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Because I feel the man-love for Joshua Ellis, whose site pointed me at this list.
And because I am really struggling to get it together to sit down and write anything actually original for this site at the moment.
And because I love movies and books, and the Guardian said these were the top 50 book-to-movie adaptations ever made, and because I don’t jump on these web-trends that often, and it’s early days for this one, so I don’t feel that guilty about doing it now…

For your perusal, the top 50 Book-To-Film adaptations, complete with an indication of which ones I’ve read/seen (as others have done, I’ll use B for book, and M for movie, if you’ve no objections…)

1984
B/M Alice in Wonderland
B/M American Psycho
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Brighton Rock
Catch 22
B/M Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
M A Clockwork Orange
Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
The Day of the Triffids
B/M Devil in a Blue Dress
B/M Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
M Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
Doctor Zhivago
Empire of the Sun
The English Patient
B/M Fight Club
B/M The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Get Shorty
M The Godfather
M Goldfinger
M Goodfellas
M Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
The Hound of the Baskervilles
M Jaws
B/M The Jungle Book
B A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
M LA Confidential
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
B Lolita
B Lord of the Flies
The Maltese Falcon
M Oliver Twist
M One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
M Orlando
M The Outsiders
Pride and Prejudice
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
M The Railway Children
Rebecca
The Remains of the Day
B/M Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List)
B/M Sin City
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
M The Talented Mr Ripley
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
To Kill a Mockingbird
B/M Trainspotting
The Vanishing
M Watership Down

The thing most immediately apparent from my list is that I am an uncultured sack of shit. There are a lot of movies/books in there that I have had NO experience of, and probably should have. I feel no guilt about only having seen the movies of some of them, because in a few cases, I’ve found movies to be the better version. That’s one thing American Psycho taught me.