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10 Books To Read Now Before They Hit The Big Screens In 2017

2017 looks to be an exciting year with all the blockbusters lined up. But with book-to-film adaptations, there’s always the debate of “The Book Was Better Than The Movie vs. The Movie Was Better Than The Book,” so be part of the discussion and start reading now.

January 18, 2017

2017 looks to be an exciting year with all the blockbusters lined up. But with book-to-film adaptations, there’s always the debate of “The Book Was Better Than The Movie vs. The Movie Was Better Than The Book,” so be part of the discussion and start reading now. From the civil rights movement to a romance-murder mystery, these book-to-film adaptions feature big names which include Julia Roberts, Ben Affleck, Alicia Vikander, Felcity Jones and more. We can hardly wait.

By Debby Kwong

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Yoon's debut novel follows Maddy, a teen who has severe combined immunodeficiency. She has spent 17 years hiding out in her home, only seeing her mother and her nurse, Carla. But when a boy named Olly moves in next door, Maddy begins to fall in love.
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Everything, Everything

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Sam Claflin and Rachel Weisz star in this mystery-drama adapted from Daphne Du Maurier's 1951 gothic romance novel of the same name, about a young Englishman called Philip who inherits his guardian's Cornish estate. Philip soon finds himself falling for his beguiling cousin Rachel, but his feelings are complicated when evidence suggests that she murdered Philip's guardian and is only showing an interest in Philip to steal his inheritance.
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Rachel Weisz

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Born with a terrible facial abnormality, August Pullman (played by Room's Jacob Tremblay) has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?
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Julia Roberts

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Based on Lauren Oliver's 2010 debut novel, this movie stars Zoey Deutch, Halston Sage, and Kian Lawley. Samantha dies in a car crash on the eve of her school's "Cupid Day" and she awakens once again in the morning of the same day to relive it for a week. What changes will she make in an attempt to affect the outcome?
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Zoey Deutch

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An artist falls for a married woman after being commissioned to paint her portrait during the Tulip mania of 17th century Amsterdam. Before the book was published Steven Spielberg phoned from his car saying he wanted to film it. Sixteen years later – it’s changed executives from Spielberg to Harvey Weinstein and stars Alicia Vikander, Cara Delevingne and Judi Dench.
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Alicia Vikander

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15-year-old Connor O’Malley (Lewis MacDougall) is bullied at school, his young mother (Felicity Jones) is dying from cancer and he has to deal with his difficult grandmother (Sigourney Weaver). This book about love, loss and hope was inspired by the idea of much-loved Carnegie Medal winner Siobhan Dowd, whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself.
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Felicity Jones

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This New York Times Bestseller shares the never-before-told true story of NASA's African-American female mathematicians who played a crucial role in America's space program. Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe star in the movie which counts Pharrell Williams as one of its producers.
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Taraji P. Henson

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Ben Affleck directs and stars alongside Brendan Gleeson, Elle Fanning and Sienna Miller in this adaptation of Dennis Lehane's 2012 crime novel about Joe Coughlin working his way up the ladder of organized crime during the Prohibition era.
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Ben Affleck

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The second installment in the Fifty Shades trilogy traces the deepening relationship between Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele when Anastasia must confront the anger and envy of the women who came before her.
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Dakota Johnson

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Before you catch Trainspotting 2, now titled T2, read Irvine Welsh's cult classic which follows a group of heroin addicts (played by Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd and Robert Carlyle) in a late 1980s economically depressed area of Edinburgh.
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