15 books you should read before their adaptations in 2017

The question "Which is better: movie or book?" always generates a lot of controversy. But it is certain that before entering into such discussions, to get acquainted with the others.

Especially for those who likes to compare the idea with the writer's character,the Website has prepared a list of books whose film adaptation will be released in 2017.

Dave Eggers
Sphere The Circle by Dave Eggers







The Internet company, The Circle, brings into a single system of electronic mail of its users, their social network pages, information on Bank cards and purchases. The result of this process is obtaining a universal online ID. But in practice, not so smooth...

Adaptation: A Sector Of The Circle

Premiere: 28 APR 2017

Deborah Moggach
"Tulip fever" Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach







A romantic story of the seventeenth century, in which the artist falls in love with a young married woman. Together they decide to engage in risky floral business in hope to build their future.

Adaptation: Tulip fever / Tulip Fever

Premiere: February 23, 2017

By Shusaku Endo
Silence 沈黙 遠藤 周作







The novel is based on real events the mid-seventeenth century, when Japanese authorities unleashed a fierce persecution of Christians. Three young Portuguese priest make their way in this formidable, tightly closed country for foreigners to refute rumors about the shameful apostasy of their teacher, father Ferreira, and continue in Japan secret preaching Christianity.

Adaptation: Silence / Silence

Premiere: 23 December 2016 (world) January 12, 2017 (Russia)

"Beauty and the Beast" La Belle et la Bête







Looking for missing father, a brave beautiful Belle came to the castle a terrible Monster. The girl did not know that the frightening appearance of a monster hiding an enchanted Prince.

Adaptation: beauty and the beast / Beauty and the Beast

Premiere: 16 Mar 2017

Oscar Wilde
"The Canterville Ghost" The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde







Family of Americans buys an old English mansion. The former owner warned about the unusual inhabitant of the castle, but Mr. and Mrs. Otis Ghost does not frighten. The Ghost is a character and decides at any price to scare and chase away the hapless Americans.

Adaptation: the Canterville Ghost / The Canterville Ghost

Premiere: 25 Dec 2017

Patrick Ness
"The voice of a monster" A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness







Thirteen-year-old Conor finds out about the imminent death of the mother. To accept it, to experience all sensations and come to understand, it helps the monster from his dreams — the old yew tree turning into a monster when he particularly bad.

Adaptation: the Voice of a monster / A Monster Calls

Premiere: September 9, 2016 (the world), February 16, 2017 (Russia)

Lauren Kate
Fallen Fallen by Lauren Kate







Luce Price was unlucky in life. On fire in her presence mysteriously dying man, and the girl is guilty in his death. And if not broke love to Daniel, her classmate, life Luce would have turned into a real hell.

Adaptation: Fallen / Fallen

Premiere: November 10, 2016 (the world), February 2017 (Russia)

William Paul Young
"The shack" The Shack by William P. Young







The main character Poppy is missing youngest daughter. Soon in the deserted hut was found the evidence of her probable death at the hands of a maniac. Four years later, and not reconciled to the loss of a father receives a suspicious letter with the advice to visit the shack.

Adaptation: The Shack / The Shack

Premiere: March 3, 2017

Stephen King
"The dark tower" The Dark Tower by Stephen King







Roland is the last member of the ancient knightly order of the shooters. At first alone, and then with a group of true friends he makes a long trek through a post-apocalyptic world that resembles America's old West, in which there is magic.

Film adaptation: the Dark tower / The Dark Tower

Premiere: February 15, 2017 (the world), February 23, 2017 (Russia)

Margo Lee Shetterly
"Hidden figures" Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly







The book tells about the lives of three women who performed complicated calculations to launch astronaut John Glenn into orbit and safe return.

Adaptation: the Hidden shapes / Hidden Figures

Premiere: 12 January 2017 (the world) April 6, 2017 (Russia)

Bruce Cameron
"Life and the purpose of a dog" A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron







The main character of this book — a dog which, each time being born again, finds happiness in the service of man: self-sacrificing Lady, lonely boy Ethan lost faith Maya or touching Wendy. Bruce Cameron assures us that dogs are capable of such feelings, which is not available to every person.

Adaptation: a Dog's life / A Dog's Purpose

Premiere: January 26, 2017 (the world), March 30, 2017 (Russia)

Dennis Lehan
"The night is my home" Live By Night by Dennis Lehane







Joe Coughlin is the son of Boston police captain Thomas Coglin. For a decade he goes from lone rebel who does not apply the law to the right hand of the leader of a gangster syndicate. But for all the UPS and downs of his fate in response to one driving force is love...

Adaptation: Law of the night / Live by Night

Premiere: 12 Jan 2017

Thomas Malory
"The death of Arthur," Le Morte d Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory







The work of the English writer of the XV century sir Thomas Malory is considered the world's best set of knights and chivalry, so called, of the Breton cycle, the heroic and fairy stories Dating back to myths and epics of Celtic peoples and the history of the Western tip of Europe in the middle of the first Millennium of our era.

Adaptation: the Sword of king Arthur / King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Premiere: 22 March 2017 (world) March 23, 2017 (Russia)

Lauren Oliver
"Before I fall" Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver







Friday, February 12, should be just another day in the life of Samantha. But it so happened that the day she died. However, something is keeping the girl among the living, and she is forced to live the day again and again, painfully trying to understand how her to save his life.

Adaptation: Before I fall / Before I Fall

Premiere: April 7, 2017

James Bowen
"A street cat named Bob" A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen







In this story the two main characters — James Bowen, a London street musician and the ginger Bob, the street cat the London. James died from drugs and despair, his life had no meaning, until it appeared a four-legged friend who helped him cope with problems.

Adaptation: a Street cat named Bob / A Street Cat Named Bob

Premiere: November 3, 2016 (the world), on March 2, 2017 (Russia)

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