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Friday, May 23, 2025

But I've Seen the Movie: 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die, Part III

 You know how schoolkids sometimes try to get out of reading the book by seeing the movie? Well, here are the books listed in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die that, as far as I can tell, I haven't read the book--but I've seen the movie (or at least a TV or stage dramatization), sometimes multiple versions, and in many cases, that'll do:

1. Anna Karenina 

2. Before Night Falls 

3. Ben-Hur

4. Casino Royale (although the 60's movie is nothing like the book)

5. The Cider House Rules

6. A Clockwork Orange

7. Catch-22 (I tried to read the book, too, but gave up)

8. The Count of Monte Cristo

9. Crime and Punishment

10. Cry the Beloved Country

11. David Copperfield

12. Doctor Zhivago (and I didn't like it)

13. A Dry White Season

14. A Farewell to Arms

15. The French Lieutenant's Woman

16. For Whom the Bell Tolls

17. The Godfather

18. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

19. Ivanhoe

20. All Quiet on the Western Front

21. Kiss of the Spider Woman

22. Zorba the Greek

23. Life of Pi

24. The Little Prince 

25. Les Miserables

26. Oliver Twist

27. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

28. Out of Africa

29. A Passage to India

30. The Postman Always Rings Twice

31. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

32. The Razor's Edge

33. The Reader

34. Room with a View

35. Rebecca

36. Sense and Sensibility

37. The Talented Mr. Ripley

38. Tess (full title, Tess of the D'Urbervilles)

39. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

40. The Time Machine

41. War and Peace

42. Women in Love

43. Tom Jones

44. To Kill a Mockingbird

45. The Maltese Falcon

46.  The Man With the Golden Arm

47. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

48. The English Patient

49. Look Homeward, Angel (TV production)

50. Lord of the Flies (1990 version)

51. Schindler's List (based on the book Schindler's Ark)

52. The Thin Man

53. 2001: A Space Odyssey

54. Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass

I've read the book and seen the movie:

55. Around the World in Eighty Days 

56. Wuthering Heights

57.  Gone With the Wind

58.  Jane Eyre





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