Books you should read before you see the movies this year

However, These are some of my favourite books that are been made into movies this year, you can check more of them out at The Guardian

1. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Our kind of Victorian romance, this story combines old-fashioned courtship with a decidedly independent-minded heroine. The novel version of Madding explored the complicated love trapezoid and all its romantic complications. And even the finest cinematography will have trouble matching Hardy’s rhapsodies on the English countryside, where the morning mist casts “a fulsome yet magnificent silvery veil, full of light from the sun.”

2. Heroic Measures By Jill CimentBased on Jill Ciment’s 2009 novel and retitled 5 Flights up for the screen stars Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton as a couple in their twilight years contemplating a move from their longtime (and rapidly gentrifying) Brooklyn neighborhood. It’s rare to see older (not to mention interracial) couples in movies at all, let alone treated respectfully and tenderly. But the book wasn’t just a love story or a nostalgic tale about neighborhoods; it was a laugh-out-loud comic novel about the absurdities of New York real estate in which the couple’s dachshund gets her own chance to narrate.

3. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl By Jesse Andrews

This June-release adaptation of Jesse Andrews' YA novel was a Sundance Film Festival favorite this year due its poignant story of two obsessive movie fans who reach out to Rachel, a classmate with leukemia. A movie about movies for film geeks would be Fantastic. However, the original novel is very interesting and it had lines like “Let’s just say that it would explain a lot of things if there were a fungus eating my brain.”

4. A Slight Trick of the Mind by Mitch Cullin

In the film version of Mitch Cullin’s riveting novel -- titled Mr.Holmes for its July release -- Ian McKellen plays Sherlock in old age, working on one last case while wrestling with an increasingly uncooperative memory. McKellen is inspired casting for a film about a brilliant, stylish sleuth who refuses to let time get the best of him. However, the book tells a story that smartly explores the subtle and intricate ways our minds work.

5. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

This adaptation of Gillian Flynn's 2009 novel,out August 7, promises to put Charlize Theron back on Oscar’s radar for the first time in a decade: She plays Libby, who’s reckoning with the murder of her family 30 years ago and now uncertain whether she rightly condemned her brother for the crime. Go to the novel to watch Gillian Flynn hone the craft that made her follow-up, Gone Girl, such a smash. She masters whodunit suspense and a wild-twist ending while exploring the creepy satanic cults that were all over the news back in the ’80s. Dark. Riveting. Unputdownable.

6. Paper Towns by John Green

The second big-screen treatment of a John Green novel (following last year’s The Fault in Our Stars) hits theaters July 24 and concerns a certain high-school senior named Margo, who intentionally disappears in order to torment those who wounded her. Like Fault, Paper Towns blends teenage hijinks (for example: swaddling a car in plastic wrap) with some grown-up lessons. But from its irresistible first sentence -- “The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle,” Paper Towns shows why Green is one the best Young adult literature writer.

7. Every Secret Thing by Laura Lippman

The thriller Every Secret Thing revolves around two teenage girls and the abduction and murder of a baby seven years earlier. Starring Diane Lane, Elizabeth Banks and Dakota Fanning, the movie casts more female leads than your average thriller (thank you!) and Laura Lippman, whose 2003 novel inspired the film, has deserved a big-screen treatment of her work for years.