10 Books You Should Still Read Even After Watching The Series Adaptation

10 Books You Should Still Read Even After Watching The Series Adaptation

Many TV adaptations are based on books that are just as good as their televised counterparts.

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When a book, or a series of novels, is beloved by readers, it is common for that book to find a new life on screen, whether that be as a movie or a television series. The shows often divide fans of the original text as changes are frequently made when bringing the stories to the small screen. However, the shows allow the stories to reach wider audiences and potentially find new readers.

As novels are extremely in-depth, details, characters, and minor plots often get lost in the page-to-screen translations and as such, fans of the television series can gain a lot by reading the source material.

10 The Handmaid’s Tale Goes Beyond Margaret Atwood’s Novel

Read in schools across the world and by readers who admire Atwood’s story, The Handmaid’s Tale is a hugely popular dystopian novel. Set in a totalitarian state where young women are forced to reproduce with the men from the ruling class, the protagonist, Offred, attempts to rebel against the system.

Having been renewed for a fifth season, the television adaptation extends way beyond the events of the novel, thus giving audiences more time to understand the characters and the society in which they live. However, the novel is written from Offred’s perspective and allows readers to understand her feelings and motivations in a way that cannot be translated to screen.

9 Netflix’s Shadow And Bone Takes Inspiration From Multiple Novels In The Grishaverse

Leigh Bardugo’s Grishaverse series is made up of many novels, beginning with the Shadow and Bone Trilogy. Whilst the Netflix series follows the narrative of the first novel in the trilogy, it also brings in elements and characters from another novel of hers, Six of Crows, and misses out on some key moments from the book.

The characters from Six of Crows have become some of the most loved by viewers of the television series and therefore, it is a safe bet that fans of the show would enjoy the Grishaverse novels.

8 Normal People Is Beautifully Written

Normal People tells the story of two Irish teenagers, Marianne and Connell, whose lives weave in and out of each other as they grow up, attend college and begin their futures. The extremely well-received limited series, which aired in 2020, is an almost perfect adaptation, with almost every scene and detail brilliantly created on screen.

Both Daisy Edgar Jones and Paul Mescal give incredible, acclaimed performances as the leads, but the book helps the reader understand the characters’ thoughts and feelings in a way that a screen adaptation never could.

7 Anne With An E Is Just The Beginning Of Anne Shirley’s Adventures

The Canadian drama series Anne With an E, which follows a young orphan as she is taken in by a brother and sister and learns to adapt to life on the Cuthbert farm, was hugely popular with audiences. However, the show was canceled after just three seasons, despite its potential to continue, and fans took to social media to campaign for the series to return.

The series was based on the novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery, of which there are eight, and sees Anne embark on many more adventures with her friends.

6 George R.R. Martin’s novels take a different path than Game of Thrones

Even with an extremely rocky ending, many viewers around the world would still consider Game of Thrones one of the best, and one of their favorite, television shows of all time. Game of Thrones gained many awards, broke many viewing records, and had millions tuned in every week, no matter what timezone they lived in.

However, the final season was received poorly, with many deeming it an unsatisfactory ending. George R.R. Martin’s novels, on which the show is based, are potentially still being written and have begun to take a different path to the television series, possibly providing an ending that fans will appreciate.

5 Good Omens Is A Hilarious Read

Good Omens was a limited series, which has now been renewed for a second season, based on the novel by the English authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

Although the television series is extremely enjoyable, and David Tennant and Michael Sheen have great chemistry as the leads, so much more is gained by reading the novel and seeing the dynamic between Crawley and Aziraphale play out on paper. The style of writing from Gaiman and Pratchett is playful and fun and makes the words jump off the page.

4 The Netflix Series Is Quite Different To The Bridgerton Novels

The second season of Netflix’s Bridgerton, which is loosely based on Julia Quinn’s novel The Viscount Who Loved Me, was released in March 2022, breaking records as the streaming service’s most viewed English language series to date. Despite it being well-received, fans of the novel series noted how different the plot was from that of the book.

Fans took to the slow-burn relationship between Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharma and may enjoy reading the difference in the relationship between Anthony and Kate in the novel.

3 The Killing Eve Novellas Take Eve and Villanelle On A Different Journey

Coming to the end of its fourth and final season, the spy thriller Killing Eve has remained popular with viewers since its first season. Based on the books by Luke Jennings, Killing Eve follows Eve Polastri, an MI5 security operative, and Villanelle, a ruthless Russian assassin, as they chase each other across the globe.

Whilst actors Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer perfectly embody the characters in the tv show, there are many changes to the storyline and tone from the original text. Fans who are not ready to say goodbye to the characters may enjoy reading the novels after watching the final episodes.

2 The Baudelaire’s Dealt With Even More In the A Series Of Unfortunate Events Novels

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events is a series of thirteen (sometimes considered fourteen) children’s novels that follow the Baudelaire siblings after their parents die in a fire. The books were adapted into a movie in 2004 and then a hugely successful Netflix series in 2017.

The show garnered critical acclaim and was loved by audiences, running for three well-received seasons. However, due to the size of the book series, there is so much material in the novels that never made it to the screen.

1 Elementary Is A Modern Take On The Classic Conan Doyle Novels

The CBS drama series Elementary takes the world-famous character of Sherlock Holmes out of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic works and deposits him in modern-day New York City. There are multiple changes from the original material, including the location and the fact that the character of John Watson was changed to Dr. Joan Watson.

However, the essence of the characters and the stories remains. Media based on Sherlock Holmes has been extremely popular in recent years and it can all be traced back to the creativity of Conan Doyle.

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