Read These Books Before They Become Movie Adaptations in 2020

It’s an age-old argument and a great ice-breaker question for any first date: Book or movie? This is the question that can inform what a person really appreciates about a story. Do they like the pure elements that were developed from an author’s mind or the repurposed plot that’s been reimagined by a screenwriter with his or her own ideas of what the story should be? This argument might never end when it comes to The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter franchises, especially because it’s now impossible to imagine the boy wizard as anyone other than Daniel Radcliffe.

There are some books that are so good that they have been adapted over and over again. Jane Austen and Roald Dahl might not have imagined that their books would make it to the screen so many times, but it’s not a bad thing to feel that nostalgia over and over. These are the best books becoming movies in 2020 with everything from the sci-fi masterpiece Dune to a Charles Dickens classic.