Good movies...better books

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Good movies...better books

By Amy Brugmann

The Kite Runner

1 The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

The Life of Pi

2 The Life of Pi

Yann Martel

The Color Purple

3 The Color Purple

Alice Walker

The Handmaid's Tale

4 The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood

Like Water for Chocolate

5 Like Water for Chocolate

Laura Esquivel

The Martian

Andy Weir

To Kill a Mockingbird

7 To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Dune

8 Dune

Frank Herbert

Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald

News of the World

10 News of the World

Paulette Jiles

Little Fires Everywhere

11 Little Fires Everywhere

Celeste Ng

Watership Down

12 Watership Down

Richard Adams

Never Let Me Go

13 Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Hobbit

J.R.R. Tolkien

Fahrenheit 451

15 Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

Emma

16 Emma

Jane Austen

A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations

17 A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations

Charles Dickens

Arrival

Ted Chiang

Rebecca

Daphne du Maurier

David Copperfield

20 David Copperfield

Charles Dickens

The Secret Garden

21 The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Because of Winn-Dixie

22 Because of Winn-Dixie

Kate DiCamillo

The Woman in the Window

23 The Woman in the Window

A.J. Finn

Death on the Nile

24 Death on the Nile

Agatha Christie

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