24 Novels That Are Crying Out To Be Turned Into A TV Series

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Jamie Jones
BuzzFeed
August 14, 2017

We recently asked members of the BuzzFeed Community which books need to be turned into TV Shows. Here are some of the best responses...

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1. Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
2. Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
3. World War Z by Max Brooks
4. The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling
5. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy by Douglas Adams
6. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
7. The Red Rising trilogy by Pierce Brown
8. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
9. The Dark Tower by Stephen King
10. The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
11. The Selection by Kiera Cass
12. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
13. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
14. The Gentlemen Bastard series by Scott Lynch
15. Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
16. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
17. Gone by Michael Grant
18. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
19. The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan
20. Dune by Frank Herbert
21. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
22. The Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld
23. The MaddAddam series by Margaret Atwood
24. Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

[ABX]

Jamie Jones didn't grow up with BBC. The Hitchhiker's Guide was a TV series in the early 80s.

Several of these were had inspired by TV Series or at least TV Mini Series.

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Jamie Jones didn't grow up with BBC. The Hitchhiker's Guide was a TV series in the early 80s.

@AbaraXas

The original series is mentioned in the article:

"With the advances in TV over the last few years, I think it's time for a new adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. The movie was disappointing and the original series is looking very dated, but the material is still hilarious."