The Great Debate: which is better, the book or the movie?
Now you can decide for yourself. Check out our list of titles that have been adapted for the big screen that you can both read and stream to watch on our online services Hoopla and Overdrive right now. Read the book and then watch the movie — or vice versa!
(Spoiler Alert: The book is almost always better…)
Books vs. Movies
(All movies below are available on Hoopla. All books are available on the platform listed)
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, Overdrive
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester, Hoopla
Carrie by Stephen King, Overdrive
The Rainmaker by John Grisham, Overdrive
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson, Overdrive
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, Overdrive
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster, Overdrive/Hoopla
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, Hoopa
Room by Emma Donaghue, Overdrive/ Hoopla
The Lost City of Z by David Grann, Overdrive
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks Overdrive
The Cider House Rules by John Irving, Overdrive/Hoopla
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, Overdrive
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, Overdrive/Hoopla
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, Overdrive/ Hoopla
100-Year-Old- Man Who Climbed the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson, Overdrive
Still Life by Louise Penny, Overdrive
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Overdrive/Hoopla
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende Overdrive
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje Overdrive
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carre Overdrive
Chocolat by Joanne Harris Overdrive
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding Overdrive
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx Overdrive
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
For Children
The Black Stallion by Walter Farley, Overdrive
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, Overdrive
Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter Overdrive/Hoopla
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett Overdrive/Hoopla
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery, Overdrive/Hoopla
Harriet the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh, Overdrive
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