Books We'd Love to See Adapted with Morgan Hoit @NYCBookGirl

In this Unabridged Podcast episode, we have so much fun talking with Morgan Hoit, @NYCBookGirl, about book-to-screen adaptations. We talk about our latest reads, book-to-screen adaptations we have loved, and books that we would love to see adapted.

 

Bookish Check In

Ashley - Sally Rooney’s Normal People

Jen - Phuc Tran’s Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit in

Sara - Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park

Morgan - Chelsea Bieker's God Shot, Emma Straub's All Adults Here, Lorrie Moore's short stories

 

Our Book-to-Screen Adaptations

Ashley - Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible

Jen - Natalie Jenner’s The Jane Austen Society

Sara - Rainbow Rowell’s Carry On

Morgan - Adrienne Brodeur's Wild Game

 

Give Me One - Game Night Recommendations

Ashley - Exploding Kittens

Jen - Beyond Balderdash

Sara - Apples to Apples

Morgan - Anomia

 

Other Mentions

Cormac McCarthy's The Road

Lorrie Moore's Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Garrett M. Graff's The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11

Lisa Taddeo's Three Women

Hamilton

Lev Grossman's The Magicians book series and adaptation

Mikel Jollett's Hollywood Park

R. O. Kwan's The Incendiaries

Lauren Groff's Arcadia

Laurence Wright's Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood and the Prison of Belief

Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle

Waco on Netflix

Avid Reader Imprint

Jenny Han's To All the Boys I've Loved Before - book and film adaptation

Angie Thomas's The Hate U Give - book and film adaptation

Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley

André Aciman's Call Me By Your Name

Lady Bird and Greta Gerwig

Screen adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People

Hannibal series, based on Thomas Harris's book Hannibal

Mary Ann Shaffer's The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society and the film version

The Harry Potter book series and film adaptations

The Twilight series and film adaptations

Cards Against Humanity (game)

The Oatmeal comic (by Matthew Inman, illustrator of Exploding Kittens)

What Do You Meme? (game)

 

 

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