You Should Be Reading: Books Being Adapted Into Films In 2016

Happy 2016! Earlier this week I wrote about 100 films that we have to look forward to this year, but now I want to look at which of these films are being adapted from novels. I always love to read a book before it is adapted into a film, so if you do too, then this is what you should be reading this year.

The following book adaptations are listed in release date order and have been updated halfway through the year to ensure that all information is correct.

Book Review: The Little Prince

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart… Now here is my secret, it is very simple: you can only see things clearly with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

I was sat on the floor of my friend’s house in London when I found this book lying on the floor. I flicked through as a drawing of a small boy talking to a fox caught my attention. Not knowing what to expect from a book titled The Little Prince filled with child-like doodles of planets inhabited by strange people, I decided to have a quick read. There was such a depth of meaning in the few paragraphs that I read, that I knew this was a book I had to own.

The Little Prince, written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, is one of my favourite all-time books – partly because I can sit and read it in only an hour and half, but mainly because of the unusual contrast of a child’s tale with realistic observations about life and human nature. It may look like a fairytale from the outside, but this is definitely something meant for an older audience.