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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.
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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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