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Most of us know the feeling of leaving a cinema and hearing someone say the book was better. Sometimes that’s true, and sometimes the film just does something different. Either way, the page usually gives you something the screen can’t, like a character’s private thoughts or the slow build of a setting.
This list mixes classics and recent novels that have reached, or are reaching, screens between 2025 and 2026. Some films are already out, and one or two are still ahead. Each pick comes with a reason to read first.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel centres on the intense romance between the orphaned Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. The 2026 film stars Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie in those roles. Director Emerald Fennell took a looser approach than a faithful retelling, aiming to capture how a teenage girl might feel reading the book for the first time.
That makes the original worth having in your head, since you can then see what the film keeps and what it reinvents. Readers seem to agree. Penguin reports, citing The Guardian, that sales of the novel grew by 469% between 2025 and 2026. That’s more than fivefold, for a book that’s nearly 180 years old.
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
In Weir’s 2021 novel, a junior high science teacher named Ryland Grace wakes on a spaceship with no memory…
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Author : Matthias Binder
Publish date : 2026-10-01 12:38:00
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