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  Books to Movies 2016  

Over 60 movies that were released in 2015 were based on books, comics, and graphic novels. The following is just a short list of the novels that will be made into films in 2016.

A Dog's Purpose

W. Bruce Cameron · Forge Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog's search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dog's Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here?Surprised to find...
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The 5th Wave

Rick Yancey
Pages: 457
Format: Print book

"Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances." - Entertainment Weekly (Grade A) The Passage meets Ender's Game in an epic new series from award-winning author Rick Yancey.After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after...
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi

MItchell Zuckoff · Twelve
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE -- IN THEATERS JANUARY 2016
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel

Ben Fountain · Ecco
Pages: 307
Format: Print book

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and a finalist for the National Book Award!From the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning author of the critically acclaimed short story collection, Brief Encounters with Che Guevara, comes Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk ("The...
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Ransom Riggs · Quirk Books
Pages: 348
Format: Audio CD

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs.It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens,...
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!

Seth Grahame-Smith · Quirk Books

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story...
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The Girl with All the Gifts

M. R. Carey · Orbit
Format: Hardcover

NOT EVERY GIFT IS A BLESSING.Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into...
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Silence: A Novel

Shusaku Endo · Picador USA
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback

Shusaku Endo's classic novel of enduring faith in dangerous times, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese, starring Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson, and Adam Driver"Silence I regard as a masterpiece, a lucid and elegant drama."-The New York Times Book Review...
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Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt

Anne Rice · Knopf; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

Having completed the two cycles of legend to which she has devoted her career so far, Anne Rice gives us now her most ambitious and courageous book, a novel about the early years of CHRIST THE LORD, based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.The books power...
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Inferno

Dan Brown · Vintage Espanol
Format: Hardcover

In his international blockbusters The Da Vinci Code, Angels Demons, and The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown masterfully fused history, art, codes, and symbols. In this riveting new thriller, Brown returns to his element and has crafted his highest-stakes novel to date.In the heart of Italy, Harvard...
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