10 Book Adaptations in 2023 You Should Check Out Now!
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It is a wonderful feeling to say “I read the book first!” “OMG! They nailed this scene.” Or ” Nah, they didn’t get this quite right!” But one thing’s for sure, book adaptations have become increasingly popular with the surge of things like Booktok, BookTube, and Bookstagram!
With our ego pushed to the last page of the book, reading a novel before the book adaptation hits the screen provides a deeper understanding of the text. And, while 2023 has just begun, it promises some of the best book-to-TV/movie adaptations ever!
Let’s Start the Book Adaptations list with TV shows
Mayfair Witches (AMC)
Book: Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice
Premiere Date: Out Now (January 6)
Based on the iconic Anne Rice’s ‘90s trilogy Lives of the Mayfair Witches, Mayfair Witches will air weekly on AMC from 8 January until the end of February. Alexandra Daddario holds the starring role. A family of witches, fortunes being guided for eons by a powerful shape-shifting spirit called Lasher. I definitely recommend picking up the books and then watching the show on AMC reruns!
Daisy Jones & The Six (Prime Video)
Book: Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Premiere Date: Out Now (March 3)
Sex, drugs, and rock and roll. You definitely have to check out the book Daisy Jones & The Six, because that is the overarching theme. Adding this novel to your Kindle before watching the highly anticipated series on Prime Video. Riley Keogh plays the titular Daisy Jones in the adaptation. Daisy is the frontwoman of a rock band that’s poised to take over the world. Sadly, the band ends up disbanding after a legendary show.
Jenkins Reid, who has developed a HUGE following with bestsellers like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Malibu Rising (both soon-to-be book adaptations in their own right), wrote the book to have the feeling of one of the classics Behind the Music TV episodes, we grew up watching. Writers Michael H. Weber and Scott Neustadter are behind the Prime Video episodes, bringing the show to life.
Keogh is joined by Sam Claflin as Billy Dunne, the band’s frontman before Daisy; Suki Waterhouse as keyboardist Karen Sirko; and Camilla Morrone as Billy’s wife, Camilla.
The Last Thing He Told Me (Apple TV)
Book: The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave
Premiere Date: April 14
After being published in May 2021, Laura Dave’s The Last Thing He Told Me spent 48 weeks (WHOA!) on the list of New York Times Bestsellers. The Last Thing He Told Me follows Hannah, a woman who is left with her teenage stepdaughter in the wake of her husband Owen disappearing during an embezzlement investigation. The cast includes Jennifer Garner and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau playing the leading couple. With, Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine attached to the project. Indeed, with Reese’s name, attached you know it’s sure to be a hit.
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TV Book Adaptations To Be Released…
All the Light We Cannot See (Netflix)
Book: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Premiere date: TBD
Netflix will be doing the adaptation of Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See. The book won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2015, and the adaptation projection has been in the works since 2019. Listed is Shawn Levy to direct the four-part limited series. Steven Knight is the writer, and Grammy-winning composer James Newton Howard will be writing the musical score. The show will star Aria Mia Loberti as Marie-Laure LeBlanc, a blind French teenage girl, and Louis Hofmann as Werner Pfennig, the German soldier with whom Marie-Laure crosses paths.
Three Women (Showtime)
Book: Three Women by Lisa Taddeo
Premiere date: TBD
It isn’t hard to see why Lisa Taddeo’s 2019 non-fiction book Three Women is a bestseller. The tale is a story of three women from across the U.S. Moreover, with eight years in on the tale, the emotional journeys of Lina, Sloane, and Maggie is due for the screen.
The fabulous Shailene Woodley will play Gia, a grieving writer who asks the three women to share their stories with her. Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise, and Gabrielle Creevy star as Lina, Sloane, and Maggie, the women who decide to share their unforgettable stories with Gia. This remarkable portrayal is an intimate tale of a woman’s needs, and what she does to satisfy those desires.
Okay, now let’s do book adaptations that will be movies…
A Man Calle Otto
Book:A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Premiere Date: Out Now (January 6)
Fredrik Backman’s A Man Called Ove was originally published in 2012 in Swedish. And, getting a Swedish adaptation of the book in 2015. Backman growing popularity over recent years brought the novel to English translation and publishing in 2013. Following soon after the English adaptation, starring Tom Hanks as Otto (rather than Ove, I don’t like that they changed his name, but understand).
The novel follows Ove, a grumpy 60-year-old who decides to kill himself. His attempts are repeatedly nixed by boisterous neighbors who ultimately become unlikely friends.
Book: Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
Premiere Date: TBD (April 21)
Unless you have been under a rock you have been no stranger to Stephen King and his many book adaptations. You’ve likely seen King’s works on the screen. From things like Carrie (2013), It (2017), and Gerald’s Game (2017).
Now it’s Salem’s Lot turn. Surprisingly, this is King’s second-ever published novel. Its arrival date for cinemas slated for September 2022, pushed back to April 2023. Though a specific date is still TBD.
Salem’s Lot follows Ben Mears who returns to a town he lived in between the ages of five and nine called Jerusalem’s Lot; while there, he discovers the residents are becoming vampires.
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The Color Purple
Book: The Color Purple by Alice Waker
Premiere Date: December 22
Of course, to say that you’ve probably seen the original classic movie is saying something. With this in mind, if you have read the book the original adaptation was based on you get bonus points. Alice Walker’s seminal classic 1982 novel of the same name, The Color Purple will arrive in cinemas ahead of Christmas with a new 2023 book adaptation, almost 40 years after Stephen Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation of the novel.
The novel follows Celie (played by Fantasia and Phylicia Mpasi) and her life-long struggles in southern America in the early 1900s. Colman Domingo, Taraji P. Henson, Corey Hawkins, and Halle Bailey will also star in this newest adaptation of The Color Purple.
Movie Book Adaptations To Be Released
The Nightingale
Book: The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Premiere Date: TBD
This book adaptation of The Nightingale, initially slated for release on December 23, 2022. Starring sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning playing fictional sisters Vianne and Isabelle. Despite, working together previously, this is their first appearance as sisters in a film. In spite of the fact being slated to become a film, there’s been very little buzz for this movie and still, no trailer’s been released!
The book penned by Kristin Hannah. Published in 2015, The Nightingale follows two sisters, one a housewife and the other a rebellious 18-year-old, who struggle against the German occupation in 1939 Nazi-occupied France.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Book: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Premiere Date: TBD
Another one of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s adaptations will be released in 2023. Based on the novel, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, this project will be coming to Netflix. The 2017 novel tells the story of Evelyn Hugo, the most popular actress in Hollywood who had an exciting and scandalous life. When she chooses an unknown magazine reporter, for the purpose, of telling her life story, Monique Grant jumps at the chance for this assignment. Once she meets Evelyn, Evelyn tells it all, including the seven husbands she had along the way.
Check out my review of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Have you read any of these books? Will you check out any of the book adaptations? Let us know in the comments!
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