Here are 41 classic books made into movies, free to read online or download in PDF. Every film on this list started as a page someone wrote.
These are the originals behind adaptations that shaped a century of cinema. Steven Spielberg filmed The War of the Worlds in 2005, John Huston turned The Maltese Falcon into the first film noir in 1941, and All Quiet on the Western Front won Academy Awards in 1930 and again in 2022.
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Classic Novels
Classic Novels Made Into Movies
These classic novels made into movies are the ones directors keep coming back to. Joe Wright filmed Pride and Prejudice in 2005 and Anna Karenina in 2012, and Baz Luhrmann brought The Great Gatsby to the screen in 2013.
Austen's comedy of manners about the Bennet sisters and the proud Mr. Darcy. The source of the 1940 MGM film and Joe Wright's 2005 adaptation with Keira Knightley.
Faulkner tells the fall of the Compson family through four narrators and four moments in time. Filmed in 1959 by Martin Ritt and again in 2014 by James Franco.
An American ambulance driver and an English nurse fall in love on the Italian front of the First World War. Adapted in 1932 with Gary Cooper and again in 1957.
A German schoolboy volunteers for the trenches and discovers what the war really is. The 1930 film won Best Picture and the 2022 version won four Academy Awards.
Woolf turns a family holiday on the Isle of Skye into a study of time and memory. Colin Gregg filmed it in 1983 with Rosemary Harris and Michael Gough.
The final volume of In Search of Lost Time, where the narrator finally understands what he has to write. Raul Ruiz adapted it in 1999 with Catherine Deneuve and John Malkovich.
The blacksmith's apprentice Pip receives a fortune from an unknown benefactor. David Lean's 1946 film is still one of the best regarded Dickens adaptations ever made.
An orphaned governess arrives at Thornfield Hall and finds a secret locked upstairs. Brought to the screen more than twenty times, including Cary Fukunaga's 2011 version.
Heathcliff and Catherine tear each other apart across two generations on the Yorkshire moors. William Wyler filmed it in 1939 and Andrea Arnold in 2011.
Tolstoy follows a woman who leaves her marriage for Count Vronsky and pays for it. Greta Garbo played her in 1935 and Keira Knightley in Joe Wright's 2012 film.
Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan Doyle are two of the most adapted authors in publishing history. Their books made into movies run from Basil Rathbone's Hound of the Baskervilles in 1939 to David Suchet's Poirot.
A spectral hound stalks the Devon moors and Holmes is called in. The most filmed Sherlock Holmes story of all, from the 1939 Basil Rathbone version onward.
Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker built modern horror cinema before the camera existed. These gothic books made into movies include Frankenstein, filmed by James Whale in 1931, and Dracula, filmed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1992.
Victor Frankenstein builds a creature and then abandons it. James Whale's 1931 film with Boris Karloff created the image the whole world now recognises.
The count leaves Transylvania for London, told through letters, diaries and telegrams. Filmed by Tod Browning in 1931 and by Francis Ford Coppola in 1992.
A masked figure haunts the cellars of the Paris Opera and falls for a young soprano. Lon Chaney's 1925 silent version is still the most famous of dozens.
Ichabod Crane meets the Headless Horseman on a road in the Hudson Valley. Disney animated it in 1949 and Tim Burton filmed it in 1999 with Johnny Depp.
H. G. Wells and Jules Verne imagined images that film spent a century trying to reproduce. Steven Spielberg adapted The War of the Worlds in 2005, and Disney filmed Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas in 1954.
A shipwrecked man lands on an island where a surgeon is turning animals into people. Adapted in 1977 with Burt Lancaster and in 1996 with Marlon Brando.
A professor decodes a runic message and climbs down an Icelandic volcano. The 1959 film with James Mason and Pat Boone made it a family adventure classic.
Pirates, duels and revenge, in the novels that have never stopped being filmed. Treasure Island became Disney's first live action feature in 1950, and The Count of Monte Cristo returned to cinemas in 2024.
D'Artagnan arrives in Paris and joins Athos, Porthos and Aramis. Filmed more than thirty times, from Douglas Fairbanks in 1921 to the 2023 French two part version.
The stories that became childhood on screen, in the words their authors actually wrote. Disney animated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1951, and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women reached the screen again in 2019 with Saoirse Ronan.
Dorothy is carried by a cyclone to a land of witches and a road of yellow brick. The 1939 MGM film with Judy Garland is one of the most watched movies ever made.
The four March sisters grow up in Massachusetts during the Civil War. Filmed with Katharine Hepburn in 1933, Winona Ryder in 1994 and Saoirse Ronan in 2019.
Sara Crewe loses her fortune and is put to work in the boarding school where she was the star pupil. Alfonso Cuaron's 1995 film is the best known adaptation.
