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You've Seen the Movie, Now Read the Book: 1997-2004

Want to know what your favorite movie was based on? Here is an updated list of feature films from 1997-2004 and the books they were based on. Unless otherwise noted, the books are adult fiction. See also our list of movies from 1986-1996.

Find additional titles in Enser’s Filmed Books and Plays: A List of Books and Plays from Which Films Have Been Made, 1928-1991, 808.00016 B292e or see the Mid-Continent Public Library's Based on the Book page.

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Abandon, 2002
Abandon by Sean Desmond

About a Boy, 2002
About a Boy by Nick Hornby

About Schmidt, 2002
About Schmidt by Louis Begley

Absolute Power, 1997
Absolute Power by David Baldacci

Adaptation, 2002
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, 635.934409759 Or5o

Affliction, 1997
Affliction by Russell Banks

After the Storm, 2001
“After the Storm” in The Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway by Ernest Hemingway

Agnes Browne, 1999
The Mammy by Brendan O’Carroll

All the Pretty Horses, 2000
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

Along Came a Spider, 2001
Along Came a Spider by James Patterson

American Psycho, 2000
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

American Splendor, 2003
The New American Splendor Anthology by Harvey Pekar, 741.5973P36a

Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, 2004
Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Angela's Ashes, 1999
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 929.20899162073 M137a

Animal Factory, 2000
Animal Factory by Edward Bunker

Anna and the King, 1999
The English Governess at the Siamese Court by Anna Leonowens, 959.30340922 L445L

Antwone Fisher, 2002
Finding Fish: a Memoir by Antwone Quenton Fisher, 973.04960730092 F531f

Anywhere But Here, 1999
Anywhere but Here by Mona Simpson

Apt Pupil, 1998
“Apt Pupil” in Different Seasons by Stephen King

Around the World in 80 Days, 2004
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, children's fiction

Artificial Intelligence, A1, 2001
Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time by Brian Aldiss, science fiction

Aspects of Love, 2003
Aspects of Love by David Garnett

The Assistant, 1997
The Assistant, by Bernard Malamud

At First Sight, 1999
“To See and Not See” in An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales by Oliver Sacks, 616.8 Sa14a

Auto Focus, 2002
The Murder of Bob Crane by Robert Graysmith, 364.15230979173 G795m

The Beach, 2000
The Beach by Alex Garland

A Beautiful Mind, 2001
A Beautiful Mind: a Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar, 510.92 N17n

Beloved, 1998
Beloved by Toni Morrison

Bicentennial Man, 1999
The Positronic Man by Isaac Asimov,science fiction
Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov, science fiction

Being Julia, 2004
Theatre: a Novel by W. Somerset Maugham, PLC 11

Big Bad Love, 2001
Big Bad Love: Stories by Larry Brown

The Big Bounce, 2004
The Big Bounce by Elmore Leonard

Big Fish, 2003
Big Fish: a Novel of Mythic Proportions by Daniel Wallace

Big Trouble, 2002
Big Trouble by Dave Barry

Black Hawk Down, 2001
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden, 967.73053 B672b

Bless the Child, 2000
Bless the Child by Cathy Cash Spellman

Blood Oranges, 1997
Blood Oranges by John Hawkes

Blood Work, 2002
Blood Work by Michael Connelly

Blow, 2001
Blow: How A Small-Town Boy Made 100 Million With The Medellin Cocaine Cartel And Lost It All by Bruce Porter, 363.4509861 P833b

The Bone Collector, 1999
The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver

The Borrowers, 1997
The Borrowers by Mary Norton, children’s fiction

The Bourne Identity, 2002
The Bourne Identity by Robert Ludlum

The Bourne Supremacy, 2004
The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum

The Brave, 1997
The Brave by Gregory McDonald, mystery

Breakfast of Champions, 1999
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Bridget Jones’s Diary, 2001
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding

The Bridge of San Luis Rey, 2004
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thorton Wilder

Bridget Jones’s Diary: The Edge of Reason, 2004
Bridget Jones’s Diary: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding

Bright Young Things, 2003
Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh

Bringing Out the Dead, 1999
Bringing Out the Dead by Joe Connelly

Buddy, 1997
Animals Are My Hobby by Gertrude Davies Lintz, 591.5 L65

Buffalo Soldiers, 2003
Buffalo Soldiers by Robert O’Connor

Bully, 2001
Bully: Does Anyone Deserve to Die?: A True Story of High School Revenge byJim Schutze, 364.15230975935 Sch88b

The Butcher Boy, 1997
The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe

Catch Me If You Can, 2002
Catch Me if You Can: the Amazing True Story of the Most Extraordinary Liar in the History of Fun and Profit by Frank Abagnale, Jr., 364.1630924 Ab15a

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, 2001
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

The Caveman’s Valentine, 2001
The Caveman’s Valentine by Gorge Dawes Green

Charlotte Gray, 2001
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks

Children on Their Birthdays, 2002
“Children on Their Birthdays” in A Tree of Night and Other Stories by Truman Capote

Chocolat, 2000
Chocolat by Joanne Harris

Christmas with the Kranks, 2004
Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

Cider House Rules, 1999
Cider House Rules by John Irving

A Civil Action, 1998
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr, 346.73038 H235c

The Claim, 2000
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Cold Mountain, 2003
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, 2002
The Game Show King: a Confession by Chuck Barris, 791.45028092 B277b

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, 2004
Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen by Dyan Sheldon, teen fiction

Contact, 1997
Contact by Carl Sagan

A Cool Dry Place, 1998
Dance Real Slow by Michael Grant Jaffe

The Count of Monte Cristo, 2002
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Cousin Bette, 1998
Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac

Crazy in Alabama, 1999
Crazy in Alabama by Mark Childress

Critical Care, 1997
Critical Care by Richard Dooling

Cruel Intentions, 1999
Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos

The Dancer Upstairs, 2003
The Dancer Upstairs by Nicholas Shakespeare

Dangerous Beauty, 1998
Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, citizen and writer in sixteenth century Venice by Margaret Rosenthal, 945.3107092 F848r

Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, 2002
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys : a Novel by Chris Fuhrman

Deep End, 2001
The Blank Wall by Sanxay Holding

The Deep End of the Ocean, 1999
The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard

The Devil’s Advocate, 1997
The Devil’s Advocate by Andrew Neiderman

The Divine Ryans, 1999
The Divine Ryans by Wayne Johnson

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, 2002
Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells

Le Divorce, 2003
Le Divorce by Diane Johnson

Doctor Dolittle, 1998
The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting, children’s fiction

Dr. Seuss’ Cat in the Hat, 2003
Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss, children’s Readers

Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, 2000
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss, children’s picture books

Donnie Brasco, 1997
Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia by Joseph D. Pistone, 364.10924 P678p

Don’t Say a Word, 2001
Don’t Say a Word by Andrew Klavan

The Door in the Floor, 2004
A Widow for a Year by John Irving

Dreamcatcher, 2003
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

Drive Me Crazy, 1999
How I Created My Perfect Prom Date by Todd Strasser, teen fiction

The Education of Little Tree, 1997
The Education of Little Tree by Forrest Carter, 813.54 C245zca

Election, 1999
Election by Tom Perrotta

Ella Enchanted, 2004
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, children’s fiction

The Emperor’s Club, 2002
The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin

The Emperor’s New Clothes, 2001
The Death of Napoleon by Simon Leys

The End of the Affair, 1999
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

Enduring Love, 2004
Enduring Love: Novel by Ian McEwan

Enigma, 2001
Enigma by Robert Harris

Ever After, 1998
Cinderella by Charles Perrault, children’s picture book

Exit Wounds, 2001
Exit Wounds by John Westermann

Eye of the Beholder, 1999
Eye of the Beholder by Marc Behm

Eyes Wide Shut, 1999
Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler;
also included in Eyes Wide Shut: a Screenplay, 791.4372 Ey36k

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1998
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Other American Stories by Hunter S. Thompson, 070.92 T373tf

Fever Pitch, 2003
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby, 796.3340941 H783f

Felicia’s Journey, 1999
Felicia’s Journey by William Trevor

Female Perversions, 1997
Female Perversions: the Temptations of Emma Bovary by Louise J. Kaplan, 306.7082K141f

Fight Club, 1999
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest, 2002
The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest: a Silicon Valley novel by Po Bronson

The Flight of the Phoenix, 2004
The Flight of the Phoenix by Elleston Trevor

Focus, 2001
Focus by Arthur Miller

For Love of the Game, 1999
For Love of the Game by Michael Shaara

The Four Feathers, 2002
The Four Feathers by A.E.W. Mason

The Fourth Angel, 2001
The Fourth Angel by Robin Hunter

Freaky Friday, 2003
Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers, Children’s Fiction

Frida, 2002
Frida, a Biography by Hayden Herrera, 759.972 K121h

Friday Night Lights, 2004
Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream by H.G. Bissinger, 796.3326309764862B544f

From Hell, 2001
From Hell: Being a Melodrama in Sixteen Parts by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell, 741.5941 M781f

Gaudi Afternoon, 2001
Gaudi Afternoon by Barbara Wilson, mystery

The General’s Daughter, 1999
The General’s Daughter by Nelson DeMille

A Gentleman's Game, 2001
A Gentleman's Game by Tom Coyne

Ghost World, 2001
Ghost World by Daniel Clowes, 741.5973 C626g

Girl, Interrupted, 1999
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, 616.890092 K184k

Girl With a Pearl Earring, 2003
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

Gods and Generals, 2003
Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

Gods and Monsters, 1998
Father of Frankenstein by Christopher Bram

Going All The Way, 1997
Going All the Way by Dan Wakefield

Golden Bowl, 2000
Golden Bowl by Henry James

Great Expectations, 1998
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Green Mile, 1999
The Green Mile by Stephen King

Hanging Up, 2000
Hanging Up by Delia Ephron

Hannibal, 2001
Hannibal by Thomas Harris

Hardball, 2001
Hardball: a Season in the Projects by Daniel Coyle, 796.357620977311C839h

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, 2002
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling, children’s fiction

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, 2004
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling, children’s fiction

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, 2001
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling, children’s fiction

Hart’s War, 2002
Hart’s War by John Katzenbach

The Haunting, 1999
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things, 2004
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. Leroy

Hearts in Atlantis, 2001
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King

The Hi-Lo Country, 1998
The Hi-Lo Country by Max Evans, western

High Crimes, 2002
High Crimes by Joseph Finder

High Fidelity, 2000
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Hilary and Jackie, 1998
Hilary and Jackie by Hilary du Pre, 787.4092 D928d

The Hole, 2001
The Hole by Guy Burt

Holes, 2003
Holes by Louis Sachar, children’s fiction or teen paperbacks

A Home at the End of the World, 2004
A Home at the End of the World by Michael Cunningham

Hope Springs, 2003
New Cardiff by Charles Webb

The Horse Whisperer, 1998
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans

The Hours, 2002
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

The House of Mirth,2000
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

House of Sand and Fog, 2003
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus

How Stella Got Her Groove Back, 1998
How Stella Got Her Groove Back by Terry McMillan

How to Deal, 2003
Someone Like You by Sarah Dessen, Teen fiction
That Summer by Sarah Dessen, Teen fiction

H.P. Lovecraft’s Dagon, 2001
“Dagon” in Dagon and Other Macabre Tales by H. P. Lovecraft

The Human Stain, 2003
The Human Stain by Phillip Roth

Hunger, 2000
Hunger by Knut Hamsun

The Hurricane, 1999
The Sixteenth Round: From Number 1 Contender to #45472 by Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, 364.1523092 C246ca
Lazarus and the Hurricane by Sam Chaiton, 364.1523092 C246c

I Am David, 2004
I Am David by Anne Holm, teen fiction
North to Freedom by Anne Holm, children’s fiction

I Captured the Castle, 2003
I Captured the Castle by Dodie Smith

I Dreamed of Africa, 2000
I Dreamed of Africa by Kuki Gallmann, 967.6204G137i

I Know What You Did Last Summer, 1997
I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan, teen fiction

I, Robot, 2004
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, science fiction

I’m Losing You, 1998
I’m Losing You by Bruce Wagner

I'm Not Scared, 2003
I'm Not Scared by Niccolo Ammaniti

The Ice Storm, 1997
The Ice Storm by Rick Moody

Imagining Argentina, 2003
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton

Impostor, 2002
“Impostor” in We Can Remember It for You Wholesale: And Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick, science fiction

In Dreams, 1999
Doll’s Eyes by Bari Wood

In the Bedroom, 2001
“Killings” in Finding a Girl in America: Ten Stories and a Novella by Andre Dubus

In the Cut, 2003
In the Cut by Susanna Moore

In the Time of the Butterflies, 2001
In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

Intimacy, 2001
Intimacy: a Novel by Hanif Kureishi

The Invisible Circus, 2001
The Invisible Circus by Jennifer Egan

Iris, 2001
Iris and Her Friends: a Memoir of Memory and Desire by John Bayley, 823.914 M941zbi
Elegy for Iris by John Bayley, 823.914 M941zb

The Iron Giant, 1999
The Iron Giant: a Story in Five Nights by Ted Hughes, children’s fiction

Jackie Brown, 1997
Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard

Jakob the Liar, 1999
Jakob the Liar by Jurek Becker

John Grisham’s The Rainmaker, 1997
The Rainmaker by John Grisham

Joshua, 2000
Joshua by Joseph Girzone

K-Pax, 2001
K-Pax by Gene Brewer

Kaaterskill Falls, 2001
Kaaterskill Falls: a Novel by Allegra Goodman

The Keys To Tulsa, 1997
The Keys To Tulsa: A Novel by Brian Fair Berkey

Killing Me Softly, 2002
Killing Me Softly by Nicci French

Kiss the Girls, 1997
Kiss the Girls by James Patterson

LA Confidential, 1997
LA Confidential by James Ellroy

Land Girls, 1998
Land Girls by Angela Huth

Last Orders, 2001
Last Orders by Graham Swift

The Last September, 1999
The Last September by Elizabeth Bowen

Legally Blonde, 2001
Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown

The Legend of Bagger Vance, 2000
The Legend of Bagger Vance: Golf and the Game of Life by Steven Pressfield

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, 2004
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket, children's fiction

The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket, children's fiction
The Wide Windows by Lemony Snicket, children's fiction

Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, 1997
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Les Miserables, 1998
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Lolita, 1997
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, 2001
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien, fantasy

Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien, fantasy

Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, 2003
Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien, fantasy

Lost and Delirious, 2001
The Wives of Bath by Susan Swan

The Lost World: Jurassic Park, 1997
Lost World by Michael Crichton

Louisa May Alcott’s Little Men, 1997
Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

Love Always, 1997
Finding Signs by Sharlene Baker

The Love Letter, 1999
The Love Letter by Cathleen Schine

Madeline, 1998
Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans, children’s picture book

The Man in the Iron Mask, 1998
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

Man on Fire, 2004
Man on Fire by A. J. Quinnell

The Manchurian Candidate, 2004
The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon

Mansfield Park, 1999
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

A Map of the World, 1999
A Map of the World by Jane Hamilton

Master and Commander: Far Side of the World, 2003
The Far Side of the World by Patrick O'Brian

Matchstick Men, 2003
Matchstick Men: a Novel by Eric Garcia

Men, 1997
Men by Margaret Diehl

Mercury Rising, 1998
Simple Simon: a Thriller by Ryne Douglas Pearson

Mercy, 2000
Mercy by David L. Lindsey

A Merry War, 1997
Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell

Message in a Bottle, 1999
Message in a Bottle by Nicholas Sparks

Metroland, 1997
Metroland by Julian Barnes

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1997
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: a Savannah Story by John Berendt, 974.8724 B452m

The Mighty, 1998
The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick, children’s fiction

The Mill on the Floss, 1997
The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Million Dollar Baby, 2004
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F.X. Toole

Minority Report, 2002
The Minority Report & Other Stories by Philip K. Dick, science fiction

Minotaur, 1997
Minotaur by Benjamin Tamuz

The Minus Man, 1999
The Minus Man by Lew McCreary

The Misadventures of Margaret, 1998
Rameau’s Niece by Cathleen Schine

The Missing, 2003
The Last Ride by Thomas Eidson, westerns

Morvern Callar, 2003
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner

The Mothman Prophecies, 2002
The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel

The Motorcycle Diaries, 2004
The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey by Ernesto Che Guevara, 918.0435 G937m

Mrs. Dalloway, 1997
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

The Muskateer, 2001
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

My Dog Skip, 2000
My Dog Skip by Willie Morris

Mystic Masseur, 2002
Mystic Masseur by V. S. Naipaul

Mystic River, 2003
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane, mystery

Ned Kelly, 2003
Ned Kelly by Robert Drewe

Never Die Alone, 2004
Never Die Alone by Donald Goines


Nicolas Nicklelby, 2002
Nicolas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Night Flier, 1997
“Night Flier” in Nightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen King

The Night I Followed the Dog, 2000
The Night I Followed the Dog by Nina Laden, children’s picture books

Nightfall, 2000
"Nightfall" in The Best of Isaac Asimov by Isaac Asimov, science fiction

The Ninth Gate, 1999
The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte

The Notebook, 2004
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

Night Falls on Manhattan, 1997
Tainted Evidence: a Novel by Robert Daley, mystery

Nowhere in Africa, 2001
Nowhere In Africa: An Autobiographical Novel by Stefanie Zweig

O Brother, Where Art Thou, 2000
The Odyssey by Homer, 883.01 H752of

The Object of My Affection, 1998
The Object of My Affection by Stephen McCauley

October Sky, 1999
Rocket Boys: a Memoir by Homer H. Hickam, Jr., 629.1092273 H528h

One Tough Cop, 1998
One Tough Cop: the Bo Dietl Story by Bo Dietl and Ken Gross, 363.22097410924 D567d

One True Thing, 1998
One True Thing by Anna Quinlan

Open Range, 2003
The Open Range Men by Lauran Paine

Original Sin, 2001
Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich, mystery

Oscar and Lucinda, 1997
Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey

Other Voices, Other Rooms, 1997
Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote

Our Lady of the Assassins (La Virgen de los sicarios), 2000
Our Lady of the Assassins: A Novel by Fernando Vallejo

Out of Sight, 1998
Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard

Outside Providence, 1999
Outside Providence by Peter Farrelly

Patch Adams, 1998
Gesundheit: Bringing Good Health to You, the Medical System, and Society Through Physician Service, Complementary Therapies, Humor, and Joy by Patch (Hunter) Adams, 362.101 Ad19g 1998

Pavilion of Women
Pavilion of Women
by Pearl S. Buck

Pay It Forward, 2000
Pay It Forward: a Novel by Catherine Ryan Hyde

Payback, 1999
The Hunter by Richard Stark

Paycheck, 2003
“Paycheck” in The Short Happy Life of the Brown Oxford by Philip K. Dick, science fiction
Paycheck and Other Classic Stories by Philip K. Dick, science fiction

The Perfect Storm, 2000
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger, 974.45 J954p

Permanent Midnight, 1998
Permanent Midnight: a Memoir by Jerry Stahl, 808.225 St14s

Personal Velocity, 2002
Personal Velocity by Rebecca Miller

Peter Pan, 2003
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie, children’s fiction

Phantoms, 1998
Phantoms by Dean Koontz

Photographing Fairies, 1997
Photographing Fairies: a Novel by Steve Szilagyi

The Pianist, 2002
The Pianist : The Extraordinary Story Of One Man's Survival In Warsaw, 1939-45 by Wladyslaw Szpilman, 940.5318092 Sz59s

Pinocchio, 2002
The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, children’s fiction

Pippi Longstocking, 1997
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren, children’s fiction

Planet of Junior Brown, 1997
Planet of Junior Brown by Virginia Hamilton, children's fiction

Planet of the Apes, 2001
Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle

The Pledge, 2001
The Pledge by Friedrich Durrenmatt

Pola X, 2000
Pierre or the Ambiguities by Herman Melville

Polar Express, 2004
Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg, children's picture books

Pollack, 2000
Jackson Pollock: an American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith, 759.13P765na

Possession, 2002
Possession by A. S. Byatt

The Postman, 1997
The Postman by David Brin, science fiction

Practical Magic, 1998
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Primary Colors, 1998
Primary Colors by Anonymous

The Prince of Central Park, 2000
The Prince of Central Park by Evan Rhodes

The Princess Diaries, 2001
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot, teen fiction

Praise, 1998
Praise by Andrew McGahan

Private Parts, 1997
Private Parts by Howard Stern, 791.44092 St45s

Prozac Nation, 2003
Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America by Elizabeth Wurtzel, 616.85270092 W965wu

Psycho, 1998
Psycho by Robert Bloch, mystery

Queen of the Dammed, 2002
Queen of the Dammed by Anne Rice

The Quiet American, 2002
The Quiet American by Graham Greene

Rabbit-Proof Fence, 2002
Rabbit-Proof Fence by Doris Pilkington (Nugi Garimara), 994.10420922 P644r

Rain, 2001
Rain by Kristy Gunn

Random Hearts, 1999
Random Hearts by Warren Adler

Red Dragon, 2002
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris

Regeneration, 1997
Regeneration by Pat Barker

The Relic, 1997
The Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child

Requiem for a Dream, 2000
Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby, Jr.

Ricochet River, 1998
Ricochet River by Robin Cody

Ride With The Devil, 1999
Woe to Live On by Daniel Woodrell

Riding in Cars With Boys, 2001
Riding in Cars With Boys: Confessions of a Bad Girl Who Makes Good by Beverly D’Onofrio, 306.8743092 D719d

Ripley’s Game, 2003
Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith, mystery

Road to Perdition, 2002
Road to Perdition by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner, 741.5973 C694r

The Rules of Attraction, 2002
The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis

Runaway Jury, 2003
Runaway Jury by John Grisham

The Safety of Objects, 2001
The Safety of Objects: Stories by A.M. Homes

The Sea Wolf, 1997
The Sea Wolf by Jack London

Seabiscuit, 2003
Seabiscuit: an American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand, 798.4 H557s

The Second Jungle Book: Mowgli and Baloo, 1997
The Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling, children’s fiction

The Secret Lives of Dentists, 2002
The Age of Grief: a Novella and Stories by Jane Smiley

Secretary, 2002
“Secretary” in Bad Behavior by Mary Gaitskill

Seven Years in Tibet, 1997
Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer, 951.04 H235h

Shaft, 2000
Shaft by Ernest Tidyman, mystery

Shiloh, 1997
Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, children’s fiction

Sideways, 2004
Sideways by Rex Pickett

The Shipping News, 2001
The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

Shrek, 2001
Shrek! by William Steig, children’s fiction

Shrek 2, 2004
Shrek! by William Steig, children’s fiction

Simon Birch, 1998
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

A Simple Plan, 1998
A Simple Plan by Scott B. Smith

Skins, 2002
Skins: a novel by Adrian C. Louis

Sleepy Hollow, 1999
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, children’s fiction

A Slipping-Down Life, 2004
A Slipping-Down Life by Anne Tyler

Smilla’s Sense of Snow, 1997
Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg

Snow Falling on Cedars, 1999
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson

The Snow Walker, 2003
The Snow Walker by Farley Mowat

Solaris, 2002
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem, science fiction

A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries, 1998
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries by Kaylie Jones

Someone Like You, 2001
Animal Husbandry by Laura Zigman

Sphere, 1998
Sphere by Michael Crichton

Spider, 2002
Spider by Patrick McGrath

Starship Troopers, 1997
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein, science fiction

The Statement, 2003
The Statement by Brian Moore

Steal This Movie, 2000
To America With Love: Letters from the Underground by Abbie Hoffman and Anita Hoffman, 320.53 H67t

The Stepford Wives, 2004
The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin

Stranger in the Kingdom, 1998
Stranger in the Kingdom by Howard Frank Mosher

Stuart Little, 1999
Stuart Little by E. B. White, children’s fiction

Stuart Little 2, 2002
Stuart Little by E. B. White, children’s fiction

Such a Long Journey, 2000
Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry

The Sum of All Fears, 2002
The Sum of All Fears by Tom Clancy

Summer of the Monkeys, 1998
Summer of the Monkeys by Wilson Rawls, teen fiction

The Sweet Hereafter, 1997
The Sweet Hereafter by Russell Banks

Swept From the Sea, 1997
“Amy Foster” in Typhoon and Other Tales by Joseph Conrad

The Tailor of Panama, 2001
The Tailor of Panama by John Le Carre

Taking Lives, 2004
Taking Lives by Michael Pye

The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1999
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, mystery

That Darn Cat, 1997
Undercover Cat by Gordon and Mildred Gordon

The Thin Red Line, 1998
The Thin Red Line by James Jones

Thirteen Days, 2000
The Kennedy Tapes: Inside the White House During the Cuban Missile Crisis edited by Ernest R. May and Philip D. Zelikow, 973.922 K383kt

The Thirteenth Warrior, 1999
Eaters of the Dead by Michael Crichton

A Thousand Acres, 1997
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

The Time Machine, 2002
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells, science fiction

Time Regained, 1999
Remembrance of Things Past / In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

Timeline, 2003
Timeline by Michael Crichton

Touch, 1997
Touch by Elmore Leonard

Touching the void, 2004
Touching the void by Joe Simpson, 796.522092 Si58s

Trapped, 2002
24 Hours by Greg Iles

Treasure Planet, 2002
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, children’s fiction

True Crime, 1999
True Crime by Andrew Klavan

Tuck Everlasting, 2002
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt, children’s fiction

The 25th Hour, 2002
The 25th Hour by David Benioff

U-Turn, 1997
Stray Dogs by John Ridley

Under Suspicion, 2000
Brainwash by John Wainwright, mystery

Under the Tuscan Sun, 2003
Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy by Frances Mayes, 945.5 M453u

Up at the Villa, 2000
Up at the Villa by W. Somerset Maugham

Valentine, 2001
Valentine: a Novel by Tom Savage

Vanity Fair, 2004
Vanity Fair: a Novel without a Hero by William Makepaeace Thackeray

A Very Long Engagement, 2004
A Very Long Engagement by Sebastien Japrisot

Virgin Suicides, 1999
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugendies

Wag the Dog, 1997
American Hero by Larry Beinhart

Waking the Dead, 2000
Waking the Dead by Scott Spencer

A Walk to Remember, 2002
A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

Walking Across Egypt, 1999
Walking Across Egypt by Clyde Edgerton

Washington Square, 1997
Washington Square by Henry James

We Don't Live Here Anymore, 2004
We Don't Live Here Anymore: the Novellas of Andre Dubus by Andre Dubus

We Were Soldiers, 2002
We Were Soldiers Once and Young: Ia Drang: The Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam by Harold G. Moore, 959.704342 M783w

The Weekend, 1999
The Weekend by Peter Cameron

The Well, 2000
The Well by Elizabeth Jolley

The Weight of Water, 2000
The Weight of Water by Anita Shreve

What Dreams May Come, 1998
What Dreams May Come by Richard Matheson

What’s The Worst That Could Happen, 2001
What’s the Worst That Could Happen by Donald Westlake, mystery

Where the Heart Is, 2000
Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts

Where the Red Fern Grows, 2004
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls, children’s fiction

White Oleander, 2002
White Oleander by Janet Fitch

Wilde, 1997
Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann, 828.809 W644ze

Winding Stair, 1998
Winding Stair by Douglas C. Jones

The Wings of the Dove, 1997
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

The Wonder Boys, 2000
The Wonder Boys by Michael Chabon

The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit, 1998
“The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit” in A Medicine for Melancholy: and Other Stories by Ray Bradbury
The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit and Other Plays by Ray Bradbury, 822 B726w

The Woodlanders, 1997
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

Young Black Stallion, 2003
Young Black Stallion by Walter Farley & Steven Farley, children’s fiction

Zigzag, 2002
Zigzag: a novel by Landon J. Napoleon

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