earlier this week, kottke linked to the 50 best book to film adaptations, then today i noticed he marked which ones he’d seen and/or watched.

so i did it too.

incidentally, i must note that the list doesn’t include “The World According to Garp,” “Secretary,” “High Fidelity” or “In the Bedroom.” which i would say are some pretty amazing adaptations.

1. 1984 [read]
2. Alice in Wonderland [watched]
3. American Psycho [read & watched – they both suck]
4. Breakfast at Tiffany’s [read & watched]
. Brighton Rock
6. Catch 22 [watched]
7. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory [watched]
8. A Clockwork Orange [watched]
9. Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain) [i haven’t read the whole collection, but i have watched & read the story Brokeback Mountain]
10. The Day of the Triffids
11. Devil in a Blue Dress
12. Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
14. Doctor Zhivago [read & watched, thank you Mr. Dahl]
15. Empire of the Sun
16. The English Patient
17. Fight Club [watched]
18. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
19. Get Shorty
20. The Godfather [read half the book when i was in high school and never finished]
21. Goldfinger
22. Goodfellas [watched]
23. Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
24. The Hound of the Baskervilles
25. Jaws
26. The Jungle Book [watched]
27. A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
28. LA Confidential
29. Les Liaisons Dangereuses [watched]
30. Lolita [read & watched]
31. Lord of the Flies [read & watched]
32. The Maltese Falcon
33. Oliver Twist
34. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [read & watched]
35. Orlando
36. The Outsiders [read & watched]
37. Pride and Prejudice
38. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
39. The Railway Children
40. Rebecca
41. The Remains of the Day
42. Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List) [watched]
43. Sin City [watched]
44. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
45. The Talented Mr Ripley
46. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
47. Through a Glass Darkly
48. To Kill a Mockingbird [read & watched]
49. Trainspotting [watched]
50. The Vanishing [watched]
51. Watership Down