I’m reading Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett right now and it feels like I’m reading a movie! The dialogue, the pace, the vivid but not over descriptive imagery. I also get this feeling with books that were turned into movies, like the Harry Potter series and No Country for Old Men. I’d love to continue having this feeling. Any suggestions?
by super_duper_cud
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{{Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend}} is a great series for fans of HP. I highly recommend the audiobooks, the narrator is great and does a full cast of voices for the different characters, which feels reminiscent of the HP audiobooks, too.
{{Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk}} , I think the film adaptation was terrific, but the book itself feels like a movie.
The Lord of the Rings is a great book series, and you will love it if you enjoyed HP (imo, this is better than HP)
Blake Crouch’s man-on-the-run sci-fi thriller **Dark Matter**
Valley Of The Dolls by Jacqueline Susann. There was an actual movie based on this, Sharon Tate as the leading star, but the book is more cinematic than its on screen adaptation. The women’s stories, their lives, the setting, the descriptions, every single thing is dazzling and glamorous in the darkest ways.
Power and the glory
Edit: a lot of the noir books by authors like chandler, highsmith, du maurier, le carre, Benjamin black, and then all the Michael Crichton stuff & the other usual suspects.
The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara. This was turned into the movie Gettysburg, but that book puts you into the minds of Union and Confederate generals. The different voices for each character are remarkable and the explanation of war plans is fascinating.
Completely different but also vividly cinematic – Watership Down by Richard Adams.
Camus’ The Stranger is like reading a Wes Anderson movie
Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid.
No country for old men is almost a transcript of the film. It feels exactly the same, the most faithful adaptation I have personally seen and read
City of Thieves by David Benioff. The author is a co-creator of the Game of Thrones HBO series so he’s quite a cinematic storyteller.