectrum, with a healthy nod towards the crime/mystery/suspense genre. I shall have a look around some of your lists later - perhaps I might get some ideas to broaden my horizons!