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Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, BBC made a TV series from it.

My brilliant friend, HBO made a series out of it.

Of Mice and Men, the book is great, there are many movie versions and all are pretty good but my favorites are the 1981 version starring Robert Blake and Randy Quaid and the 1968 version starring George Segal.

I taught this book to 8th graders when I worked in an alternative ed school (for kids in trouble) and they all loved the book and the movie (1981 version), it's not YA literature but they really appreciated it despite it's having been written in 1937. It's often on banned book lists for depicting racism, vulgarity, and other controversial reasons but it definitely fits your question of best books that were later movies.

The Terror as an AMC show was great, possibly better than the book. (The book was too long; the tv adaptation did some much-needed streamlining.)

Who's up for FX's Shogun? I loved the book by James Clavell.

In addition to already-mentioned LOTR and Dune, I was really impressed by the TV miniseries of Lonesome Dove. Terrific book turned into an equally terrific TV adaptation.

The Expanse was pretty good, too. Earlier seasons on TV were better than the later ones, but overall, a solid series.

Anonymous wrote:I enjoyed tv/movies of - The Other Black Girl, Hunger Games, Little Fires Everywhere, Pieces of Her

Interesting, this book bored me so I switched to the TV show because I wanted to figure out the mystery and I hated it. I'm a big Toni Collette fan but I was so disappointed in this.

Annie Proulx's short story Brokeback Mountain and then the movie. Both excellent.

I like when a screen depiction departs from the book but still either keeps the same themes/mood or even improves on the material (at least as translated to the screen).

Recent-ish examples of this: Station 11; Annihilation; Little Women; Dune

I hate when I read a book and it’s clear that it was just written to be optioned for a TV series/movie, though.

I really enjoy almost all Austen adaptations. Also (technically plays but still) An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest. And of course Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings is a tour de force.

I enjoyed tv/movies of - The Other Black Girl, Hunger Games, Little Fires Everywhere, Pieces of Her

I liked Lessons in Chemistry but it was divisive here and plenty of people hated it, so take that for what it's worth...

Wool, Shift, and Dust are a trilogy that was made into the Silo TV series (season one is out, season two is coming). The books are great and easy/fast reads (or listens, I think the audiobooks had a great narrator but I read the books before they came out on Audible) and I really enjoyed the show

These are not recent but my favorite books the movies are the Notebook and In Her Shoes.

I always enjoy a book more when I know I can watch the TV version later. What were your favorites you've read lately?