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- If you loved Mad Men, you should read Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road. Revolutionary Road's Frank and April Wheeler might as well be Mad Men's Don and Betty Draper: Both are secretly unhappy, suburban couples living in the 1960s.
- If you loved Doctor Who, you should read Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Doctor Who and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy have many things in common, from space travel to aliens to witty, charming Englishmen.
- If you loved The Office, you should read Joshua Ferris' Then We Came to the End. Just like The Office, Joshua Ferris' Then We Came to the End captures the banality of office life while being laugh-out-loud funny.
- If you loved Seinfeld, you should read Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint. If you're a fan of Seinfeld — which gleefully mines the neuroses of its characters for comedy gold — then definitely check out Philip Roth's hilarious Portnoy's Complaint, whose protagonist's issues with sex and his mother make Jerry and George look pretty much normal by comparison.
Jun 13, 2023 · When it comes to television, some of the best ideas are based on the pages from beloved books. Whether it’s fantasy, horror, romance, or YA, the genres and ideas are boundless, but not every...
Oct 25, 2024 · The best TV shows based on books have a lasting appeal as an ever-evolving art form. By skillfully blending elements from their literary counterparts with innovative theatrical storytelling, these series expand the horizons of what can be achieved on the small screen.
- Kate Kavanagh
Jul 27, 2020 · Wondering what to stream next, but still craving some good literature? Here are the best tv shows based on books that you can stream right now, and all through the weekend.
- Ripley
- 3 Body Problem
- One Day
- All The Light We Cannot See
- One Piece
- The Haunting of Hill House
- The Queen's Gambit
- The Witcher
- Orange Is The New Black
- The Lincoln Lawyer
Shot in moody black-and-white, Steven Zaillian’s psychological thriller Ripley is a stylish take on Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 crime classic The Talented Mr. Ripley. The 2024 limited series stars Andrew Scott as Tom Ripley, a petty grifter in early ’60s New York who stumbles into a plum job when he’s hired to track down a wealthy businessman’s waywa...
Created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Game of Thrones) and Alexander Woo (True Blood), and based on the best-selling novels by Cixin Liu, this epic drama has an unstoppable pop-culture pedigree. Spanning decades and continents, the eight-episode 3 Body Problem imagines what happens when a young scientist makes a bold decision in 1960s China that...
Looking for your next will they, won’t they romance? One Dayis the slow burn that will tug at your heartstrings. Based on David Nicholls’ bestselling novel, the 14-episode limited series explores how impulsive decisions can send our lives off track, before fate intervenes to course-correct. Dexter (Leo Woodall) and Emma (Ambika Mod)’s love story be...
Why stop at a Pulitzer? In 2023, Anthony Doerr’s stirring 2014 novel scored a mini-series adaptation as well. Developed by Steven Knight and directed by Shawn Levy, the WWII drama All the Light We Cannot See stars newcomer Aria Mia Lobertias Marie-Laure, a blind French teenage girl who flees Paris with her father (Mark Ruffalo) upon the invasion of...
A popular manga gets the live-action treatment with ONE PIECE, developed by Matt Owens and Steven Maeda from Eiichiro Oda’s series of the same name. The lively adventure talefollows a group of friends, led by pirate Monkey D. Luffy (Iñaki Godoy), who seek a storied treasure. Relying on their wits, their unique skills, and each other, the lovable cr...
Get spooked with these creepy tales from Mike Flanagan, who adapted Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House for the show and Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw for its follow-up, The Haunting of Bly Manor. Though each series tells a completely independent story, the two are linked by eerie vibes — and, of course, the premise of a haunting. Fla...
Sales of chess sets skyrocketed (really!) following the release of this mini-series written and directed by Scott Frank, based on Walter Tevis’ novel, about a chess prodigy in the 1960s. Anya Taylor-Joy stars as Beth Harmon, a young woman who learns the game from the janitor at her orphanage. She competes her way to the highest level of the chess w...
You may think of Henry Cavill as Superman, but the DCEU isn’t the actor’s only foray into the world of the superpowered. Cavill stars in The Witcher, adapted from the novel series by Andrzej Sapkowski, as the monster-hunter Geralt of Rivia. (He’ll pass the torch, and the sword, when Liam Hemsworth takes over the role in Season 4.) The fantasy serie...
One of the original Netflix originals, Orange Is the New Black premiered in 2013, ran for seven seasons, and collected dozens of accolades. Based on Piper Kerman’s memoir Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison (and fictionalized beyond Kerman’s own experience), the dramedy chronicles the lives of the inmates in a women’s prison. The e...
Super-producer David E. Kelley logged a busy spring of 2022, when Anatomy of a Scandal and The Lincoln Lawyer were released within a month of each other. The latter show, adapted from Michael Connelly’s books about fictional defense lawyer Mickey Haller (Season 1 was based on The Brass Verdict, the second novel to feature the character), stars Manu...
Oct 13, 2022 · We’ve rounded up a list of books, comic books, and graphic novels currently set to premiere or are in development as TV or streaming series that have the potential to become the next big...
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Sep 30, 2024 · Your latest TV obsession has just ended, so drop the remote and pick up one of these book recommendations based on TV shows everyone adores.
