This list is made up of authors who have had two or more of their books or stories made into movies. The listings are in alphabetical order by authors' last names and show the titles of the books (and the movies when they differ).
Please select the letter of the author's last name or browse through the complete list below.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Adair
Gilbert
Love and Death on Long Island
The Holy Innocents (Movie: The Dreamers)
Adams
Richard
Girl in a Swing
The Plague Dogs
Adler
Warren
Random Hearts
The War of the Roses
Alcott
Louisa May
Little Men
Little Women
Allende
Isabel
La Casa de los Espiritus (Movie: The House of Spirits)
Of Love and Shadows
Allison
Dorothy
Bastard Out of Carolina
Cavedweller
Asimov
Isaac
I, Robot
The Positronic Man (Movie: Bicentennial Man)
Austen
Jane
Emma
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
FEATURED: Sense and Sensibility
Babbit
Natalie
The Eyes of the Amaryllis
Tuck Everlasting
Bachman
Richard
The Running Man
Thinner
Bagley
Desmond
Landslide
The Vivero Letter
Ballard
J.G.
Crash
Empire of the Sun
Banks
Russell
Affliction
Sweet Hereafter
Benchley
Peter
Jaws
The Island
Berger
Thomas
Neighbors
The Feud
Blatty
William Peter
Legion (Movie: The Exorcist III)
The Exorcist
Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane (Movie: The Ninth Configuration)
Boileau
Pierre
Celle Qui N'Etait Plus (Movie: Diabolique)
Choice Cuts (Movie: Body Parts)
D'Entre des Morts (Movie: Vertigo)
Monkey Planet (Movie: Planet of the Apes)
The Bridge on the River Kwai
Boyd
William
A Good Man in Africa
Stars and Bars
Bradbury
Ray
A Sound of Thunder
Fahrenheit 451
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Brashares
Ann
The Second Summer of the Sisterhood (Movie: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2)
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Burnett
Frances
A Little Princess
The Secret Garden
Byatt
A.S.
Angels & Insects
Possession
| Cain | James M. | Butterfly |
| Double Indemnity | ||
| The Enchanted Isle (Movie: Girl in the Cadillac) | ||
| The Postman Always Rings Twice | ||
| Capote | Truman | Breakfast at Tiffany's |
| The Grass Harp | ||
| Carey | Peter | Bliss |
| Oscar and Lucinda | ||
| Chabon | Michael | Kavalier and Clay (Movie: Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay) |
| The Wonder Boys | ||
| Chase | James Hadley | Just Another Sucker (Movie: Palmetto) |
| Miss Shumway Waves a Wand (Movie: Rough Magic) | ||
| My Laugh Comes Last (Movie: The Set Up) | ||
| Try This One for Size | ||
| Christie | Agatha | Appointment with Death |
| Evil Under the Sun | ||
| Ordeal by Innocence | ||
| The Mirror Crack'd From Side to Side (Movie: The Mirror Crack'd) | ||
| Clancy | Tom | Clear and Present Danger |
| Patriot Games | ||
| The Hunt for Red October | ||
| The Sum of All Fears | ||
| Clark | Mary Higgins | A Stranger is Watching |
| Where are the Children? | ||
| Clarke | Arthur C. | 2001: A Space Odyssey |
| 2010, Odyssey Two | ||
| Condon | Richard | Prizzi's Honor |
| The Manchurian Candidate | ||
| Conrad | Joseph | Heart of Darkness (Movie: Apocalypes Now) |
| The Secret Agent | ||
| Victory | ||
| Conroy | Pat | Lords of Discipline |
| Prince of Tides | ||
| Cormier | Robert | I Am the Cheese |
| The Bumblebee Flies Anyway | ||
| The Chocolate War | ||
| Crichton | Michael | Congo |
| Disclosure | ||
| Eaters of the Dead (Movie: The 13th Warrior) | ||
| Jurassic Park | ||
| Lost World | ||
| Rising Sun | ||
| Sphere | ||
| The Andromeda Strain | ||
| Timeline | ||
| Cronley | Jay | Funny Farm |
| Good Vibes (Movie: Let It Ride) | ||
| Quick Change | ||
| Cunningham | Michael | A Home at the End of the World |
| The Hours | ||
| Cussler | Clive | Raise the Titanic |
| Sahara |
| Dahl | Roald | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
| James and the Giant Peach | ||
| Matilda | ||
| The Witches | ||
| Daley | Robert | Tainted Evidence (Movie: Night Falls on Manhattan) |
| Year of the Dragon | ||
| Defoe | Daniel | Moll Flanders |
| Robinson Crusoe | ||
| DiCamillo | Kate | Because of Winn Dixie |
| The Tale of Despereaux | ||
| Dick | Philip K. | A Scanner Darkly |
| Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Movie: Blade Runner) | ||
| Paycheck | ||
| Second Variety (Movie: Screamers) | ||
| We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Movie: Total Recall) | ||
| Dickens | Charles | Great Expectations |
| The Adventures of Oliver Twist (Movie: Oliver Twist) | ||
| Diehl | William | Primal Fear |
| Sharky's Machine | ||
| Doyle | Roddy | The Commitments |
| The Snapper | ||
| The Van | ||
| Dumas | Alexandre | The Count of Monte Cristo |
| The Man in the Iron Mask | ||
| The Three Musketeers |
| Edgerton | Clyde | Killer Diller |
| Walking Across Egypt | ||
| Ehle | John | The Journey of August King |
| Winter People | ||
| Eliot | George | Silas Marner (Movie: A Simple Twist of Fate) |
| The Mill in the Floss | ||
| Ellis | Bret Easton | American Psycho |
| Less Than Zero | ||
| Rules of Attraction | ||
| Ellroy | James | Blood on the Moon (Movie: Cop) |
| Brown's Requiem | ||
| L.A. Confidential | ||
| The Black Dahlia |
| Farley | Walter | The Black Stallion |
| The Black Stallion Returns | ||
| Fielding | Helen | Bridget Jones' Diary |
| Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason | ||
| Finney | Jack | Marion's Wall |
| The Body Snatchers | ||
| Forster | E.M. | A Passage to India |
| Howard's End | ||
| Maurice | ||
| Room with a View | ||
| Where Angels Fear to Tread | ||
| Forsyth | Frederick | The Day of the Jackal (Movie: Jackal) |
| The Dogs of War | ||
| The Fourth Protocol |
| Garfield | Brian | Death Sentence |
| Hopscotch | ||
| Gifford | Barry | Perdita Durango |
| Wild at Heart | ||
| Goldman | William | Heat |
| The Princess Bride | ||
| Graysmith | Robert | The Murder of Bob Crane (Movie: Auto Focus) |
| Zodiac | ||
| Green | George Dawes | The Caveman's Valentine |
| The Juror | ||
| Greene | Graham | Honorary Consul |
| The End of the Affair | ||
| The Human Factor | ||
| The Quiet American | ||
| Grisham | John | A Time to Kill |
| Pelican Brief | ||
| Runaway Jury | ||
| Skipping Christmas (Movie: Christmas with the Kranks) | ||
| The Chamber | ||
| The Client | ||
| The Firm | ||
| The Rainmaker |
| Hansen | Ron | Mariette in Ecstasy |
| The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford | ||
| Harris | Thomas | Hannibal |
| Red Dragon | ||
| The Silence of the Lambs | ||
| Harrison | Jim | Farmer (Movie: Carried Away) |
| Revenge | ||
| Heinlein | Robert A. | Starship Troopers |
| The Puppet Masters | ||
| Herbert | James | Fluke |
| Haunted | ||
| Hiaasen | Carl | Hoot |
| Striptease | ||
| Highsmith | Patricia | Ripley's Game |
| The Talented Mr. Ripley | ||
| Hinton | S.E. | Rumble Fish |
| Tex | ||
| That Was Then, This Is Now | ||
| The Outsiders | ||
| Hoffman | Alice | Aquamarine |
| Practical Magic | ||
| The River King | ||
| Hornby | Nick | About a Boy |
| Fever Pitch | ||
| High Fidelity | ||
| Hugo | Victor | Les Miserables |
| The Huntchback of Notre Dame | ||
| Irving | John | A Prayer for Owen Meany (Movie: Simon Birch) |
| Hotel New Hampshire | ||
| The Cider House Rules | ||
| The World According to Garp | ||
| Widow for One Year (Movie: Door in the Floor) | ||
| Isaacs | Susan | Compromising Positions |
| Shining Through |
| James | Henry | The Bostonians |
| The Golden Bowl | ||
| The Portrait of a Lady | ||
| The Turn of the Screw | ||
| The Wings of the Dove | ||
| Washington Square | ||
| Jones | James | From Here to Eternity |
| The Thin Red Line | ||
| Katzenback | John | Hart's War |
| In the Heat of the Night (Movie: The Mean Season) | ||
| Just Cause | ||
| Kennedy | William | Ironweed |
| Toy Soldiers | ||
| King | Stephen | Carrie |
| Cat From Hell (Movie: Tales from the Dark Side) | ||
| Christine | ||
| Cujo | ||
| Cycle of the Werewolf (Movie: Silver Bullet) | ||
| Dead Zone | ||
| Dolores Claiborne | ||
| Dreamcatcher | ||
| Firestarter | ||
| Hearts in Atlantis | ||
| Misery | ||
| Needful Things | ||
| Pet Sematary | ||
| Riding the Bullet | ||
| Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption (Movie: Shawshank Redemption) | ||
| Secret Window, Secret Garden (Movie: Secret Window) | ||
| The Body (Movie: Stand by Me) | ||
| The Dark Half | ||
| The Green Mile | ||
| The Shining | ||
| The Woman in the Room | ||
| Kipling | Rudyard | The Jungle Book |
| The Second Jungle Book | ||
| Klavan | Andrew | Don't Say a Word |
| True Crime | ||
| Koontz | Dean R. | Hideaway |
| Phantoms | ||
| The Servants of Twilight | ||
| Watchers | ||
| Whispers |
