Based on the Book Past Readings
2023
- Don DeLillo, White Noise, 2022 film
- L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, 1939 film
- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 1993 film
2022
- Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness; 2001 film Apocalypse Now Redoux
- Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate; 1993 film
- Robert Stone, The Dog Soldiers; 1978 film Who’ll Stop The Rain
- Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April; 1991 film
- Seamus Heaney, translator, Beowulf; 2007 film
- Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century; 2020 film Nomadland
- Walter Mosley, Devil in a Blue Dress; 1995 film
- James Ellroy, L.A.Confidential; 1997 film
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange; 1971 film
- Joseph Conrad, Nostromo; 1997 film
- James Joyce, The Dead; 1987 film
- John Le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; 2011 film
2021
- Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina; 2012 film
- Stanisław Lem, Solaris; 1972 film
- Shakespeare, Macbeth; 1957 film Throne of Blood
- Henry James, The Bostonians; 1984 film
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; 2013 film
- Nikos Kazancakis, Zorba the Greek; 1964 film
- William Kennedy, Ironweed; 1987 film
- Muriel Spark, The Driver’s Seat; 1974 film
- Rudyard Kipling, The Man Who Would Be King; 1975 film
- Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not; 1944 film
- Dashiel Hammett, The Thin Man; 1934 film
- Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption; 1994 film
2020
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard and the 1963 film
- Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon and the 1941 film
- Ian McEwan, Atonement and the 2007 film
- Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and the 1961 film
- Kazuo Ishiguro, Remains of the Day and the 1993 film
- Michael Ondantje, The English Patient and the 1996 film
- Louisa May Alcott, Little Women and the 2019 film
- Daniel Woodrell, Winter’s Bone and the 2010 film
- Patrick O’Brian, Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World and the 2003 film
- P.D. James, The Children of Men and the 2006 film
- Ernest Hemingway, For Whom The Bell Tolls and the 1988 film
- E.M. Forster, A Room with a View and the 1985 film
2019
- James A. Michener, Tales of the South Pacific and the 1958 film
- Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier and the 1981 film
- Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky and the 1990 film
- John Irving, The World According to Garp and the 1982 film
- Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye and the 1973 film
- Ann Patchet, Bel Canto and the 2018 film
- Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights and the 2011 film
- James Dickey, Deliverance and the 1972 film
- Honoré de Balzac, Cousin Bette and the 1998 film
- Theodore Dreiser, An American Tragedy and the 1951 film A Place in the Sun
- Edith Wharton, Age of Innocence and the 1993 film
- Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys and the 2000 film
2018
- Jane Austen, Emma (1815) and the 1995 movie Clueless with Alicia Silverstone
- Pierre Boulle, The Bridge on the River Kwai (1952) and the 1957 movie with Alec Guinness
- Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It (1976) and the 1992 movie with Brad Pitt
- Mario Puzo, The Godfather (1969) and the 1972 movie with Marlon Brando
- Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (1957) and the 1965 movie with Omar Sharif
- Philip Roth, Goodbye, Columbus (1959) and the 1969 movie with Richard Benjamin
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850) and the 2010 movie Easy A with Emma Stone
- Vikas Swarup, Slumdog Millionaire (2005) and the 2008 movie with Dev Patel
- John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) and the 1965 movie with Richard Burton
2017
- Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon and the movie with Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston
- Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist (1985) and the 1988 movie with William Hurt
- Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale (1983) and the 2014 movie with Colin Farrell