Coming soon: Books on film, September 2016
Next month sees the transformation of several books into major films and TV shows. Here's a reading list to help you get a head-start:
September 2
The Light Between Oceans
by M. L. Steadman
A lighthouse keeper and his wife make some questionable life choices in this massive bestseller, soon to be a major motion picture.
September 6
Queen Sugar
by Natalie Baszile
This critically celebrated story of an African-American single mother who inherits a sugar plantation will soon be a 13-part TV series produced by Oprah Winfrey.
September 9
Quarry
by Max Allan Collins
The pulpy adventures of hard-boiled veteran/hitman Mac Conway are about to become a TV series. But if eight episodes of hard-hitting action aren't enough for you, we have ten volumes of the Quarry series in our collection.
Sully: My Search for What Really Matters
by Captain Chesley B. Sullenberger, III
and Jeffrey Zaslow
This autobiography of the pilot who landed a plane on the Hudson River will soon become a biopic, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks.
September 16
The Snowden Files
by Luke Harding
Everybody's favourite whistleblower gets the OIiver Stone treatment with Joseph Gordon-Levitt this fall. But before you watch, read the Guardian journalist's take on what drove Snowden to expose the NSA's abuses of technology.
September 23
The Dressmaker
by Rosalie Ham
Kate Winslet will star in an adaptation of this "darkly satirical novel of love, revenge and 1950s haute couture" set in small-town Australia.
The Exorcist
by William Peter Blatty
The classic novel that sparked the classic horror movie will now be made into a (hopefully also classic) TV series.
The Queen of Katwe
by Tim Crothers
Can a girl from a Ugandan slum become one of the top chess players in the world? Just watch her.
September 30
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
by Ransom Riggs
This mysterious tale of an abandoned orphanage on a deserted island was clearly made for Tim Burton to adapt into a movie.
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