Reel Books
Inspiring Readers And Movie Directors

The movies on this list, appearing in alphabetical order by movie title, were released in 2003 or earlier. Call numbers are provided for nonfiction titles. Please note that the Library may not own all movies. For a listing of movies released in 2003 to 2008, check out the companion list, More Reel Books.

There are many more films that are based on novels and other books. If you wonder if your favorite movie was based on a book, Ask Us!

About A Boy, Nick Hornby

About Schmidt, Louis Begley

Absolute Power, David Baldacci

Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler

Affliction, Russell Banks

The African Queen, C. S. Forester

Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton

All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy

Antwone Fisher (Finding Fish: A Memoir), Antwone Quenton Fisher  973 FIS

Anywhere But Here, Mona Simpson

Babette’s Feast [and Other Anecdotes of Destiny], Isak Dinesen

Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison

A Beautiful Mind [A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr…], Sylvia Nasar  B Nash

Before and After, Rosellen Brown

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Billy Bathgate, E. L. Doctorow

Black Hawk Down [A Story of Modern War], Mark Bowden  967.73053 BOW

Blood Work, Michael Connelly

The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver

The Bourne Identity, Robert Ludlum

The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller

Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding

Bringing Out the Dead, Joe Connelly

The Cider House Rules, John Irving

Circle of Friends, Maeve Binchy

Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

Cold Mountain, Charles Frazier

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

Contact, Carl Sagan

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Corelli’s Mandolin), Louis De Bernières

The Deep End of the Ocean, Jacqueline Mitchard

Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley

Don’t Say a Word, Andrew Klavan

Doctor Zhivago, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

The Firm, John Grisham

The First Wives Club, Olivia Goldsmith

The Four Feathers, A. E. W. Mason

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Shop Café, Fannie Flagg

Get Shorty, Elmore Leonard

The Godfather, Mario Puzo

The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans

The Hours, Michael Cunningham

The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende

How to Make an American Quilt, Whitney Otto

The Hunt for Red October, Tom Clancy

Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice

Ironweed, William Kennedy

Jaws, Peter Benchley

The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan

Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton

Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig

Kiss the Girls, James Patterson

L. A. Confidential, James Ellroy

Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry

Lost Horizon, James Hilton

The Mambo Kings [Play Songs of Love], Oscar Hijuelos

Matchstick Men, Eric Garcia

Message in a Bottle, Nicholas Sparks

Murder on the Orient Express, Agatha Christie

My Dog Skip, Willie Morris  813.54 MOR

Mystic River, Dennis Lehane

Ordinary People, Judith Guest

Oscar & Lucinda, Peter Carey

Pay It Forward, Catherine Ryan Hyde

The Pianist [The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939-45],
Wladyslaw Szpilman 940.5318092 SZP

Possession: A Romance, A. S. Byatt

Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow

Prince of Tides, Pat Conroy

The Princess Bride, William Goldman

The Quiet American, Graham Greene

Random Hearts, Warren Adler

The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

A River Runs Through It, and Other Stories, Norman Maclean

A Room with a View, E. M. Forster

Schindler’s List, Thomas Kenneally

Seabiscuit: An American Legend, Laura Hillenbrand  798.4 HIL

Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen

The Shining, Stephen King

The Shipping News, Annie Proulx

The Silence of the Lambs, Thomas Harris

Smilla’s Sense of Snow, Peter Høeg

The Snapper, Roddy Doyle

Snow Falling On Cedars, David Guterson

Sophie’s Choice, William Styron

Strip Tease, Carl Hiaasen

The Sweet Hereafter, Russell Banks

The Talented Mr. Ripley, Patricia Highsmith

The Thin Red Line, James Jones

A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

To Dance with the White Dog, Terry Kay

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

Under The Tuscan Sun [At Home in Italy], Frances Mayes  945.5 MAY

Waiting To Exhale, Terry McMillan

Washington Square, Henry James

The Witches of Eastwick, John Updike

Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon

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