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When it comes to novels or movies, most of us prefer movies but the fact that we don’t know is that a lot of these movies were inspired by books. Whether you agree or not, these books are the true reason behind the success of the movie. Its appreciation in award shows, box office collection, and appreciation among the audience is all because of the novel that it was inspired from. But we forget to appreciate the novel and the writer who thought out of the box to write the novel. Most people even don’t know that the movie they liked was inspired by a novel. So in this article, I am going to tell you about the Top 10 books turned into movies (Hollywood) and won our hearts, so let’s have a look at the list.

10. Paper Towns (2015)

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One of the most highly loved young romantic and mystery novels written by John Green, Paper Towns was published in 2008. The storyline follows the one-sided love story of Q Jacobson and his neighbor Margo Roth and his joyful journey finding Margo after she left everybody and left clues for Q to find her. Q then solved those clues and during this time she became more familiar with the unique lifestyle of Margo and also learned many new things about life. The novel was really appreciated by readers and became one of the best-selling young adult novels of the year. Although it faced a lot of critical negativity for some of its content, everything has some negative and positive points. Overall Hats Off to John Green for his amazing work.

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In 2015 “Paper Towns” was released starring Cara Jocelyn Delevingne as Margo and Nat Wolf as Jacobson under the direction of Jake Schreier. The best thing about “Paper Towns” is the unique story that is portrayed. The movie was highly appreciated by both the audience and critics, especially the storyline of the movie. It also did well on its box office collection earning a total amount of $85 million. After watching the movie, you are going to be a fan of John Green.

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9. If I Stay (2014)

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Published in 2009, “If I Stay” is one of the romantic fantasy novels written by Gayle Forman. The novel narrates the story of a young girl Mia who faces a car accident with her family and she was the only one to survive. Although she was in a coma, she somehow finds herself in a place where they call life between dead and alive, where she witnessed everything that was happening around. The novel is all about if she would have stayed, what would be the decisions that she would have changed. The novel got positive critical reviews and made its way to the list of one of the best-selling young adult novels of the year.

In 2014 the movie “IF I Stay” was released, starring Chloë Grace Moretz, playing main character of Mia. The movie was directed by R.J. Cutler and it made a collection of $78 million worldwide. The critical response to the movie was also positive. Overall the movie did a great job both in terms of box office collection and critical reviews.

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8. Gone Girl (2014)

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Let us change the storyline from love stories to some mysterious and thrilling stories, and yeah Gone Girl would definitely be one the best thriller novels of all time. “Gone Girl” is written by Gillian Flynn and was published in 2012. Within a very short time period of its publishing, the novel joined the list of “New York Times Best-Seller Books”. The Gone Girl was really appreciated by readers and it got almost positive reviews from critics as well. Gone Girl is a mysterious story of Nick Dunne, who was suspected of the disappearance of his wife Amy. The story then continues narrating their love story and their relationship after marriage. The novel is really mysterious.

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Coming to the movie, “Gone Girl” was released on October 3,2014 under the direction of David Fincher, starring Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne and Rosamund Pike as Amy. After its release, the movie quickly made its position in the list of Highest Grossing Movies, collecting a net worth of $368 million worldwide. It also got nominated for many awards including, particularly Pike who got nominated in almost every award show including Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for best actress. Great Job Pike!! The movie was also nominated for a Golden Globe award for best director and Critic’s Choice award for best writer. Flynn, we really appreciate your work.

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7. The Notebook (2004)

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Talking about romance, how can we forget the epic love story of Noah Calhoun and Allison from the movie “The Notebook”. The Notebook was one of the movies which were inspired from a novel with the same name as that of movie. “The Notebook” is a romantic novel based on a true story, written by Nicholas Sparks. The novel was published in 1996 and it was Spark’s first published novel. “The Notebook” became a best-selling novel within the first week of its release. And a fact that a lot of people don’t know is that the Bollywood movie “Zindagi Tere Naam” was also based on the novel. Great job Spark!

Later on in 2004 “The Notebook” was released. The movie starred Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams and was directed by Nick Cassavetes. The movie did an amazing job at the box office collecting a net worth of $115 million. “The Notebook” performance at the award shows was also tremendous. The movie became the recipient of many awards including the Teen Choice award and MTV movie award. And you can trust me on this, watching “The Notebook” really makes you feel that it’s one of the best love stories.

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6. Fifty Shades Trilogy (2015-2018)

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Fifty Shades Trilogy is one of the best-selling book series of 2015, selling almost over 125 million copies worldwide. It is an erotic romance novel written by British author E.L. James, narrating the love story of Anastasia Steele, a graduate student and a young businessman named Christian Grey. The series is being narrated from Anastasia’s point of view. The first installment of the series “Fifty Shades of Grey” was published in 2011 and it gained so much publicity that it became one of the best-selling books of the year. The other two installments “Fifty Shades Darker” and “Fifty Shades Freed” were released in 2012 and in terms of publicity they also followed the footsteps of the first installment. Although the novels have to face many negative critical reviews, hey!! The best things usually suffer from a little bit of negativity.

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On February 11,2015 the first part of the movie series “Fifty Shades of Grey” was released, and it just kept on setting awards. It is one of the most anticipated movies of 2015. The movie was directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson and featured Dakota Johnson as Anastasia Steel and Jamie Dornan as Christian Grey. Its box office collection showed the love it got from the audience. The movie almost collected a total amount of $571 million which is more than 10 times of the initial budget $40 million, that’s really a great job. The other two parts of the series are scheduled to be released on February 10, 2017, and February 9, 2018. Hope they do the same at the box office.

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5. The Revenant (2015)

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In the list of books turned into movies, we cannot forget to mention the name of one of the most grossing epic adventure and drama movie “The Revenant”. Yeah “The Revenant” was actually inspired from Michael Punke’s novel “The Revenant – A Novel of Revenge”. The novel was inspired by some true events of the life of Hugh Glass who survived and fought with the harshest condition after being attacked by a bear. The novel was published in the year 2002 but it did not gain that much publicity at that time, but as soon as the movie “The Revenant” was to be released, the novel was republished in 2015.

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Now coming into the movie, well, there is nothing much to say about the success of the movie, and its box office collection and performance at the awards show is proof of its success. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio in the lead role as Hugh Glass and was directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu was released on January 8,2016. The movie was really appreciated by audience and critics, especially DiCaprio’s acting for which he even won his first Oscar. The movie also won an academy award for best actor. In terms of box office collection, “The Revenant” collected an amount of $516.5 million worldwide and made its name in the list of highest-grossing movies.

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4. The Fault in Our Stars (2012)

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Let us talk about love stories again, “The Fault In Our Stars” is another romantic novel written by famous author John Green and was published in 2012. The novel was based on the love story of Hazel Grace (a cancer patient) who fell in love with Augustus Waters who was also an amputee. Their love story affected the audience so much that, 20th Century fox decided to make a movie on the novel.

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Under the direction of Josh Boone, the movie was released worldwide on 6th June 2014 by the same name “The Fault in Our Stars”. Actors Ansel Elgort and Shailene Woodley were in the lead role and their performance was so good that it made them win many movie awards including MTV Movie Award for Movie of The Year and 15th Golden Trailer Award for Best Romance. But as per they say every success is the sum of little contributions and movie’s success was due to contribution of John Green’s novel.

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3. Harry Potter Series (2001-2011)

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Now coming to the series, the Harry Potter Series is one of the most loveable series of all time. The Harry Potter series included seven fantasy novels written by J.K. Rowling. The series was the story of a young wizard Harry Potter who tries to stop dark wizard Lord Voldermort with the help of his friends. The first part of the series “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was published on June 30,1997 and the novel became really popular and became one of the best selling adult literature. Later on other parts of the novel were also published and if anything they just keep on setting records. Till date the series has become the best-selling series in history, selling more than 450 million copies worldwide. That’s really something and this made the series part of the list of books turned into movies. The Harry Potter series remains in the top 10 list of highest-grossing movies of 2011 and the highest-grossing movies of all time.

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The Harry Potter film series gave full competition to the book series in terms of popularity. The film series was so much loved by the audience that it became one of the highest-grossing movie series of all time collecting a net worth of $7.7 billion worldwide. The movie was completed in 8 parts. The first part ” Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” was released in the year 2001. The seventh part of the novel “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” was split into two different parts being released in the years 2010 and 2011. Anyway, Harry Potter really did a great job, J.K. Rowling take a bow for your work.

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2. The Twilight Saga (2008-2012)

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Believe it or not, but the Twilight Saga was a book series that included four vampire love story novels written by Stephenie Meyer. The novel was basically a story narrated by Bella Swan who fell in love with a vampire Edward Cullen. The four novels describe the four different phases of their lives, how they loved each other. The first part of the series Twilight was published in 2005 and later on the rest of the parts were released from 2006 to 2008. The four parts of the novel included Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. The book series was so good that they were later turned into movies by Summit Entertainment. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part-2 remains in the top 10 list of the highest-grossing movies of 2012.

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The series was completed in five parts, splitting Breaking Dawn into two different parts as Breaking Dawn-1 and Breaking Dawn-2. Must be a trend to split the last part of the book into two parts in movie series. The first part “Twilight” was released on November 21,2008 under the direction of Catherine Hardwicke starring Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen, Kristen Stewart as Bella and Taylor Lautner as Jacob. Later on rest of the parts of movies were released on 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. The movie broke so many records and did so well at the box office that it collected a net worth of $3.345 billion. Hats off to actor, director, and writer Stephenie Meyer for their great jobs.

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1. The Hunger Games (2012-2015)

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I think trilogies are always great, and one of the best trilogy of all time is “The Hunger Games”. A series of three science fiction adventure novels, “The Hunger Games” is written by Suzanne Collins. The trilogy started its journey in the year 2008 when the first part “The Hunger Games” was published. Within a very short period of time, the book got its name included in the list of New York Time’s best-selling books. The other two parts “Catching Fire” and “Mockingjay” were published in 2009 and 2010. They also got the same response from readers and critics.

The third part “Mockingjay” achieved top position in the list. Parts of the Hunger Games series have acquired different positions in the list of top 10 highest-grossing movies of 2012, 2013 and 2014. The movie journey of “The Hunger Games” started in 2012 at the release of its first part “The Hunger Games” which just kept on setting new records for the highest collection on opening day. The first part was directed by Gary Ross and Jennifer Lawrence Katniss Everdeen which was highly loved by the audience. The second part “The Hunger Games – Catching Fire” was released in 2013 and was directed by Francis Lawrence with the same stars.

And here comes the interesting part, the third part was split into two parts as “The Hunger Games – Mockingjay-1” and “The Hunger Games-Mockingjay-2”. Told you there must be a trend to split the last part of the book series into two movie parts. The series did so well in the box office that it made its name in the list of Highest Grossing movies with a total collection of $2.9 billion.

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