Iconic Book Characters
Arthur Conan Doyle's eccentric detective (1887)
Sherlock Holmes
This Netflix adaptation of Jenny Han's 2014 YA romance follows Lara Jean Song Covey after her love letters are released to all her past crushes
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)
Death on the Nile (1937)
And Then There Were None (1939)
Agatha Christie
Batman's nefarious foe who always wears a smile
The Joker
"There is one mirror in my house. It is behind a sliding panel in the hallway upstairs. Our faction allows me to stand in front of it on the second day of every third month, the day my mother cuts my hair" (2011)
Divergent by Veronica Roth
JRR Tolkein's wise and loveable wizard (1955)
Gandalf
This Spielberg Holocaust film was based on a book by Thomas Keneally
Schindler's List
Jane Eyre (1847)
Shirley (1849)
Villette (1853)
Charlotte Bronte
Alien symbiote who opposes Spider-Man
Venom
"[She] discovered the door a little while after they moved into the house" (2002)
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Ian Fleming's enigmatic intelligence agent (1953)
James Bond
Based on William Goldman's 1973 novel of the same name, this fantasy romance film follows farmhand Westley's gallant journey to rescue his beloved Princess Buttercup
The Princess Bride
The Joy Luck Club (1989)
The Kitchen God's Wife (1991)
The Bonesetter's Daughter (2001)
Amy Tan
After being corrupted by the Hellfire Club, X-Men Jean Gray becomes chaos incarnite
Dark Phoenix
"The forest had become a labyrinth of snow and ice. I'd been monitoring the parameters of the thicket for an hour, and my vantage point in the crook of a tree branch had turned useless" (2014)
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
LM Montgomery's curious, whimsical, and headstrong red-head (1908)
Anne Shirley
Based on Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name, this film follows college graduate Andy Sachs as she navigates the highly-demanding assistant job under notable fashion magazine editor Miranda Priestly
The Devil Wears Prada
Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939)
Zora Neale Hurston
Crime lord of Hell's Kitchen; famously faces off against Spider-Man and Daredevil
King Pin
"I'd never given much thought to how I would die—though I'd had reason enough in the last few months—but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this" (2005)
Twilight by Stephanie Meyers
Franz Kafka's iconic salesman-turned-insect (1915)
Gregor Samsa
This psychological thriller follows the abrupt disappearnce of writer Nick Dunne's wife—with Nick the prime suspect; based on novel by Gillian Flynn
Gone Girl
Earthsea (1964 - 2018)
The Left Hand of Darkness (1969)
The Dispossessed (1974)
Ursula K. Le Guin
Doctor Doom
"I become what I am today at the age of twelve, on a frigid overcast day in the winter of 1975" (2003)
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini