1. Notre-Dame de Paris (Victor Hugo) 
2. The Beautiful and Damned* (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
3. The Quadroon (Mayne Reid)
4. The Stranger* (Albert Camus)
5. The Captain’s Daughter (Alexander Pushkin)
6. The Bonfire of the Vanities* (Tom Wolfe)
7. Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
8. Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
9. Traps (Friedrich Duerrenmatt)
10. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
*films deserving a good remake.
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Holy crap, a Tom Sawyer film would be legendary.
Nice list! Interesting ideas.
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Thanks! Yes, I would love to see Tom Sawyer movie, it will be totally time transporting.
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The Brothers Karamazov
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I knew someone would suggest something like that! 🙂 I contemplated putting Dostoevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’ too, but decided against it; if there is a film ‘The Brothers Karamazov’, it got to be in two parts or something, because the novel is so long. Very good suggestion, thanks!
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What about The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger?
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Great suggestion. I remember the book now and there is so much “background thinking” by the protagonist which may be tricky to transmit into a film if it is to be done right, but surely not impossible!
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I think there is nothing that cinema cannot do, but I agree it is going to be a hard movie to make due to the fact that most of the story is taking place in the narrator’s head.
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