2026 DCL Reading Challenge: Book You Never Read but Saw the Movie/SeriesLike this list

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• 2026 DCL Reading Challenge

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  Win a $200 gift card to Shanahan's Steakhouse in this year's random prize drawing of challenge finishers! Read any of the titles on this list, or choose your own, for your chance to win.

• My Oxford Year

  a Novel

  Whelan, Julia, 1984-

  Add My Oxford Year to your for later shelf

  The 2025 romantic comedy-drama film based on the novel of the same name by Julia Whelan.

• The Thursday Murder Club

  Osman, Richard, 1970-

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  This was a popular series of mystery novels by Richard Osman before it was adapted into a film starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie.

• The Nazi and the Psychiatrist

  Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas M. Kelley, and a Fatal Meeting of Minds at the End of WWII

  El-Hai, Jack

  Add The Nazi and the Psychiatrist to your for later shelf

  The film "Nuremburg" is based on this 2013 book about the improbable relationship between the fallen Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering and ambitious U.S. Army physician Douglas Kelley.

• The Hunting Wives

  Cobb, May, 1973-

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  This series has been renewed for a second season. Read the book to see if the adaptation stays true.

• The Woman in Cabin 10

  Ware, Ruth

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  Suspenseful scenes are approached in different ways in film and print. Ware is a master at suspenseful writing—you’ll get all the feels when reading this book.

• The Housemaid

  McFadden, Freida

  Add The Housemaid to your for later shelf

  Read the book and see if you can find hints to the jaw-dropping twists and turns.

• People We Meet on Vacation

  Henry, Emily

  Add People We Meet on Vacation to your for later shelf

  This is the first of a few Henry novels that are being adapted into films, and it’s about time!

• The Running Man

  a Novel

  King, Stephen, 1947-

  Add The Running Man to your for later shelf

  Stephen King penned "The Running Man" in the 1970s, but it wasn't until 1982 that it hit shelves under his pseudonym, Richard Bachman. The film is a second adaptation; its director, Edgar Wright ("Shaun of the Dead," "Baby Driver"), received the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Long Bright River

  Moore, Liz, 1983-

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  Moore is a wonderful writer! Her gritty prose brings this crime and drug-infested Philadelphia neighborhood to life.

• Hamnet

  a Novel of the Plague

  O'Farrell, Maggie, 1972-

  Add Hamnet to your for later shelf

  The wonderful 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell is now a film. Read it first, a fictional account of William Shakespeare's son, who died at age 11 in 1596, focusing on his parents' grief and the writing of, arguably, Shakespeare’s most famous play.