Thursday, November 20, 2014

Must Reads Before You See!



 Top 10 must read books turned to movies in 2014

1.     Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins
  The final book in The Hunger Games series

2.     The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  A prequel to the Lord of the Rings. The story tells Bilbo Baggin’s journey through Middle Earth

3.     Gone Girl by Gillin Flynn
     A thriller told from two perspectives: a husband whose wife goes missing and the missing wife

4.     Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson
     A woman who suffers from anterograde amnesia, forcing her to have no previous memory of her life each day she wakes

5.     The Enigma by Alan Turing
  Movie version is called The Imitation Game
 A British mathematician who helps crack Nazi codes for the Allies during World War 2

6.     Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
     A true story of World War 2 hero who was an Olympic-runner-army-pilot and prisoner  of war

7.     The Giver by Lois Lowry
     A young boy within a utopian society is tasked as the “receiver of memory” to keep all of the society’s past memories and is taught by “the giver”

8.     The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
     A teenage girl with terminal cancer falls in love with a boy who also has cancer

9. The Maze Runner by James Dashner
     The first in a trilogy with a young boy living in a fantasy world called the Glade trying to solve the mystery of the maze while dodging monsters and other dangers

10. Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
  A private detective who smokes pot investigates a story told to him by an ex-girlfriend in the ‘70s



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