My absolute favorite thing to call out during movie previews or when scrolling through streaming options?

“That was a book first.”

It feels like more and more of Hollywood’s new films and TV shows started out in hardcover. And 2025 is shaping up to be no exception, with lots to look forward to (Dog Man, Bridget Jones, The Summer I Turned Pretty, and more) that first gained a devoted fanbase through their beloved books. A built-in audience combined with franchise potential make books the perfect testing ground for the big screen. Plus, longer book series can easily be adapted into multiple seasons or sequels for movies.

Here’s a peek at 30+ highly anticipated book-to-screen adaptations coming your way in 2025. Read them on Libby first because the book is always better.

*All release dates are estimates based on current information and are subject to change.

Missing You, TV series starring Rosalind Eleazar, Ashley Walters, and Richard Armitage

Jan. 1

Detective Kat Donovan's world unravels when she finds her estranged fiancé on a dating app, leading her to reopen her father's unsolved murder.

Read: Missing You by Harlan Coben
🎧 Audiobook

Dog Man, movie starring Pete Davidson, Poppy Liu, and Lil Rel Howery

Jan. 31

Dog Man, half dog and half man, he is sworn to protect and serve as he doggedly pursues the feline supervillain Petey the Cat.

Read: Dog Man by Dav Pilkey

Wish You Were Here, movie starring Isabelle Fuhrman, Mena Massoud, and Gabby Kono-Abdy

Jan. 17

A woman searching for a spark finds a whirlwind night of romance with a man only to discover he is terminally ill and commits to helping him spend his last days living life to the fullest.

Read: Wish You Were Here by Renée Carlino
🎧 Audiobook

Marked Men: Rule + Shaw, movie starring Alexander Ludwig, Chase Stokes, and Natalie Alyn Lind

Jan. 22

Shaw has loved Rule since she saw him, but Rule doesn't see her as a suitable match, but a night of drinking and secrets leads them to question if they can be together without ruining their relationship... or each other.

Read: Rule: A Marked Men Novel by Jay Crownover
🎧 Audiobook

The Night Agent, Season 2 starring Gabriel Basso, Luciane Buchanan, and Fola Evans-Akingbola

Jan. 23

Low-level FBI agent Peter Sutherland works in the basement of the White House manning a phone that never rings—until the night it does, propelling him into a conspiracy that leads all the way to the Oval Office.

Read: The Night Agent by Matthew Quick
🎧 Audiobook

My Fault: London, movie starring Jason Flemyng, George Robinson, and Asha Banks

Feb. 13

An 18-year-old girl moves from America to London with her mother and wealthy stepfather. She meets her stepbrother, and an attraction brews despite their efforts. Unaware, her estranged father tracks her down after release from prison.

Read: My Fault by Mercedes Ron
🎧 Audiobook

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy, movie starring Leo Woodall, Renée Zellweger, and Hugh Grant

Feb. 14

Bridget Jones navigates life as a widow and single mom with the help of her family, friends, and former lover, Daniel. Back to work and on the apps, she's pursued by a younger man and maybe—just maybe—her son's science teacher.

Read: Mad About the Boy by Helen Fielding
🎧 Audiobook

Reacher, Season 3, TV series starring Alan Ritchson, Maria Sten, and Malcolm Goodwin

Feb. 20

Itinerant former military policeman Jack Reacher solves crimes and metes out his own brand of street justice.

Read: Persuader by Lee Child
🎧 Audiobook

The Unbreakable Boy, movie starring Zachary Levi, Meghann Fahy, and Jacob Laval

Feb. 21

A young boy has both a rare brittle-bone disease and autism. But what makes him truly unique is his joyous, funny, life-affirming world view that transforms and unites everyone around him.

Read: The Unbreakable Boy: A Father’s Fear, A Son’s Courage, And A Story Of Unconditional Love by Scott Michael LeRette
🎧 Audiobook

The Monkey, movie starring Theo James, Elijah Wood, and Osgood Perkins

Feb. 21

When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.

Read: Skeleton Crew by Stephen King
🎧 Audiobook

Mickey 17, movie starring Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, and Michael Monroe

March 7

Mickey 17, known as an "expendable," goes on a dangerous journey to colonize an ice planet.

Read: Mickey7 by Edward Ashton
🎧 Audiobook

Long Bright River, TV series starring Amanda Seyfried, Callum Vinson, and Nicholas Pinnock

March 13

A Philadelphia police officer searches for her sister, an addict who has gone missing.

Read: Long Bright River by Liz Moore
🎧 Audiobook

The Electric State, movie starring Chris Pratt, Millie Bobby Brown, and Woody Harrelson

March 14

An orphaned teenager traverses the American West with a sweet, but mysterious robot, and an eccentric drifter in search of her younger brother.

Read: The Electric State by Simon Stålenhag
🎧 Audiobook

Snow White, movie starring Rachel Zegler, Gal Gadot, and Andrew Burnap

March 21

Live-action adaptation of the 1937 Disney classic.

Read: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by the Brothers Grimm

The Amateur, movie starring Julianne Nicholson, Rachel Brosnahan, and Jon Bernthal

April 11

A CIA cryptographer manages to blackmail his agency into training him to let him go after a group of terrorists who killed his wife.

Read: The Amateur by Robert Littell
🎧 Audiobook

Ransom Canyon, TV series starring Minka Kelly, Josh Duhamel, and Lizzy Greene

April 17

A romance-fueled family drama and contemporary western saga that charts the intersecting lives and loves of three ranching families set against the sweeping tundras and rolling rivers of Texas hill country.

Read: Ransom Canyon by Jodi Thomas
🎧 Audiobook

Clown in a Cornfield, movie starring Kevin Durand, Will Sasso, and Katie Douglas

May 9

A fading midwestern town in which Frendo the clown, a symbol of bygone success, reemerges as a terrifying scourge.

Read: Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
🎧 Audiobook

Murderbot, TV series starring Alexander Skarsgård, Jennifer Sendaula, and David Dastmalchian

June 4

A security android struggles with emotions and free will while balancing dangerous missions and desire for isolation, evading detection of its self-hacking as it finds its place.

Read: All Systems Red, The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells
🎧 Audiobook

How to Train Your Dragon, live-action movie starring Mason Thames, Nico Parker, and Gerard Butler

June 13

Follows a young Viking as he aspires to hunt dragons, and how he unexpectedly becomes a friend of a young dragon.

Read: How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
🎧 Audiobook

I Know What You Did Last Summer, movie starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, Madelyn Cline, and Billy Campbell

July 18

A group of friends is terrorized by a stalker who knows about a gruesome incident from their past.

Read: I Know What You Did Last Summer by Lois Duncan
🎧 Audiobook

The Bad Guys 2, movie starring Sam Rockwell, Marc Maron, and Craig Robinson

Aug. 1

The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do "one last job" by an all-female squad of criminals.

Read: The Bad Guys series by Aaron Blabey

Freakier Friday, movie starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Julia Butters, and Chad Michael Murray

Aug. 8

Years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might strike twice.

Listen: Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers

The Summer I Turned Pretty, Season 3, TV series starring Lola Tung, Christopher Briney, and Gavin Casalegno

Summer 2025

A love triangle between one girl and two brothers. A story about first love, first heartbreak, and the magic of that one perfect summer.

Read: The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
🎧 Audiobook

The Running Man, movie starring Glen Powell, Colman Domingo, and Josh Brolin

Nov. 7

The futuristic United States of 2025 when the world has become a dystopia.

Read: The Running Man by Stephen King
🎧 Audiobook

Wicked: For Good, Part 2, movie starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, and Jeff Goldblum

Nov. 21

Follows Elphaba, the future Wicked Witch of the West and her relationship with Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The second of a two-part feature film adaptation of the Broadway musical.

Read: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
🎧 Audiobook

Forever, TV series starring Xavier Mills, Lovie Simone, and Michael Cooper Jr.

Release date TBD

Two Black high schoolers in Los Angeles navigate first love and intimacy amidst social and parental pressures.

Read: Forever by Judy Blume
🎧 Audiobook

Fear Street: Prom Queen, movie starring Ariana Greenblatt, Katherine Waterston, and Chris Klein

Release date TBD

A spring night, soft moonlight, five beautiful Prom Queen candidates, dancing couples at the Shadyside High prom—these should be the ingredients for romance. But instead they're a recipe for terror...

Read: The Prom Queen by R. L. Stine

Verity, movie starring Anne Hathaway, Dakota Johnson, and Josh Hartnett

Release date TBD

Lowen Ashleigh gets hired by Jeremy Crawford to ghostwrite novels for his bestselling author wife Verity, who's unable to finish after an accident. Lowen uncovers Verity's disturbing truths while residing at the Crawfords' home to work.

Read: Verity by Colleen Hoover
🎧 Audiobook

The Hunting Wives, TV series starring Malin Akerman, Brittany Snow, and Dermot Mulroney

Release date TBD

Sophie O'Neil moves to deep East Texas, and she succumbs to socialite Margo's charms. Her life is soon consumed by obsession, seduction, and murder.

Read: The Hunting Wives by May Cobb
🎧 Audiobook

The Thursday Murder Club, movie starring Pierce Brosnan, Henry Lloyd-Hughes, and Daniel Mays

Release date TBD

Four irrepressible retirees spend their time solving cold case murders for fun, but their casual sleuthing takes a thrilling turn when they find themselves with a real whodunit on their hands.

Read: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
🎧 Audiobook

People We Meet on Vacation, movie starring Lukas Gage, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Tom Blyth

Release date TBD

Follows Alex and Poppy, she wants to explore the world; he prefers to stay home with a book but somehow they are the very best of friends. They live far apart, but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one week of vacation together.

Read: People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
🎧 Audiobook

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