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Adaptations Books
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,820,047 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 74 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,318,365 ratings — published 1997
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 66 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,681,037 ratings — published 2012
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,421,945 ratings — published 2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,987,516 ratings — published 1999
Pride and Prejudice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,759,692 ratings — published 1813
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,832,883 ratings — published 2019
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 60 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,119,484 ratings — published 2009
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,354,751 ratings — published 2011
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 57 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,408,780 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 56 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.43 — 4,456,248 ratings — published 1998
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as adaptations)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,865,200 ratings — published 1925
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,398,185 ratings — published 1985
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
by (shelved 54 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,441,849 ratings — published 1868
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 54 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,858,437 ratings — published 2005
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,688,759 ratings — published 2010
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 53 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.58 — 4,800,363 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 50 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.57 — 4,163,898 ratings — published 2000
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 50 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.50 — 3,770,318 ratings — published 2003
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as adaptations)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,841,395 ratings — published 2018
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,829,809 ratings — published 1960
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as adaptations)
avg rating 3.67 — 7,260,244 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 46 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.58 — 3,634,914 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 46 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,086,124 ratings — published 2007
Dune (Dune #1)
by (shelved 43 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,614,723 ratings — published 1965
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,429,364 ratings — published 1937
Paper Towns (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as adaptations)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,483,378 ratings — published 2008
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.07 — 2,157,688 ratings — published 2007
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as adaptations)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,096,683 ratings — published 2012
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 38 times as adaptations)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,616,780 ratings — published 2012
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 37 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,582,933 ratings — published 2018
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as adaptations)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,022,230 ratings — published 2007
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,671,229 ratings — published 2009
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,787,989 ratings — published 1993
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #2)
by (shelved 37 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,352,540 ratings — published 2006
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,305,478 ratings — published 2017
To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,048,266 ratings — published 2014
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,276,345 ratings — published 2011
Emma (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.05 — 975,903 ratings — published 1815
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as adaptations)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,024,754 ratings — published 1847
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 35 times as adaptations)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,153,778 ratings — published 2020
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,212,121 ratings — published 2006
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as adaptations)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,739,729 ratings — published 2005
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,790,475 ratings — published 2012
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as adaptations)
avg rating 3.51 — 681,160 ratings — published 1995
Sense and Sensibility (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,289,162 ratings — published 1811
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,585,225 ratings — published 1967
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,005,175 ratings — published 2017
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda (Simonverse, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.13 — 465,953 ratings — published 2015
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as adaptations)
avg rating 4.11 — 625,293 ratings — published 2015
“Our inherited legacy of adaptations is literally precious. Even the poorest parents give their children vast riches, in the form of senses, emotions, and mental faculties that have been optimized through millions of years of product development.”
― Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
― Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
“[T]here must be something particularly appealing about adaptations as adaptations.
Part of this pleasure, I want to argue, comes simply from repetition with variation, from the comfort of ritual combined with the piquancy of surprise. Recognition and remembrance are part of the pleasure (and risk) of experiencing an adaptation; so too is change.”
― A Theory of Adaptation
Part of this pleasure, I want to argue, comes simply from repetition with variation, from the comfort of ritual combined with the piquancy of surprise. Recognition and remembrance are part of the pleasure (and risk) of experiencing an adaptation; so too is change.”
― A Theory of Adaptation
