There are plenty of book-to-screen adaptations premiering by the end of 2023. Check out this list and read the book or listen to the audiobook before seeing it on film.


-After Elizabeth Zott, a brilliant chemist, is fired from her position in a patriarchal lab, she is given the opportunity to host a TV cooking show in the 1950s.

-On Apple TV+ on October 13, 2023

-Follows historical events in the 1920s surrounding the murders of the wealthy Osage people in California after oil was found in their territory.

-The book was a bestseller in 2017, winner of the Edgar Award and National Book Award nominee

-Film release will be in theaters on October 20, 2023

-World War II novel that alternates between the viewpoints of Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French girl, and Werner Pfennig, a German boy in military school.

-Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2015)

-Series premiere will be on Netflix on November 2, 2023

-A prequel to The Hunger Games trilogy, this novel is set many years before, centering on the backstory of 18 year old Coriolanus Snow.

-The film is scheduled to be released in the United States on November 17, 2023


The Color Purple

-This adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel produced by Oprah will be musical this time around.

-The original novel was the Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

-The theatrical release date will be December 25, 2023

–Post by Susie Rivera, Adult Services Specialist

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