Books on Screen

Each month, our Books on Screen feature spotlights movies, television shows, miniseries and specials that are based on books of various genres --- including novels, memoirs, comics, children's books, short stories and poetry --- along with the latest DVD releases.

April 2011

April offers the promise of both sunshine and showers, but our Books into Movies feature spotlights five films that will excite you no matter how the weather behaves. And in case rain does prevail, you can always surf your way through.

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Week of November 3, 2025

Books On Screen

November's Books on Screen roundup includes the films The Running Man, Train Dreams, Wicked: For Good, Hamnet, Karen Kingsbury's The Christmas Ring and Eric Jerome Dickey's Friends and Lovers; the series premieres of "Death by Lightning" on Netflix and "All Her Fault" on Peacock; the season premieres of Apple TV+'s "WondLa" and Netflix's "Unicorn Academy"; the season finales of "The Morning Show" on Apple TV+ and "Anne Rice’s Talamasca: The Secret Order" on AMC; the continuation of CBS's "Tracker" and "Watson," HBO's "IT: Welcome to Derry" and Apple TV+'s "Down Cemetery Road"; and the DVD/Blu-ray releases of The Long Walk, The Roses, Caught Stealing, Looking Through Water and Freakier Friday.

Reading Group Guides

The Black Wolf by Louise Penny

A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar

Heart the Lover by Lily King

The Irish Goodbye by Heather Aimee O'Neill

Joyride: A Memoir by Susan Orlean

The Missing Pages by Alyson Richman

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America by Beth Macy

The Ten Year Affair by Erin Somers

Twice by Mitch Albom

Under the Stars by Beatriz Williams

The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller

Wreck by Catherine Newman

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