To ask what book you'd like to see adapted for TV or film?

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They keep remaking Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and Little Women.

What book would you like to see adapted?
I'd love to see The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (and I know, there is one TV series from ages ago), Evelina by Frances Burney, who was said to have inspired Jane Austen. Oh, and The Power by Naomi Alderman.

I would like some of the real life stories from David Olusoga’s Black and British:a history to be dramatised. There are some amazing stories in there.

The railway children
Oliver Twist
To kill a mocking bird

The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb

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Not a very ‘well known’ series but the Anarchy series by Megan De Vos. I’ve read those books more than any others, never get bored of them! I’m desperate for it to be made into a TV show/movie!

The Spanish Princess on STARZ is based on the constant princess and the Tudor Curse

My vote would be the unwind series by Neal Schusterman. they were talking about it at one point but not sure what happened to it.

Or the Delirium Series by Lauren Oliver

The railway children

Would you envisage an update of the two previous adaptations of this, or do you think it could be redone better? I have to say I thought the classic version with Jenny Agutter as Bobbie was one of the most faithful-to-the-book adaptations I have ever seen.

Any book written by David Peace

Oh yes to the Shardlake books. I’ve just started rereading the books, and they would make a wonderful autumn/winter Sunday at 9pm BBC series.

The Farseer Trilogy by Robin Hobb - I came to suggest the same :-) ! It would make a brilliant series and would go on for quite a few seasons.

The Phantom of the Opera - a really sumptuous remake of this would be awesome (the book not the musical - though that movie was so bad it too could do with a remake.

And for the kids, a Disney animated movie of 'The Elves and the Shoemaker' set in Dickensian London and make to look all beautiful and snowy/festive.

Yes please to both the St Mary's books and Gail Carriger's.

I'm still hanging out for a decent adaptation of Dracula. I don't understand how they keep getting it so wrong.

DH suggests the Thursday Next books.

And I want some top notch Georgette Heyer adaptations for when I need a romance fix.

Game of Thrones.

Children of Time as a Netflix series

The Dark Tower, but it'd have to be a series. There's been numerous attempts but no one has delivered yet.

Anything by David Gemmell, but especially the Drenai books...however, David refused to sell the rights when alive so suspect his family are honouring his wishes now. He believed that the industry would change too much about the heart of his stories that would make a visual retelling a moot point, given how most books are massacred on their way to screen I'm inclined to agree, but it's a shame.

Song of Achilles and Circe by Madeline Miller

Yes to Rivers of London - Noel Clarke as Peter Grant and Daniel Craig/Matthew Goode as DCI Nightingale.

The Historian is a good call too.

I’d like to see Patrick Ness’ The Knife of Never Letting Go.

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The Dark is Rising series by Susan Cooper. Preferably made by the BBC for the Sunday 6pm slot. Preferably with the screenplay written by someone other than Jack Thorne.

The movie version of this book really is completely awful.

I think it could be done well. Unfortunately I don't think we are in a good moment for book adaptations. There was a brief period twentyish years ago where there were a lot of pretty good adaptations of books, but now we seem to be in a period where the idea is to insert the political issues of the moment as obviously as possible without regard to the story the author is telling.

OMG - Wouldn't 'Boy - Tales of Childhood' by Roald Dahl make an awesome 1920s/30s set tv series! The dead mouse in the jar of sweets!!!

I'd like someone to remake The Little Stranger, maybe as a four-part series. The recent film was such a disappointment.

The power would be amazing

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The tiffany aching books - the wee free men et al

Eleanor oliphant is completely fine

I’d love to see a really faithful adaptation of Malory Towers. There was a recent one but it didn’t seem like Malory Towers to me, it was like a totally different story with the same names.

I also second a Harry Potter television programme.

I suppose the reason they haven’t done Shardlake is that it would cost so much to do it properly. One of the things I read them for is the detailed descriptions of settings, especially big set pieces like the Progress of the North in Sovereign, and place tends to be important to the plot. It’s not that it couldn’t be done but unless you had a Game of Thrones budget you would have to massively cut down the number of locations to make it manageable.
I wish they would though!

The Cazalet Chronicles. There was a TV series about 15 years ago but it only went up to the end of book 2 (I think). I would love to see a version covering all the books.

Marian Keyes Walsh sisters books. There was a version of Watermelon made but it changed so much of the storyline that it bore no resemblance to the book in the end.

The St Mary’s series.

And Jilly Cooper - there are versions of Riders and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous but I would love to see some of the others.

I know they've already been mentioned but I'd like to second (or even third)

The Chronicles of St Mary's
Shardlake
Dracula
Frankenstein

but only if they stay true to the books.

There have been so many versions of the last two but they've always managed to balls them up!

Some Nevil Shute books, e.g,. Requiem for A Wren.

If you could find a good child actor I think the Flavia De Luce books could make quite a nice series. I also wished that hadn't stopped with one series of the No.1 Ladies Detective Agency.

I've always thought the Mars series by Kim Stanley Robinson could be spectacular if done with a fair bit of cash behind it. But I don't think the politics would be left intact and it would probably be used as an opportunity for a lot of sexposition. Actually, given the way Father Brown has been treated, they might not film Flavia with any kind of integrity either, which seems crazy for what is essentially a light topic.

Another one that I thought might be good, though it's not well known, is The Nymph and the Lamp by Thomas Raddal. It's set on Sable Island in the first half of the 20th century. You'd need a small cast of good actors, but very little in terms of effects and such.