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Unadaptable: Books That Should Never Be Made Into Movies

Not that these books could NEVER be adapted to movies (If Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi, and Naked Lunch can make it to film, anything can), but... y'know... maybe they shouldn't be? Some things are better off staying in print.
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White Noise (Don Delillo)
White Noise
1
Don Delillo
2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
2666
2
Roberto Bolaño
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
3
Vladimir Nabokov
Mr. Fox (Helen Oyeyemi)
Mr. Fox
4
Helen Oyeyemi
The Bone Clocks (David Mitchell)
The Bone Clocks
5
David Mitchell
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
6
Ralph Ellison
Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)
Hopscotch
7
Julio Cortázar
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
8
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
9
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Speedboat
Speedboat
10
The Hour of the Star
The Hour of the Star
11
Love Medicine (Louise Erdrich)
Love Medicine
12
Louise Erdrich
Geek Love (Katherine Dunn)
Geek Love
13
Katherine Dunn
Possession (A.S. Byatt)
Possession
14
A.S. Byatt
Nightwood (Djuna Barnes)
Nightwood
15
Djuna Barnes
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
16
Virginia Woolf
Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)
Ada or Ardor
17
Vladimir Nabokov
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
18
David Foster Wallace
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
19
Gabriel García Márquez
Tender Buttons (Gertrude Stein)
Tender Buttons
20
Gertrude Stein
Fledgling (Octavia E. Butler)
Fledgling
21
Octavia E. Butler
The Mezzanine
The Mezzanine
22
Dhalgren (Samuel R. Delany)
Dhalgren
23
Samuel R. Delany
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
24
William Gaddis
Everyone Poops (Taro Gomi)
Everyone Poops
25
Taro Gomi
Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
Like Water for Chocolate
26
Laura Esquivel
The Story of My Teeth (Valeria Luiselli)
The Story of My Teeth
27
Valeria Luiselli
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
28
Italo Calvino
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
My Brilliant Friend
29
Elena Ferrante
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
30
William Faulkner
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
31
John Milton
Rainbow Fish (Marcus Pfister)
Rainbow Fish
32
Marcus Pfister
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Silmarillion
33
J.R.R. Tolkien
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
34
John Kennedy Toole
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
35
Dante Alighieri
I Want My Hat Back (Jon Klassen)
I Want My Hat Back
36
Jon Klassen
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
37
J.D. Salinger
Blood and Guts in High School (Kathy Acker)
Blood and Guts in High School
38
Kathy Acker
The Orange Eats Creeps
The Orange Eats Creeps
39
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
40
Franz Kafka
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