Book Report #2: Page to Screen English 110 Due Date: (G) Tuesday, 12/16, (W) Wednesday, 12/17
Book Approval Date: (G) Wednesday, 11/12, (W) Thursday, 11/13
Counts as: Test grade
Type of Book: You are going to choose a novel that has been made into a movie from a provided list. The novel must have come before the film. Some potential topics are listed; for a complete list, go to http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/. Make sure it is a novel and not a short story, etc.
*Make sure you can get access to a movie to confirm that it’s not out of print or a random tv movie.*
Which book/film combinations can I NOT do?
• Don’t read a book that you’ve used for another book report/school project at any point
• Can read the book of a movie you’ve already seen
• No elementary/middle school books
• No Harry Potter, Holes, etc.
• Certain book/film adaptations may require a parental sign off form
Potential Titles
About a Boy / Nick Hornby
Anywhere but Here / Mona Simpson
Basketball Diaries / Jim Carroll
Big Fish / Daniel Wallace
Bourne Identity/Supremacy/Ultimatum by Robert Ludlum
Bridget Jones’ Diary / Helen Fielding
Clancy, Tom books: i.e. Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, The Sum of All Fears
daVinci Code, The / Dan Brown
Dick, Phillip K. books: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Blade Runner, Next
Emma / Jane Austen
Eragon / Christopher Paolini
Everything Is Illuminated / Jonathan Safran Foer
Fan, The / Peter Abrahams
Fever Pitch / Nick Hornby
Flags of Our Fathers / James Bradley
Forest Gump / Winston Groom
Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang / Joyce Carol Oates
Freaky Friday / Mary Rodgers
Freedom Writers Diary, The / Erin Gruwell
Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream / Buzz Bissinger
Ghost World / Daniel Clowes
Girl, Interrupted / Susanna Kaysen
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The / Douglas Adams
I Am Legend / Richard Matheson
Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles / Anthony Swofford
K-PAX: A Novel / Gene Brewer
King, Stephen books
Legally Blonde / Amanda Brown
Mommie Dearest / Cristina Crawford
Natural , The / Bernard Malamud
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest / Ken Kesey
Patterson, James books
Pay It Forward / Catherine Ryan Hyde
Perfect Storm / Sebastian Junger
Princess Diaries, The / Meg Cabot
Pursuit of Happyness, The / Chris Gardner
Queen Bees & Wannabes (Mean Girls) / Rosalind Wiseman
Riding in Cars With Boys / Beverly D'Onofrio
Seabiscuit: An American Legend / Laura Hillenbrand
Sparks, Nicholas: The Notebook, A Walk to Remember
Speak / Laurie Halse Anderson
Starship Troopers / Robert A. Heinlein
Stormbreaker / Anthony Horowitz
Time Machine, The / H. G. Wells
Twilight / Stephenie Meyer
Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team (Munich) / George Jonas
War of the Worlds / H. G. Wells
We Were Soldiers Once -- and Young: Ia Drang: The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam (We Were Soldiers) /Harold G. Moore
What's Eating Gilbert Grape? / Peter Hedges
Where the Heart Is / Billie Letts
White Oleander / Janet Fitch
Wonder Boys, The / Michael Chabon
