If you’re in the mood to watch a cozy fantasy, nail-biting thriller, epic romance or a family-friendly animated film, your favorite authors—and Hollywood—are ready to deliver. Below you’ll find adaptations of chart-topping titles like A Gentleman in Moscow, The Three Body Problem and the newest season of Bridgerton (I dare you to not add anything new to your TBR or To-Be-Watched lists).

So whether you prefer to watch adaptations to see your favorite book characters come alive, want to compare the two scene-by-scene to spot the differences or just like seeing beloved actors and unique storylines, this year’s offerings are sure to captivate every kind of reader and viewer.

Keep on reading for a peek at 35 of the best book-to-screen adaptations coming your way in 2024:

Fool Me Once, limited series starring Michelle Keegan, Adeel Akhtar, Richard Armitage

Jan. 1

Widowed mum Maya is disturbed by an image of her late husband captured on her toddler's nanny cam.

Read: Fool Me Once by Harlan Coben

La Sociedad de la Nieve/The Society of the Snow, movie (Spanish) starring Enzo Vogrincic, Agustín Pardella, Matías Recalt

Jan. 4

A rugby team’s flight crashes on a glacier in the Andes. The few passengers who survive the crash find themselves in one of the world's toughest environments to survive.

Read: La Sociedad de la Nieve by Pablo Vierci

The End We Start From, movie starring Jodie Comer, Joel Fry, Yves Rassou

Jan. 19

A woman tries to find her way home with her newborn while an environmental crisis submerges London in floodwaters.

Read: The End We Start From by Megan Hunter

Expats, TV series starring Nicole Kidman, Sarayu Blue, Ji-young Woo

Jan. 26

A look at the personal and professional lives of a tight-knit group of expatriates living in Hong Kong.

Read: The Expatriates by Janice Y. K. Lee

Feud: Capote vs. The Swans, TV series, Season 2, starring Jessica Lange, Alison Wright, Susan Sarandon

Jan. 31

An anthology series centering on famous feuds, including Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, and Truman Capote and the New York elite.

Read: Capote’s Women by Laurence Leamer

Argylle, movie starring Henry Cavill, Bryce Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell

Feb. 2

A reclusive author who writes espionage novels about a secret agent and a global spy syndicate realizes the plot of the new book she's writing starts to mirror real-world events, in real time.

Read: Argylle by Elly Conway

The Tiger’s Apprentice, animated movie starring Henry Golding, Brandon Soo Hoo, Lucy Liu

Feb. 2

After the death of his grandmother, Tom Lee, a Chinese-American boy, has to be apprenticed to the talking tiger Mr. Hu and learn magic to become the new guardian of an ancient phoenix.

Read: The Tiger’s Apprentice by Laurence Yep

Force of Nature: The Dry 2, movie starring Eric Bana, Anna Torv, Deborra-Lee Furness

Feb. 8

Five women participate in a hiking retreat but only four come out the other side. Federal agents Aaron Falk and Carmen Cooper head into the mountains hoping to find their informant still alive.

Read: Force of Nature by Jane Harper

One Day, TV miniseries starring Leo Woodall, Ambika Mod, Amber Grappy

Feb. 8

Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must go their separate ways.

Read: One Day by David Nicholls

Madame Web, movie starring Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced

Feb. 14

Cassandra Webb is a New York City paramedic who begins to demonstrate signs of clairvoyance. Forced to challenge revelations about her past, she needs to safeguard three young women from a deadly adversary who wants them destroyed.

Read: Spider-Man & Madame Web by Dennis O’Neil and John Romita Jr.

Spaceman of Bohemia, movie starring Adam Sandler, Carey Mulligan, Paul Dano

Mar. 1

Jakub Procházka, orphaned as a boy and raised in the Czech countryside by his grandparents, overcomes the odds to become the country's first astronaut.

Read: Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfař

3 Body Problem, TV series starring Maro Kelly, Saamer Usmani, Jess Hong

Mar. 21

Follows the story of humanity's first contact with an alien civilization.

Read: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

We Were the Lucky Ones, TV miniseries starring Joey King, Logan Lerman, Sam Woolf

March 28

A Jewish family is determined to survive and reunite after being separated in World War II.

Read: We Were the Lucky Ones by Georgia Hunter

A Gentleman in Moscow, TV miniseries starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor, Beau Gadsdon

March 29

A Russian aristocrat is spared from death and placed on house arrest while the Bolshevik Revolution plays out before him.

Read: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Ripley, TV miniseries starring Andrew Scott, Dakota Fanning, Johnny Flynn

April 4

A grifter named Ripley living in New York during the 1960s is hired by a wealthy man to begin a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder.

Read: The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

The Sympathizer, TV miniseries starring Robert Downey Jr., Scott Ly, Hoa Xuande

April 14

Near the end of the Vietnam War, a plant who was embedded in the South Vietnam army flees to the U.S. and takes up residence in a refugee community, where he continues to secretly spy and report back to the Viet Cong.

Read: The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, movie starring Henry Cavill, Cary Elwes, Henry Golding

April 19

The British military recruits a small group of highly skilled soldiers to strike against Nazi forces behind enemy lines during World War II.

Read: The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Damien Lewis

The Tattooist of Auschwitz, TV series starring Anna Próchniak, Melanie Lynskey, Harvey Keitel

May 2

Based on the eponymously titled novel, this is the powerful real-life story of Lale Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner who was tasked with tattooing ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II.

Read: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris

Bridgerton, TV series, Season 3, starring Nicola Coughlan, Julie Andrews, Luke Newton

May 16

The eight close-knit siblings of the Bridgerton family look for love and happiness in London high society.

Read: Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

The Watchers, movie starring Dakota Fanning, Olwen Fouéré, Georgina Campbell

June 7

A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.

Read: The Watchers by A. M. Shine

Presumed Innocent, TV series starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Tate Birchmore, Kingston Rumi Southwick

June 14

Tells the story of a horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorneys' office when one of its own is suspected of the crime.

Read: Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow

It Ends with Us, movie starring Blake Lively, Brandon Sklenar, Jenny Slate

June 21

Lily believes she's found true love with Ryle, but when a painful incident triggers past trauma, she must decide if love alone can carry her marriage through. However, things are complicated when her first love returns to her life.

Read: It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover

Harold and the Purple Crayon, movie starring Zachary Levi, Zooey Deschanel, Camille Guaty

Aug. 2

A young boy named Harold embarks on a magical mission with the help of his purple crayon.

Read: Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson

The Amateur, movie starring Rami Malek, Caitríona Balfe, Rachel Brosnahan

Nov. 8

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

Read: The Amateur by Robert Littell

Wicked, Part 1, movie starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey

Nov. 27

After two decades as one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on the stage, Wicked makes its long-awaited journey to the big screen as a spectacular, generation-defining cinematic event for the holiday season.

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

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, animated movie starring Brian Cox, Miranda Otto, Shaun Dooley

Dec. 13

The untold story behind Helm's Deep, hundreds of years before the fateful war, spanning the life and blood-soaked times of its founder, Helm Hammerhand, the King of Rohan.

Read: The War of the Rohirrim by J. R. R. Tolkien (in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings)

Coming sometime in 2024:

Uglies, movie starring Joey King, Laverne Cox, Jillian Murray

A world in which a compulsory operation wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty.

Read: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

Trust, limited series, starring and produced by Kate Winslet

Follows a wealthy financier who reads a book based on his life and becomes upset about the way he and his wife are portrayed in the novel. In an effort to set the record straight, he hires a secretary to ghostwrite a memoir about his life to represent their story in the way he knows it to be.

Read: Trust by Hernan Diaz

Turtles All the Way Down, movie starring Isabela Merced, J. Smith-Cameron, Judy Reyes

A teenager tries to solve a mystery surrounding a fugitive billionaire.

Read: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

The Perfect Couple, TV miniseries starring Nicole Kidman, Dakota Fanning, Eve Hewson

When a lavish wedding ends in disaster before it can even begin - with a body discovered in Nantucket Harbor just hours before the ceremony - everyone in the wedding party is suddenly a suspect.

Read: The Perfect Couple by Elin Hilderbrand

Nightbitch, movie starring Amy Adams

An artist who pauses her career to be a stay-at-home mom seeks a new chapter in her life and encounters just that when her nightly routine takes a surreal turn and her maternal instincts begin to manifest in canine form.

Read: Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

Mickey 17, movie starring Mark Ruffalo, Robert Pattinson, Toni Collette

Stars Robert Pattinson as an "expendable" - a disposable crew member on a space mission, selected for dangerous tasks because he can be renewed if his body dies, with his memories largely intact. With one regeneration, though, things go very wrong.

Read: Mickey7 by Edward Ashton

Lady in the Lake, TV miniseries starring Natalie Portman, David Corenswet, Moses Ingram

Takes place in 1960s Baltimore, where an unsolved murder pushes housewife and mother Maddie Schwartz to reinvent her life as an investigative journalist and sets her on a collision course with Cleo Sherwood, a hard-working woman juggling motherhood, many jobs and a passionate commitment to advancing Baltimore's Black progressive agenda.

Read: Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman

Heartstopper, TV series, Season 3, starring Joe Locke, Kit Connor, William Gao

Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love in this coming-of-age series.

Read: Heartstopper, Volume 3 by Alice Oseman

The Electric State, movie starring Millie Bobby Brown, Chris Pratt, Devyn Dalton

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

Cold Storage, movie starring Liam Neeson, Joe Keery, Vanessa Redgrave

A fungus stored in a government facility gets out and wreaks havoc on the world.

Read: Cold Storage by David Koepp

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