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

BuzzFeed ^ | August 14, 2017 | Jamie Jones

[EveningStar]

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

[Reily]

Two others by Farmer that would be good are:

1. Dark Is The Sun

2. The stone God Awakens

[EveningStar]

It’s been done as a movie and a couple miniseries’ but not as a regular series.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Number 5 and 20 have already gotten the TV treatment. HHGTG TV series on the BBC was the original based on the book. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop radio series was based on that. Though I wouldn't mind seeing a new series strictly adhering to the book or radio series. There have been many more radio shows of HHGTG...the Tertiary series, the Quandary phase, etc.

And there have been several Dune entries on TV that ran on the Sci-Fi network some years ago.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Unintended Consequences

Oh man! Would THAT be a good one.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I’d love to see the Wheel of Time become a TV series.

That reminds me of another that would make for a fantastic TV mini-series;

"The Chronicles of Amber" by Roger Zelazny. All ten books.

[pepsi_junkie]

Most people put those down when he rapes the girl at the beginning of the first novel.

Perhaps true. But in context he was afflicted with a disease and believed he was delusional. He was a miserabke SOB who had the key to saving the world but refused to use it because he thought it was all In his head, that he was dying and his mind was gone. So he never believed his actions were real. Still, if he rapes girls even in his fever dreams he's not a nice, well adjusted guy, which was the point. Personally ir read the books but I never liked the main character and had a hard time getting through them all. But that's just me, I don't care for anti-hero protagonists in general.

[W.]

Larry Niven’s Ringworld... I can’t get italics on this bleeping tablet.

[Covenantor]

What the country needs is this classic series...

to get back to the basics.

But that's just my curmudgeonly side showing. Media would immediately screw it up by making the children transgender, etc.

[Fiji Hill]

The Great Idea by Henry Hazlitt (New York: Appleton Century Crofts, 1951)--later reissued under the title Time Will Run Back

Stalenin is the dictator of a global Communist state that seeks to erase all memory of pre-Communist culture and civilization throughout the world. The world's population endures poverty and misery, and even granaries like Kansas are subject to frequent famines. But when he assumes the state's leadership after the death of his father, Stalenin's son, who has received an education in a non-Communist environment, soon finds himself struggling to restore prosperity by promoting political and economic freedom.

The Middle of the Journey (New York: Viking, 1947)

A novel based on the life of Whittaker Chambers, published a year before his sensational confrontation with Alger Hiss.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I remember reading "Lord Foul's Bane" years ago. A good read but I never continued with the series.

In somewhat the same vein, the "Apprentice Adept" series by Piers Anthony would make for a good mini-series. Short novels and only 7 of them.

[I-ambush]

I would like to see “A Canticle for Leibowitz” turned into a series, but the novel is too much opposed to modern secular society and the Culture of Death. I suspect that any adaptation would twist the author’s meaning 180 degrees.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Chronicles of Amber

Gets my vote. I'd like to just see someone walk the Pattern. That would be cool.

[DouglasKC]

I would like to see “A Canticle for Leibowitz” turned into a series, but the novel is too much opposed to modern secular society and the Culture of Death. I suspect that any adaptation would twist the author’s meaning 180 degrees.

I've tried a half dozen times to make it through that book...haven't succeeded yet!

[Boomer One]

Gosh, no books by Brad Thor or Vince Flynn listed. Need I wonder why?

[EveningStar]

From 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." – ethantbale

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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Done.

[EveningStar]

From 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." – ethantbale

"[Dune is] Game of Thrones in space with complicated and interesting characters. Even the first book could be two or three seasons and there are loads of books. There's a huge universe of world building, great plot, loads of ideas about ecology, religion, fate, myth, and even sword fights." – Lucy G O'malley-Local, Facebook

"I know it's already been a movie and a mini-series, but I feel like the only way to really do it justice would be to give it the full HBO treatment in an ongoing series." – Brendan Anthony, Facebook

[freedombird]

OMG! You are actually forcing gender roles on these children! You are obviously a misogynist clinging to your backwards patriarchal culture.....you brutish mouth breather!!

[BlueLancer]

The Garrett Files and The Black Company, both by Glen Cook.

[TheStickman]

“The Chronicles of Amber” by Roger Zelazny. All ten books. “

YES!!! I love that story. Watching someone walk the Pattern would be really amazing with today’s CGI.