Books to Read ASAP Before They Become Your Next TV or Movie Obsession

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Given the avalanche of palmy book-to-screen adaptations that person descended upon Hollywood successful caller years—think House of the Dragon, Daisy Jones and the Six and Bridgertonit's the champion clip to beryllium a scholar who is besides a sofa murphy due to the fact that determination is nary extremity successful show erstwhile it comes to movies and TVs based connected bestselling novels. 

Blake Lively is acceptable to prima successful the highly anticipated movie mentation of 1 of Colleen Hoover's astir beloved novels, portion the 2nd play of The Summer I Turned Pretty is bringing Jenny Han's swoonworthy sequel to the tiny surface successful July. Plus, rom-coms Red, White & Royal Blue and Lessons successful Chemistry volition beryllium definite to vigor things up erstwhile they premiere aboriginal this year.

To assistance you prepare, we've assembled a summertime speechmaking database of each the books you should cheque retired ASAP earlier they go your adjacent movie oregon TV obsession.  

So, what are you waiting for? Get your bookworm connected truthful you tin beryllium 1 of those truly amusive radical who says, "Well, I really work the root material," erstwhile the pursuing publication adaptations are released:

Amazon Studios

The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2

Based On: It's Not Summer Without You, the 2nd publication in Jenny Han's beloved young big trilogy
Starring: Lola Tung, Christopher Briney, Gavin Casalegno, Sean Kaufman and Rain Spencer
Premieres: July 14 on Amazon Prime Video
Why We're Excited: Like Belly (Tung), we've been counting down the days 'til summertime each twelvemonth arsenic we awaited our instrumentality to Cousins Beach to find retired what happened betwixt her and the Fisher brothers—our existent favourite emotion triangle connected TV!—as good arsenic get a much-needed update connected however Susannah (Rachel Blanchard) is handling her crab battle.  

Han teased that fans should expect major differences betwixt the 2010 publication and the upcoming season. "There's ever gonna beryllium changes present and there," the showrunner told E! News successful December. "So I conjecture you'll conscionable person to hold and see."

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It Ends With Us

Based On: Colleen Hoover's 2016 bestselling caller of the aforesaid name
Starring: Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate and Hasan Minhaj
Premieres: TBD
Why We're Excited: Two words: Blake Lively. Two much words: Colleen Hoover. What much bash we request to say? Alright fine: Prepare for popular culture's adjacent large emotion triangle arsenic the movie is bringing to beingness the romance play centering connected beauteous florist Lily (Lively), neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni, who is besides directing) and Lily's high schoolhouse emotion Atlas Corrigan (Sklenar). 

Prime Video

Red, White & Royal Blue

Based On: Casey McQuiston's 2019 caller of the aforesaid name.
Starring: Nicholas Galitzine, Taylor Zakhar Perez, Uma Thurman, Sarah Shahi, Stephen Fry and Rachel Hilson
Premieres: Aug. 11 connected Amazon Prime Video
Why We're Excited: Make definite you have your A.C. connected afloat blast earlier speechmaking oregon watching McQuiston's steamy secret romance between Alex Claremont-Diaz (Perez), the lad of the President of the United States, and Britain's Prince Henry (Galitzine). Trust us, relations betwixt the U.S. and the British person ne'er been hotter.

Apple TV+

Lessons successful Chemistry

Based On: Bonnie Garmus' 2022 caller of the aforesaid name. 
Starring: Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman, Stephanie Koenig, Aja Naomi King, Thomas Mann and Beau Bridges 
Premieres: Oct. 13 connected Apple TV+
Why We're Excited: In the 1950s-set series, Larson plays Elizabeth Zott, an aspiring idiosyncratic whose ambitions are enactment connected clasp successful a society that insists women beryllium successful the home sphere. After she finds herself pregnant, a hopeless Elizabeth accepts a occupation arsenic a big connected a TV cooking show, which she turns into an opportunity to animate overlooked housewives to alteration the presumption quo. This gyration truly volition beryllium televised.

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Kay Scarpetta

Based On: Patricia Cornwell's mega-popular bid of the aforesaid sanction that has 26 books successful total
Starring: Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis
Premieres: TBD connected Amazon Prime Video
Why We're Excited: If it's based connected a publication and Kidman stars successful it, we volition binge the s--t retired of it. (See: Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers and The Undoing.) Add successful the information that the Oscar victor and Curtis—who bought the Kay Scarpetta publication rights backmost successful June 2021—will beryllium playing crime-fighting sisters and it's already go our favourite caller amusement of the year.

Disney Enterprises

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Based On: The Lightning Thief, the archetypal publication the beloved phantasy series written by Rick Riordan
Starring: Walker Scobell, Aryan Simhadri, Leah Sava Jeffries, Virginia Kull, Glynn Turman, Jason Mantzoukas, Megan Mullally and Timm Sharp 
Premieres: Early 2024 connected Disney+ 
Why We're Excited: Confession: While we loved the movie franchise that starred Logan Lerman, we bash deliberation the root worldly is amended suited for the TV treatment and we're truthful blessed to beryllium re-enrolling astatine Camp Half-Blood for much teen deity drama. Plus, Lin-Manuel Miranda is guest-starring arsenic Hermes and we privation to beryllium in on the streaming work wherever that happens. 

Starz; Youtube

Three Women

Based On: The non-fiction bestseller of the aforesaid sanction by Lisa Taddeo.
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Betty Gilpin, DeWanda Wise, Gabrielle Creevy, Blair Underwood and Sean Meehan
Premieres: TBA on Starz
Why We're Excited: One of the astir applicable books of 2019, the bid volition research pistillate tendency arsenic it follows a trio of women who are connected a clang people to radically overturn their lives. While Showtime initially canceled the amusement contempt accumulation already being completed, Starz swooped in, answering our literate conflict cry.

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