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For this challenge you have to read 25 books that have been made into a Movie or TV programme or series.

The Movie or TV series must actually have been made, not just planned.

You may use books you read for other challenges. Any format is acceptable - paper, audio and ebooks.

Total books to be read is 25. You may not use the same book twice.

Please remember that only books with 120 pages or more counts.

You can keep track of your challenge in this thread.

This challenge runs from January 01, 2022 - December 31, 2022.

My Spot

Wayne J's 2022 Movie/tv Challenge (25/25)

1. Endless Night (1972 film with same title)
2. Poirot Investigates (Short stories incorporated as episodes in ITV Inspector Poirot series which ran over 13 series from 1989 to 2013.)
3. The End of Eternity (1976 Hungarian film and 1987 Soviet film. There were talks in 2008 of a Hollywood production, which appears to have died down.)
4. Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter - (2014 Documentary called Soft vengeance, focusing on the life of Albie Sachs, leading up to the overthrow of Apartheid.)
5. Shogun: A Novel of Japan (1980 tv miniseries which was later adapted to a made for tv movie)
6. The Late Monsieur Gallet (Episode 7 of series 1 flighted on BBC, screened in 1960)
7. Winnie-the-Pooh (Movie and tv series produced by Walt Disney. Winnie-the pooh and the Honey tree movie flighted in 1966, and a tv series which started in 1980.)
8. The Razor's Edge (1984 movie staring Bill Murray.)
9. The Bourne Identity (1988 made for tv movie starring Richard Chamberlain. A 2002 film remade starred Matt Damon)
10. The Firm (1993 film adaptation starring Tom Cruise.)
11. Death in High Heels (1947 film starring Don Stannard)
12. In Chancery (1957 BBC and 2002 Granada Television tv series)
13. Doctor Faustus (1962 film)
14. Monk's Hood (1994 ITV series)
15. The Pearl (1947 Mexican movie La Perla)
16. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009 movie)
17. The Sheltering Sky (1990 movie)
18. The House of Mirth (2000 movie)
19. A Doll's House (1959 and 1973 films but also a 1992 videotaped version of the play for television)
20. Hotel Du Lac (1986 tv episode as part of BBs's Screen Two series)
21. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Film released in two parts, Part 1 in 2010 and Part 2 in 2011)
22. Half of a Yellow Sun (2013 film)
23. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010 film)
24. Mr. Mercedes (television series premiered in 2017)
25. Death at La Fenice: A Novel of Suspense (2000 tv series)

Carolien's 2022 Movie/TV challenge

1. Dead Man's Ransom
2. Angel
3. Murder on the Ballarat Train
4. Anne of Avonlea
5. Little Men
7. Ross Poldark
8. A Study in Scarlet
9. The Pilgrim of Hate
10. Black Narcissus
11. Death Without Company
12. Slow Horses
13. Trent's Last Case
14. The Moonstone
15. Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Thief
16. Anne of the Island
17. Death at La Fenice
18, Camille by Alexandre Dumas, Fiction, Literary
19. The Sign of Four
20. The Age of Innocence
21. If Beale Street Could Talk
22. Roseanna
23. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
24. The Country Girls
25. Testament of Youth

Movies

TV series

Diane's Spot:

21/25 - Maybe I'll crack this one in 2023!

1. The Unexpected Mrs Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman
2. North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell
3. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
4. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
5. Coraline Graphic Novel by P. Craig Russell and Neil Gaiman
6. A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
7. Radium girls by Kate Moore
8. A Meditation on Murder [Death in Paradise #1] by Robert Thorogood
9. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
10. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
11. Looking for Alaska by John Green
12. True Believer by Jack Carr [Terminal List]
13. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
14. Foundation [Public Order] # 1 - Isaac Asimov
15. The Terminal List - Terminal List # 1 by Jack Carr
16. The Long Ships Rode Orm #1-2 by Frans G. Bengtsson Michael Meyer Translator
17. Savage Son - Terminal List #3 - Jack Carr
18. The Devil's Hand - Terminal List #4 - Jack Carr
19. Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
20. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
21. The Queen's Gambit by Walter Tevis

That is me done with tv series and films. Not one of the books was chosen because I saw the film, in fact I have not watched tv for most of the past two years.

Congrats, Wayne!

Thanks Carolien

My spot: 7/25

1. Peril at End house - TV
2. The secret of Chimneys - TV 2010
3. Death at La Fenice - TV 2000
4. Death in a strange country - TV 2006
5. Dressed for death -TV
6. Midwinter of the spirit - TV series
7. The big four Agatha Christie - TV series