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Young Adult Novels That Readers Are Dying to See Adapted for the Screen
When a young adult novel makes a big impact with readers, it's only a matter of time before it gets a screen adaptation. And with the advent of streaming services, of which there are roughly 18 million now, young adult fiction is able to reach all-new audiences who may never have gotten the chance to consume these stories otherwise.
On Facebook and Twitter, we asked readers which recent young adult works (anything from about 2015 onward) they most wanted to see developed as movies or TV shows. Some of these picks have already been optioned by studios (like Children of Blood and Bone, One of Us Is Lying, and The Gilded Ones), and for a lot of readers, production can't get started soon enough.
We got a wonderful variety of answers from across a wide selection of genres, and in particular, readers were extremely keen on LGBTQ+ coming-of-age stories, charming rom-coms, and bloody revenge narratives. Here are the top books that readers are hungriest to see on the screen.
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Which young adult series do you want to see adapted for streaming? Let's talk about it in the comments below!
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Aug 09, 2021 02:42AM
I really want A Good Girl's Guide to Murder to be adapted for streaming. It always feels like this series is written as a TV/web series script.
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Amazon owns Goodreads huh? Option These Violent Delights for a movie please :)
i would give all of my bodily organs for a Legendborn screen adaptation
Blade of Secrets by Tricia Levenseller. Dawn Unearthed. By Carrie Ann Ryan
The Near Witch because I want to hear the wind’s stories
The Kiss Of Deception
Crown of Secrets entire series after the Spoken Mage series
Aru Shah series
Someone I Used To Know and Some Boys
Aunare Chronicles everything
Aileen Erin everything
Tessonja Odette everything
Melanie Cellier everything
Everything means all their books but it’s a fantasy I don’t think will happen. But this is my list.
These are good for reads too
Ishya
I always say if I win the lottery, I'd pay to have Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld made into a mini-series. It already reads like a movie and the characters and worldbuilding are amazing!!
One of Us Is Lying is actually already in production as a tv series by peacock! The trailer was released last month.
The Seven Realms series by Cinda Williams Chima
A Good Girls Guide to Murder - the book was INCREDIBLE and I think the movie would be great as well!Also One Of Us Is Lying
Heartstopper is already filming/in production, and Felix Ever After has already been optioned. I think Lev A.C. Rosen's Camp could work really well as a TV mini series.
A good girls guide to murder (and the second and third -when it comes out- ), charming as a verb and renegades plus the rest of thr trilogy would all be so good as tv series/movies!!!!
I'm holding out hope that they make a UK-Veronica-Mars style version of a Good Girl's Guide to Murder
I've been quietly hoping for Netflix to turn Love and Gelato and Love and Luck by Jenna Evens Welch into movies!I can't wait for them to be movies!
SO IF ANYONE FROM NETFLIX IS READING THIS, PLEASE MAKE THESE BOOKS INTO MOVIES!
or ya know any other steaming service...
Just please someone make the movies.
Also Daughter of the Pirate King by Tricia Levenseller! And it's sequel
I would love to see Not If I Save You First adapted to screen!
Heartstopper has already been filmed as a Netflix show!! No release date yet but Alice Oseman said hopefully early 2022 :)
this is ya/adult but The Priory of the Orange Tree would be an amazing adaptation, maybe in just biased as its one of my favourite books
Shadows Between Us and A Good Girl's Guide to Murder would make great shows or movies. Also, isn't One of Us is Lying already a Peacock orignal?
One of us lying se already been adapted into a series. Can’t wait for that
One of my dreams would be to have Daughter of Smoke & Bone made into a series! Such an incredible world and narrative was created by Laini Taylor.
None. No adaption has ever done a book justice. I'd rather that Hollywood and other companies actually started coming up with their own ideas.One of Us Is Lying is being adapted but by a paid streaming service that isn't available in every country.
If they ruin children of blood and bone... I will cry... no wait, I am crying because no movie has ever done a book justice....
Srishti wrote: "One of Us Is Lying is actually already in production as a tv series by peacock! The trailer was released last month."But it’s only available in the USA 😔
I would love for them to make a movie of the Tuesdays At The Castle series or the Princess Academy trilogy. I loved those books when I was little.
I would love to seeAnna and the French Kiss, by Stephanie Perkins
Given, by Nandi Taylor
Cupid's Match, by Lauren Palpheryman
Out of the Easy, by Ruta Septys
All the Invisible Things, by Orlagh Collins
The Beautiful, by Renee Ahdieh
Red Queen, by Victoria Aveyard
Love is for Losers, Wibke Bruggeman
Cinder, by Marissa Meyer
A Curse so Dark and Lonely, by Brigid Kemmerer
Pen&Quill wrote: "I've been quietly hoping for Netflix to turn Love and Gelato and Love and Luck by Jenna Evens Welch into movies!I can't wait for them to be movies!
SO IF ANYONE FROM NETFLIX IS READING THIS, PLEA..."
Those weren't the first books to pop into my head, but it makes perfect sense! I love those books, and they would make amazing movies. Such gorgeous scenery too!
My friends and I were talking earlier about why the heck there is no screen adaptation for The Selection Series!! I cannot believe as big as that series was, plus how many people enjoy watching the bachelor, that no one has made a movie/show on it yet
i would give anything for cemetery boys to become a tv show.
