Ep. 16: Buzzy Adaptations: When Listens Come to Stage & Screen

Many of the most talked-about shows and film started out as written texts. Our editors weigh in on whether you should listen before seeing the movie, theater, or TV adaptation, as well what they’d like to see jump from their library to the stage and screen.

To hear more from Editor Abby’s interview with Bird Box author Josh Malerman, click here.

The books the editors discuss in this episode are:

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

Who in the World is Carmen Sandiego? by Rebecca Tinker

Alien by Tim Lebbon & Dirk Maggs

X-Files: Cold Cases by Joe Harris, Chris Carter, & Dirk Maggs

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy

The Wife by Meg Wolitzer

Can You Ever Forgive Me? by Lee Israel

You by Caroline Kepnes

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Where'd You Go Bernadette by Maria Semple

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon

Native Son by Richard Wright

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

Because of Miss Mridgerton by Julia Quinn

A Gentlemen in Moscow by Amor Towles

Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule

Time and Again by Jack Finney

Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler

Dawn by Octavia E. Butler