Book to Screen
Harper Lee’s only completed novel was adapted into a 1962 film starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch.
What is To Kill a Mockingbird?
This popular children’s series by Lemony Snicket consists of 13 novels, following the Baudelaire orphans through one increasingly unfortunate adventure after another.
What is A Series of Unfortunate Events?
This orange feline created by Jim Davis spends much of his time plotting against Mondays, enjoying lasagna, and tormenting his owner Jon.
Who is Garfield?
In this George Orwell novel, the animals overthrow their human owner, only for the pigs to gradually become indistinguishable from the humans they replaced.
What is Animal Farm?
In his lair on Skull Island, this giant ape’s captors keep the enormous doors and chains needed to restrain him.
Who is (King) Kong?
This novel by Louis Sachar follows Stanley Yelnats, a boy sent to a mysterious detention camp where the boys dig ditches every day.
What is Holes?
Andy and Terry’s fantastical home begins with this many stories in the first book of their wildly popular Australian children’s series.
What is The 13-Story Treehouse?
In the famous comic strip by this guy, the famous beagle, Snoopy, takes on roles including the World War I Flying Ace.
Who is Charles M. Schulz?
At the end of this Shakespearean tragedy, the title character successfully murders Duncan and takes the Scottish throne, though his victory is ultimately short-lived.
What is Macbeth?
In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, this object is hidden in the Chamber and is used by the heir of Slytherin to unleash a deadly creature upon Hogwarts.
What is Salazar Slytherin's diary?
Based on a 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane, this film follows three childhood friends whose lives are shattered by a terrible crime and its aftermath.
What is Mystic River?
In this Michelle Harrison trilogy, the first book concerns 13 magical objects, while the sequels are titled 13 Curses and 13 Secrets.
What is The 13 Treasures?
In Marvel Comics, this wisecracking mercenary frequently breaks the fourth wall and addresses the reader directly.
Who is Deadpool?
In this novel, a charming con artist gets away with multiple murders and successfully assumes the identity of Dickie Greenleaf.
What is The Talented Mr. Ripley?
In The Hobbit, a dragon's enormous hoard beneath the Lonely Mountain includes this particularly famous object that becomes a symbol of his possession of the dwarves' kingdom.
What is The Arkenstone?
This 1999 film, adapted from a novel by Stephen Chbosky, follows socially awkward teenager Charlie as he navigates high school, friendship, and trauma.
What is The Perks of Being a Wallflower?
In this 1957 novel by Ayn Rand, industrialist Dagny Taggart investigates why the world’s most productive people are mysteriously disappearing.
What is Atlas Shrugged?
Created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, this blue-skinned superhero's detached attitude and unusual powers make him one of the strangest figures in Watchmen.
Who is Doctor Manhattan?
At the conclusion of this dystopian novel, the tyrannical Commander remains in power while the fate of its narrator is deliberately left uncertain.
What is The Handmaid's Tale?
Kept in a hidden chamber beneath his mansion, this object belonging to a mysterious owner becomes the physical record of his corruption while his own face remains youthful.
What is The Portrait of Dorian Gray?
Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2005 dystopian novel about children raised to become organ donors was adapted into a 2010 film starring Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, and Keira Knightley.
What is Never Let Me Go?
Published in 2013, this Donna Tartt novel follows Theo Decker, whose life becomes intertwined with a small but immensely valuable painting after a tragedy at a New York museum.
What is The Goldfinch?
DAILY DOUBLE:
In The Far Side, Gary Larson regularly turned animals, scientists, and ordinary people into the subjects of surreal one-panel jokes; this animal became particularly famous for Larson's bizarre scenarios involving it.
What is a cow?
In this Anthony Burgess novel, the violent Alex undergoes a controversial rehabilitation procedure, but ultimately regains his ability to choose violence—leaving the state’s attempt to reform him effectively defeated.
What is A Clockwork Orange?
In The Phantom of the Opera, the mysterious Phantom's underground domain beneath the Paris Opera House contains this unusual feature that helps him travel through his hidden world.
What is the underground lake?