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Books made into movies

		Adams, Douglas    C. 1980        Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Chronicles the off-beat and occasionally extraterrestrial journeys, notions, and acquaintances of galactic traveler Arthur Dent			Movie: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
		Ahern, Cecelia    C. 2004           P.S. I Love You Holly has always depended on her husband's practical advice to keep her going and despairs when she loses him to brain cancer, until a package arrives filled with advice for carrying on with life.			Movie: P.S. I Love You (2007)
		Anson, Jay    C. 1977                Amityville Horror Provides a chilling account account of the four weeks of terror experienced by an Amityville, Long Island, family after moving into a house in which a particularly gruesome mass murder had once been committed.			Movie: Amityville Horror (2005)
		Auburn, David    C. 2001           Proof  A tale of an enigmatic young woman, a manipulative sister, their brilliant father, an unexpected suitor, one life-altering question, and the search for the truth behind a mysterious mathematical proof.			Movie: Proof (2005)
		Austen, Jane  C. 1991               Pride and Prejudice In late eighteenth-century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of three of her four sisters.			Movie: Pride and Prejudice (2005)
		Barrett, Judi     C. 1978              Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Life is delicious in the town of Chewandswallow where it rains soup and juice, snows mashed potatoes, and blows storms of hamburgers--until the weather takes a turn for the worse.			Movie: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
		Boyne, John    C. 2006            Boy in the Striped Pajamas       Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.			Movie: Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
		Bradley, James C. 2001 Flags of Our Fathers The life stories of the five Marines and one Naval officer that were forever immortalized as a symbol of WWII by raising the American flag at the battle of Iwo Jima.			Movie: Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
		Brashares, Ann     C. 2001      Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Four best girlfriends spend the biggest summer of their lives enchanted by a magical pair of pants.			Movie: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005)
		Brown, Dan   C. 2000               Angels & Demons Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon discovers evidence of the resurgence of the most powerful underground organization in history, the Illuminati.			Movie: Angels & Demons (2009)
		Brown, Dan     C. 2003             Da Vinci Code Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon  works to solve the murder of an elderly curator of the Louvre, a case which leads to clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci and a centuries-old secret society.			Movie: Da Vinci Code (2006)
		Buckley, Christopher    C. 1994 Thank You for Smoking Nick Naylor, a spokesman for the tobacco industry, considers it a privilege to defend the rights of smokers from the neo-puritans, but no one admires him for his idealism.			Movie: Thank You for Smoking (2005)
		Burroughs, Augusten     C. 2002 Running with Scissors A true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain			Movie: Running with Scissors (2007)
		Carroll, Lewis    C. 2000            Alice in Wonderland A little girl falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.			Movie: Alice in Wonderland (2010)
		Cleary, Beverly     C. 1955         Beezus and Ramona Beezus' biggest problem is her 4-year-old sister Ramona. Even though Beezus knows sisters are supposed to love each other, with a sister like Ramona, it seems impossible.			Movie: Ramona and Beezus (2010)
		Cook, Claire    C. 2002            Must Love Dogs Anticipating her first date in more than a decade, divorced preschool teacher Sarah Hurlihy wonders about the man whose personal ad she responded to and is stunned when he is the last person she expected.			Movie: Must Love Dogs (2005)
		Cooper, Susan   C. 1973           Dark is Rising   On his eleventh birthday Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.			Movie: The Seeker (2007)
		Cowell, Cressida      C. 2004     How to Train Your Dragon Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the Tribe of the Hairy Hooligans, by catching and training a dragon.			Movie: How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
		Crais, Robert     C. 2001            Hostage Former LAPD hostage negotiator Jeff Talley's peaceful life is overturned when three young men, fleeing a robbery, invade a local home and take a family hostage.			Movie: Hostage (2005)
		Crile, George     C. 2003           Charlie Wilson’s War   A one-time freelance contractor for the Mob, Joe Service is hired by a cadre of rogue government agents to find a missing operative known as Franko.			Movie: Charlie Wilson’s War (2008)
		Dahl, Roald   C. 1964               Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Each of five children lucky enough to discover an entry ticket into Mr. Willy Wonka's mysterious chocolate factory takes advantage of the situation in his own way.			Movie: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
		DiCamillo, Kate      C. 2000       Because of Winn-Dixie Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.			Movie: Because of Winn- Dixie (2005)
		Dickens, Charles        C. 1978   Adventures of Oliver Twist The story of a boy who runs away from an orphanage in England and becomes involved with a gang of thieves.			Movie: Oliver Twist (2005)
		DiTerlizzi, Tony        C. 2003  The Spiderwick Chronicles When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to fairies and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences.			Movie: The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
		Duncan, Lois       C. 1971         Hotel for Dogs  Liz and her brother wind up with nine stray dogs that need homes but must be kept a secret.			Movie: Hotel for Dogs (2009)
		Ellroy, James     C. 1987           Black Dahlia The murder of a beautiful young woman in 1947 Los Angeles sparks a great investigation.			Movie: Black Dahlia (2006)
		Fante, John          C. 1980          Ask the Dust A young Italian would-be writer comes to Depression-era Los Angeles to make a name for himself.			Movie: Ask the Dust (2006)
		Fitzgerald, Scott        C. 2008    Curious Case of Benjamin Button A graphic tale featuring a protagonist who ages backwards after being born an old man is a visual interpretation of the classic F. Scott Fitzgerald story.			Movie: Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2006)
		Foden, Giles     C. 1998          Last King of Scotland   Personal physician to Idi Amin, Scottish civil servant Nicholas Garrigan is drawn despite himself to the brutal dictator, until a plot against Amin awakens him to the unspeakable horror and cruelty of the regime.			Movie: Last King of Scotland (2006)
		Friedman, Lise  C. 2006 Letters to Juliet Looks at one of Shakespeare's most beloved characters and tells the story of the volunteers who have been answering the thousands of letters  addressed to Juliet since the 1930s.			Movie: Letters to Juliet (2010)
		Funke, Cornelia     C. 2003       Inkheart Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life.			Movie: Inkheart (2009)
		Gardner, Chris              C. 2006 Pursuit of Happyness A successful entrepreneur traces his journey from growing up with an abusive stepfather, to his triumphant battle to the top as a self-made millionaire.			Movie: Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
		Gibbons, Dave      C. 1986       Watchmen Exceptional graphic artwork brings to life the story of the Watchmen as they race against time to find a killer, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.			Movie: Watchmen (2009)
		Gilbert, Elizabeth          C. 2006 Eat, Pray, Love Traces the author's decision to quit her job and travel the world for a year after suffering a midlife crisis and divorce.			Movie: Eat, Pray, Love (2010)
		Golden, Arthur C. 1998 Memoirs of a Geisha A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.			Movie: Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
		Gordon, Zachary     C. 2007      Diary of a Wimpy Kid Greg records his sixth grade experiences where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.			Movie: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010)
		Gruwell, Erin        C. 1999        Freedom Writers Diary A true account of a teacher who confronted a room of "at-risk" students details their life-changing journey and includes diary excerpts.			Movie: Freedom Writers (2007)
		Harris, Thomas C. 2006 Hannibal Rising Relates the early life of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in Eastern Europe, from the ages of six to twenty, following the loss of his entire family during World War II.			Movie: Hannibal Rising (2007)
		Heller, Zoe    C. 2003               What Was She Thinking? When her new friend and co-worker, Sheba Hart, begins a passionate affair with a male student, schoolteacher Barbara Covett decides to defend Sheba and unknowingly reveals secrets they both hide.			Movie: Notes on a Scandal (2006)
		Hiaasen, Carl      C. 2002          Hoot Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.			Movie: Hoot (2006)
		Hoffman, Alice C. 2001 Aquamarine A love-struck mermaid named Aquamarine supplies adventure and insights to two twelve-year-old girls, life-long friends who are spending their last summer together before one of them moves away.			Movie: Aquamarine (2006)
		Hosseini, Khaled        C. 2003  The Kite Runner Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.			Movie: The Kite Runner (2007)
		James, P.D.     C. 1993              Children of Men In 2021, with the human race becoming extinct because of the infertility of all males, Oxford historian Theodore Faron is drawn into the schemes of an unlikely group of revolutionaries out to save society.			Movie: Children of Men (2006)
		Kinsella, Sophie   C. 2001         Confessions of a Shopaholic Rebecca Bloomwood seeks solace from the boredom and pressures in life with her shopping, a solution that brings her close to financial disaster, until she encounters a story that will change her life.			Movie: Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
		Klause, Annette Curtis  C. 1997 Blood and Chocolate Having fallen for a human boy, a beautiful teenage werewolf must battle both her packmates and the fear of the townspeople to decide where she belongs and with whom.			Movie: Blood and Chocolate (2007)
		Lahiri, Jhumpa  C. 2003 The Namesake A portrait of the immigrant experience follows the Ganguli family from their traditional life in India through their arrival in Massachusetts in the late 1960s and their difficult melding into an American way of life.			Movie: The Namesake (2006)
		Le Carre, John  C. 2001            Constant Gardener When the young and beautiful wife of a much older embassy worker and amateur gardener is found murdered  his personal pursuit of the killers not only sets him up as their next target, but as a suspect.			Movie: Constant Gardener (2005)
		Lehane, Dennis C. 2003 Shutter Island U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashcliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient.			Movie: Shutter Island (2010)
		Levy, Marc              C. 2000     If Only it Were True A young architect in San Francisco awakens one day to find a woman in his closet--a woman with the ability to appear and disappear at will, who claims that her body lies in a coma in a hospital across town.			Movie: Just Like Heaven (2005)
		Lewis, C.S.         C. 1950        Chronicles of Narnia Aslan, the noble lion, and the royal leaders of Narnia struggle against the magical forces of evil.			Movie: Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
		Lewis, C.S.          C. 1951        Prince Caspian: The Return of Narnia Sequel to The lion, the witch, and the wardrobe.			Movie: Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
		Ludlum, Robert     C. 1990        Bourne Ultimatum David Webb must once again assume the identity of assassin Jason Bourne as he matches wits with his mortal enemy, Carlos.			Movie: Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
		McCarthy, Cormac     C. 2006 The Road A father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.			Movie: The Road (2009)
		Meyer, Stephenie     C. 2008    New Moon When her beloved Edward and his family leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for Bella to bear.			Movie: New Moon (2009)
		Miller, Frank       C. 1999          300 300 is a story of war and defiance as only Frank Miller can tell.			Movie: 300 (2007)
		Moore, Alan        C. 1989         V for Vendetta In a near-future Britain ruled by a totalitarian regime, Evey is rescued from certain death by a masked vigilante calling himself "V."			Movie: V for Vendetta (2006)
		Niffenegger, Audrey    C. 2003   The Time Traveler’s Wife Caught in an impossible-to-resolve situation that spans the boundaries of temporal reality, this tale of a plucky librarian who is accidentally cast back in time focuses on the romantic complications of time travel.			Movie: The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009)
		O’Hara, Mary             C. 2003 My Friend Flicka Young Ken finally wins his father's approval as he faces the difficulties and challenges of raising a filly.			Movie: Flicka (2006)
		Paolini, Christopher   C. 2003    Eragon In Aagaesia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.			Movie: Eragon (2006)
		Patterson, Katherine   C. 1977   Bridge to Terabithia Jess Aarons gains the strength to cope with unexpected tragedy by going to a secret kingdom in the woods invented by Leslie Burke, a newcomer to his rural Virginia community.			Movie: Bridge to Terabithia (2007)
		Piccoult, Jodi     C. 2004            My Sister’s Keeper Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, Kate begins to question her moral obligations.			Movie: My Sister’s Keeper (2009)
		Powell, Julie          C. 2009        Julie & Julia Trapped in a dead-end secretarial job, Julie Powell resolved to reclaim her life by cooking, in a single year, every one of the 524 recipes in Julia Child's 1961 classic, Mastering the art of French cooking.			Movie: Julie and Julia (2009)
		Pullman, Philip  C. 1996 The Golden Compass Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments.			Movie: The Golden Compass (2007)
		Rockwell, Thomas        C. 1973 How to Eat Fried Worms Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.			Movie: How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
		Rowling, J.K.    C. 2000            Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire   The fourth title in the continuing saga includes Harry's latest adventure at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.			Move: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)
		Rowling, J.K.      C. 2005           Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in an atmosphere of uncertainty.			Movie: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
		Rowling, J.K.   C. 2003 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix As Harry faces his fifth year at Hogwarts Academy, there are increasing rumors of dark times coming.			Movie: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix  (2007)
		Sapphire         C. 2009    Precious A self-portrait of a black teenage girl, big, fat, unloved, with a father who rapes her and a jealous mother who screams abuse.			Movie: Precious (2009)
		Sebold, Alice        C. 2002          The Lovely Bones The spirit of fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon describes her murder and her witness to her family's grief, efforts to find the killer, and attempts to come to terms with what has happened.			Movie: The Lovely Bones (2009)
		Sendak, Maurice          C. 1963 Where the Wild Things Are Max sails to the land of the wild things, where he becomes their king.			Movie: Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
		Dr. Seuss                C. 1954       Horton Hears a Who! A city of Whos on a speck of dust are threatened with destruction until the smallest Who of all helps convince Horton's friends that Whos really exist.			Movie: Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
		Shakespeare, William   C. 1958 Twelfth Night   Comic tale of identical twins, girls disguised as boys, practical joking, and love at first sight, set in the fictional country of Illyria.			Movie: She’s the Man (2006)
		Sparks, Nicholas   C. 2006        Dear John A rebel who dropped out of school to enlist in the Army, John meets Savannah, discovering a mutual love that is threatened by the events 9/11, John's decision to re-enlist, and Savannah's marriage to another man.			Movie: Dear John (2010)
		Sparks, Nicholas    C. 2009        The Last Song Her teenage life turned upside-down by her parents' divorce and her father's relocation out of state, Ronnie Miller remains bitter three years later when her mother urges her to spend a summer with her father.			Movie: The Last Song (2010)
		Spragg, Mark     C. 2004           An Unfinished Life Hoping to introduce her daughter to the grandfather she has never met, widow Jean Gilkyson seeks refuge in her late husband's Wyoming hometown with her estranged father-in-law.			Movie: An Unfinished Life (2005)
		Suskind, Patrick       C. 1986     Perfume: The Story of a Murderer An odorless baby orphaned in a Paris gutter in 1738 grows to become a monster obsessed with his perfect sense of smell, and a desire to capture, by any means, the ultimate scent which will make him human.			Movie: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
		Swofford, Anthony      C. 2003 Jarhead: a Marine’s Chronicle of theGulf War and other Battles A memoir of the Gulf War by a front-line infantry marine recounts his struggles with the conflict on the front lines.			Movie: Jarhead (2005)
		Van Allsburg, Chris    C. 2002  Zathura: A Space Adventure Left on their own for an evening, two boisterous brothers find more excitement than they bargained for in a mysterious and mystical space adventure board game.			Movie: Zathura (2005)
		Weiner, Jennifer      C. 2003       In Her Shoes Maggie Feller and her older sister Rose, a lawyer, have had no contact with their grandmother, Ella, since their mother's death years ago, but all three need to find each other to reach happiness.			Movie: In Her Shoes (2005)
		Weisberger, Lauren      C. 2003 Devil Wears Prada A small-town girl fresh out of an Ivy League college lands a job at a prestigious fashion magazine, but wonders if the glamorous perks are worth working for the editor from hell.			Movie: Devil Wears Prada (2006)
		Wells, H.G.   C. 1987                War of the Worlds With advanced machines of destructions, aliens from another planet swoop down on planet Earth and begin their conquest.			Movie: War of the Worlds (2005)
		White, E.B.     C. 1980             Charlotte’s Web Fern raises the little runt pig, Wilbur, only to have her father give him away.			Movie: Charlotte’s Web (2006)
		Wilde, Oscar      C. 1993          Picture of Dorian Gray Ahandsome young Londoner who sinks into a life of depravity. His body retains perfect youth and vigor while his recent portrait reflects the ravages of his crime and sensuality.			Movie: Dorian Gray (2006)
		Winslow, Don C. 1997              Death and Life of Bobby Z After killing a Hell's Angel, Tim Kearney finds himself offered a choice by the DEA, life without parole or impersonating dope smuggler Bobby Z.			Movie: Death and Life of Bobby Z (2007)