Top 50 Movies Based On Books

I randomly came across this list of top 50 movies based on books. Someone had listed them, along with which he’d read and/or seen. I thought I’d do the same thing. Final count: 12 books read, 21 movies seen. I need to read more.

[B] – Read the book
[M] – Seen the movie
[BM] – Both

1. 1984 [B]
2. Alice in Wonderland [BM]
3. American Psycho
4. Breakfast at Tiffany’s
5. Brighton Rock
6. Catch 22 [B]
7. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory [BM]
8. A Clockwork Orange [BM]
9. Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
10. The Day of the Triffids
11. Devil in a Blue Dress
12. Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption) [BM]
13. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner) [M]
14. Doctor Zhivago
15. Empire of the Sun
16. The English Patient [M]
17. Fight Club [M]
18. The French Lieutenant’s Woman [B]
19. Get Shorty [BM]
20. The Godfather
21. Goldfinger
22. Goodfellas [M]
23. Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now) [M]
24. The Hound of the Baskervilles [B]
25. Jaws
26. The Jungle Book [BM]
27. A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
28. LA Confidential [M]
29. Les Liaisons Dangereuses [M]
30. Lolita
31. Lord of the Flies [B]
32. The Maltese Falcon [M]
33. Oliver Twist [M]
34. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest [M]
35. Orlando
36. The Outsiders
37. Pride and Prejudice [M]
38. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
39. The Railway Children
40. Rebecca
41. The Remains of the Day
42. Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List) [M]
43. Sin City
44. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
45. The Talented Mr Ripley [M]
46. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
47. Through a Glass Darkly
48. To Kill a Mockingbird [BM]
49. Trainspotting
50. The Vanishing [M]
51. Watership Down