42 - A Book Based On a Popular Movie

[Jessica]

I read Unbirthday by Liz Braswell

[Heather L]

Chrissie wrote: "I have been struggling with this prompt, but I may have come to a conclusion I can live with. Wondering if others would agree. I know, my challenge my interpretation but maybe someone else out th..."


My original plan was to read a book based on a TV series, since I have many that fit (Monk, Castle, NCIS, Psych, Charmed), but then I happened across a book in a LFL that I used for the ATY challenge, and it fit this prompt as well.

[Mony]

Slim pickings... Using TV show

"The Jetsons" only ran in 1962-63...perhaps ahead of its time.
Eerily, many of the technologies & thinking made their way into our lives today.
This one's my favourite...especially when I'm about to go on FaceTime. LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UneEM...

[Sunshine]

I stretched the prompt a little. I read As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales From the Making of the Princess Bride. it's fantastic I highly recommend

[Lilith]

I just discovered last week that I have a novelization of the X-Files on my home shelves! When did I buy this?
And there was an X-Files movie....although this is not a novelization of that, per se.
I am now excited about this prompt.

[Teri]

I've been looking for a good reason to re-watch "Firefly" and "Serenity," so I think I'll find something in that world. Even if I find one that ties into the series before the movie, I'm going to count it.

[Ron]

Teri wrote: "I've been looking for a good reason to re-watch "Firefly" and "Serenity," so I think I'll find something in that world. Even if I find one that ties into the series before the movie, I'm going to c..."

That sounds pretty cool. It's been a long while since I did anything related to Firefly & Serenity.

[JessicaMHR]

After looking at the website Dedra posted I finally found one I might want to read that my library has, so I put it on hold right away.

Wonder Woman: The Official Movie Novelization

Not to knock all you fans but I just couldn't do a Star Trek or Star Wars novel.

I also noticed that this seemed to be a thing in the 80's and 90's but not so much now. So finding a book is harder since they are all older novels and no longer at the library.

[Nike]

Leonore Fleischer made a career of writing novels based on movies. I add a few but if you check her out you will see a list of books suitable for this challenge.

[Jennifer W]

I've been working on The Ghosts of Medgar Evers: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood which is about the filming of "Ghosts of Mississippi", which is based on the real life assassination of Civil Rights' Activist Medgar Evers and a retrial for his murder brought 30 years after his death. (I'm a little sleepy, but for some reason, as I type this, it feels meta...). It started off kinda clunky, but now I'm really enjoying it. I would recommend watching the movie before reading the book, even if you've seen the movie before, the author references some pretty small details. Not that you can't read the book and get what's going on, but having rewatched the movie a couple months ago has made following the book easier/more enjoyable.

[John]

If I understand this book prompt correctly, the movie precedess the a book that was either a tie-in or is another story based on the movie, e.g. Finding Dorothy came after the movie, Wizard of Oz However, when I look some of the books on the Listopia I see The Help and The Secret Life of Beeks which were books before they were adapted for film. I'm currently reading Catch-22, which has been made into two movies and a series. Would this count? Although based on my first statement, it should not...but neither should The Help.

[Nadine in NY]

John wrote: "If I understand this book prompt correctly, the movie precedess the a book that was either a tie-in or is another story based on the movie, e.g. Finding Dorothy came after the movie, Wizard of Oz H..."



yes the intent here is a book BASED ON a movie. So the movie comes first.

A lot of people have been confused by that and are thinking of movies made from books, because that's a really common challenge category that has shown up many times in the past.

It's up to you if you want to follow the intent of this category or not.

[Brandon]

I just read Star Wars: Book of Lists. It is a super-fast and easy read based mostly on the 11 live-action films. I rated it 3 stars, so it is not the best book in the category, but it would take care of the prompt quickly if that is the goal.

[Lisa Marie]

I read One for the Money by Janet Evanovich

[Ron]

Lisa Marie wrote: "I read One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
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Oh, Katherine Heigl, nice!

[John]

Lisa Marie wrote: "I read One for the Money by Janet Evanovich
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Technically, the book predates the movie rather than vice versa. However, as someone told me earlier in this thread, do what you think best.

[Jennifer W]

I finished The Ghosts of Medgar Evers: A Tale of Race, Murder, Mississippi, and Hollywood. Loved it! It was the right mix of the author's memories as a local, his involvement in making the movie, the behind the scenes of actors and film people, and the real people and their history. It also dealt with the racism of people that still exist and the questions of white people's role in black stories. So glad I read it!

[Anshita]

I am reading When Harry Met Sally by Nora Ephron. It's one of my favourite romcoms ever, I can't wait to read this book.

[Cindy]

What You See in the Dark is a novelization of the making of Psycho (very loosely).

[Trish]

So I'm going to stretch to TV as well and read Doctor Who: The Celestial Toymaker. It's one of the "lost stories", which were wiped by the BBC in the 1960s, and even the original paperback is pricey now (£50+). However, some enterprising soul (presumably Target Books) has converted it to Kindle, ahead of the 60th anniversary episodes due out in November.

There have been Doctor Who films - at least three of them - as well as feature-length episodes at various points, so that kind of links to movies!

[Ron]

This might be stretching things, but I have yet to find a book for this prompt, but I think this could work:

Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

This one talks about the history, but it also mentions a lot of old and current Hollywood films that were released as far back as the 1920s.

[Danielle]

I just borrowed Long Live the Pumpkin King from my local library. It’s based on Tim Burton’s A Nightmare Before Christmas.

[Linda]

I found this one of the hardest prompts to fill. If anyone's looking for ideas, Nicola Upson's latest Josephine Tey mystery Shot With Crimson revolves around the filming of Hitchcock's Rebecca (which again is based on a book, but it's the film that's in focus here).

[Britany]

Finished When in Rome by Sarah Adams

My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Jenny Dahl Bakken]

Just a few days to go, and this is basically now the only prompt I haven’t filled… thinking of seeing if my parents have any children’s books based on a Disney movie or something lying around for their grandkids. If not, I don’t see how I will finish this 🫣

[Brandon]

Jenny Dahl Bakken wrote: "Just a few days to go, and this is basically now the only prompt I haven’t filled… thinking of seeing if my parents have any children’s books based on a Disney movie or something lying around for t..."

You might try for an Art Of (Movie Title Here) because they are much less text-heavy. If you enjoy seeing a popular movie done as a Shakespearean play, then Ian Doescher has written a lot of them, including adaptations of the Skywalker Saga, the Avengers movies, and Mean Girls. They are pretty fast and entertaining reads.