Movie Book Club
Welcome to the easy plug-and-play way to host a book club that is based on movie books (books that have been made into movies). Here, we have a list of movie books that worked well, sorted by how you have to access them, as well as a link to our current movie book club of the month in case you just want to copy!paste our book club's plans and not even have to figure out any of your own.
The more people who read, the better!
The podcast isn't ours. We just think it makes an excellent companion piece.
Paid Streaming Movie Books
Here are some movie books that are available on Netflix, Hulu, or Prime so can be viewed in person. // GoodReads List
Aladdin / The Arabian Nights
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad / The Legend of Sleepy Hollow & The Wind in the Willows
American Assassin
The BFG
Big Hero 6
Blade Runner / Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Bridget Jones's Diary
Clueless / Emma
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen
Coraline
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The English Patient
Enola Holmes
Escape to Witch Mountain
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Frida
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Golden Compass
Haider / Hamlet
He's Just Not That Into You
Hidden Figures
Howl's Moving Castle (necessary info for watching on Netflix)
I Am Not Your Negro
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Judas and the Black Messiah / The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
The Jungle Book
A Knight's Tale / Canterbury Tales: Knight's Tale
Manchurian Candidate
Mary Poppins
Misery
Peter Pan
Prince Caspian
The Princess Bride
The Princess Diaries
Ready Player One
Rise of the Guardians / The Guardians of Childhood
Seabiscuit
The Shawshank Redemption
Shrek
Stardust
Starship Troopers
The Switch / Baster
Tron: Legacy
V for Vendetta
We Bought a Zoo
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? / Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
The Witches (2020 movie)
A Wrinkle in Time
DVD Movie Books
Here are some movie books that are only available on DVD so must be viewed in person. // GoodReads List
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter
Age of Innocence
Atonement
Awakenings
Boss Baby
Catch Me If You Can
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chocolat
City of God
The Count of Monte Cristo
Dark City
Die Hard 2 / 58 Minutes
The Duchess / Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire
The Girl on the Train
Goldfinger
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The House with a Clock in its Walls
The Iron Giant / The Iron Man
Legally Blonde
The Martian
Me Before You
MLK/FBI / The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr.: From “Solo” to Memphis
Shallow Hal / The Picture of Dorian Grey
Soul Surfer
The Sun Also Rises
Remains of the Day
Tag
Warm Bodies
Westworld
Water for Elephants
Where the Wild Things Are
Wild
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory / Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The World According to Garp
The Grinch | https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/movie-book-club-the-grinch
If Beale Street Could Talk | https://www.couchsurfing.com/events/4058790
Social Distance Movie Books
Here are some movie books that are available on free streaming sites so can be socially-distance viewed using a website called Kosmi. (YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch, and tubi load natively; all others require using the Screenshare button.) // GoodReads List
Aisha / Emma
Angel Heart / Falling Angel
Children of the Corn
A Christmas Carol
Cloud Atlas
Cruel Intentions / Dangerous Liaisons
Die Hard / Nothing Lasts Forever
A Dog's Way Home
The Fifth Wave
Ghost World
Harrison Bergeron
Horton Hears a Who
The Last Unicorn
A Little Princess
Midnight's Children
The Namesake
Predestination / All You Zombies
Psycho
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
Tuck Everlasting
The Witches (1990 movie; If your library doesn't have access to Kanopy, the Broward County digital card will grant you access.)
Yentl / Yentl the Yeshiva Boy