Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly book meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Each week, she posts an idea relating to books and encourages other book bloggers to respond with their own top ten lists.
This week’s topic is “top ten books that should be turned into movies.” I’m quite wary when books that I love are about to become movies, since theyre usually fairly disappointing. In an ideal world, though, these are some of the ones that I’d love to see.
1. A Series of Unfortunate Events
I love these books, but unfortunately the movie that combined the first three books was slightly disappointing. I’d eventually love to see all thirteen books turned into a movie (or tv series) since I would love to see the Carnivorous Carnival and all of the other spots the Baudelaire orphans travelled to.
2. Shadow and Bone
I’ll admit that part of this is because I love the Darkling. I mean, who wouldn’t want to see him on the big screen? The world of Ravka is so wonderfully imaginative, and it would be so neat to see the Fold, the volcra, the stag, the Grisha… the list goes on! It’d be an instant box-office hit, I assure you.
3. Throne of Glass
The world needs more movies with kickass female assassins, which Throne of Glass certainly possesses! It’s the perfect mix of action, romance, suspense, and supernatural occurrences, which seem to be requirements for most movies. And the gruff yet loveable Captain of the Guard is also a point in its favour.
4. Looking For Alaska
This is one of my favourite John Green novels. Each time I read it, I fall more and more in love with the characters, and I would love to see them brought to life on the big screen. I would probably spend the entire movie crying, but that’s okay!
5. The Night Circus
I feel like this book always makes my top ten lists, but that’s because it’s absolutely amazing! Imagine a maze of clouds, an ice garden, a wishing tree… Now picture adorable red headed children who train kittens to jump through hoops, and two duelling magicians. It sounds like perfection, and I would gladly line up for hours to see it on opening night.
6. Angelfall
This was the book that redeemed angels (of the book variety) for me. It’s home to a horrifying post-apocalyptic world, compelling characters, and the occasional cannibal. And brutal, destructive angels that aren’t anything like their cherubic counterparts. What’s not to like?
7. The Infernal Devices
It’s no secret that I love Will Herondale. The clockwork creatures are neat, the banter is beautiful and sarcastic, and the story is better than The Mortal Instruments (in my opinion). As long as it doesn’t turn out like City of Bones, I’m happy.
8. The Archived
The idea behind The Archived is so neat: there’s a library of the dead, but sometimes they wake up, forget that they’re dead, and wander around, occasionally killing people. It fits into both the paranormal and zombie genres, so Hollywood should get on it ASAP.
9. Anna and the French Kiss
This would be the most adorable movie. Etienne and Anna’s relationship is realistic yet cute, and is quite high on my list of favourite book relationships. Swooning over Etienne and marvelling over Paris for a few hours sounds quite nice.
10. The Golden Compass
I know that this already is a movie, but I’d love for it to be remade since I was disappointed by it. I love Lyra’s Oxford and her daemon, and would love to see how a filmmaker envisions it.
What books would you love to see as movies? Leave me a list or a link to your Top Ten Tuesday post below.
I’ve seen The Night Circus on several lists today, and one particular comment noted that the filmmakers would probably end up changing the story. Honestly this is one adaptation where I think I’d be okay with that. The plot is almost secondary to the atmosphere of the book… and as long as a movie kept the same spirit and did justice to the amazing visual descriptions, I’d be satisfied with a loose interpretation of this one.
Agreed! I’m usually not okay with filmmakers changing the storyline, but this would definitely be an exception. As long as the tents are still as magical and beautiful as they are in the books, I wouldn’t complain (much).
I love Looking for Alaska and the Infernal Devices! And I CAN’T believe I forgot about The Night Circus–that book was so gorgeous.
I’m glad you enjoyed them! Everything in The Night Circus sounded so beautiful, so I’m kind of sad that I’ll never be able to actually visit it.
Ohhhh….Looking for Alaska, I have been wanting to read this for a while. I haven’t read any of these, but a lot of them are on my TBR list.
Here is mine: http://thebigbookbinge.blogspot.com/2013/09/top-ten-books-we-would-love-to-see-as.html
I really enjoyed Looking For Alaska, so I hope you do as well! Thanks for the link. : )