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30 Books That Turned Into Oscar Winning Films
Hypelist - Updated 12/12/25
From Gone with the Wind to The Godfather, many of the greatest Oscar-winning films began as books. This list gathers the novels that inspired Academy Award–winning movies - timeless stories powerful enough to captivate both readers and audiences on the big screen.
Books
Gone With the Wind
Margaret Mitchell · 1996
The Godfather
Mario Puzo · 1969
To Kill a Mockingbird 40th
Harper Lee · 1999
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 2007
12 Years a Slave
Solomon Northup · 2014
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak · 2010
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier · 2013
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo: A Lisbeth Salander Novel (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Series)
Stieg Larsson · 2011
Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
Charles Dickens · 2003
Little Women (Puffin in Bloom)
Louisa May Alcott · 2014
Out of Africa (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)
Isak Dinesen · 1992
Forrest Gump
Winston Groom · 2012
Mary Poppins
P. L. Travers · 2015
Dune
Frank Herbert · 2003
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje · 2004
Schindler's List
Thomas Keneally · 2013
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy · 2006
The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
